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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