Death by thisworldisnotkind

Life on the receiving end of the mental health crisis inspires passionate reactions against the empty platitudes and patronizing theorizing that pours in constantly from culture, as an innate desire to be seen as fully human metabolizes into pure vitriolic angst. A nuanced, uncomfortable flow of this emotion springs forth from Death by Thisworldisnotkind, a post-rock-inspired skramz record that struggles through extreme, persistent loss by rejecting dehumanization from all sources and in all forms. A dirty, imperfect, thrilling style of extreme hardcore emerges, retaining frantic rhythm motifs and dark, dissonant melodies between the record’s various moments of metallic influence, atmospheric post rock, and traditional skramz. Lyrically, the record’s short run brings us on a narrative journey from a place of pure, chaotic grief to a pointed message against the forces that perpetuate these losses, a furious onslaught of emotional reactions that force us to consider our treatments of others and our approaches to those who face crisis in our own lives.