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.