Fire rarely feels like healing but somehow It Grows makes it possible. TiLT 360’s standout track doesn’t just erupt with emotion, it scorches the edges of your doubt while cauterizing the wounds left behind. There’s an unmistakable urgency in Billy Smaltz’s vocals, a kind of beautiful defiance that crackles like a fuse already lit. What begins as a punch of gritty rock quickly deepens into something more intimate—raw, aching, and strangely redemptive.
This isn’t chaos for chaos’s sake. The band’s precision is surgical. Heather Jurina’s drumming doesn’t just anchor the storm, it commands it, while Drew Salzano’s bass work pulses like a second heartbeat. And then there’s Jason Miller on guitar, carving through the noise with riffs that don’t aim to impress they aim to haunt.
The lyrical energy of It Grows reflects a mind caught in the middle of war—internal, emotional, existential. Smaltz draws from his own battles with addiction and pain, but never dips into melodrama. He lets the darkness speak without glamorizing it, and that restraint is what makes it powerful. Lines like “this war inside is making a man of me” ring out like hard-earned truths, not just lyrics.
Recorded between Youngstown and Harrisburg, the entire It Grows EP leans into emotional complexity without overproducing the messiness out of it. The themes of shattered innocence, heartbreak, and healing never feel forced. Instead, they simmer. They stay with you.
This track isn’t trying to be the anthem of a generation. It’s too honest for that. It’s the scream you didn’t know you needed until it matched the one inside your own chest. It Grows is proof that even the harshest noise can carry a melody and sometimes, even fire can mend what’s broken.
