Screamo. Probably the most underrated, misjudged genre in the expanding world of music. Also known as metalcore, screamo is a subgenre combination of metal and emo that has been on the rise since the ...

Under His Eye’s killer new album is out today via Acrobat Unstable. Speaking about one of its singles in in the February edition of In Defense of the Genre, I said: If you like screamo with an ...

NYC screamo band OLTH are gearing up to release their debut LP every day is sOmeOne’s speciaL day on June 2 via Zegema Baech Records. They recently released lead single “THe LasT sOng” and we’re now ...

Los Angeles screamo trio Knumears take their name from “You and Me, Screaming Numb Ears,” a thrashing monster of a track by 90s emoviolence pioneers Honeywell. Their wonky spelling of the title nods ...

In a playlist era, it’s not easy for a compilation album to come out and cut through the noise, but we should all make an exception for Balladeers, Redefined. Touché Amoré leader Jeremy Bolm has spent ...

Fresh in the indie scene, Nolie is a charming singer-songwriter and creative mastermind with a DIY perspective on both life and his work. With roots in hardcore and screamo music, his reinvention into ...

The Madison screamo band Solvalou had just one extremely lo-fi demo track on Bandcamp before today, but now they’ve got a whole dang EP out through the great Tomb Tree Tapes. Solvalou is much more ...

High school bands come and go, and very few make an impact that lasts for decades. Screamo group Frail formed in Philadelphia’s northern suburbs in 1993, when four of the five members were sophomores, ...

Disclaimer: there is no such thing as a bad Alexisonfire album. Even when they’re at their worst, the Ontario quintet are still paragons of post-hardcore and screamo music. However, at their best, ...