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Darkly, It Tightens Its Grip

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

Throw weakest arms around the vessel
It is swathed in ragged cerements
Dressed in manufactured love
Excruciating affection
Rotten all the way through to the bone
Virulent to the touch
Collapsing all under its own weight
Shambling human wreckage; broken- pitifully so- under the whip
A storm of self-destruction; treacherous, the limerence that slips
Holding onto you with electrocution's grip
All yours
Invite suffering and entropy
To cast away reason and heart with both hands

End turn stone that which life rots of the spirit

Oh! Look upon me and my withering
How I shimmer emaciated in the half-light
Am I not the most beautiful thing you have seen?
Can you feel nothing like me?
Feel the coldness of my touch
Have I pierced the mouldered veil of your sleep?
The haunting began when the colours bled to stone
Oh! I slither through the plush grandeur of the dark
Waiting for you to call me home
Drifting in abyssic opioid fog
The spectre thieving the breath from your chest
Howling through the strangling murk of dreams eclipsed

So join me through fracture
To the precipice from where all warmth horribly fades
The blinded didactic measured with hands of coal
Scratched from poisoned ground
Alas we must embrace as lovers do
At last...

Throw weakest arms around the nothing that's left
There's nothing and nobody to call you home

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

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