What exactly is screamo by the way?!
Question: What exactly is screamo by the way!?
I've been listening to heavy metal for the last 10 years, and in the last year, everything is screamo, and I'm a little lost, is it a sub genre of hardcore punk or something!? People seem to use the term to mean just about everything that doesn't have completely clean vocals, I mean, I just don't feel comfortable calling the music I like "screamo", it feels like I'm admitting to being a gay scenester with pierced genitalia or something!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
Answers:
Screamo is a genre of music which evolved from hardcore punk and emo in the early 1990s!. The term "screamo" was initially applied to a more aggressive offshoot of emo that developed in San Diego in 1991, which used short, chaotically executed songs which grafted "spastic intensity to willfully experimental dissonance and dynamics," often with a political message!. Some groups had an even harder edge that put them closer to the noise rock and grindcore styles!. In the early 2000s, the genre name began to describe a different, slower and less dissonant style that borrowed from alternative rock, most notably in a 2003 New York Times article!. The term's application to the "second wave" is controversial among fans and practitioners of the earlier style!. One musician observed that the term "has been kind of tainted in a way, especially in the States"!.
The term "screamo" was initially applied to a more aggressive offshoot of emo that began in 1991, in San Diego, at the Ché Café, with groups such as Heroin, Antioch Arrow, Angel Hair, Mohinder, Swing Kids, and Portraits of Past!. These groups were influenced by D!.C!. hardcore (particularly Fugazi and Nation of Ulysses), straight edge, the Chicago group Articles of Faith, and post-punk, such as Joy Division and Bauhaus!. Gravity Records[and Ebullition Records released this more chaotic and expressive style of hardcore!. The scene was also notable for its distinctive fashion sense, inspired by mod culture!. Screamo bands became increasingly theatrical, and re-appropriated aspects of Gothic rock and synthpop in groups such as the VSS, Pleasure Forever,The Crimson Curse, The Locust,] Some Girls, and The Rapture!.[ The Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower incorporated the style into punk jazz] Much as emo was, the term "screamo" was always controversial in the scene!.
The innovations of the San Diego scene eventually spread elsewhere, such as to the Seattle group The Blood Brothers] East Coast groups, such as Orchid, Circle Takes the Square, pg!. 99, Hot Cross, Saetia, and Ampere were influential in the continual development and reinvention of the style!. These groups tended to be much closer to grindcore than their forebears!. Powerviolence-inflected screamo is sometimes referred to as emo violence, a name half-jokingly proposed by In/Humanity!.
The original screamo style is still practiced by a variety of groups, particularly in Europe!. Amanda Woodward,Louise Cyphre, La Quiete and Raein are prime examples of the European scene!. These bands often release their records themselves or through independent labels, often recording splits with other bands from the same scene!.
Although the contemporary DIY screamo scene is more prevalent in Europe, there are still many active bands in America!. Examples include Comadre[7] from Redwood, Off Minor (ex-Saetia) from New York and !.!.!.Who Calls So Loud (ex-Funeral Diner) from San Francisco and Tentacle's a Flower from Texas!.
By 2002,] the genre name drifted into the music press, especially in the journalism of Jim DeRogatis and Andy Greenwald!. "Screamo" began to describe a different, much slower and less dissonant style that borrowed from alternative rock!. These new bands incorporate commercial elements of rock, emo and post-hardcore!.[ As the two styles are noticeably distinct, the wide contemporary usage of the term 'screamo' has been controversial among some critics!. The Sacramento band Far[ and the Canadian group Grade were among the first bands to practice this variety of screamo!. The second outcropping of groups to be given the name included Thursday and The Used!. Thursday also cited post-punk (Joy Division) and post-hardcore (Fugazi) as important influences, but also took cues from the alternative rock of Radiohead, U2, and The Cure!. In contrast to the DIY first-wave screamo groups, Thursday and the Used have signed multialbum contracts with labels such as Island Def Jam and Reprise Records!. Bert McCracken has declared that "screamo" is merely a term "for record companies to sell records and for record stores to categorize them!." The groups generally prefer to be described as post-hardcore!.
Top Selling Screamo Bands
THE USED
From First to Last
Underoath
Norma Jean
Saosin
Protest the Hero
AIDEN
Thursday
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CHIODOSWww@Enter-QA@Com
The term "screamo" was initially applied to a more aggressive offshoot of emo that began in 1991, in San Diego, at the Ché Café, with groups such as Heroin, Antioch Arrow, Angel Hair, Mohinder, Swing Kids, and Portraits of Past!. These groups were influenced by D!.C!. hardcore (particularly Fugazi and Nation of Ulysses), straight edge, the Chicago group Articles of Faith, and post-punk, such as Joy Division and Bauhaus!. Gravity Records[and Ebullition Records released this more chaotic and expressive style of hardcore!. The scene was also notable for its distinctive fashion sense, inspired by mod culture!. Screamo bands became increasingly theatrical, and re-appropriated aspects of Gothic rock and synthpop in groups such as the VSS, Pleasure Forever,The Crimson Curse, The Locust,] Some Girls, and The Rapture!.[ The Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower incorporated the style into punk jazz] Much as emo was, the term "screamo" was always controversial in the scene!.
The innovations of the San Diego scene eventually spread elsewhere, such as to the Seattle group The Blood Brothers] East Coast groups, such as Orchid, Circle Takes the Square, pg!. 99, Hot Cross, Saetia, and Ampere were influential in the continual development and reinvention of the style!. These groups tended to be much closer to grindcore than their forebears!. Powerviolence-inflected screamo is sometimes referred to as emo violence, a name half-jokingly proposed by In/Humanity!.
The original screamo style is still practiced by a variety of groups, particularly in Europe!. Amanda Woodward,Louise Cyphre, La Quiete and Raein are prime examples of the European scene!. These bands often release their records themselves or through independent labels, often recording splits with other bands from the same scene!.
Although the contemporary DIY screamo scene is more prevalent in Europe, there are still many active bands in America!. Examples include Comadre[7] from Redwood, Off Minor (ex-Saetia) from New York and !.!.!.Who Calls So Loud (ex-Funeral Diner) from San Francisco and Tentacle's a Flower from Texas!.
By 2002,] the genre name drifted into the music press, especially in the journalism of Jim DeRogatis and Andy Greenwald!. "Screamo" began to describe a different, much slower and less dissonant style that borrowed from alternative rock!. These new bands incorporate commercial elements of rock, emo and post-hardcore!.[ As the two styles are noticeably distinct, the wide contemporary usage of the term 'screamo' has been controversial among some critics!. The Sacramento band Far[ and the Canadian group Grade were among the first bands to practice this variety of screamo!. The second outcropping of groups to be given the name included Thursday and The Used!. Thursday also cited post-punk (Joy Division) and post-hardcore (Fugazi) as important influences, but also took cues from the alternative rock of Radiohead, U2, and The Cure!. In contrast to the DIY first-wave screamo groups, Thursday and the Used have signed multialbum contracts with labels such as Island Def Jam and Reprise Records!. Bert McCracken has declared that "screamo" is merely a term "for record companies to sell records and for record stores to categorize them!." The groups generally prefer to be described as post-hardcore!.
Top Selling Screamo Bands
THE USED
From First to Last
Underoath
Norma Jean
Saosin
Protest the Hero
AIDEN
Thursday
A STATIC LULLABY
CHIODOSWww@Enter-QA@Com
Everything that's called Screamo nowadays isn't really Screamo, Screamo is a certain kind of underground Hardcore music that you likely haven't actually heard, look up "Skramz" that's what Screamo really is!. Screamo is MISUSED as a mainstream term to describe anything with harsh vocals, but that's not what the actual genre is!.
Stuff like Underoath and Scene-ish Metalcore bands aren't really Screamo either!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
Stuff like Underoath and Scene-ish Metalcore bands aren't really Screamo either!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
its a term that people use to describe any rock song that screams even the littlest bit!. therefore it is much too broad a term to be any real genre!.
it usually refers to some form of metalcore or post-hardcore!. but honestly they probably would use it for your music tooWww@Enter-QA@Com
it usually refers to some form of metalcore or post-hardcore!. but honestly they probably would use it for your music tooWww@Enter-QA@Com
STICK TO HEAVY METAL! STICK TO HEAVY METAL!
trust Monsieur Martian, don't listen to that sort of music, it sucks!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
trust Monsieur Martian, don't listen to that sort of music, it sucks!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
Screamo is when the person thats singing is screaming like hes penis is getting chopped off!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
It's what kind of music my retard of a friend plays!.Www@Enter-QA@Com