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Cigarette Burns

from The Smothering Arms of Mercy by Growth

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    GROWTH began as a study in isolation by brothers Tristan (guitars/bass/artwork) and Nelson Barnes (drums) in Melbourne, Australia, after a decade's absence from each other while pursuing music overseas. With the line-up soon rounded out by Luke Frizon on vocals (ex Jack The Stripper), the trio set out to create music that explored the human aspects of connection, trauma, despair, and the fragility of hope. The result is THE SMOTHERING ARMS OF MERCY, a claustrophobic narrative of total spiritual collapse written while in psychiatric care and thrown over nine suffocating acts. This marks the first part of a trilogy, detailing in honesty the extremity of recovery from mental illness. The debut album was recorded in Melbourne, produced and engineered by Growth, drums engineered by Troy McCosker (Ne Obliviscaris), and mixed/mastered by Fredrik Nordström (Opeth, The Haunted) in Gothenburg, Sweden. MERCY highlights the extremity of grief and asks the listener to reflect on their relationship with loss and vulnerability. Pain can be the source of your power. Learn to greet it as a friend.

    Tracklisting:
    1. Cigarette Burns
    2. The Treatment For Melancholy
    3. Fortress Of Flesh And Bone
    4. Our Lady Of The Hanging Heart
    5. Lead Us To Our Glorious Times
    6. Darkly, It Tightens Its Grip
    7. Soul Rot
    8. Something Follows
    9. Gird Your Loved In Armour While Yet You Wither

    CAT NO: WTR028
    BARCODE: 9350421034964
    PACKAGING: CD (0.25 kg)

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    GROWTH // THE SMOTHERING ARMS OF MERCY - BLACK VINYL (2LP)

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    GROWTH began as a study in isolation by brothers Tristan (guitars/bass/artwork) and Nelson Barnes (drums) in Melbourne, Australia, after a decade's absence from each other while pursuing music overseas. With the line-up soon rounded out by Luke Frizon on vocals (ex Jack The Stripper), the trio set out to create music that explored the human aspects of connection, trauma, despair, and the fragility of hope. The result is THE SMOTHERING ARMS OF MERCY, a claustrophobic narrative of total spiritual collapse written while in psychiatric care and thrown over nine suffocating acts. This marks the first part of a trilogy, detailing in honesty the extremity of recovery from mental illness. The debut album was recorded in Melbourne, produced and engineered by Growth, drums engineered by Troy McCosker (Ne Obliviscaris), and mixed/mastered by Fredrik Nordström (Opeth, The Haunted) in Gothenburg, Sweden. MERCY highlights the extremity of grief and asks the listener to reflect on their relationship with loss and vulnerability. Pain can be the source of your power. Learn to greet it as a friend.

    Tracklisting:
    1. Cigarette Burns
    2. The Treatment For Melancholy
    3. Fortress Of Flesh And Bone
    4. Our Lady Of The Hanging Heart
    5. Lead Us To Our Glorious Times
    6. Darkly, It Tightens Its Grip
    7. Soul Rot
    8. Something Follows
    9. Gird Your Loved In Armour While Yet You Wither

    CAT NO: WTR029
    BARCODE: 9350421034971
    PACKAGING: Vinyl (0.5 kg)

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lyrics

The unearthly gravity of years of regret
Accretion spray patterns from distant paroxysms, growing... swarming
Swarming in apocalyptic droves

Need not look behind or within
I have beheld the withered ends of those hateful corridors
A fractal landscape of monochrome, smothered in dusk
Deep rooted in rot-blighted soil where the worms emerge
I have felt those tendrils reach forth to ensnare
I know once their touch is upon my flesh, they'll never let go
Tonight, rejoice
The coronation of a slavering monarch
And all that wilts beneath his hand

A spectre hangs gallow-strung over your every movement
A revenant of jutting ribs
Witnesses the glory of the end
Tonight, rejoice
The coronation of a walking prison
And all that crumbles to ash within
Diseased and shining like the northern lights buried in 100 years of radio static
Like the northern lights in the funeral pyre of the world
Fused at the tongue to the admission of failure

So I toil alone, wracked with suffocating silence, in this blinding haze;
waiting for the starbursts to dissipate and life to begin again
Blood is thick with spit and ash
Cigarette burns on parchment skin
Voice is thin, ulcer-lashed
with old wounds and holes to rub hurt in

Staggering Slowly Rendered Inhuman
Sinking Somewhere Revealed In
Sleep

I have seen the glory of the end

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from The Smothering Arms of Mercy, released December 4, 2020

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