SCREAMOTIONAL HARDCORE
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Late 90s to Present
Screamo is the worst genre name ever, this much we can all agree on. It has become one of the most annoying and abused terms ever, used to describe any modern hardcore band that has cheesey bits or "emotional" lyrics. A ****ty explanation is that Hardcore Emo sort of died in the mid-90s and turnt into mushy indie-emo for a while, but when the whole chaotic thing took off again the new bands were known as screamo. Thanks for that, jerks! Screamo took off in a huge way though, with ORCHID, REVERSAL OF MAN, USURP SYNAPSE, JEROME'S DREAM and HASSAN I SABBAH taking the Uranus style and making it even faster and even more chaotic. When you compare this stuff to the very first emo bands, you'll see why the "screamo" distinction is made. You'll often hear of "Witching-Hour style screamo", Witching Hour was a record label who put out a ****load of seminal screamo releases including most of the bands in this list.
This style is still alive and kicking in 2005, especially in Europe. Phoenix Bodies, Kaospilot and Shikari are examples of bands who've taken the standard format but did something a little different, whilst bands like The Apoplexy Twist Orchestra and Louis Cyphre are much more akin to the Witching Hour style. It's been beaten to death a little though, and bands have started trying to combine the intensity and chaos with the exact opposite...
(Jerome's Dream - Taking Care of Terrific)
Orchid - Aesthetic Dialectic (2.71 MB)
Usurp Synapse - Wrist Meet Razor (1.44 MB)
Reversal of Man - I'm a New York Detective... (2.92 MB)
