What is emo music?

Emocore has been subject of much debate since it first appeared. So...emo is a genre of rock music. At first, the term was used to describe a subgenre of hardcore punk in the '80s. Later, 'emocore' was used to describe the DC scene and regional scenes related.
The biggest names of the period are Fire Party, Rites of Spring, One Last Wish, Embrace, Beefeater, Gray Matter, and Moss Icon.

The first wave of emo began to fade after the breakups of most of the involved bands in the early 1990s. In the mid '90s, 'emo' began to reflect the indie scene that followed the influences of Fugazi. Bands like 'Texas is the reason' and 'Sunny Day Real Estate' introduced a more indie rock style of emo, less violent than it's predecessor. "Indie emo" survived until the late '90s. As the remaining indie emo bands entered the mainstream, newer bands began to emulate the more mainstream style, creating a style of music that has now earned the moniker emo within popular culture.

Whereas, even in the past, the term emo was used to identify a wide variety of bands, the breadth of bands listed under today's

emo is even more vast, leaving the term "emo" as more of a loose identifier than as a specific genre of music.

› Bands

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Before listing the bands we would like to mention we strongly DON'T recommend you bands like My Chemical Romance or Fall Out Boy.

Emo Bands

• Matchbook Romance
• Moss Icon
• City of Caterpillar
• Rites of Spring
• Poison the Well
• The Rocket Summer
• Tomorrow's Last Hero
• Senses Fail

Screamo Bands

• The Used
• Love Like Electrocution
• Clip the Apex
• Neil Perry
• Ape Shit
• The Khayembii Communique
• I Would Set Myself on Fire For You
• Herbrightskies

Post-Emo Bands

• Mineral
• Sense Field
• Texas Is The Reason
• Jimmy Eat World

Indie Bands

• Dashboard Confessional
• Death Cab for Cutie
• Straylight Run
• Cursive
• Patrick Wolf
• Beep Beep
• North Of America
• The Driveway
• Cansei de Ser Sexy
• Elliott Smith
• The Summer Obsession
• The Scene Aesthetic

Hardcore Bands

• Bring me the horizon
• Circle Takes the Square

Post-Hardcore Bands

• From first to last
• Saosin
• A day to remember
• Thursday
• Funeral for a friend
• Enter Shikari
• Emanuel
• LoveHateHero

Punk Bands

• Blink 182
• Jawbreaker
• NOFX
• Billy Talent
• Dirty Little Monkey
• Sum 41
• Rise Against

Metal Bands

• Within Temptation
• Bullet for my Valentine
• Staind
• NightWish
• Anathema
• Avenged sevenfold
• Otep
• Cradle of Filth
• Slipknot
• Hatebreed
• Chimaira
• System Of A Down
• HIM
• Rhapsody of Fire

Why emo doesn't mean emotional?

Now more of the truth. I'm going to make this as easy to understand as possible.

Now I'm all for evolution, I believe in evolution after all! Even in terms of words; gay use to mean "happy" now it can either mean, "stupid", "lame" or it's current proper use "homosexual."

However, the term emo is very different. If you claim "emo" were to mean "emotional" it then becomes an all encompassing word, it becomes extremely vague and it has no limit as to what it can and will describe. This is an issue because the term is suppose to (and believed to by the people who use it) to describe one specific thing, when it fact it does the complete opposite. Emo when wrongfully used as "emotional" describes every living thing, every song, every word, every breath, every statement. Why you ask? Because what as no emotion is dead.

Emo was created as a shortened term to describe a specific thing, in this case "emotive hardcore" an off shoot of hardcore punk from the mid 80's. This genre is still alive today, although very obscure and unknown to most. Those who like to shout they're 'emo' usually never heard of any other band than fall out boy.

What many of you are now doing are displaying a vast amount of laziness and gullibility. Why are you wrongfully using the term emo to describe "scene", "fashion core" and sappy mainstream rock? Think before you speak, stop taking short cuts, and stop being the media's bitch.

Emo kids

The term for the teenagers who listen emocore is emo kids. The society thinks about them as failures; they are not strong enough to hide their emotions, they're sensitive, shy, introverted, and often quiet. Usually, Emo kids like to express their feeling writing poems about their problems with depression, confusion, and anger; all because the world fails to understand them. Emo poetry uses a combination of any of: a highly emotional tone, stream of consciousness writing, a simple (ABAB) or nonexistent rhyme scheme, references to the flesh, especially the heart, heavy use of dark or depressing adjectives, and concern over the mutability of time, love or both. Themes such as life is pain are common. You can check some 'emo poems' on our forum! Altough life is already very hard for them, emo kids have to suffer for even more society prosecution because of their condition. The term 'emo' itself is used nowadays as an insult. Adressed to a person means they are 'overly emotional'. Emocore is compared with pop boy bands of 1990s. Critics cast the music as lacking any artistic merit and that the fashion is just ... a fashion used to drive girls attention. The ones who are emo not because they feel it, but because they like to be trendy are named 'posers'. A big percent of the current emo subculture is formed by posers. Emo subculture is acused that it is celebrating self-harm. As i've said before many fail to understand that those are only fake emos (rawrr you bastards, get away from here); actually i have no rights to judge them even if most of us suffer because of them.

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What the hell is emo?

The term "Emo" is used as counterculture; it is an abreviation of the word "emotional". Emo it's defining not only an attitude, but also a fashion that are coming from emocore (emo music). Emocore is a combination between hardcore and punk music which was very popular in Washington DC in the late 80's. The emo culture continued to develop between '90 and '00, reaching the height of its popularity today.