Interviews About Albums: Growth - Industrial Necrocult (2025)

In this new interview, we sat down with the French Industrial Black Metal band, Growth, to ask questions about their album "Industrial Necrocult". 

1. What can you say about this new EP/CD?

Industrial Necrocult is Growth's second album. It blends industrial black metal with a lot of other genres, metal and beyond. Influences range from Aborym to Frank Zappa, and from Devo to Emperor.

Both musically and lyrically, it is a continuation of the first album, Capitalist Supremacy, released in 2021. But it also expands in different directions, such as heavy metal, doom, and features guests on guitar solos, but also saxophone, trumpet or violin. It was intended as a 60-minute cassette and will be released on Bandcamp. You won't find it on any other streaming service.

2. What is the meaning of the EP/CD name?

Industrial Necrocult doesn't have a precise meaning. It came to me while I was half asleep, and I thought it sounded cool and fit the overall theme and vibe of the album. The album starts with the primitive accumulation of capital through colonisation, unfolds with capitalism ruining the world and oppressing workers, and ends with billionaires flying away to Mars, leaving the plebs to die on an inhospitable Earth.

3. Which one is the composer of the CD/EP?

Growth is a one-person band, so I wrote both music and lyrics - with the exception of some of the solos, written by the guest performers themselves.

4. If you had to pick one song, which one would you pick?

Leaving the intro and outro aside, there are 12 songs to choose from. I think they're all very different and complement each other, so it's hard to single one out.

But my personal favourite might be Glitter and Glow. It was originally written for the Black Metal Rainbows compilation, released in 2022 to raise money for charities helping LGBTQ youth. It closes the first side of the album, and finishes on a great solo by Tim Placenti (from the progressive black metal band Averse, among many other non-metal projects).

5. Is there a special message in this EP/CD? If there is what it is?

I wouldn't call it a special message, but as explained above, it tells the story of the demise of humanity underthe  duress of capitalism. It's a satire, and it embraces lots of "classic" black metal themes, such as vampirism, death, depression, war, and even fascism (from the opposite perspective).

6. Are there some lyrics that you'd love to share?

These are not lyrics, but the written intro to the album: "Welcome back to the capitalist nightmare! Colonize! Exploit! Accumulate! Industrialize! Weaponize the state to enforce your property rights! Control the media to force your own narrative! Harness the power of fascism to divide the people and subdue workers! You’d rather have a genocide than a revolution, right? Then, when the whole world becomes an unlivable hell, escape to space and expand your dominion!"

7. Which inspirations have been important for this album? Like musically or friends, family, someone you'd love to thank especially?

The writing spanned over 5 years, so I have been inspired by a lot of things. An early version of Happy Collapse even goes as far back as 2007.

In terms of music, I can be inspired by pretty much anything, whether it's just the "vibe" of a random track I heard, or a band that I'm heavily listening to - I don't know if the most explicit inspirations can actually be spotted in the final result.

For the lyrics, I'm inspired mostly by the terrible state of the world. The first song I wrote after Capitalist Supremacy was Fascists on TV, about a year before the last French presidential election, when blatant hate speeches were given a lot of airtime in the media. But some lyrics are more personal.

I also got inspiration from the people I worked with: the guests who performed on the album, as well as the bands with whom I shared splits over the last years (Sacral, Red Vampyric Witchery, and Clarion Knell). I wanted to let speckles of hope shine here and there through the darkness of the album, and these people, along with all those who supported the project, contributed to it.

8. Something to add?

Thank you for this opportunity to talk about the album! If I managed to raise the interest of anyone, they can download the album for free on Bandcamp or through the Moonslime Records website.

If anyone wants to support the band, share the album around!