NEWS: AXTY announce  “The Pain Made Me Who I Am”!

While the band are on tour in North America with Lacuna Coil and Escape The Fate label home Napalm Records have announced that 21st August will see a new album from Brazilian Metalcore trio AXTY titled “The Pain Made Me Who I Am” appearing everywhere you’d expect it to. That news is accompanied by a music video for “end this“, the record’s cataclysmic final breath and an onslaught of aggression in nu-core. An exploration of themes of self-evolution through harnessing pain and resilience born from adversity, transforming negative experiences into fuel for growth await, if you dare…

The band comment: “One of the most pessimistic moments on the record, this track serves as a closing statement that encapsulates the album’s overarching emotional arc. ‘end this’ portrays a character shaped by accumulated trauma, depression, and intrusive, self-destructive thoughts. Themes that unfold progressively throughout the release. Positioned as the final track, the song leans into a sense of exhaustion and finality, reinforced by the recurring line ‘please end this,’ while subtly subverting its own premise in the opening verse: ‘so here we go again, another song about how I hate myself.’ Musically, it stands out as one of the heaviest and most sonically challenging pieces on the album, featuring its most dissonant chorus to date. This deliberate stylistic contrast mirrors a state of dissociation, culminating in a drifting, almost delirious reflection captured in the line: ‘why try so long here if all we touch will rot and sear.’”

“The Pain Made Me Who I Am revolves around human emotions, particularly the darker, more difficult ones. However, rather than dwelling on suffering, we focused on the role these emotions play in personal growth and self-evolution. Resilience born from adversity, the idea that growth and self-discovery are deeply rooted in struggle, we wanted to explore how negative experiences, rather than defining us in a limiting way, become the very foundation of who we are.”