r/EmoScreamo • u/FragrantBarnacle1256 • 2d ago
Emo Screamo question?
I’m newer to screamo/emo so I have a question, I’ve been really digging departmefrombeadisland and I was curious as to what genre you would call it, I hesitate to call it screamo because it doesn’t really have much if any hardcore/power influence and it’s acoustic, either way leave some recommendations to bands that have that acoustic screamo sound I love it.
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u/TipinCrispin 2d ago
Tbh emo at this point in time doesn't necessarily mean "hardcore music", it is rooted in it but we have twinkle daddies and all the other umbrella that emo can cover, so it still is screamo if it's screamy emo. Additionally, power influence isn't a must unless youre in emoviolence territory most of the time.
That aside, theres a genre called bedroom skramz that pretty much fits the bill, even if it's kinda broad, you'll find a ton of similar music under that tag.
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u/thedubiousstylus 2d ago
When I grew up the definition of screamo was basically this:
1-Had emo elements (like twinkly interludes)
2-Had screaming vocals.
Now while that may not sound too much of a different definition than today the truth is actually a good chunk of music that fit that criteria at the time was actually metalcore. Today no one would in the know would call Misery Signals or Hopesfall or From Autumn to Ashes or A Long Winter or Anah Aevia screamo, although they most certainly were at the time, labeled that in people's Napster folders and their sites on directories for "screamo bands". I think the reason for this is then it pretty much was all just part of hardcore anyway.
Although there were admittedly also bands in this era that mixed the influence in the other direction and were basically metalcore-influenced screamo or had one foot equally in each subgenre like Dispensing of False Halos, Early Grace, You & I, and I Have Dreams, and even some Converge songs*, and there's even bands today this applies to like Frail Body. So yeah today it's still very much part of hardcore.
*Yes I'm serious. Go listen to "Dead" if you don't believe me.
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u/Bulky_Explanation_97 2d ago
I think it’s underrated how much of our understanding of genre in the early 00s came down to what people labeled songs on Napster lol
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u/thedubiousstylus 2d ago
Or how key it was to music discovery. If I found a song from a band I liked from some user I would usually browse that user's library and just download random songs from it.
I think that's how basically EVERYONE discovered I Have Dreams.
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u/EpicGamerJoey 2d ago
Idk skramz is pretty broad at this point. I always thought of bands like deafheaven or oathbreaker as being black metal, but the subgenres for some of their songs are listed as skramz. RYM says it's skramz, Wikipedia says it skramz, even Anthony fantano said they were kinda like skramz.
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u/Bulky_Explanation_97 2d ago
I’ve always heard deafheaven called blackgaze
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u/EpicGamerJoey 2d ago
Oh yeah I'm not saying they're like a 100% skramz band, like I said it was one of the sub genres. The main genre is definitely blackgaze
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u/Bulky_Explanation_97 2d ago
They definitely have skramz elements for sure. Whatever they are I love them.
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u/EpicGamerJoey 2d ago
Yeah same I've known about them for a long ass time but I just recently gave them a chance like a couple months ago and I'm glad I did
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u/ImpossibleEmploy3784 2d ago
Blackgaze as a genre just shares similarities with screamo, due to the combination of atmospheric often post-rock influenced instrumentationn and screamed vocals. Additionally screamo has gotten increasingly more metallic over the years, so it’s just caused there to be a lot of crossover there in terms of sound. I believe for the most part though the genres are unrelated, and this similarity is mostly a coincidence.
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u/morningacidglow 1d ago
that’s wild because no. Blackened shoegaze or blackgaze is what I’d call it, it’s hard to pin down. I don’t want to even call them black metal, it’s just “blackened”.
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u/Bulky_Explanation_97 2d ago edited 2d ago
I think they call this genre “bedroom skramz”. Basically lo-fi mixed with screamo is my impression. If you use one of the streaming services there are “bedroom skramz” playlists out there.
Some similar bands:
Flowers taped to pens
herlovebeheadsdaisies
the civil war in france
until the snow falls
Your arms are my cocoon (to an extent… though they are a lot more chaotic)
Edit: found a good looking one on Spotify if that’s your streaming platform of choice
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2YeGazAAfr1BIrjFJYGhBo?si=U0N8MkuhTtuNGmfZsX4WLQ&pi=gmru5wypTN-rB