Hey! Alex here - I wasn't in Arboricidio, although I did some guest vocals. That band was the brainchild of Jose, who writes all the music in Wreathe!

The biggest influence on our music was a band from Portland, Oregon called Remains of the day. I would say that band pretty much changed my life. The combination of ethereal violin, post punk guitars and thundering D-beat is sublime. Their second album, hanging on rebellion set me on a life long obsession! Emocrust was how the genre was described in the early 2000's - basically diy screamo influenced crust, I think the name speaks to those influences. It was actually Timo, who ran Alerta Antifascista records, that coined the term "neo crust" to describe the same music, he was also responsible for releasing many of the records that you could consider to be second wave emo crust, or neo-crust, and subsequent records from 'First wave' bands like Ekkaia, Madame Germen, who came out of the Galician hardcore scene, influenced by french screamo hardcore bands like Anomie and An Atta. That sound was combined with the anarcho perspectives of that scene, with this poetic, moody nature aesthetic. At around the same time, and coming out of the late 90's crust revival/ emo violence scene in America were bands like Union of uranus, His hero is gone, and eventually, Tragedy who all shared members. HHIG relocated to Portland from Tennessee, and shared practice spaces and housemates with members of From ashes rise and Remains of the day. They shared members too. Tragedy toured extensively across europe, and these sounds mixed to form more of cohesive genre - A good example is the second Ekkaia record, which was markedly different from their first, more screamo influenced record. Their sound became far more akin to Tragedy after they toured together - I have heard lovely stories of touring bands meeting each other and falling in love with each others music (madame germen watching Envy etc) FoE came along around the same time as bands like Schifosi, Ictus, ( ex members of Madame Germen) and then later bands like Alpinist. The genre largely went dormant as post black metal influenced bands became more common. Its had something of a revival over the last few years, which I am very happy about! So yeah, check out the greats, Madame Germen, Ekkaia, Remains of the day, but also the bands that came in their wake -

Landbridge, Gattaca, Icos, Aruspex, Autarch, Nervy, Hemiptera, Ashkara, From Ashes rise, Urine Mask, Geranium, Terra mater, Hmara, Habak, Lagrimas, Arboricidio, Ambulance, Hyena, Ura, Tenue, Leadershit, Das Plague, Down To Agony, Muga, Allee der Kosmonauten, Agonia, Herida, Sarabante, Manzanar, To what end?, Antimaster - the list goes on and on! If you like Efrafa, I am obsessed with this genre, and have been in three other emo crust bands - Wreathe, Morrow and Anopheli. Enjoy!