Screamo?

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this thread just hurts to read....

a bunch of emo/screamo kids trying to justify their ****** genre and define every little thing about it.


It's music (sadly, yes it is still music), that you will all grow out of in 3-5 years and then you will realize how ****ing stupid you look with your v neck shirts, cat-******* spacers, pants that don't fit, and sideswipe hair. You will also then realize all your "favorite" bands sound exactly the same, and none of them have done anything new in the last 5 years.


This statement applies to everyone who listens to any of the following genres:

Screamo
Emo
"Indie"
"hardcore" (and i say that sarcastically, because most of you have no ****ing idea what hardcore actually is. *enter Minor Threat*)
Post-Hardcore
anything with that stupid Core **** at the end of it

and all this ****** new metal kife like bring me the horizon, waking the cadaver and any other "Verb the Noun" bands.














but thats just my opinion.

Sure, it may be your opinion, but it's almost entirely without merit.

For example, I see that your own influences (from your profile page) are:

"Chaoth (Unexpect)
Geddy Lee (Rush)
Jean Baudin
Justin Chancellor (TOOL)
Brian Cook (Russian Circles etc)"​

Someone could easily look at that list and make all of the same sort of broad generalizations that you are. Likely in regards to the black clothing, overindulgence, "mainstream metal" tendencies etc... and they would be wrong. It's not fair to judge entire swaths of bands within a genre, or the people who listen to them, simply because you personally don't relate to them.

I used to be into that same stuff that you listed actually, but guess way, I grew out of it (for the most part). I guess that makes me superior to you in the same way that you feel superior to the people in this thread?

Anyhow, like I stated in an earlier post, most of the genre labels you listed have been around for so long that they have lost most of their meaning. Are you talking about The Locust style screamo, Underoath style screamo, or Indian Summer style screamo? are you referring to My Chemical Romance emo, or Built to Spill emo, or Rites of Spring style emo? Don't even get me started on the overuse of the term "indie." What you're saying is similar IMO to saying something like "Attack! Attack! and Nickelback are terrible bands, so if you listen to metal you don't like real/good music."

I would say that post-hardcore has grown by leaps and bounds in 5 years. 5 years ago the genre was not creative and was in it's infancy. Go from that to Underoath's "Lost in the Sound of Separation" and you will see a huge progression.

I would actually say the opposite, it's funny how musical taste is so subjective. I think At the Drive-In's album Vaya(1999) or Bear vs. Shark's Terrorhawk(2005), both completely random examples off the top of my head, were both much more sophisticated and progressive than anything I've ever heard from Underoath.