Adapting // Crawling (LUNGS-300)

by IRON LUNG

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1.
Adapting 00:36
2.
Whatever we were, we are certainly not that now.
3.
“What is this? What year is it?” There’s no sun. There’s only walls and the relentless hum of fluorescent bulbs. Living out a lifeless life, dying inside. “We want out!” Powerless, there’s no escaping.
4.
Shift Work 00:55
The shock of the switch when the nurses start their shift… Why should we look for the light that causes this? Causes so much pain. Is there salvation in medication? So much hate for our tortured, fightless state. It’s hard to focus. Drug mind wanders. Blurry nightmares taking hold.
5.
They told us the sand was poisoned and that is how the virus spreads. “Playgrounds are not safe for children.” Fearmongers use paranoia as oppression tools to keep us compliant. Controlled by their fear.
6.
“Our brain knows what sickness tastes like.” Living in a bed, sweat soaked, with the taste of iron in our mouths. The world outside is dead. Finally joining them. We held on this long for nothing.
7.
A Veiled Eye 00:44
Curtain’s falling like an iron grating, veiled over a clouded lens. A sighted life is out of reach. Useless hands scraping at the dirt like the beak of a blinded bird.
8.
A door is just an invitation. A state of absolute perfection. Perfect ending.
9.
A Loving Act 03:36
Bequeath the body to use for science. There is only one condition; once it’s used, served its purpose, bathe the body in rose and saline. Now throw it in the trash. A clean break. They won’t get a last request to disappear. Like most flowers in hospitals, patients die forgotten.
10.
Nothing hurts them? “We can’t die!” Viruses are lurking, killing people. Stupid people. They all caught it. Now they die. Or if they don’t, they’ll wish they did. Ground into a purgatory dust, a never ending purgatory dust.
11.
Virus 01:44
“I am virus. I am decrepitude. I am virus. I am slow death. I specialize in grotesques, twisting and deforming human bodies. I am decrepitude come to ruin your remaining years. I am slow death.”
12.
Enshrined in iron. Lung gives life. A worthless time spent waiting for them to vacuum up the dust. Never ending purgatory dust.
13.
Wrapped in gauze, encased in plaster. What once was healthy, left to fester. Partially living meat is a vehicle for disease.
14.
On a sterile enamel surface, existence is easily erased. Now just a mark on cold, clean porcelain. Seeping through the grout, underneath the tile, the history of suffering won’t come out. Come closer. Come and see death.
15.
Cog II 01:03
To the powers that control existence, human life is worthless. We’re used and discarded, treated like human garbage. They’re waiting for the breakdown. We’re fertilizer. We are worth absolutely nothing. Totally expendable. The process of being replaced has begun again.
16.
HeLa Cells 00:34
Their consent is not required when human tissue is obtained from the patient during medical treatment if the “donor’s” identity is removed. …When research lacks humanity.
17.
Failure 02:11
No one can escape disease. It’s raging, relentless. We are out here, hunted. It’s only a matter of time. Covid. Cirrhosis. Cancer. Depression. Heart disease. Hemochromatosis. Dying helpless. The system in place right now just isn’t working out. Failure. No protection from disease. Useless healthcare system.
18.
“Something feels wrong. There’s pressure and pain in my chest. I can’t breathe.” What we heard were his final words. A funeral at 45. He should still be alive. “He is survived by his wife, kids, parents, siblings and friend.”

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IRON LUNG - Adapting // Crawling
LP / CD / CS / Digital
(LUNGS-300)
Out April 18th 2025

Behold! Seattle’s immortal IRON LUNG have bestowed upon us their fourth studio full-length, Adapting // Crawling. This, their first album since 2013, is as fierce and uncompromising as we’ve come to expect from the duo of Jensen Ward and Jon Kortland, who originally bonded over a shared fascination of punishing hardcore and arcane medical barbarism. On this new LP, it’s not a funhouse mirror they’re holding up - society has devolved into this misshapen, ugly and distorted form, and IRON LUNG take no pleasure in pulling back its curtain. As truth-tellers in this breakneck and unrelenting hardcore tradition, duty commands IRON LUNG to ram their bulldozers, Hanatarash-style, through the tidal waves of horseshit. 
Extreme hardcore is not a new phenomenon, yet Adapting // Crawling is undoubtedly a vital new fork in its socket. Hearkening back to forebears Despise You and Crossed Out, these eighteen tracks offer distinctly original pathways to obliteration, from the ominous opening blows of “Adapting” to the inspired decision to sandwich the distressing “Virus” between two halves of “Purgatory Dust”, a rare piece of art that accurately conjures the monotonous terror of surviving an active pandemic. Their blasts of hardcore/agit-prop are savage and unrelenting, but IRON LUNG somehow manage to imbue the negative space between blasts with an oxygen-destroying heaviness as well, perhaps the defining trademark of this group who once saw their reflection in a full-body pressurized metal chamber and decided to turn it into music. -Matt Korvette

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Greg Wilkinson. Cut by John Golden. Art by Jon Kortland. Layout by Jensen Ward.

LP: 1400 on black and 500 on trans red 150gr vinyl housed in a tipon jacket with printed inner sleeve and hype sticker included.
CD: 500x pro-printed discs housed in a jewel case with a 4 panel insert.
CS: 500x pro-printed red tint shells housed in a Norelco box with 4 panel J-card cover.

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released April 18, 2025

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