Hailing from Melbourne, Australia comes the mind-bending, hair-standing act Growth, and they're about to earn your respect from the inside out with the release of their upcoming album, The Smothering Arms of Mercy via Wild Thing Records on December 4th.
The band acts as a reflective space for the members who have endured personal battles with mental anguish, and plan to release a trilogy that explores the human aspects of connection, trauma, despair and fragility of hope. Something many of us can connect with.
The band comments:
“Cigarette burns leave a mark to remember. It’s also a term in cinema for special markers in a roll of film- they let the projectionist know it's time to change the rolls over, to continue the show. It seems to make sense to reflect on our wounds, so we do it with abandon. We dwell on traumas, invite our ghosts to play out their horrors in front of us in circular fashion, until those circles are spinning so viciously their edges cut us into pieces. It’s no life to live. It's time to change the film.”
Frontman, Luke Frizon, comments:
“We're thrilled to have worked with Adrian Goleby for this clip- he's got fantastic skills and a great sense of vision. The clip itself features a bunch of our good mates from the very cool band Hadal Maw. One of our members decided to dislocate his knee a few hours into the weekend-long shoot… That member was me. I don't think much was achieved by this but I stand by my decision.”
Check out the premiere for "Cigarette Burns" and pre-order the album now!
