Everything Is Alive, Everything Is Breathing, Nothing Is Dead, and Nothing Is Bleeding

Everything Is Alive, Everything Is Breathing, Nothing Is Dead, and Nothing Is Bleeding is the debut album by Douglasville, GA’s The Chariot. It was recorded completely live and overdub-free (as well as never being mastered), giving the album a very raw sound.

The liner notes on the CD contained the following message from the band:

This album was recorded live in a studio setting and no computers were used in the manipulation of our music. Everything that you hear was played by human beings, and was not copy/pasted by computers. That is why it sounds a little raw and uncoventional. Technology is a convenience, and it is okay to be used in moderation, but for the sake of the lost authentic sound of rock and roll, we decided to go the route of our forefathers and get it all in one take as best as we could. We believe that sweat and practice should persevere over the convenience of a computer. We believe that although this album may not be one hundred percent tight and perfect in every way (like you are used to) it will be authentic, and therefore understood. At least that is our hope. Thank you for your grace. Thank you for your support. We hope this album brings joy to your heart. -The Chariot

As such, the album has no production credits, however later versions (re-issues or the versions of the tracks which appeared on the compilation Before There Was) were produced by Matt Goldman and mastered by Troy Glessner

The track titles are intentionally long. Lead singer Josh Scogin made his thoughts on song titles clear in this 2014 interview with UTG TV:

I’m not into the idea of spoonfeeding. You know, making everything easy…. Part of that formula is you have a chorus that’s catchy and you name the song that. So that when you talk about this song, it comes up in my head, I remember it, now it’s stuck in my head.. it’s all part of the system. You’re a dollar sign, and that’s it…. the naming of the songs was very much just sort of, uh, I wanted to deconstruct that whole mentality…. I like the idea of not even having song titles…. I went through a phase where I named everything, like, 4 sentences long. And I enjoyed that as well, because it’s like you can’t yell that, like super simple “Play this song” and they’re done. It’s like, if they yell it, they’re committing to something. And that’s admirable.

Fan: “Hey man, play ‘Someday, in the Event That Mankind Actually Figures Out What it is That This World Revolves Around, Thousands of People are Going to Be Shocked and Perplexed to Find Out it Was Not Them. Sometimes, This Includes Me.’!”

Scogin: “You got it, dude, just for your dedication”