Screamo

Screamo is a specific subgenre of music that spawned in the 1990s, Real screamo is actually pretty badass from what I've heard, but that's not what my point here is. The definition of screamo is not "a band that has screaming in their songs" or metal in general. Many people, when they hear that someone likes metal, makes fun of the person and says the person loves screamo. They have to keep pushing that screamo is the worst thing since stepping on Legos. That person is in fact wrong. Post-hardcore, metalcore, thrash metal, death metal, and hundreds more of subgenres have screaming. If you're gonna insult someone, at least try to do your homework before you embarrass yourself.

Asshole: HAHA! THAT EMO FAG LIKES SCREAMO! GAY! AHA!
Metalhead: I don't like screamo, you moron. I'm only really into thrash metal.
Asshole: Uhh.. Well.. You're gay!
Metalhead: *facepalm*

by MechDoom January 16, 2015

Screamo

Screamo is a music related term which originated in the 80's or 90's. It is generally classified by rough "screaming" vocals. Although it is generally listened to by teenagers and people in their young 20's this type of music can be listened to by people of any age or background. Many bands who are not technically screamo (Take Sleeping With Sirens for example) are often confused or labeled as screamo due to the occasional scream, even though it is not their main type of music. Screamo itself is normally not a genre of its own but will be characterized in many genres such as hardcore or punk rock.

Hey James what kind of music do you like?

I like bands which have a bit of screamo in them like The Devil Wears Prada

by Dork With A Computer March 29, 2015

Screamo

The worst genre of music ever created. It takes absolutely no talent to be a singer for a Screamo band. All you have to do if you want to be a Screamo singer is bend over, pull down your pants, have one of your friends hold a microphone to your mouth, and another one violently shove a pineapple inside your rectum, and bam, you're a screamo singer, and then you can have a bunch of moronic retards in all-black and tight girl pants and eyeliner follow you around like you're Jesus.

I'm a fag, I like Screamo

My daddy beat me, so I like Screamo

I sing for a Screamo band, I have no talent.

by SmellyBaptist August 22, 2006

screamo

simply put, shit

but dive deeper in to screamo i would have to say it is the gayest and most homosexual atempt to make music. You see screamo bands are actually shity musicians (if you would even call them that) who think that they are good and "deep" because they scream about pain, WRONG because they suck the singing sucks the bass sucks the guitar suck and the singing suck (sucks so bad i had to list it 2 times) basically they are power cord addicted douchebags who cut themselves because they aren't and will never be as good as the legends

screamo fag: wasn't that guitar solo so emotional and deep

normal dude: nah those fags can only play shitty power cords

screamo fag: they aren't fags they're bi

by Gill998 March 22, 2007

screamo

hardcore punk music incorperating screaming/spoken vocals. Accompanied by erratic guitar and drum beats. Lyrics tend to be dark/hateful. Genre died around late 90's. Had its climax in the late 80's early 90's. Bands such as Alesana (post-hardcore/hardcore), A Day To Remeber (hardcore/pop punk), The Devil Wears Prada (hardcore/post-hardcore), Underoath (new, post-hardcore, old, metalcore/deathcore), August Burns Red (metalcore), Asking Alexandria (shitty metalcore) are often mistaken as 'screamo' music. The proper genres for each band is listed next to each one. More examples of mistaken screamo would be: Bring me the horizon (shitty metalcore, deathcore), Entombed (Death metal), Job for a cowboy(death metal), The Analyst (death metal, deathcore) Disfiguring the Goddess (deathcore, deathmetal), I declair war (deathcore, deathmetal), Suicide Silence (deathmetal), Malodorus (deathmetal). And to also clear things up the word 'emo' means nothing and is nothing. Its a stupid word to piss off over dramatic, egotistical people. The word was made up by media and ignorant douche bags.

And as a side note: The word emo no longer harms anyone. It makes you look stupid. Especially if you yell it at someone across a college campus. screamo is dead

by the understand April 11, 2011

Screamo

A term mostly used by teens to describe a fusion of Emocore and Hardcore to create a new sub-genre. A recent example would be the band Bring Me The Horizon.

Excerpt from a screamo song by Bring Me The Horizon

Christ, I'm asking you for just one thing,
I'm asking you for just one thing,
Eradicate this disease,

Close your eyes, pray for plagues,
Oh Lord, cleanse this Earth and bring upon our dooms day,
Oh, close your eyes, pray for plagues,
Cleanse this Earth and bring dooms day,

She starts her new diet of liquor and dick,
Just like Hollywood, but laced in sick,
The sun goes down, and so does she,
The sun goes down, and so does she,

So clap your hands to the sound of every first born dying now,
Watch the rivers flow with blood,

death will stand where life once stood,

So clap your hands to the sound

of every first born dying now,
Watch the rivers turn to blood,

death will stand where life once stood,

by JustinBayne February 19, 2011

screamo

A mixture of "Emo" music with Screamed (rather than, or as well as, Sung) vocal parts. Typical lyrical subject matters range from matters of the heart to politics.

See also: Emo, Punk, Rock, Metal, Alternative.

source: Screa'm - E'mo

by Jerome Wright October 30, 2003