A Screamo Landmark—Ferocious, Fragile, and Utterly Unforgettable
Just weeks after stunning us with the haunting single « Pomegranate », and amid a flood of post-hardcore records that scream for attention but quickly fade, one album refuses to let go.
Spanish Post-HXC BONEFLOWER Drift into Reveries with New Single
‘Reveries’—the third full-length from Madrid’s Boneflower—is a 13-track emotional avalanche: raw yet rigorously composed. It doesn’t chase trends. It doesn’t aim for playlists. It aims straight for the chest—and it haunts long after the last note.
Boneflower aren’t newcomers to intensity. Formed in 2015, the trio has built a decade-long foundation on blistering live sets, DIY ethics, and emotionally gutted songwriting. But with ‘Reveries’, they elevate that foundation to something mythic—an album that sits comfortably next to genre-defining works from La Dispute, Pianos Become the Teeth, State Faults, or Touché Amoré (whose Jeremy Bolm guests on ‘Pomegranate’ by the way).
This is screamo in its purest, most transcendent form—where melody and violence collide in sweeping arcs, and vulnerability becomes a weapon as powerful as distortion.
Balance on the Brink
From the first surge of « The Sun and the Moon », ‘Reveries’ announces its dual nature—melody and mayhem locked in orbit. Eric Montejo’s screamed and sung vocals collide with celestial force, anchored by Jaime Díaz’s stormy drums and Rubén Desan’s heavy, expressive basslines.
The trio operates as one volatile body: building, breaking, burning. Across 13 stunning tracks, Boneflower balance rage and restraint—from the chaotic pulse of « Sal En Mis Pestañas » to the shoegaze hush of « Nocturnal » and the post-rock drift of the instrumental « I Gazed at the Starred Night… »
While Boneflower employ familiar post-hardcore tools—crescendos, breakdowns, ambient lulls—they wield them with precision and intent. There’s no excess here, no polish for its own sake. Just raw, intimate songwriting pushed to the edge.
‘Reveries’ doesn’t just make noise. It speaks, bleeds, and breathes—leaving a mark long after the silence returns.
Boneflower haven’t just delivered one of the year’s standout screamo records—they’ve carved out a sound that feels deeply human, beautifully damaged, and urgently alive.
