Screamo

Screamo is a musical genre that derived from the 90's emo style, however it incorporates greater use of harsh vocals and dissonance. Screamo was popularized by bands such as Circle Takes The Square , Envy , Funeral Dinner and others. Screamo is also receiving the same criticism as emo; as well as being related to the emo subculture.

Recently, screamo has often been confused with other musical genres such as emo, post-hardcore, metalcore and experimental rock, mostly because non-screamo bands also use screaming techniques. Because of the low number of real screamo bands, it is often difficult to differentiate the genre from other hardcore genres.

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"Real Emo" only consists of the dc Emotional Hardcore scene and the late 90's Screamo scene. What is known by "Midwest Emo" is nothing but Alternative Rock with questionable real emo influence. When people try to argue that bands like My Chemical Romance are not real emo, while saying that Sunny Day Real Estate is, I can't help not to cringe because they are just as fake emo as My Chemical Romance (plus the pretentiousness). Real emo sounds ENERGETIC, POWERFUL and somewhat HATEFUL. Fake emo is weak, self pity and a failed attempt to direct energy and emotion into music. Some examples of REAL EMO are Pg 99, Rites of Spring, Cap n Jazz (the only real emo band from the midwest scene) and Loma Prieta. Some examples of FAKE EMO are American Football, My Chemical Romance and Mineral EMO BELONGS TO HARDCORE NOT TO INDIE, POP PUNK, ALT ROCK OR ANY OTHER MAINSTREAM GENRE