Skramz The Screamo/emo Music of 80's, 90's, early 2000 - General

A hybrid of Screamo/Punk/Hardcore/Thrash, It slaps Alesena in the face. Before emo went mainstream Skramz bands offered originality and were far more experimental, often yelling vocals displaying a lot of aggression rather than a teen angst sad feel from today's emo garbage. And are what emo music truly sounds like. Most of these bands are dead today. [img]http://c1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/8/l_3bff812bc23c44ac8e15dae13bb148e8.jpg[/img] [b]City of Caterpillar[/b] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooGFcNCcG00[/media] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtHrGoxZAHM&feature=related[/media] [b]Pg. 99[/b] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDdCA1oTU5o&feature=related[/media] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mahS6DCwy_U&feature=related[/media] [b]Saetia[/b] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5X7m_stabE&feature=related[/media] [b]Orchid[/b] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpS_1Mx78S8[/media] [b]Amanda Woodward[/b] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UBUjNvryKE&feature=related[/media] [b]A Case of Grenada[/b] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYfWw7qkYAY&feature=related[/media] [b]Circle Takes The Square[/b]- A great recent band with similar sound. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48wdVTHmm8I&feature=related[/media] Also: [url]http://www.dobi.nu/yourscenesucks/skramz/index.htm[/url]

needs more saetia [editline]08:09PM[/editline] so much more

I like this kind of music but I can only listen to it for short amounts of time.

so glad someone made this thread! i love screamo. don't call it skramz though, it makes you seem too afraid that you are going to be put in the same label as modern 'emo' and 'screamo'. who cares about the name. favourites atm are orchid, loma prieta, i hate myself (all time favourite) and hot cross.

[QUOTE=Elementality;16528009]so glad someone made this thred! i love screamo. don't call it skramz though, it makes you seem too afraid that you are going to be put in the same label as modern 'emo' and 'screamo'. who cares about the name. favourites atm are orchid, loma prieta, i hate myself (all time favourite) and hot cross.[/QUOTE] don't call it skramz? it IS skramz ugh

[QUOTE=iondull8;16528204]don't call it skramz? it IS skramz ugh[/QUOTE]Skramz is a nickname people have given it recently to avoid confusion between real screamo (stuff in this thread) and whatever the kids are calling screamo nowadays.

^agree Good kind of music. But too much of it is recorded very poorly. I've been building my collection of European Skramz. Check out La Quiete. Awesome italian skramz band in my opinion.

I'm digging some of the stuff you posted. The name sounds sort of annoying though. I'd just stick with Screamo. You can differentiate enough just by declaring certain bands part of individual waves of screamo i.e. first, second, third wave etc.

Indian Summer is one of my favorite emo bands: [url]http://www.myspace.com/indiansummersongs[/url] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YOHPjSUyPw[/media] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2wgnuFkbxI[/media] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCJFO1WTfmw[/media]

Needs moar Rites of Spring. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvzjEU-IM2o[/media] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge8ucvLYLRc[/media]

[QUOTE=iondull8;16528204]don't call it skramz? it IS skramz ugh[/QUOTE] if you actually knew anything about the screamo/powerviolence scene you would know everybody hates that term. as i said, it's for people who are too scared that people may think they listen to popular music. [editline]02:53PM[/editline] who cares anyway, just shut up. anyone here into united nations? rites of spring & indian summer are sweet; i used to listen to rites of spring a lot when i was younger.

Saetia and Orchid are the best ones ever.

I rated you all box for listening to shit. :smug: [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Extended for being an ass." - Kazumi))[/highlight]

[QUOTE=Dopehead;16540286]I rated you all box for listening to shit. :smug:[/QUOTE] Welcome to the music forum, where apparently not all music is discussable. And ignorant members roam.

City of Caterpillar, Saetia and Circle Takes The Square are my favorites, especially CTTS :keke:

[QUOTE=Elementality;16539438] who cares anyway, just shut up. anyone here into [b]united nations[/b]? rites of spring & indian summer are sweet; i used to listen to rites of spring a lot when i was younger.[/QUOTE] Fuck yes!

I love the genre. However I hate the NAME of it. It's screamo. Yes, what is labeled screamo now is way different, that's because genres evolve. United Nations rocks by the way.

Circle Takes the Square has some of the sickest lyrics you will ever read. And if you like an occasional melodic intergration, you'll really enjoy them.

I've never heard it called "Skramz" and I played in a band like this for several years (as well as playing throughout some of the NJ scene and NY scene and getting booed off a few times 'cause we listed ourselves as "emo" circa 1985, not "emo" circa-post Sunny Day Real Estate). It's an offshoot of "hardcore" which is why this is "emotional hardcore," which is the term that I've seen used the most, and have used the most.

[QUOTE=ventilated;16577266]I've never heard it called "Skramz" and I played in a band like this for several years (as well as playing throughout some of the NJ scene and NY scene and getting booed off a few times 'cause we listed ourselves as "emo" circa 1985, not "emo" circa-post Sunny Day Real Estate). It's an offshoot of "hardcore" which is why this is "emotional hardcore," which is the term that I've seen used the most, and have used the most.[/QUOTE] Were you wellknown? Did you ever release anything at all? Would be interesting to hear. I play in a band like this and listened to this shit for several years, and I've never heard anyone say "Skramz".

[QUOTE=Oscar_SP;16580369]Were you wellknown? Did you ever release anything at all? Would be interesting to hear. I play in a band like this and listened to this shit for several years, and I've never heard anyone say "Skramz".[/QUOTE] It's a new term to not confuse it with modern screamo and emo bands. I always just called it real screamo.

Yeah, me too.

[QUOTE=Oscar_SP;16580369]Were you wellknown? Did you ever release anything at all? Would be interesting to hear. I play in a band like this and listened to this shit for several years, and I've never heard anyone say "Skramz".[/QUOTE] They've all been lost or are too damaged. Wish I had them, because they were pretty good. Nothing was publicly released and we didn't use myspace or purevolume. We were well known among some crowds, but never were headliners. Always played in the middle of shows, it was unfortunate. [QUOTE=Boyblunder;16580658]It's a new term to not confuse it with modern screamo and emo bands. I always just called it real screamo.[/QUOTE] Or you could call it "emocore" because that's where all those stupid "cores" came from, mixing two genres. Old school "emo" mixed with "hardcore" = "emocore" by today's standards.

[QUOTE=ventilated;16577266]I've never heard it called "Skramz" and I played in a band like this for several years (as well as playing throughout some of the NJ scene and NY scene and getting booed off a few times 'cause we listed ourselves as "emo" circa 1985, not "emo" circa-post Sunny Day Real Estate). It's an offshoot of "hardcore" which is why this is "emotional hardcore," which is the term that I've seen used the most, and have used the most.[/QUOTE] i lost all respect for you when you said that 'hairstyles were a pinnacle in the hardcore culture' somewhere in pictures of you, ages ago. sorry. also, emotional hardcore is the worst term i've heard; when was hardcore not emotional?

Screamo, emotional hardcore, etc are all just subgenres to Hardcore... why are you arguing about genres guys.

i just call it screamo cause that's what it is stttttttttop with this. circle takes the square are great, wearing a ctts tee at the moment haha.

[QUOTE=Elementality;16610789]i just call it screamo cause that's what it is stttttttttop with this. circle takes the square are great, wearing a ctts tee at the moment haha.[/QUOTE] I'm wearing a HEALTH shirt. I don't fit in. :(

[QUOTE=ventilated;16607106]They've all been lost or are too damaged. Wish I had them, because they were pretty good. Nothing was publicly released and we didn't use myspace or purevolume. We were well known among some crowds, but never were headliners. Always played in the middle of shows, it was unfortunate.[/QUOTE]What was your band called?

People should just call the screamo/skramz genre 'Post-Hardcore', it sounds more professional. I don't listen to it anymore, but i loved it back in 2002-early 2004

I was told that screamo/skramz was different to post-hardcore, but they sound the same to me