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Screamo is a genre of music which predominantly evolved from hardcore punk, among other genres, 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 songs that grafted "spastic intensity to willfully experimental dissonance and dynamics.
Definition
"> Screamo is a musical style 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. Characteristics 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/poetic/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.
History (1991 - present)
The term screamo is applied to a music genre that began in 1991, in San Diego, at the Ché Café,[3] with groups such as Heroin, Antioch Arrow,[4] Angel Hair, Mohinder, Swing Kids, and Portraits of Past.[5] These groups were influenced by Washington D.C. post-hardcore (particularly Fugazi and Nation of Ulysses),[2]straight edge, the Chicago group Articles of Faith, hardcore punk band Die Kreuzen[6] and post-punk, such as Joy Division[7] and Bauhaus.[2]
Gravity Records[6][8] and Ebullition Records[5] released this more chaotic and expressive style of hardcore.
The scene is also notable for its distinctive fashion sense, inspired by mod culture.[9] The Crimson Curse, The Locust,[10] Some Girls,[11] and The Rapture.[12] The Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower incorporated the style into punk jazz.[13] Much as emo was, the term "screamo" has always been controversial in the scene.[2]
The innovations of the San Diego scene eventually spread elsewhere, such as to the Seattle group The Blood Brothers.[14] East Coast groups, such as Orchid,[15][16] Circle Takes the Square, pg. 99, Hot Cross, Saetia,[17] and Ampere[18] were influential in the continual development and reinvention of the style. These groups tended to be much closer to grindcore than their forebears.[19] Powerviolence-inflected screamo is sometimes referred to as emo violence, a name half-jokingly proposed by In/Humanity.[20]
Around the year 2000 but also earlier, a lot of bands started fusing screamo and post-rock together which is also a fairly popular genre of music among screamo fans. It showed progression in the genre by experimenting and adding longer and more relaxed parts rather than short and chaotic songs but kept the original elements of screamo. The band Envy is one of the pioneers. Bands from France include Daïtro, Le pré où je suis, Aussitôt Mort among bands like City of Caterpillar, Cease Upon the Capitol, The Fall of Boss Koala, Men As Trees, Single State of Man from other parts of the world.
Screamo now
Screamo is particularly active in Europe (with the exception of The Benelux) , Amanda Woodward,[21][22] La Quiete, Escapado, June Paik, I Not Dance, Battle of Wölf 359, Suis La Lune, Kaddish and Raein all being prime examples of their scene. These bands often release records themselves or through independent labels, often recording splits with other bands from their respective scene. Louise Cyphre,
Although the contemporary DIY screamo scene is the most prevalent in Europe, there are still many active bands in America. Examples include Comadre[23] from Redwood City, Off Minor (ex-Saetia) from New York, Spires from Oakland, Men As Trees, Ampere from Amherst, and ...Who Calls So Loud (ex-Funeral Diner, Portraits of Past and I Wrote Haikus About Cannibalism in Your Yearbook) from San Francisco.
These bands are often referred to as "skramz" but this is not a serious term and is usually used to distinguish 'real' screamo from mislabelled screamo.
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