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Cover of Marrow

Album · 2019

Marrow

by Iron Marrow

Memory, inheritance and the screams: the band's biggest harmonised leads, with old photographs on every track.

Tracks

  1. 1. Not Today, Not Ever, Not MeNot today, not ever, not me. We wrote the chorus to be shouted by a room full of people.heavy metal, anthemic metal4:16
  2. 2. We Said Forever on a Garage FloorTwo boys in a garage with one old amp. It is us, and we are not pretending otherwise.heavy metal, twin-guitar metal4:52
  3. 3. Reunion Tour of One Rusty VanA rusty van coughing to life for one more run. The groove is the whole joke and we mean it.hard rock, boogie metal3:27
  4. 4. Old Friends at the Back Door of the HallThirty years since the high school hall and the same old door. A singalong for people who stayed in touch.heavy metal, anthemic metal4:10
  5. 5. Written in Pencil, Signed in SteelA letter in pencil and a promise in steel. The harmonised lead at the end is the best we have recorded.power metal, melodic metal3:46
  6. 6. Typhoon Night, Every Window SingingThe sky came down at nightfall and the windows sang. We hit the biggest drum sound of our career on this one.power metal, anthemic metal3:36
  7. 7. Corner Pitch, Rain on the StringsA tiny town corner and rain on the strings. We busked this before we ever recorded it.heavy metal, melodic metal4:05
  8. 8. Her Letters Fit in a ShoeboxFound a shoebox in the attic tied with a faded string. Slow and heavy and every word is true.doom metal, gothic metal4:29
  9. 9. Her Watch Stopped at Quarter to FourHer watch is in the drawer where she left it long ago. A sister song to the one about Dad's.doom metal, power ballad4:35
  10. 10. Dad's Watch Still Ticks on SundaysDad's old watch is in my drawer and still ticking on Sundays. We saved it for the penultimate slot so the last song could breathe.power ballad, gothic metal4:27
  11. 11. Spin Cycle Prayer, Midnight ChapelMidnight at the laundromat and a widow folding shirts. The record ends on the softest and heaviest thing we have done.doom metal, gothic metal, power ballad4:33

Liner notes

We named it Marrow because that is what was left when we stripped everything else off the songs. Watches in drawers, letters in shoeboxes, a father's arm at a church door. The screams got bigger and so did the leads, but the garage is still audible underneath. We tracked the rhythm section live in one room and left the mistakes in.

Iron Marrow