The REAL Emo/Screamo Thread

devinsetsfire · 05-29-2008, 10:57 PM

So I have been getting tired of people not knowing what they are talking about when it comes to Screamo/Emo and assuming every band that screams fits in there. This thread will have a list on the first page ( which myself or the mods will update when people suggest new screamo/emo bands.

Definition (from wikipedia but it's pretty accurate)
Quote:
Screamo is a musical genre which evolved from emo and hardcore punk in the early 1990s. "Emo" and "screamo" are essentially meant to describe the same style of music, changing with the progression of bands and fans. Characteristic of the genre are "loud-to-soft" (sometimes chaotic) dynamics, harmonized guitars with fast-paced riffs and twinkly melodic breaks, frantic/abrasive shouting or screaming, angry/abstract/introspective lyrics, low-end production, and exceptionally energetic live shows. Screamo bands also tend to bury the vocals in with the other instruments and use more arpeggiated progressions, dynamic and time changes. Breakdowns in screamo songs are often slower and quieter than in other genres, though there is a tendency of still screaming during the soft parts.

Real Screamo bands in alphabetical order for ease:

1000 Travels Of Jawaharlal
1905
37 Seconds Of Happiness
80:85
A Fine Boat, That Coffin!
A Silhouette
Adonis Battlefield
After School Knife Fight
Amanda Woodward
Ampere
Angel Hair
Anomie
Antioch Arrow
The Apoplexy Twist Orchestra
Archives
Ariadne's Thread
Army Of Kashyyyk
Arroyo Secco
Asthma Attaq
The Assistant
Aussitôt Mort
Belle Epoque
Beneath Low Flying Planes
The Birds are Spies, They Report to the Trees
Boa Narrow
Book of Dead Names
Bravo ****ing Bravo
Burned Out Bright
Cassettes On Fire
The Caution Children
Cease Upon The Capitol
Celeste
Circle Takes The Square
City Of Caterpillar
Clikatat Ikatowi
Clocks Are Devils
Cold Like December
Comadre
Combatwoundedveteran
The Corta Vita
Cowboys Are Indians
Current
Daitro
Danse Macabre
Daniel Striped Tiger
Dawn Treader
Dear Diary I Seem To Be Dead
Devices
Dick Chesney
Die, Emperor! Die!
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep
Dominic
Don Martin 3
Dot Flash Line
Eaves
Efra
Encyclopedia of American Traitors
End of a Year
Envy
Et Tu Brute
Ethel Meserve
Evergreen
Fire Team Charlie
The Flying Worker!
Followed By 37 Seconds Of Happiness
Frail
Funeral Diner
Gantz
Get ****ed
Gillian Carter
Goodbye Blue Monday
Gospel
Guyver One
Hassan I Sabbah
Helen Of Troy
Her Breath on Glass
Heroin
Histories
Hollow Jan
Honeywell
Hot Cross
I Create
I Hate Myself
I Have Dreams
I Robot
I Would Set Myself On Fire For You
I Wrote Haikus About Cannibalism In Your Yearbook
In First Person
Jairus
Jerome's Dream
Joshua Fit For Battle
Julia
June Paik
Kaospilot
The Khayembii Communique
Kidcrash
The Kite Fighting Society
The Kodan Armada
Kwakiutl Cannibal Society
L'antietam
La Quiete
Ladders
Lautrec
Lickgoldensky
Life At These Speeds
Lion Of The North
Loma Preita
Look Back and Laugh
Louise Cyphre
Love Like...Electrocution
Love Lost But Not Forgotten
Make Me
The Map Says We're ****ed
Marat
Maths
Maximillian Colby
Merel
Men As Trees
Mesa Verde
Mihai Edrisch
Mohinder
My Life With The Spaniard
Native Nod
Navies
Navio Forge
Neil Perry
Nervous Light of Sunday
Olive Tree
One Eyed God Prophecy
Orchid
Off Minor
Pg. 99
Pianos Became The Teeth
Please Inform the Captain This Is A Hijack
Policy of 3
Portrait
Portraits Of Past
Puritan
Pyramids
Raein
The Red Scare
Resi North
Reversal Of Man
Robots Don't Cry
Rockets and Bluelights
Ryerose
Saddest Day
The Saddest Landscape
Saetia
Sailboats
Sed Non Satiata
Seeing Means More
She Died Real Pretty
Shikari
Shout Signals
Sinaloa
Sinking Steps...Rising Eyes
Sleepytime Trio
Someplace To Hide
Song of Zarathustra
Spirit of Versailles
Steeples
Still Life
Storm the Bastille
Strawman Fallacy
Suis La Lune
Swing Kids
Takaru
Take Down Your Art
Ten Grand
Textbook Traitors
This Computer Kills
To Dream Of Autumn
Trainwreck
Transistor Transistor
Tristan Tzara
Trophy Scars
Twelve Hour Turn
Ultra Dolphins
Under A Dying Sun
Union Of Uranus
Usurp Synapse
Versoma
The Vidablue
The Walls You've Built
We'll Dance Like Ghost On Rooftops
Welcome The Plague Year
What Price, Wonderland?
Wolverines
Wolves
Words Mean Nothing
Wow, Owls!
Xochtil
Yage
Yaphet Kotto
Yosarrian Is Drowning
You And I

BANDS THAT ARE NOT SCREAMO IN ANY WAY:
(Don't argue with us about this we know what we are talking about)

From First To Last
Silverstein (pop-rock)
Bullet For My Valentine (metalcore)
Escape The Fate (shit)
Chiodos (pop-rock)
Atreyu (metalcore watered to teh max)
Underoath
Alesana
Bring Me The Horizon (metalcore/watered down deathcore)
The Devil Wears Prada (metalcore I guess)
Drop Dead, Gorgeous (metalcore)
etc.

Good Screamo record labels:
Ape Must Not Kill Ape
Level Plane
Robotic Empire
Stick Figure

GOOD SCREAMO BANDS TO START OFF WITH AND THAT ARE EASY TO FIND:

Hot Cross
Circle Takes The Square
Saetia
Orchid
Raein
Love Like...Electrocution
Joshua Fit For Battle
Pg. 99
Funeral Diner

i.am.apathy · 05-30-2008, 09:44 AM

Thanks for clearing that one up man.

Vikingman · 05-30-2008, 07:59 PM

drop dead gorgeous is not metalcore, if you want to hear true metalcore you listen to sodom, their metalcore, definitely not drop dead gorgeous, their in a diff genre that i dont know of, and drop dead gorgeous is pretty good by the way, prolly the reason why i know they arent metalcore, not saying metalcore sux, because i do like sodom better then drop dead gorgeous, they might be like emocore or screamocore or something like that

devinsetsfire · 05-31-2008, 01:41 AM

Emocore is the same as screamo
and screamocore is nonexitant

other names that kids tacted on to screamo and emo is emoviolence, skram, and emocore. all meaning the same thing.

drop dead gorgeous is more like a scene hardcore.

i.am.apathy · 05-31-2008, 03:39 AM

I love the way the word EMO always causes sudden conflict. It's insane.
And the genre naming. How every band has to be labeled so closely, like all the new genre names and etc. Happy Hardcore, Math Metal it's just seems so silly. Why not just call it Hardcore? Or Metal.
This is basically irrelevant now.
Circle Takes the Square are quite good. I didn't actually know what screamo was, and am doing all my research.

devinsetsfire · 05-31-2008, 08:08 AM

Yeah CTTS is one of the bigger screamo bands out their. one of the most recent. One of my favorites are Funeral Diner and Love Like...Electrocution. Hot Cross and Saetia are other bigger names in the screamo scene. which is currently mooded with fake bands like alesana and shit...makes me sad cause I grew up around a real screamo scene with I Robor and Pianos Became The Teeth

i.am.apathy · 06-01-2008, 05:31 AM

Thats probably why I've heard of them before. I'll make a mental note to check out those other bands. What would you call Alesana though? I quite like their music actually but I can see where you're coming from.

devinsetsfire · 06-03-2008, 07:23 PM

Alesana is more on the pop/hardcore scene i guess. They are way to poppy to be screamo. screamo is almost paralell with hardcore punk. but the lyrics in screamo isn't political or anything, much more emotional

i.am.apathy · 06-04-2008, 08:55 AM

Yeah I can see what you mean. It's really hard to categorize some bands though, like this morning I was walking to school with a friend and we were talking about some bands like Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Escape the Fate and Aiden. And shes like Red Jumpsuit Apparatus is like the EMO music I have. So I was saying to her no, thats not the case.
I think alot of people don't know what real EMO/Screamo music is and most beleive that EMO music is stuff like Red Jumpsuit and Alesana. So I can understand where it might get frustrating.
I simply told her exactly what you said it's more hardcore/pop/punk stuff.
Also I've checked out funeral diner. They're pretty sweeet.
x

devinsetsfire · 06-10-2008, 05:41 PM

Yeah all my friends thought bands like Drop Dead Gorgeous and A Static Lullaby were screamo/emo just because they have the typical lyrics and the screaming. but emo is more than the music and the lyrics. it's an attitude and all the bands out now don't hold the true attitude and spirit. Kind of along the same lines as the whole "punk is dead" because their are some punk bands still alive but some people think Sum41 is punk...WHAT!!!!! haha i just laugh at it. The punk attitude is almost dead just like the emo attitude. they r like dinosaur genres ha

05-29-2008, 10:57 PM	#1
devinsetsfire Junior Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: Pittsburgh, PA Posts: 19	The REAL Emo/Screamo Thread So I have been getting tired of people not knowing what they are talking about when it comes to Screamo/Emo and assuming every band that screams fits in there. This thread will have a list on the first page ( which myself or the mods will update when people suggest new screamo/emo bands. Definition (from wikipedia but it's pretty accurate) Quote: Screamo is a musical genre which evolved from emo and hardcore punk in the early 1990s. "Emo" and "screamo" are essentially meant to describe the same style of music, changing with the progression of bands and fans. Characteristic of the genre are "loud-to-soft" (sometimes chaotic) dynamics, harmonized guitars with fast-paced riffs and twinkly melodic breaks, frantic/abrasive shouting or screaming, angry/abstract/introspective lyrics, low-end production, and exceptionally energetic live shows. Screamo bands also tend to bury the vocals in with the other instruments and use more arpeggiated progressions, dynamic and time changes. Breakdowns in screamo songs are often slower and quieter than in other genres, though there is a tendency of still screaming during the soft parts. Real Screamo bands in alphabetical order for ease: 1000 Travels Of Jawaharlal 1905 37 Seconds Of Happiness 80:85 A Fine Boat, That Coffin! A Silhouette Adonis Battlefield After School Knife Fight Amanda Woodward Ampere Angel Hair Anomie Antioch Arrow The Apoplexy Twist Orchestra Archives Ariadne's Thread Army Of Kashyyyk Arroyo Secco Asthma Attaq The Assistant Aussitôt Mort Belle Epoque Beneath Low Flying Planes The Birds are Spies, They Report to the Trees Boa Narrow Book of Dead Names Bravo **ing Bravo Burned Out Bright Cassettes On Fire The Caution Children Cease Upon The Capitol Celeste Circle Takes The Square City Of Caterpillar Clikatat Ikatowi Clocks Are Devils Cold Like December Comadre Combatwoundedveteran The Corta Vita Cowboys Are Indians Current Daitro Danse Macabre Daniel Striped Tiger Dawn Treader Dear Diary I Seem To Be Dead Devices Dick Chesney Die, Emperor! Die! Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep Dominic Don Martin 3 Dot Flash Line Eaves Efra Encyclopedia of American Traitors End of a Year Envy Et Tu Brute Ethel Meserve Evergreen Fire Team Charlie The Flying Worker! Followed By 37 Seconds Of Happiness Frail Funeral Diner Gantz Get ed Gillian Carter Goodbye Blue Monday Gospel Guyver One Hassan I Sabbah Helen Of Troy Her Breath on Glass Heroin Histories Hollow Jan Honeywell Hot Cross I Create I Hate Myself I Have Dreams I Robot I Would Set Myself On Fire For You I Wrote Haikus About Cannibalism In Your Yearbook In First Person Jairus Jerome's Dream Joshua Fit For Battle Julia June Paik Kaospilot The Khayembii Communique Kidcrash The Kite Fighting Society The Kodan Armada Kwakiutl Cannibal Society L'antietam La Quiete Ladders Lautrec Lickgoldensky Life At These Speeds Lion Of The North Loma Preita Look Back and Laugh Louise Cyphre Love Like...Electrocution Love Lost But Not Forgotten Make Me The Map Says We're **ed Marat Maths Maximillian Colby Merel Men As Trees Mesa Verde Mihai Edrisch Mohinder My Life With The Spaniard Native Nod Navies Navio Forge Neil Perry Nervous Light of Sunday Olive Tree One Eyed God Prophecy Orchid Off Minor Pg. 99 Pianos Became The Teeth Please Inform the Captain This Is A Hijack Policy of 3 Portrait Portraits Of Past Puritan Pyramids Raein The Red Scare Resi North Reversal Of Man Robots Don't Cry Rockets and Bluelights Ryerose Saddest Day The Saddest Landscape Saetia Sailboats Sed Non Satiata Seeing Means More She Died Real Pretty Shikari Shout Signals Sinaloa Sinking Steps...Rising Eyes Sleepytime Trio Someplace To Hide Song of Zarathustra Spirit of Versailles Steeples Still Life Storm the Bastille Strawman Fallacy Suis La Lune Swing Kids Takaru Take Down Your Art Ten Grand Textbook Traitors This Computer Kills To Dream Of Autumn Trainwreck Transistor Transistor Tristan Tzara Trophy Scars Twelve Hour Turn Ultra Dolphins Under A Dying Sun Union Of Uranus Usurp Synapse Versoma The Vidablue The Walls You've Built We'll Dance Like Ghost On Rooftops Welcome The Plague Year What Price, Wonderland? Wolverines Wolves Words Mean Nothing Wow, Owls! Xochtil Yage Yaphet Kotto Yosarrian Is Drowning You And I BANDS THAT ARE NOT SCREAMO IN ANY WAY: (Don't argue with us about this we know what we are talking about) From First To Last Silverstein (pop-rock) Bullet For My Valentine (metalcore) Escape The Fate (shit) Chiodos (pop-rock) Atreyu (metalcore watered to teh max) Underoath Alesana Bring Me The Horizon (metalcore/watered down deathcore) The Devil Wears Prada (metalcore I guess) Drop Dead, Gorgeous (metalcore) etc. Good Screamo record labels: Ape Must Not Kill Ape Level Plane Robotic Empire Stick Figure GOOD SCREAMO BANDS TO START OFF WITH AND THAT ARE EASY TO FIND: Hot Cross Circle Takes The Square Saetia Orchid Raein Love Like...Electrocution Joshua Fit For Battle Pg. 99 Funeral Diner

05-30-2008, 07:59 PM	#3
Vikingman Moderator Join Date: May 2008 Location: florida, soon jersey Posts: 97	drop dead gorgeous is not metalcore, if you want to hear true metalcore you listen to sodom, their metalcore, definitely not drop dead gorgeous, their in a diff genre that i dont know of, and drop dead gorgeous is pretty good by the way, prolly the reason why i know they arent metalcore, not saying metalcore sux, because i do like sodom better then drop dead gorgeous, they might be like emocore or screamocore or something like that __________________ One Night It Happened, The Morning Never Came

05-31-2008, 01:41 AM	#4
devinsetsfire Junior Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: Pittsburgh, PA Posts: 19	Emocore is the same as screamo and screamocore is nonexitant other names that kids tacted on to screamo and emo is emoviolence, skram, and emocore. all meaning the same thing. drop dead gorgeous is more like a scene hardcore. __________________ -Dev!nsetsf!re-

05-31-2008, 03:39 AM	#5
i.am.apathy Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: Australia Posts: 58	...... I love the way the word EMO always causes sudden conflict. It's insane. And the genre naming. How every band has to be labeled so closely, like all the new genre names and etc. Happy Hardcore, Math Metal it's just seems so silly. Why not just call it Hardcore? Or Metal. This is basically irrelevant now. Circle Takes the Square are quite good. I didn't actually know what screamo was, and am doing all my research.

05-31-2008, 08:08 AM	#6
devinsetsfire Junior Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: Pittsburgh, PA Posts: 19	Yeah CTTS is one of the bigger screamo bands out their. one of the most recent. One of my favorites are Funeral Diner and Love Like...Electrocution. Hot Cross and Saetia are other bigger names in the screamo scene. which is currently mooded with fake bands like alesana and shit...makes me sad cause I grew up around a real screamo scene with I Robor and Pianos Became The Teeth __________________ -Dev!nsetsf!re-

05-30-2008, 09:44 AM	#2
i.am.apathy Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: Australia Posts: 58	Thanks for clearing that one up man.

06-01-2008, 05:31 AM	#7
i.am.apathy Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: Australia Posts: 58	Thats probably why I've heard of them before. I'll make a mental note to check out those other bands. What would you call Alesana though? I quite like their music actually but I can see where you're coming from.

06-03-2008, 07:23 PM	#8
devinsetsfire Junior Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: Pittsburgh, PA Posts: 19	Alesana is more on the pop/hardcore scene i guess. They are way to poppy to be screamo. screamo is almost paralell with hardcore punk. but the lyrics in screamo isn't political or anything, much more emotional __________________ -Dev!nsetsf!re-

06-04-2008, 08:55 AM	#9
i.am.apathy Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: Australia Posts: 58	Yeah I can see what you mean. It's really hard to categorize some bands though, like this morning I was walking to school with a friend and we were talking about some bands like Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Escape the Fate and Aiden. And shes like Red Jumpsuit Apparatus is like the EMO music I have. So I was saying to her no, thats not the case. I think alot of people don't know what real EMO/Screamo music is and most beleive that EMO music is stuff like Red Jumpsuit and Alesana. So I can understand where it might get frustrating. I simply told her exactly what you said it's more hardcore/pop/punk stuff. Also I've checked out funeral diner. They're pretty sweeet. x

06-10-2008, 05:41 PM	#10
devinsetsfire Junior Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: Pittsburgh, PA Posts: 19	Yeah all my friends thought bands like Drop Dead Gorgeous and A Static Lullaby were screamo/emo just because they have the typical lyrics and the screaming. but emo is more than the music and the lyrics. it's an attitude and all the bands out now don't hold the true attitude and spirit. Kind of along the same lines as the whole "punk is dead" because their are some punk bands still alive but some people think Sum41 is punk...WHAT!!!!! haha i just laugh at it. The punk attitude is almost dead just like the emo attitude. they r like dinosaur genres ha __________________ -Dev!nsetsf!re-

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