“How is this happening?”
“None of this makes sense.”
“I wasn’t ready.”
I’m trying to find the words,
As if they could bring comfort.
Screaming in your hands,
And asking hard questions
No one could ever answer.
His love remained strong for you, this much I know is true,
You’re wrong if you think leaving is an easy thing to do.
Maybe when you’re older you’ll finally understand...
His sickness. Why he left. Was never part of the plan.
Tough decisions made in the blink of an eye,
Maybe that’s why they leave without saying goodbye.
You were worth staying for,
Proof in the way he fought this war,
It just became too much,
It wasn’t just quitting or just giving up.
Who can really know the weight...
Of leaving when you want to stay?
Who can truly know the weight...
“You don’t understand this weight. I can’t stay”.
Who can really know the weight,
Of leaving when you just can’t stay?
Of leaving when you just can’t stay?
Now you get to tell their story,
So, will you tell their story?
...Not like this,
This wasn’t how it was supposed to be,
But now you get to tell their story.
Tough decisions made in the blink of an eye,
Maybe that’s why they leave without saying goodbye.
One of the darkest, most uncomfortable, unsettling and outright scary audio experiences I've ever had. A massive display of grief and the effects it can have.
Bonus points for the Beach Boys sample still being at the end of God Knows. It's so much more disturbing that way. osirisx3r0
Romance of Affliction somehow makes an old genre feel brand new. Amazing. I would have swore this album was from 2005 if I didn't see with my own eyes it wasn't. SYSC takes everything good about mid-00s metalcore and brings it into the modern day, leaving behind the trash. It's a pure distillation of the genre with brilliant structure, pacing, and lyrics. The album ebbs and flows, letting emotions swell before punching in with some of the most intense passages I've heard in a while. rettisawesome
The Minneapolis band add a horn section, a running surrealist allegory about walls, and an occasional nod to the elegiac to their electroshocked post-punk. Bandcamp Album of the Day Mar 4, 2024
New York hardcore meets classic thrash metal meets Jane's Addiction-esque alternative on the Brooklyn crushers' sensational debut. Bandcamp New & Notable Dec 13, 2023
Dark, bleak, and brutal. This is a one-of-a-kind exercise in hopelessness that is beyond the pale and fully merged with ragged, blood-dripping aggression. Now add a touch of metal structure and excellent production. Jake