"Screamo"
 

Okay, I understand many bands with the same type of music and vocals as Circle Takes the Square and Pg. 99 are labeled screamo. They are fairly chaotic with angry-sounding screaming vocals and thrash-around type music that occasionally has a weird touch to it throughout the songs.

But I have come across something....

Bands such as Emery and a few others have been labeled on Windows Media Guide as post-hardcore as well as "screamo." The Windows Media Guide says Emery has "emotional and melodic sensitivity contrasting with the screaming vocals one associates with hardcore and metalcore." If this is true, could we also label bands such as Thursday, Senses Fail, and Matchbook Romance under the screamo category, due to their occasional back-up vocal screaming? Or are they just referring to lead vocals here?

[QUOTE=XemoXmoshXpitX]could we also label bands such as Thursday, Senses Fail, and Matchbook Romance under the screamo category, due to their occasional back-up vocal screaming?[/QUOTE]
No.

I can't answer anything else because I have no idea what Emery sound like.

You can't trust most media to give you accurate descriptions of bands. Especially Windows.

The "screamo" label is commonly misinterpreted and miss-used. When someone was calling Circle Takes The Square and Pg. 99 screamo, it's because they know what they are talking about.

When someone calls Emery, Thursday, Senses Fail, and (especially) Matchbook Romance screamo, it's a sign of ignorance and not knowing what the hell you're talking about.

It's an understandable mistake. Screamo is a fairly unknown genre, and since everyone starting calling every pop-punk band that screamed a screamo band, the confusion has only increased.

Screamo is screaming. All of it. Punctuated by maybe the occasional sung, yelled, or spoken vocals.

I consider screamo to be emo mixed with grind type song structure.

Neil Perry!

Ha, torn actually goes around saying CTTS isn't traditional screamo and they should be looked at from a different view.

And I agree with him.

[QUOTE=XemoXmoshXpitX]If this is true, could we also label bands such as Thursday, Senses Fail, and Matchbook Romance under the screamo category, due to their occasional back-up vocal screaming? Or are they just referring to lead vocals here?[/QUOTE]

If we did that, then bands like Fall Out Boy and My Chemical Romance would be screamo...and they're not..at all. Lead vocals would be the focus because there's a bunch of bands in almost every genre that screams in the background, and they obviously don't apply to "screamo" at all.

[QUOTE=DFelon204409]Then explain Circle Takes the Square. THey have more epic and grandiose song structure than most straight emo bands.[/QUOTE]

Uhh, no.
That's not true.

[QUOTE=to_hell_we_ride]Fall Out Boy [/QUOTE]

FOB is one of my favorite bands EVER.

Have you heard September?

Guess not.

My friend says Dillinger Escape Plan is a screamo band but I think it's a grind-core band.
Could you help me clear this up? :confused:

[QUOTE=punkerx99]FOB is one of my favorite bands EVER.[/QUOTE]

post whore, that has nothing to do with the thread

Anyway, Circle Takes The Square have way more influences than just 'emo' or whatever.

Orchid, Neil Perry, Usurp Synapse, Jerome's Dream, those are all the real screamo bands to me.
It feels like that period is sort of over.

They're known to be pretty anti-social at shows.

[QUOTE=semi_punk]My friend says Dillinger Escape Plan is a screamo band but I think it's a grind-core band.
Could you help me clear this up? :confused:[/QUOTE]
:lol:

DEP is definetly not a emo band.

[QUOTE=DFelon204409]Weird. I'd attribute that to awkward modesty. I left a comment on their myspace wall and the bassist Kathy responded with a lengthy message about how they really appreciated my comment and all this stuff about possible tours and that they didn't know quite what they were doing. She was really open and kind so they're probably just people who only know how to have friends over the internet. What losers. I'm not like that at all...

:upset:[/QUOTE]
:lol:

could underoath be considered screamo?

i dont really know what screamo really is and i prolly couldnt name any pure screamo bands. but one thing i kno for certian is matchbook romance is no where near screamo at all.

so anyone wanna gimme some good screamo bands.

[QUOTE=heaven sent dont u dare forget]could underoath be considered screamo?

i dont really know what screamo really is and i prolly couldnt name any pure screamo bands. but one thing i kno for certian is matchbook romance is no where near screamo at all.

so anyone wanna gimme some good screamo bands.[/QUOTE]
No, Underoath aren't screamo.

I don't know many screamo bands, Orchid are a good one though.

[url]http://www.purevolume.com/textbooktraitors[/url]

There's a good screamo band.

[QUOTE=cbmartinez][url]http://www.purevolume.com/textbooktraitors[/url]

There's a good screamo band.[/QUOTE]
I like this band too. Saetia aren't screamo are they?

Yeah, they are considered screamo by most.

My favorite screamo band would be The Assitant.

'Loft Party' by Orchid is a really good song.

All aforementioned bands kick.

wtf
 

ok first of all, i do agree that thursday, sense fail, etc are NOT screamo BUT...
thursday is an absolutely amazing band, they have some of the most amazing lyrics i have heard yet and the music is very melodic and intense, if u diss thursday then u have NO taste in music

second of all, screamo is in fact a characteristic that suits bands like From Autumn to Ashes, Underoath, Anah Aevia (more hardcore then screamo) etc.

if you enjoy bands like FATA and Underoath then you like screamo, and let me take this opportunity to state once and for all that bands like FATA and Underoath are not hardcore, and don't even come close.

[QUOTE=Teeth and Lungs]ok first of all, i do agree that thursday, sense fail, etc are NOT screamo BUT...
thursday is an absolutely amazing band, they have some of the most amazing lyrics i have heard yet and the music is very melodic and intense, if u diss thursday then u have NO taste in music

second of all, screamo is in fact a characteristic that suits bands like From Autumn to Ashes, Underoath, Anah Aevia (more hardcore then screamo) etc.

if you enjoy bands like FATA and Underoath then you like screamo, and let me take this opportunity to state once and for all that bands like FATA and Underoath are not hardcore, and don't even come close.[/QUOTE]

youre so wacky.

p.s wrong x 50. 2nd post and youve already lost any respect i may at some point have had for you.

Jet black new year=a choice slice of awesome.

[QUOTE=Teeth and Lungs]ok first of all, i do agree that thursday, sense fail, etc are NOT screamo BUT...
thursday is an absolutely amazing band, they have some of the most amazing lyrics i have heard yet and the music is very melodic and intense, if u diss thursday then u have NO taste in music

second of all, screamo is in fact a characteristic that suits bands like From Autumn to Ashes, Underoath, Anah Aevia (more hardcore then screamo) etc.

if you enjoy bands like FATA and Underoath then you like screamo, and let me take this opportunity to state once and for all that bands like FATA and Underoath are not hardcore, and don't even come close.[/QUOTE]

Those bands are really skraemotional.

[QUOTE=DFelon204409]My problem was that the post had intense moments of great truths like about how cool Thursday is and about how FATA ain't hardcore. They weren't even articulated intelligently but nobody cares because it's true. Then the other 80% was the stupidest s[size=2]hi[/size]t ever. Oh well.[/QUOTE]


wtf r u smoking
tell me what i said wrong

[QUOTE=DFelon204409]Nothing.

FATA and Underoath are not screamo, emo or anything resembling that.[/QUOTE]


soooo what are fata and underoath if they aren't screamo,
and name a band this IS screamo