Fingerswoventogether - As The Lie Became Truth

Labels: Blackheaven Records/Larry Records/Native Estate/Severed Records/Zegema Beach Records

Formats: Vinyl/CD/Tape/Digital

Release Date: 01 May 2026

Tracklist:

1. ...And Now We're Nothing

2. Patience Through Penitence

3. Holding Onto Something Out Of Arms Reach

4. This Was Never Yours To Take

5. One Glass Eyes And Knives For Hands

How are you all coping with World Cup fever? Do you care? The UK media would have you believe that footy is taking over the US. I hope this is the first and last time we ever see "hydration breaks"!. Anyway, that tenuous opening bit only exists because the band I'm reviewing this evening come from Florida. 

Fingerswoventogether released their first music in 2024 in the form a 3 song demo that received a cdr pressing from Home To Heart and a tape pressing from ZBR sister label Tomb Tree. 2025 saw two lathe-cut releases; a 3-way split that included agile and Opposition Dolls from Blackheaven Records and Severed Records, followed by Severed again with a special Fall 2025 tour promo. Their newest EP came out in May.

I’m anxiously awaiting news on a record trade. I had a duplicate, agreed a trade with someone (from the US), packaged up and sent my half out last week,  now I’m just waiting to hear if the other half of the trade has been sent to me. Will I get it? Am I being stitched up? Should I have accepted the first offer I received? The answer will be shared in a future post. For now though, I’m distracting myself with Fingerswoventogether. This EP immediately sounds so retro as ’…And Now We’re Nothing’ begins. Guitar riffs that bring to mind System of a Down soon get swallowed up by intense and noisy screamo. Cymbal-led percussion crashes, guitars rumble and offer heaps of dissonance, while multiple voices deliver tortured screams, and heartfelt emotion.

‘Patience Through Penitence’ goes in different directions. At times it seems more restrained than the opener but more chaotic at others, while Fingerswoventogether enjoy a moment of slight reflection mid-way through.  They like introspective passages, which break up the heaviness and to be honest, they are very good at them. The flow of the song isn’t spoilt and the anxious riffage actually gains more impact because of them.

There’s a gentle beauty nestling within ‘Holding Onto Something Out of Arms Reach’ that continues after the initial build-up has finished. Even if the emoviolence is the main character here, the melody of the gentler instrumentation acts as an earthing, if that makes sense? It’s a somewhat brief song overall but is big enough to hold considerable weight.

I think back to metalcore when it was more about hardcore when listening to ‘This Was Never Yours to Take’. It just has such an energy and some loverly, intricate musicianship too. I’ve said this before recently but the level of talent that these newer screamo bands have is unbelievable. Pushing the standard up without damaging artistic integrity is what it’s all about.

Closing this EP with ‘One Glass Eye and Knives for Hands’, Fingerswoventogether provide one last epic song. Pulsing with sinister melodies, stark cries and honest musicianship, it brings a real sense of joy. From a noisy beginning to an ending filled with clarity, this EP is excellent. As ever, my write-up doesn’t do it justice. Spin it and try to grab a physical copy before they sell out.

The EP doesn't seem to be available digitally from Fingerswoventogether but you can stream it, and purchase it as a name-your-price download below:-

It's also available digitally from Larry Records - https://larry187.bandcamp.com.

Fingerswoventogether Instagram - @fingerswoventogether

Physical copies are available from the labels below:-

Blackheaven Records (Tape) - https://blackheavenrecords.bigcartel.com/product/fingerswoventogether-as-the-lie-became-truth-tape

Native Estate (CD) - https://native-estate.com/shop/p/fingerswoventogether-as-the-lie-became-truth-cd

Zegema Beach Records (Vinyl) - http://www.zegemabeachrecords.com/zegema-beach-releases/fwt-atlbt 

Blackheaven Records Instagram - @blackheavenworld

Larry Records Instagram - @larryrecords187 

Native Estate Instagram - @native.estates

Severed Records Instagram - @severedrecords_ 

Zegema Beach Records Instagram - @zegema_beach

Gravess - losing everything that makes life beautiful

Labels: Severed Records/Zegema Beach Records

Formats: Vinyl/Digital

Release Date: 21 Jan 2026

Tracklist: 

1. title track

2. one day it will come.

3. borrowed time and borrowed eyes and borrowed world with which to sorrow it.

4. 2023

5. deconstruction patterns

I always planned to start reviewing Zegema Beach’s 2026 releases as soon as they appeared, because if I continued with my original plan it would be three months before I got to them (given the pace of my current output!). Welcome Gravess to the blog, a screamo band from Florida. I guess you could call it an EP but it's on an LP and it's their first release in just over two years. ZBR worked with Severed Records on it as well.

I was supposed to be enjoying a work-free week this week, but things conspired against me and I’ve had to delay it for a while. Instead, I’m looking forward to when I can take the time off (hopefully in a few weeks) and I’m trying to end January on a high, which is where Gravess come in. Another new name to me but one that’s amongst many so far this year and I’m here for it. 

Opening losing everything that makes life beautiful, ‘title track’ is brimming with pent up anger and genuine emotion. The vocals hit so hard in both tone and register, while the percussion and guitars provide a more subtle/melodic backdrop. It’s heavy when it needs to be and gentle when it doesn’t. ’one day it will come.’ is a completely pure example of post-hardcore in this modern age. Instrumentation leads the way, interspersed by spoken-word passages and intense screams. Absolutely epic! I don’t think you could ask for anything more.

In the well-healed tradition of long screamo song-titles, ‘borrowed time and borrowed eyes and borrowed world with which to sorrow it.’ is one to add to the list. It actually has a punkier rhythm to it initially before stopping on a dime, switching tempos entirely and becoming an off-kilter beast all of its own. The feedback that it ends with flows into ‘2023’, which reignites the old-school approach that Gravess take throughout this record. When I say old-school though, I’m only really talking about the mid-2000s, though that era feels like a long time ago now. Gravess harness it and make it real in the same way that I Promised The World do.

For those hoping that ‘deconstruction patterns’ will be the destructive ending to this record are in luck, as it delivers in every aspect. It’s the shortest yet possibly the most impactful because of it. There’s just something about this release that reaches another level. Gravess are excellent, but they don’t need me to tell them that.

You can stream the release and purchase it as a name-your-price download from Gravess below:-

12" LP copies can be purchased from the links below:-

Severed Records - https://severedrecordss.bigcartel.com/product/gravess-losing-everything-that-makes-life-beautiful

Zegema Beach Records USA - https://zbrusa.com/products/gravess

Gravess Instagram - @gravess._

Severed Records Instagram - @severedrecords_

Zegema Beach Records Instagram - @zegema_beach

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