Flesh Stays Together

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Flesh Stays Together
Dying Wish (band) - Flesh Stays Together.jpg
Studio album by
Dying Wish
ReleasedSeptember 26, 2025 (2025-09-26)
Genre Metalcore
Length35:55
Label SharpTone
Producer Will Putney
Dying Wish chronology
Symptoms of Survival
(2023)		Flesh Stays Together
(2025)
Singles from Flesh Stays Together
  1. "I'll Know You're Not Around"
    Released: July 30, 2025
  2. "Revenge In Carnage"
    Released: August 27, 2025

Flesh Stays Together is the third studio album by American metalcore band Dying Wish. It was released on September 26, 2025, via SharpTone. [1]

Contents

Background

The album was preceded by the band's 2023 full-length release, Symptoms of Survival, [2] and produced by Will Putney. [3] Emma Boster of the band noted about Flesh Stays Together, "Together we face the most unacceptable conditions in our lifetimes. Every tragedy becomes our own yet we have never been more separated. Flesh is a vicious wake up call. Slowly and painfully we approach the end we deserve." [3]

"I'll Know You're Not Around" was released as a single on July 30, 2025, alongside a music video directed by Eric Richter and Pedro Carrillo. [2] [1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Distorted Sound9/10 [4]
Kerrang 4/5 [5]
Metal Hammer 7/10 [6]
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Rating it 4.5 stars in his review for New Noise , Nicholas Senior referred to the work as "Dying Wish's best work to date, despite not delivering on what many would have asked for them." [7] Sam Law of Kerrang! remarked, "It's a compelling squeeze to find yourself caught up in, a stark coming of age for metalcore pacesetters whose potential now seems limitless," giving it a rating of four. [5]

Writing for Distorted Sound, Amber Brooks described the album as "a landmark in creating eerie metalcore, another jewel in the crown of the genre's relatively recent ability to lean into horror tropes, championed by grotesque atmosphere, vile breakdowns and placing the listener in extreme moments of sonic danger," assigning it a rating score of nine. [4]

Metal Hammer 's Nik Young, rating the album seven, observed, "As tracks shift between melancholic and mercilessly heavy, Emma Boster slips effortlessly between full-pelt screams, moody cleans and moments of fragility, successfully making the heavy sections even more brutal." [6]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Dying Wish.

Flesh Stays Together track listing
No.TitleLength
1."I Don't Belong Anywhere"4:04
2."A Curse Upon Iron"3:55
3."I'll Know You're Not Around"3:43
4."Revenge in Carnage"2:27
5."Nothing Like You"4:14
6."Surrender Everything"2:57
7."Moments I Regret"3:43
8."Empty the Chamber"2:47
9."Heaven Departs"4:03
10."Flesh Stays Together"4:02
Total length:35:55

Personnel

Credits adapted from the album's liner notes. [8]

Dying Wish

Additional contributors

References

  1. 1 2 Adams, Gregory (July 30, 2025). "Dying Wish announce new album with explosive song "I'll Know You're Not Around"". Revolver . Retrieved October 4, 2025.
  2. 1 2 Breihan, Tom (July 30, 2025). "Dying Wish Announce New Album Flesh Stays Together: Hear "I'll Know You're Not Around"". Stereogum . Retrieved October 4, 2025.
  3. 1 2 Kennelty, Greg (July 30, 2025). "Dying Wish Announce New Album Flesh Stays Together, Share Lead Single "I'll Know You're Not Around"". Metal Injection . Retrieved October 4, 2025.
  4. 1 2 Brooks, Amber (September 27, 2025). "Album Review: Flesh Stays Together – Dying Wish". Distorted Sound. Retrieved October 4, 2025.
  5. 1 2 Law, Sam (September 26, 2025). "Album review: Dying Wish – Flesh Stays Together". Kerrang! . Retrieved October 4, 2025.
  6. 1 2 Young, Nik (October 2025). "Flesh Stays Together". Metal Hammer . No. 405. p. 92. ISSN   0955-1190.
  7. 1 2 Senior, Nicholas (September 26, 2025). "Album Review: Dying Wish – Flesh Stays Together". New Noise . Retrieved October 4, 2025.
  8. ↑ Flesh Stays Together (Media notes). Dying Wish. SharpTone Records. September 26, 2025.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
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