I don't know how or why the term "skramz" started. It's an ugly, clumsy word, but it's useful. Functionally, "skramz" pretty much means "what screamo used to be." The term "screamo" itself was a goofy little portmanteau, a cute way of describing all these late-'90s bands -- Orchid, Pg. 99, Antioch Arrow, Reversal Of Man, Hot Cross -- who took the brutalist rush of hardcore and applied it to dynamic, intense, exposed-nerve expression, creating a charged and wounded hybrid. But there was gold in them there hills, and the term "screamo" eventually fell to the briefly huge wave of mid-'00s Warped Tour bands like Hawthorne Heights and Thrice. It's a corrupted term, and rather than reclaim it, fans apparently now use "skramz" as a sort of shorthand to describe the sounds that preceded that whole commercial wave. Bands seem to be actively willing to declare themselves skramz now, even though any band would've sneered at being called screamo in the late '90s. The word "skramz" is right there in the tags on the Bandcamp page of Closer, a powerful new New York trio, alongside kinda-the-same-thing terms like "screamo" and "punk" and "emo" and "melodic hardcore" and "post-hardcore." It's helpful, and it might lend some insight into how an album like this came to be. Because All This Will Be, Closer's debut album, feels like three people binged a bunch of old screamo records together and then decided to form a band that sounds like that.