screamo
A genre of aggressive lo-fi guitar-driven music with predominantly screaming vocals,…A genre of aggressive lo-fi guitar-driven music with predominantly screaming vocals, while preserving structural aspects of the emocore/hardcore emo genres of the early 1990's.
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Meaning
4 senses(uncountable)A genre of aggressive lo-fi guitar-driven music with predominantly screaming vocals, while preserving structural aspects of the emocore/hardcore emo genres of the early 1990's.
(uncountable)A genre of guitar-driven music combining late 1990's emo indie rock with interludes of screaming vocals, often accompanied by hardcore or metalcore guitar riffs.
(uncountable)Any punk rock-inspired music that involves screaming vocals, typically referring to the genres described above as well as certain subgenres of hardcore punk.
(derogatory, often, uncountable)Any aggressive music with screamed vocals.
Examples
1 sentencesThis band defines Korean screamo.
Origin
Blend of scream + emo.Blend of scream + emo.
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Synonyms
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