Chronic Illness Wish, by Genital Shame

Chronic Illness Wish

by Genital Shame

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Sam A trans person challenging the confines of heavy music while being unapologetically herself, what's more black metal than that? Favorite track: Taste Rot.

SquirrelGrl Transwoman led black metal with experimental bits? Yes please.

sad girl addict erin dawson has shown herself to be one of the most important acts to watch in the black metal space. she's able to channel so much emotion and power on these cuts to serve three-albums worth of songs. this album comes out of the gate as an all-timer i'll be spinning for the rest of my life

Luke In a genre obsessed by its own counter-culture credentials where "counter-culture" is defined as the rejecting the imagined constraints placed upon white boys from the suburbs (zero), Genital Shame is one of those essential projects moving black metal forward. The singularity is the precipice of infinite mass between internal and external patriarchy. Tiny, vast, explosive. A place of genuine struggle. The front line of societal breakdown is here. And we build. We build. Favorite track: Schooled In Every Grace.

october_leaves Damn this album really takes off once you get into it. Also, all across the discography Genital Shame has some fantastic tracks. They just keep coming! Favorite track: Hermaphroditic Image.

great albums log brutal, intimate, enthralling. my fav heavy record of 2024 thus far and i don't think much is going to top it

youtu.be/Fbn_smB5weU Favorite track: I Met Kerri Colby.

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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Limited Edition vinyl version of Genital Shame's debut full length LP, Chronic Illness Wish. Don't sleep, both of the first two Genital Shame EP's are sold out!

Includes unlimited streaming of Chronic Illness Wish via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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Includes unlimited streaming of Chronic Illness Wish via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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1.	Become Someone Specific 04:52	buy track
2.	Schooled In Every Grace 04:45 video	buy track
3.	Chronic Illness Wish 07:18	buy track
4.	Hermaphroditic Image 06:01	buy track
5.	Taste Rot 06:37	buy track
6.	I Met Kerri Colby 07:55	buy track

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Genital Shame unleashes the debut full length album Chronic Illness Wish on LP / Cassette + Digital

Abounding in vitality, Chronic Illness Wish hits like a triumphant celebration. With one hand digging down to touch deep black metal roots and the other hand extending skyward to jubilantly signal sovereignty, Genital Shame simultaneously acknowledges the darkness and rises above it, in a most resplendent and singular way.

Never has her singular vision been more apparent than on this debut full length LP. Chronic Illness Wish builds on the unique vocabulary Erin Dawson honed as Genital Shame through two sold out EP’s on The Garrote (one of which was “Album of the Day” on @bandcamp). Her musical output has never felt more dynamic. Continually building sonic mountains and toppling them over, as on the first single Schooled in Every Grace, Dawson never rests.

The songs on this album rip relentlessly, punctuated by major key harmonies and timbres not commonly found in black metal. Transwoman Black Metal (or TWBM, a term cheekily coined by Dawson) draws outside all lines, with sonic qualities that defy genre conventions.

"Dawson’s vocabulary is uniquely her own. Acting as the sole composer, producer, and performer, she utilizes the control available to her, toying with the texture of clipping guitars and cymbals, crafting melody out of the dissonant ambiguous tingle of distorted semitones clashing against one another.... Erin Dawson puts forward carefully crafted fury and catharsis as vibrantly hued as it is bloody, a triumphant reversal of the grim history that rests behind its name." - Leah Levinson, from Bandcamp's "Album of the Day"

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released February 23, 2024

Erin Dawson - all instrumentation + vocals
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John Kerr - drums on "I Met Kerri Colby"
Rahul Nair - drums on "Hermaphroditic Image"
Dave Klug - mixing / mastering

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Genital Shame Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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