*** GRAVESS exclusive song premiere ***

GRAVESS

"deconstruction patterns"
exclusive song premiere

For fans of: Gillian Carter, Heaven Through Violence, and Bloom Dream

Bandcamp

     On Wednesday January 21st the world gets another dose of GRAVESS for the first time in two years. The Miami, Florida band will be releasing 'losing everything that makes life beautiful' on 12" via Zegema Beach Records and Severed Records. Following GRAVESS' first single "borrowed time and borrowed eyes and borrowed world with which to sorrow it." which was released on the Zampler #26 comp (linked here), today's premiere for closing track "deconstruction patterns" is the final single before the full EP release. The band features members of Bloom Dream, Fingerswoventogether, Palomino Blond, and The Troops doing a playful but destructive mixture of post-hardcore and screamo in the vein of Gillian Carter and Heaven Through Violence.

(2026) GRAVESS "deconstruction patterns" (from 'losing everything that makes life beautiful')

https://youtu.be/Kmvyft3JRtA

     After a briefly screamed intro of "will you be your brother's keeper when they come for you in the end?" the song swings and locks into rhythm whilst building to the sensational second-half that includes one helluva breakdown and some seriously evil panic chords.

SHESMADEFROMSUEDE

Band: SHESMADEFROMSUEDE
For fans of: Mondrary, I Have No Mouth, Grimlitter, Blind Girls, Roman Candle, Ruptures, Fainting In Coils, and Mouthing.
Genres: Punk / Hardcore / Metallic Hardcore / Emo / Screamo / Skramz

Related artists: ?.
Country: Hattiesburg, Mississippi U.S.A.
Years Active: 2024-2025

Label(s): Tomb Tree

     This Hattiesburg band followed the classic screamo trajectory and recorded one amazing EP then broke up. Luckily the band hit me up early and asked if I wanted to help release it, knowing it was the band's first and final output. Considering how awesome the five songs were I had to say yes. So I did. And here we are.

     The band's sound is an almost lo-fi sibling to bands like Mondrary, I Have No Mouth, Grimlitter, and Blind Girls, mixing caustic, emotional upheavals amidst (sometimes) playful riffery and (other times) downright destruction. And I gotta say, those shrill screams are fucking sick.

     It's the odd-numbered tracks that really turn my head as "i" has a cool chunky/jarring riff that turns into a sick breakdown near the end, "iii" has got a second half that'll get you moshin' nice'n'good (and those bell hits rock), and "v" includes the aforementioned playful guitar work (bit of Hot Cross/Ruptures vibes there) followed by a prodigious panic chord breakdown.

     Honestly it's a shame the band was so short-lived, but I was told members have moved on to new things so hopefully we see the fruits of their labour sooner rather than later. This will probably make my best EPs of 2025, but we'll see.

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DISCOGRAPHY

SHESMADEFROMSUEDE - shesmadefromsuede cassette EP (stream/donate/download here)

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(2025) SHESMADEFROMSUEDE - "v" (from 'shesmadefromsuede')

https://youtu.be/JGGmGPuT390

(2025) SHESMADEFROMSUEDE - "iii" (from 'shesmadefromsuede')

https://youtu.be/FbLwsEAYPw8

(2025) SHESMADEFROMSUEDE - "i" (from 'shesmadefromsuede')

https://youtu.be/DbPkWDZwMzQ

(2025) SHESMADEFROMSUEDE - Full Set (live at No Dice)

https://youtu.be/92moWVSf_wY

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Additional links

Buy tapes from Tomb Tree

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*** SEAR exclusive music video premiere ***

SEAR

"Judy"
exclusive song/video premiere

For fans of: Portrayal Of Guilt, Crossed and To Forget

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album drops/orders open January 12th, 2026

     Nearly two years after the debut EP from South Carolina's SEAR comes their first full length on 12"LP courtesy of Tomb Tree. Today I'm stoked to premiere the brand new song "Judy" and it's music video made by John Renaldo. Here’s some thoughts on the single from Austin Parson (guitar/vox):

“My grandmother has been the only consistent family member in my life. She raised me as if I were her own without being asked. She has been sick for a long time now and the thought of being alive without her sounds miserable. It’s a love letter to her. I want her to be at peace without suffering.”

(2026) SEAR "Judy" (from 'O Merciful') [official music video]

https://youtu.be/qttZsaSECaI

     This is the first track from the eight-song 'O Merciful' and it gives you very much a brief snapshot what you'll experience throughout the rest of the album. There are the aggressive screamo/post-hardcore/black metal elements, a bit of washed-out shoegaze, and a generous heaping of dark,  atmospheric, doomy bits. The video is a constant collage of living room practices and what I assume are videos of Austin's grandmother.

ADDITIONAL LINKS & WHATNOT

the last copy of their first EP is linked here!!!