Song: Dying Wish - Fragments of a Bitter Memory

Portland’s hardcore quintet, Dying Wish, has announced their forthcoming album, Fragments of a Bitter Memory, which will be released on October 1st via Sharptone Records, their new label!

Not only has the band signed with a new label, but they also released a new song titled “Fragments of a Bitter Memory”.

There’s a personal story behind the song. “‘Fragments’ starts by taking the listener back to my first memory. I was five years old and I was the flower girl at my mother’s wedding. My biological father wasn’t in my life and the man she was marrying took a vow to fill that void,” says lead vocalist. Emma Boster. “Over the next decade I watched that same man who I had learned to call my father become a violent alcoholic. By the time I was a young teen, I was being verbally and physically abused by him almost daily. I was living in constant fear.”

Equality, dignity, and self-determination are themes in Dying Wish’s music as the band aligns themselves with battle for liberation, encompassing the issues affecting BIPOC, the environment, policing, and more intersectional causes. Dying Wish makes music aimed at uniting, but without compromise.

Fragments of a Bitter Memory is available for pre-orders now!