Heaven Through Violence/Rosemary Nods Upon The Grave - Split

Labels: Gallowdance Records/Larry Records/Severed Records/Zegema Beach Records

Formats: Vinyl/Digital

Release Date: 02 Jun 2025

Tracklist:

1. Heaven Through Violence - Say No Elegies For The Melting Stone

2. Heaven Through Violence - Six Are The Walking Ways

3. Rosemary Nods Upon The Grave - Every River Will Meet The Sea

4. Rosemary Nods Upon The Grave - Every Sorrow Will Have Its Day

I finally encountered posts by a vehemently hated AI bot on a certain social media platform the other day. I'm completely against companies training chatbots in social settings and through the use of people's legitimate art. Who knows where it'll end if it's allowed to keep on going. Thankfully, this blog and the bands I feature (to the best of my knowledge), stay away from AI. 

That brings me to the split 7" featuring US screamo/emoviolence bands Heaven Through Violence and Rosemary Nods Upon The Grave. Both bands are chock full of super talented people with Heaven Through Violence featuring members of Dysthymia, Castling and ...And Its Name Was Epyon (to name a few); while, Rosemary Nods Upon The Grave includes musicians who have performed in long.way.down, Street Sweeper and The Holy Ghost Tabernacle Choir (amongst many others).

7” split releases seem to be reducing in number, which is probably due to the high price of pressing them now, so it’s nice to see one in the wild. Heaven Through Violence are up first with ‘Say No Elegies For The Melting Stone’, which is both sassy and screamy. Fast, grinding emoviolence coupled with extended passages of screeching feedback and melodramatic atmosphere spoil you musically. It’s not so much emoviolence in truth as it borrows from an earlier time when post-hardcore was more emotive and less violent (if that makes sense).

Obviously, whenever I make a statement about a band’s sound, there always seems to be a point where it’s proven wrong and that happens in part on ‘Six Are The Walking Ways’. It’s a very short blast of fast screamo that’s bookended by a slow build at the start and a French spoken-word sample at the end, which throws back to mid 2000’s post-hardcore.

Rosemary Nods Upon The Grave are more straightforward in their approach on ‘Every River Will Meet The Sea’ as they join brief bursts of violence with melodic screamo instrumentation and hardcore vocals. When I started collecting vinyl, split releases like this opened my eyes to so many great bands; bands that I still love to this day.

Closing this split out with ‘Every Sorrow Will Have Its Day’, Rosemary Nods Upon The Grave dispense with any dramatic passages in favour of darker yet melodic hardcore. It’s noticeable how they are able to deliver songs that sound much longer than they actually are in reality. The fact that screamo and screamo-adjacent bands continue to produce such engrossing music out of nowhere shows just how strong the DIY/Independent scene is right now.

You can stream and purchase the split digitally from both bands below:-

Heaven Through Violence Instagram - @heaventhroughviolence.ma

Rosemary Nods Upon The Grave Instagram - @rosemarynodsuponthegrave

Gallowdance Records Instagram - @gallowdancerecords

Larry Records - https://www.facebook.com/larryscrammo

Severed Records - https://severedrecords.bandcamp.com/music

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