real emo/screamo/skramz thread
 

Rites of Spring, Embrace, Moss Icon, The Hated, Heroin, Navio Forge, Mohinder, Indian Summer, Portraits of Past, Angel Hair, Antioch Arrow, Shotmaker, Saetia, Orchid, Jerome's Dream, pg. 99, City of Caterpiller, Envy, Hot Cross, Ampere, CTTS, Gospel, Gantz, Daitro, La Quiete, Off Minor and Funeral Diner all kick my ass.

Yeah, good list, don't forget Employer Employee, Crimson Curse, Cobra Kai, Love Lost But Not Forgotten, Yaphet Kotto, and the Red Scare.

Pretty much any robodog/robotic empire band from back in the day rules... also Gravity Records' complete roster was amazing.. Clikitat Ikatowi and The VSS still rule my balls.

Oh yeah Yaphet Kotto! Brilliant band! I think I'm going to redownload all the emo stuff I used to listen to. Such a great genre.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HRqbGoz2EI how good is this song?

too good.

It really makes me sad when people make a big deal about bullshit like ac.... I remember when bands who actually used to know how to write awesome songs used to be all the rage amongst the underground kidz. Oh well.

Yeah back when I started to really get into messageboards and junk, it was all these bands kids were hyping. Real passionate bands that knew how to create a perfect chaos. Remember when The Dillinger Escape Plan were thought to be the most skullcrushing band ever? Now they kick important members out and ironically cover Justin Timberlake.

My dad used to work in a factory called VSS so that makes him a very cool man.

Haha, Derek, yeah, I got into DEP right after Calculating Infinity came out, blew my fucking mind... and I just watched some new DEP video the other day and it was one of the worst things I've EVER heard.. wow.

Calculating Infinity was fucking sick. So was Irony is a Dead Scene. I'm completely unfamiliar with the rest of these bands though.

Anything that I would probably like?

Rites of Spring - Considered the first emo band... hardcore punk with Guy Picciotto from Fugazi singing
Embrace - Ian MacKaye's band after Minor Threat, way more arty and intelligent
Navio Forge - Obscure emo band with one record... fantastic bassist
Angel Hair - Chaotic
Orchid - One of the most emotional bands ever
Jerome's Dream - Heavy screamo band with a screamer that recorded his vocals with the microphone on the floor creating a unique yelping sound. Eventually had to change their sound because the singer's vocal cords gave out (he would perform live without a microphone and had to throw up blood after their show)
pg. 99 - Hectic chaotic screamo with upwards of 8+ members
City of Caterpiller and Envy - emo with loads of build-ups
Ampere - Badly recorded super tight stuff... most tech metal bands couldn't play their music
Circle Takes The Square - Kind of overrated but they are a great gateway band. Check out As The Roots Undo
Off Minor - Emo with brilliant lyrics, tight compositions and with a massive jazz influence (they took their name from a Thelonius Monk track)

Honestly, all the bands I listed are good. But I just described some of the more varied ones.

I've heard of Circle Takes The Square. Aren't they that grind band with the female vocalist? I remember really liking them.

Since I want more discussion on this I'll give some of you links to some of my personal favourites.

Off Minor - The Heat Death of the Universe
http://www.mediafire.com/?xbzn2ftpd22

Jeromes Dream - Discography
http://www.mediafire.com/?zfzmtzdwwwz

Pg. 99 - Document #8
http://www.mediafire.com/?n42j4ihzn4t

Circle Takes The Square - As The Roots Undo
http://www.mediafire.com/?u1omdzfegxm

Orchid - Chaos Is Me
http://www.mediafire.com/?aeztmmqnszz

Ampere - All Our Tomorrows End Today
http://www.mediafire.com/?d2mawy5yrr7

And yes, I'm well aware some of these are still in print. But it's not like they are going to be heard here any other way.

Some parts are grindish. They have a male and a female vocalist I think... there are loads of question and answer vocal parts in it.

Chris Pennie, who was the drummer for DEP and wrote their songs, quit to play with Coheed and Cambria. Those guys are idiots for thinking they can replace the guy who wrote Sugar Coated Sour and 43% Burnt.

43% Burnt 8 bit version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKMTOrNIfjw

Listening to CTTS's As The Roots Undo. I would highly prefer these guys without the whiny male vocalist. His clean vocals make me cringe, and his growls are weak.

Odd, I made a 43% Burnt 8-bit version with Adam (aka DeskLazer) once.. it was part of a project called nintendon't..

Holy shit, I was coming to this section to make this EXACT thread. You da man Derek.

If they haven't already been mentioned:
I Wrote Haikus About Cannibalism in Your High School Yearbook
The Birds Are Spies They Report To The Trees
Welcome The Plague Year
Sed Non Satiata
Swing Kids
I Would Set Myself on Fire For You
Kodan Armada
Age Sixteen
Antioch Arrow
Light The Fuse and Run
Louise Cyphre
Comadre
La Quiete
Raien

I Wrote Haikus... and Kodan Armada are one of my least liked groups in this genre probably. The rest you listed are brilliant hough.

I always liked a couple of those old Glassjaw songs... if that contributes anything whatsoever
I can definitely see myself going through a late-twenties stage of listening to alot of screamy, clean-riffing, stabilized and well adjusted rock music like that. Give it a few years though, im still too angry for all that business.

circle takes the square fuckers.

A good music thread after all the liars and ac crap love/bashing.

Indian Summer are my favorite. Native Nod, too.