GROWTH // THE SMOTHERING ARMS OF MERCY - DIGIPAK CD
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)
Includes unlimited streaming of The Smothering Arms of Mercy
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GROWTH // THE SMOTHERING ARMS OF MERCY - BLACK VINYL (2LP)
Gatefold 2LP Black Vinyl
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)
Includes unlimited streaming of The Smothering Arms of Mercy
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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ships out within 3 days
$49.95AUDor more
lyrics
Stranger to my body
Intruder of your form
The unfurling bile supernova burning
Occludes peripheries and warning
Exquisite carnal reckoning
Impassioned raking of flesh
Furrows into poisoned soil
Symbiotic and hungering
Oh, scourged as I am beneath my veil;
give me a reason to fail!
How can the storm seem to calm
Adrift within your smothering arms?
Incessant carnal reckoning
The frenzied raking of flesh
What germinates in poisoned soil
Symbiotic and hungering
Leave all around us barren
Scorched earth romance tightens incessant grip
Watched by the vacant eyes of my surrender
The very first and the very last of its kind
Terminally luminescent
The truth is my affection is just for show
So that all can breathe deep and let me go
In pyrrhic concordance
Incessant rhythm
In vile harmony we distend
Is this our first kiss?
Is this our last kiss goodbye?
Is this the bliss you've always wanted to try?
Sinking within yourself while your limbs splinter
Sparkling with wasted tears; the torrential rain of the vermin's spit
Begging for you to bring me harm.
Entombed within your smothering arms.
supported by 48 fans who also own “The Treatment For Melancholy”
The album description mentions an “emotional apex.” That’s really the difference between Stare and the band’s previous albums. Ulcerate was always supremely technically proficient. I just didn’t care all that much. Their growth has come from making music you will feel. Metallurgical Fire
supported by 42 fans who also own “The Treatment For Melancholy”
Heaviest thing I’ve heard all year along with Altarage. Okay I’ve been listening to this record for the past two weeks and it just gets better and better. Dissonant grooves galore Jacob Ballance