exiled from light / there is no beauty left here... (2010)

depressive black metal. 

haunting, misanthropic, and sorrowful.

 claustrophobic atmospheres and tortured screams. 

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ethereal shroud / they became the falling ash (2015)

ethereal shroud is black metal from the united kingdom. 

sorrowful and forlorn, a crushing and dense atmosphere paints a mental image of frozen over rivers and blizzard battered forests. three tracks, the first and third being roughly twenty five minutes each and the second around ten. winter will be here soon enough. 

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yubari gogo / yubari gogo (2016)

politically charged one man screamo from greece. 

complete chaos interspersed by lulling instrumentals.

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weak wrists / demo (2014)

fast, in yr face female fronted emo violence from north carolina.

ffo: battle of wolf 359, neil perry, textbook traitors
this rips!

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kaoru nagisa / concessive (2013)

emo onslaught from virginia. 

6 songs, 7 minutes. 

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swan of tuonela / swan of tuonela (2013)

swan of tuonela (twan-ne-luh) is an screamo band from virginia. 

they combine haunting and foreboding post-rock instrumentation with uncontrolled explosions of emotive hardcore.

the vocals range from low guttural type growls to high pitched screams, which is nice.

emotional decimation.

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.gif from god / ...defragmented...reformatted (2016)

.gif from god is a band from virginia that plays a mixture of spazzy grind (think see you next tuesday) and screamo. this really reminds of a style that used to be p popular approx. 10 yrs ago, except w more of an emo violence influence. 

looking forward to more from this band!

ffo: letters to catalonia, the number twelve looks like you, gas up yr hease!!

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hassan i sabbah / discography (2000 - 2001)

hassan i sabbah played screamo in the early 2000s. 

mandatory emoviolence. 

for fans of: usurp synapse, jeromes dream, orchid

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me and him call it us / loss (2007)

me and him call it us were a band from georgia, they played screamo influenced mathcore. 

this is for spazzy enough for fans of the number twelve looks like you and emotionally charged enough for fans of saetia. 

atmospheric ambient interludes act as a nice buffer between tracks of total chaos.

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thursday / full collapse (2001)

thursday is a post-hardcore band from new jersey. 

this is one of my favorite albums ever, loved it in high school and just recently got addicted again.

this is the best band that plays this style in my opinion. 

underrated!

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iwrotehaikusaboutcannibalisminyouryearbook / 8 song demo (2006)

iwrotehaikusaboutcannibalisminyouryearbook was a short lived screamo band from california.

this is probably the first screamo band that i fell in love with: heartfelt, incredibly passionate, (oddly) catchy. the vocals are thrown and fall like broken bottles. all of their songs were untitled (ex. untitled 1, untitled 2, untitled 3, et al) and their discography comprised of demo and an unreleased 5 track demo was released in 2010 on discos huelga, further adding to the confusion that untitled 1 (for example) on the demo would not be untitled 1 on the discography. i was one of the few lucky people to own a first pressing of this record on clear vinyl, and it's probably my most prized record. one of my ex girlfriends was trying to get me to sell it to her recently.

me: 'no. . .but you can come over and listen to it if you want?'

members of this band went on to play in beau navire, punch, ...who calls so loud, and others, but this band will always have a place in my heart.

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city of caterpillar / city of caterpillar (2002)

in honor of the recent repress on repeater records, here's a classic.

city of caterpillar was a band from virginia active from 2000 - 2003. 

they played a post-rock influenced style of screamo:

 i.e. - slow, melodic instrumental build ups that detonated into an ebullient explosion. 

this is one of my favorite records of all time and required listening fr any young aspiring screamo fan.

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knocked loose / pop culture (2014)

knocked loose is a hardcore band from kentucky. 

enraged, heavy, ferocious: just the way i like my hardcore.

music to crash yr car to.

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neil perry / lineage situation (2003)

neil perry (the kid who commited suicide in the 1988 movie dead poet's society) was a screamo band from new jersey active from 1998 to 2002. this release is their discography, a compilation of tracks released on a picture disc, a self titled release, and several splits between other screamo heavy weights such as usurp syanpse, joshua fit for battle, kaospilot, etc. this is everything you'd want from a screamo band (intense, pensive, emotional), this band is legendary.

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young and in the way / when life comes to death (2014)

blackened punk from north carolina. 

these guys sound like they raised in a fog shrouded, blizzard stricken norwegian forest.  

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weekend nachos / unforgivable (2009)

pummeling hardcore / powerviolence from chicago. 

head bang until yr neck breaks.

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welcome the plague year / welcome the plague year (2004)

welcome the plague year was a post hardcore / screamo band active in the early 2000s. 

atmospheric, fast, slow, crushing. highly influential. 

if yr into screamo why haven't you heard this already?

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midwest pen pals / inside jokes (2009)

midwest pen pals was an emo band from michigan. 

fun, catchy, twinkly jams to be sad and happy to.

members of merchant ships, park jefferson, and william bonney.

R.I.P.

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i don't want to know why the caged bird sings / things are getting better but i am still dead inside (2015)

i don't want to know why the caged bird sings (long band names are +1 emo points) is a band from england. they play 90's style screamo: violent, sensitive, and fragile.

diy then die.

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yaphet kotto / the killer was in the government blankets (1999)

yaphet kotto was a screamo band from california. 

emotional yet politically aware, melodic yet chaotic.

this release is legendary.

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noisem / agony defined (2015)

old school thrash metal influence and death metal combine to create a blistering, inhumane, sickeningly heavy product. highly recommended. 

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supine / this eternity churns electric (2016)

supine is a hardcore / screamo band from pennsylvania. 

my friend jordan is putting this tape out on his label parking lot records, definitely buying one. 

this release is great, if dark, pretty screamo is yr thing get into it. 

 ps: support small record labels!

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the hope and the failure / the lights are on but this dance never ends (2005)

the hope and the failure was (is? they got back together, if youtube comments have any truth to them) a female fronted post-rock influenced screamo band from sweden. i particularly like punk / hardcore bands w female vocalists, and thatf is one of the best ones. check this out.

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dead in the dirt / the blind hole (2013)

i once read someone describe listening to this album as like 'being baptized in molten lava' accurate. 

blistering, oppressive hardcore / grindcore. get into it. 

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age sixteen / open up finders, please (2009)

age sixteen was a screamo band from maryland.

this is basically the american version of suis la lune, and it's fucking good. 

this record has definitely cemented itself as a classic in the genre. 

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slow fire pistol / demo (2016)

slow fire pistol is a new hardcore / screamo band from georgia. 

this is everything good about these genres in roughly 13 minutes.

definitely looking forward to future releases, this demo shows a lot of potential.

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svffer / empathist (2015)

svffer is a hardcore / powerviolence band from germany.

if you prefer yr hardcore on the angrier, darker side, peep this immediately. 

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birds in row / you, me & the violence (2012)

birds in row are a three piece screamo / hardcore band from france. 

heartfelt, melodic, abrasive, beautiful.

 this is punk music in it's purest form.

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june paik / self titled 10" (2008)

june paik is dark, intense screamo from germany. 

atmospheric build ups explode into a frenzy of chaotic emotive hardcore.

this is european screamo of the highest order. 

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ringworm / hammer of the witch (2014)

metallic hardcore fury.

destroy everything.

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infernal stronghold / excommunicated (2005)

infernal stronghold is a band from philadelphia that blends punk, thrash, and black metal. sick.

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letters to catalonia / demo (2015)

fast, angry (yet catchy) emo violence.

this is definitely one of the better new screamo bands to come out.

i have this tape and instructions on how to make homemade molotov cocktails comes with it.

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hiretsukan / end states (2005)

hiretsukan (from the japanese 卑劣漢 meaning 'vicious man' or 'despicable person') was a female fronted screamo band formed in washion d.c. and based in new york city.
this is one of the best records in the genre.

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iskra / bureval (2009)

blackened crust punk from canada. 

rip yr face off.

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an embrace of angels / 'ere jaunary be unwintered (2003)

an embrace of angels was a screamo band from minnesota active in the early 2000s. they had the melodic v. heavy contrast down pat. this has a lot of piano in it too, which is really good.

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science is made up of mistakes / the backbone of the night (2014)

sometimes when i order records from certain labels i get extra stuff throw in for free. i ordered a package from off cloud nine and received this tape. having had no previous knowledge of this band at all, i was pleasantly surprised by this. science is made up of mistakes is a screamo band from spain playing 90s inspired screamo. iwrotehaikusaboutcannibalimsinyouryearbook is one of my favorite bands ever and this release really reminded me of their style. highly recommended.

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tentacles / isolation is a gift (2010)

screamo from texas. dark, atmospheric, intense, and chaotic.

for fans of: battle of wolf 359, welcome the plague year, usurp synapse

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c'est la guerre / demo (2009)

let me preface this by saying that this is primarily going to be a screamo blog focusing on the more obscure side of the genre, but more than likely i'm going to wander into other genres i enjoy (emo, hardcore, black metal, death metal, grindcore, etc, etc). if you have an interest in any of the previously mentioned genres you'll probably enjoy the majority of the music i'm going to post on here. i had a music blog years and years ago and every single one of my links got broken.

that being said, c'est la guerre ('this is war') was a screamo band from rhode island. they released these 5 tracks then changed their name to remainder, their bandcamp page says their last release was in april of 2016. this is the only release under the original name, and it's a great one. it's 9 minutes long and shows a lot more heart and emotion than some full length records. if you are a fan of the spirit of versailles, and the more melodic side of screamo, give this a listen.

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