Screamo

Screamo is a 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." The genre experienced a popularity boost in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and by mid-2000s the over-saturatio... More

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