Growth – Release New Track, Forward, Further, Spirit Killer New Album, Under the Under, out March 27

Progressive Death Metallers
GROWTH
Release New Track, Forward, Further, Spirit Killer
New Album, Under the Under, out March 27 via Wild Thing Records

Below rock bottom under the weight of truth.
Yet in facing truth there is a spark that reveals there’s more to you than your darkest place…
 

Last month, Melbourne progressive-death outfit Growth emerged with their first new music in over half a decade with the blistering, Remember Me As Fire, the first new music from the long-awaited second chapter of their planned trilogy, Under The Under due for release on March 27 via Wild Thing Records.

Today they release the electrifying second single, Forward, Further, Spirit Killer. A powerful meditation on liberation, the track urges you to break free from the stories that bind you and destroy the spirit killer that defines your past. With soaring intensity and bold emotion, Growth invites listeners into a fearless, forward-reaching vision of raw human transformation.

Lead Vocalist: LF, comments, “If you want to be able to live freely, you have to kill the idea that you are made entirely of stories. Your experiences have shaped your life up until this point. But there are things you like to see in the world, in others, in dreams, that have nothing to do with those experiences. There’s also a part of yourself that you see as strong. It may not be one you apply to yourself, but it’s there, and you can only see it once you take down the idea that you are defined by the past. It’s a zero-sum game, but it’s entirely in your favour. “


Listen to Forward, Further, Spirit Killer
https://orcd.co/undertheunder

Growth began in 2017 as a reflective space for brothers Tristan Barnes (guitar/bass/artwork) and Nelson Barnes (drums), and vocalist LF, later joined by Nick Rackham (bass) and Ben Boyle (guitar), to explore trauma, mental illness and grief without romanticising them. The project was never intended as catharsis for its own sake, but as a way to illustrate recovery in all its brutality. not as linear progress, but as something fractured, cyclical and deeply human.

The gap between releases has been deliberate….and necessary. Where The Smothering Arms of Mercy was written from within collapse, sickness and isolation, Under the Under exists in the far more uncomfortable space that follows: what happens when survival is no longer the question and you’re forced to confront who you are once the wreckage settles. In the bands own words, healing, is not gentle. It is an ugly process. Chaotic, disorienting and often more confronting than the pain that preceded it.

Under the Under, is an album that documents six stages of recovery – not as levels to be celebrated, but as thresholds to be endured. Across the record, Growth interrogates the dignity we attach to suffering, the comfort of identifying solely with trauma and the terrifying possibility that we might be more than the stories that have kept us alive.

Growth does not offer solutions but instead offer honesty and an invitation to sit with the questions most of us spend our lives avoiding.