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Gird You're Loved in Armour While Yet You Wither

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

This is going to hurt.
Submission always does.

Joining the parade of grief;
an absurd carnival charging onward to the eclipse...
Forward, stumbling blindly, with high hopes of release
Abyssic relief
Forward!

Reaching forth toward those parasites of atonement
Feeling them burrow deep into vein
Watching the hollowness manifest in unprecedented ways

Even the strongest pillar caves in;
even the iron heart shatters.
The shelter a fortress gives is as weak as the fault in you.

This is going to hurt...
As the end is wont to do.
Forward!

The tunnel of misery tightens to singularity;
The pinpoint brightens...
To illuminate strange doorways
For which my heart yearns
And from where emancipation beckons

I have chosen the endless possibilities in the abstract of leaving.
Unburdened in darkness and whispering the promise of absence
I have clothed myself in bitterness;
Unashamed of my nakedness,
undefeated by my will

Gird your loved in armour while yet you wither
Drag the mottled hope from your frame
Given over to the loved

With all limbs thrown to abandon and the husk discarded as all lesser things are
The sorrow slowly smothered as an abomination,
and with it I am scourged of my self-disgust;
and suddenly this is a celebration

To gird your loved in armour while yet you wither

Carving my fate with hands of iron
Into linoleum and oblivion
Spraying rust
In rivers
Become floods
Left for you to find
Left for you to curse your sight

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

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