Dying Wish will release their new album Fragments of a Bitter Memory on October 1, and is now streaming the absolute crusher of a title track alongside a Errick Easterday-directed music video.
"'Fragments' starts by taking the listener back to my first memory," said vocalist Emma Boster in an interview with Revolver. "I was five years old and I was the flower girl at my mother's wedding. My biological father wasn't in my life and the man she was marrying took a vow to fill that void."
"Over the next decade I watched that same man who I had learned to call my father become a violent alcoholic. By the time I was a young teen I was being verbally and physically abused by him almost daily. I was living in constant fear."
"[The line], 'Seasons of life forever change, healing the fragments you still control,' refers to my constant struggle of healing from this trauma in my adulthood. The video ends with her stabbing him over the lyrics, 'I would bury you if I could,' because even after therapy and a decade of healing, violent revenge seems like the easiest and most satisfying way to cope."
Pre-orders for Fragments of a Bitter Memory are available here.
