Following our recent lists on 2000s post-hardcore and ’90s metalcore, this edition of ‘In Defense of the Genre’ is about 25 albums that defined screamo in the ’90s and ’00s, and remain ...

Envy helped legitimize screamo’s versatility, proving there was something more to the sound than angst-riddled breakdowns. Next steps: Long before Envy found its footing, the early ’90s saw ...

It seamlessly connects the dots between classic ’90s/early 2000s screamo, the 2010s new wave of post-hardcore, and the current screamo revival, and it’s a big, soaring post-hardcore song that ...

My biggest question: Where the fuck did this shit come from?? As someone who saw the birth of metalcore and “true screamo”/skramz firsthand in the 90s, I am highly confused when I listen to these ...

The fractured, chaotic hardcore punk bands who made up the late-‘90s screamo scene — the ones who basically invented screamo — are all getting back together. In recent years, we’ve seen ...

But there is no counterpoint to the claim that this band had a knack for embedding straight-up hooks -- even more on the pop-punk tip than Tunes for Bears -- into the screamo template. If you Google ...

Instead, with Slow Fire Pistol, those musicians attack the chaotic, self-lacerating sound of late-’90s screamo — a sound that was always adjacent to hardcore but that ultimately became its own ...

Post-hardcore and screamo elitists may scoff at every word ... about this piece while complaining that an album from the ‘90s or 2010s wasn’t on here. Read the fine print.

“Whatever people want to call us, whether it’s emo or screamo or post-hardcore or just rock, it’s fine with me,” said frontman Shane Told, who sometimes uses the word “screamo” in a ...