Some of these are decent examples of post-emo... Some of it... Not so much. Jimmy Eat World used to have a post-emo vibe, then their mainstream success with a pop-rock album (Bleed American) saw 'emo' as the new thing... But not actually sounding emo at all. A lot of this is post-hardcore. Thursday, for example, are not emo.
That's not 'emo-core', it's bloody post-hardcore with poppy riffs! No, really. Screamo is a sub-genre of emo. It started in the San Diego art-hardcore scene of the early 90s and was pioneered by bands like Heroin, Mohinder, Angel Hair and The Swing Kids etc. Current examples of screamo are bands like Hot Cross, Orchid, Transistor Transistor and even bands like Bucket Full of Teeth, Combatwoundedveteran and The Locust that feature heavily on grind elements too (some bleeding into the ridiculous sub-sub-genre 'emo-violence'). Labels like Level-Plane, ThreeOneG, Robotic Empire, Ebullition and No Idea put out a lot of current emo and screamo stuff. Wiki has a good definition of screamo and emo. Here's the screamo one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screamo (you can guess the emo one).
Piebald are fairly reasonable too - I wouldn't call them Emo. Very true about the Jimmy thing, although they sound **** now.
I'm alright with Circle Takes The Square and Saetia then? I won't get completely shunned by the emo crowd
Proper straight-up screamo mate. Quality bands. Although, it has to be said, Hot Cross > Saetia ... But so many disagree with me :/
i saw a "emOwned!" pic awhile ago, where a guy dressed in goth-y clothing was getting his sh*t wrecked with a punch to the face
1. If the band has 3 names, it's probably screamo 2. If the band name sounds like something gothic kids would listen to...it's probably screamo. 3. If it sounds like a CD you'd find at Hot Topic, it's probably screamo. 4. If the band name is unoriginal i.e.Norma Jean, Haste The Day, Avenged Sevenfold, and others...it's screamo. 5. If the band name sucks, it's probably crappy music.
I doubt you've ever listened to screamo. Not if I'm to assume those are bands you consider screamo. Try again. You can replace 'screamo' for 'scene' and it works a tad better. Spiral: Here's your Thrash. Like, every Crucial Unit release... For free. http://www.crucialunit.net/mp3.html (legal)
Not too keen on Fordirelifesake but Eden Maine are pretty damn good. Was meant to see them with Mistress, Malkovich, Beecher and Sika Redem at an all-dayer last month but they had to cancel. Gutted. Their new album hasn't done much for me, but their debut EP is all kinds of stunning. Had a nice arrogant Converge vibe, as opposed to wishy-washy early Cave In style of this new one. It's not bad, just doesn't quite hit the spot.
Highly amusing thread, I have nothing against any genre of music, everyone to their own and all that. What I find comical is the young, white, middle class, pretentious, teenage boys that listen to this type of music, thinking it symbolises there struggle through life, when they haven’t even started to live themselves yet. Like music for the sound, not the image. PS, this is not aimed at anyone specific, just a generalisation
My beef isn't with the seperate musical genres, it's that the Punk Nazi's, Emo fools, and worst of all, the Militant Christian Metal listeners insist upon genre-izing the hell out of all music, regardless of the actual quality of the music, and listening to something simply because the artist conforms to their narrow minded idea of the genre, instead of respecting bands for their musical talent. On that subject, Any rap made in the past 5 years sucks.
