Screamo is a musical subgenre of
hardcore punk which predominantly evolved from
emo, among other genres, in the early 1990s. The term "screamo" was initially applied to a more aggressive offshoot of emo that developed in San Diego in 1991, which used short songs that grafted "spastic intensity to willfully experimental dissonance and dynamics."
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[edit] Characteristics
Screamo essentially describes a particularly dissonant style of emo influenced by hardcore punk.
[3] Screamo uses typical rock instrumentation, but is notable for its brief compositions, chaotic execution, and
screaming vocals. The genre is "generally based in the aggressive side of the overarching punk-revival scene."
[3] Primary characteristics of the genre are described by
Allmusic:
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| “ | It came to be that the soft/loud dynamic of having either one or two singers who alternate between passionate singing and distraught shrieking that characterizes most screamo. These vocals are often layered or appear side-by-side amid aggressive, hard-hitting guitar licks used to trigger an exhaustive, emotional catharsis. Though the music is outwardly tough and powerful, the lyrics are usually of the introspective kind found in softer emo bands. | ” |
In addition to melodic transitions from heavy to soft styles, the genre is also characterized "by frequent shifts in tempo and dynamics and by tension-and-release catharses."
[4] Screamed vocals are used "not consistently, but as a kind of crescendo element, a sonic weapon to be trotted out when the music and lyrics reach a particular emotional pitch."
[4] Some consider the genre to be a bridge between hardcore punk and emo.
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[edit] Conceptual elements
Many screamo bands in the
1990s saw themselves as implicitly political, and as a reaction against the turn to the
right embodied by California politicians, such as
Roger Hedgecock.
[6] Some groups were also unusually theoretical in inspiration: Angel Hair cited
surrealist writers
Antonin Artaud and
Georges Bataille,
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Orchid lyrically name-checked
French new wave icon
Anna Karina and
critical theory originators
the Frankfurt School.
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