Mexican band The Warning took a three-month break from its international tour to focus on making their new album, Everything’s Falling. The Villarreal Vélez sisters say they wanted enough time to capture the sonic and lyrical growth they’ve experienced in recent years as a standout hard rock and alternative band, whose music has connected with millions of listeners around the world.
Everything’s Falling arrived Friday (Aug. 28) on digital platforms via Lava/Republic Records. Across its 12 songs, the band — Daniela (vocals), Alejandra (bass) and Paulina (drums) — explore growth, resilience and uncertainty throughout their journey, while also delivering empowering lyrics about the challenge of being women in a male-dominated scene.
“Being in different places in our lives, I think we gave ourselves the freedom to express ourselves in a much more personal and deeper way than we had before,” Daniela tells Billboard Español in a video interview. “We wanted to explore what we want The Warning to be in the years ahead.”
“First and foremost, we gave ourselves permission to have a lot of fun, not take everything too seriously, and loosen up more when it came to the subjects we wanted to talk about,” Paulina adds. “We wanted to explore a heavier sound, so we worked with different guitar effects, different ways of singing, different songwriting styles, and new approaches to my drumming.”
Everything’s Falling was produced and co-written by Anton DeLost, helping the band achieve a sound inspired by ’90s alternative rock on songs like “Kerosene,” as well as nu-metal touches on the single “Ritual.” Other standout tracks on the powerful new album include “Bite My Tongue,” “Kill Or Be Killed” and “Bloodsport.”
As with previous albums, the music is mostly in English, The Warning’s second language. This time around, though, the band from Monterrey, Mexico — a city near the U.S. border — also included a Spanish-language song titled “Ego.”
“The world’s fascination with Latin music and Latin culture is really incredible. This year, the NFL invited us to the Super Bowl, we were part of Bad Bunny’s show, and seeing people’s reactions and the international response is something really beautiful,” Daniela says. “It’s beautiful to see how people are gradually becoming more interested in learning about cultures from other parts of the world.”
This year, The Warning continues its global rise with shows across the United States, following stops in Europe, Asia and South America, as well as appearances at major festivals around the world and their own headlining concerts. Recent accomplishments also include “Love to Be Loved,” a country-meets-hard-rock duet with regional Mexican superstar Carín León.
The band has cemented its place on the international rock scene, appearing on 10 Billboard charts, including No. 1 on Emerging Artists, No. 2 on Top Rock Albums,, No. 4 on Top Hard Rock Albums and No. 6 on Top Album Sales, among others. Most recently, the band made history as the first Mexican act and the first all-female group to top Mainstream Rock Airplay with “Kerosene,” which leads the chart dated Sept. 5.
Below, The Warning breaks down five essential songs from Everything’s Falling. To listen to the full album, click here.
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“Ego”
We premiered this song last March when we played the Pa’l Norte festival in our hometown of Monterrey, and it’s currently being considered for Latin Grammy nominations. It’s one of the heaviest songs on the album, and for the first time, we gave ourselves the chance to be angry in a Spanish-language song. You can really tell when we fully let ourselves lean into that emotion. It’s incredible to see people’s reactions, especially when we play international stages where they don’t necessarily understand what we’re saying, but they feel the song’s power. It’s really fun to connect with people that way.
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“Kerosene”
This song was really fun to write, and it was one of the first songs we wrote with Anton DeLost and Niko Rubio for this album. Honestly, we wanted to make a fun song. We were thinking about going to the Lollapalooza festivals in South America, and we wanted a song that would make the festival experience feel even more fun. It’s one of the lowest, heaviest tracks on the album — you can feel the impact of the bass, guitar and drums. You have to hear Paulina’s screams on this song.
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“Ritual”
I’d say “Ritual” is aesthetically the counterpart to “Kerosene” — you can watch its video to see the aesthetic we’re talking about. It’s a darker, heavier track. It’s about bringing anxieties into your life, and how self-sabotage can sometimes become a ritual that keeps you from allowing yourself to feel happiness in your day-to-day life. We really focused on the way we explored that theme in the song and how it comes through musically. Playing it live is one of the most fun things about this new album because it’s such a powerful track.
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“Bite My Tongue”
It was the last song we made for this album, so everything was already pretty solid by then. We wrote it in Los Angeles with Niko Rubio and Anton DeLost, and it was a really fun experience, even if that’s not necessarily the track’s vibe. It’s about knowing the value of your time and your peace, and how sometimes staying quiet is worth more when it comes to keeping your balance than arguing with people. We played it for the first time in South Korea a few days ago.
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“Perfect Daughter”
This is a very important song because we realized we had a lot to say about being women, and about what we’ve experienced as people who started working in this industry as girls and grew into women. It’s about learning from life as women and the expectations that come with that — working incredibly hard to stand out and be taken seriously in this world. We talk about being “perfect daughters” — and how, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, you still might not be seen that way.
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