Definitions
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- noun music A
genre of aggressivelo-fi guitar driven music with predominantly screamingvocals , while preserving structural aspects of theemocore /hardcore emo genres of the early 1990's. - noun music A genre of guitar driven music sometimes referred to as post-hardcore, combining late 1990's
emo indie rock with interludes of screaming vocals, often accompanied byhardcore ormetalcore guitar riffs. - noun music Any
punk rock inspired music that involves screaming vocals, typically referring to the genres described above as well as certainsubgenres of hardcore punk.
Etymologies
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Examples
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You know, it was weird, when we did With Roots Above..., we kept being called "screamo."
Mike Ragogna: Dead Thrones, A Million Dreams and More Papercut Chronicles: Chats With Gym Class Heroes, David Nail, and The Devil Wears Prada Mike Ragogna 2011
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You know, it was weird, when we did With Roots Above..., we kept being called "screamo."
Mike Ragogna: Dead Thrones, A Million Dreams and More Papercut Chronicles: Chats With Gym Class Heroes, David Nail, and The Devil Wears Prada Mike Ragogna 2011
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Youtube video clips -- www. tinyurl.com/yexd4kz -- show him growling in the band's so-called screamo style.
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You guys have been victims of this weird genre scramble where you were tagged with the new-wave emo thing, then for a while you were labelled screamo and now people have accepted you as a post-hardcore band.
! Exclaim.ca - News 2009
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Modern music genres, such as post-hardcore, metalcore, deathcore and (melodic) death metal as well as others are often incorrectly referred to as "screamo".
True Blue LA 2010
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Amber Daybreak is from Belgium, play a kind of screamo influenced by Kidcrash, Suis la lune,
ricecooker | apa cerit? Joe 2010
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Switching over to music, I spent my early teens making fun of 'screamo' music and
Anime Nano! 2010
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The combination was tagged "screamo," an offshoot of emo.
unknown title 2009
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The last word in 'post-hardcore' (or 'screamo' if you must).
marky commented on the word screamo
emo music but you scream instead of cry like a pathetic little baby.
December 4, 2009