Description
Northern Irish death/doom band The Crawling return with What We Leave Behind, a twotrack EP examining nostalgia, regret and the damage caused by living in the past.
Built around the central idea that “Nostalgia is not a memory; it is a malignancy,” the release explores the point where reflection becomes fixation and the past begins to consume the present. Opening track “A Song to Nurse the Sickness” examines the deliberate preservation of old wounds and the compulsion to keep them alive rather than accept their finality.
“Bound to the Negative [Requiem]” is a complete acoustic reconstruction of the track originally released on All of This for Nothing. Its form has been entirely reshaped, while its meaning and outcome remain unchanged, reflecting the way memory repeatedly reworks the past without altering what actually happened.
TRACK LISTING:
1. A Song to Nurse the Sickness – 5:28
2. Bound to the Negative [Requiem] – 6:10
GENRE: Death/Doom
BARCODE: 0658556171011
RELEASE DATE: 02/10/2026
