Nuvolascura - How This All Ends

Labels: i.corrupt Records/Longlegslongarms/Zegema Beach Records

Formats: Vinyl/CD/Digital

Release Date: 08 Jul 2025

Tracklist:

1. if portals are linear, you'll die soon enough

2. and in the end, you threw it all away

3. why we never returned to the moon

4. figment of reality

5. if at all

6. cordiform projection

7. ex cryptids

8. last embers of awareness

9. before you disappeared

10. polar destinies

July ushered in the release of How This All Ends from Californian screamo royalty Nuvolascura. It comes five years on from As We Suffer From Memory And Imagination. It really doesn't seem like that long! It was released on two vinyl variants totalling 500 copies and 100 CDs via both i.corrupt Records and ZBR, while Longlegslongarms in Japan also released copies on CD (if anybody can tell me the quantity, I'll update this write-up asap!).

I really hope this isn’t How This All Ends for Nuvolascura (sorry, not sorry). Starting with ‘if portals are linear, you’ll die soon enough’, you’re greeted with a drum n bass style intro before Nuvo launch into something altogether heavier. More metallic than before with equally frenetic vocals, coupled with percussion and bass that adds a lot of depth to the music. This feels very much like an album from a screamo band who are leaving screamo behind. I say that because they still use long song titles like ‘and in the end, you threw it all away’, which continues the intensity delivered by the opener, but with chunkier sounding riffs in parts. That being said, mathcore-like madness isn’t too far away.

‘why we never returned to the moon’ doesn’t deliver an answer to that same question but it does deliver an extremely technical version of the band’s sound, which is absolutely stunning. The fact that they dive headfirst into ‘figment of reality’ without a pause for breath says so much. The momentum is real here and Nuvo give off massive Rolo Tomassi vibes, which is fine by me (and also not the first time I’ve used that comparison recently).

With so much trying to attract your attention musically, all the time; it’s crazy to think that people are content with mundane albums by equally mundane bands when they could be discovering this one for the first time. ‘if at all’ is one of it’s lengthier ones at over three-and-a-half minutes, and it sees Nuvo injecting more melody and expansiveness into the album. It’s a great way to bridge into the latter half, which begins with ‘cordiform projection’. It jumps back to Nuvo’s earlier screamo blueprint but with extra metal influence, as if they had spent months listening to traditional/thrash metal and early albums by NWOAHM bands.

‘ex cryptids’ seems to continue along the same path initially before the math-infused screamo takes over again. For a song that’s over just as it gets going, it hits hard. I’ve mentioned short songs a few times during this review and that’s solely down to the fact that It’s the order of things here. ‘last embers of awareness’ reaches that sweet-point between technical screamo and crust, thanks to the metallic guitar work. Penultimate song ‘before you disappeared’ is also the album’s final short-player, following ‘last embers of awareness’ instantly, pulling absolutely no punches.

It’s left to ‘polar destinies’ to close out How This All Ends and if you like polar opposites, you’re in for a treat. It sounds like it could be a Metallica song before the screams kick in and everything becomes a lot darker. There’s menace flowing through the instrumentation when it’s at it’s fullest, but it’s also joined by Nuvo’s own version of math-laden skramz too. This intensity is overwhelming at times but damn is it worth it. Nuvolascura are singlehandedly creating a new peak for this genre of heavy music and I’m here for it.

You can stream and purchase the album digitally from Nuvolascura below:-

You can also buy the album on both physical formats from the band here:-

https://www.nuvolascura.com

Grab copies from the labels here:-

i.corrupt Records - https://www.icorruptrecords.com/collections/icr-releases

Longlegslongarms - http://longlegslongarms.jp/music/products/list.php?category_id=1&orderby=date

Zegema Beach Records CAN/INTL - http://www.zegemabeachrecords.com/zegema-beach-releases / USA - https://zbrusa.com/collections/zbr-releases?page=1

i.corrupt Records - https://www.facebook.com/icorruptrecs

Longlegslongarms - https://www.facebook.com/3LAdisc

Zegema Beach Records - https://bsky.app/profile/zegemabeachrecords.bsky.social