-That- was hideous. I enjoy melo death metal, so it's not that I'm adversed to the vocals or anything, but "Screamo" as a genre is physically draining to listen to, the singers always sound like they're trying too hard, but somehow fails to hit the proper "roar" that's required and instead just sounds like and emotionless person with a soar throat REALLY PUSHING THEMSELVES TO BE HARD-XFUCKINGX-COORE, there's almost no melody and the bits that are there are bland as fuck and sound like every other screamo band on the planet.
No one showcases there abilities or anything, and the clean sections sound like they belong in a generic Mcfly style band, which jarrs horribly with the "heavy" sections. I say "Heavy" because again it sounds like they're trying to hard, it's all about the mood, not just turning up to 11 and drop B tuning, early Black Sabbath sounds heavier than this will ever be, and that's borderline blues rock by todays standards.
The entire genre is just so bland, nothing ever sticks out, it's like it wants to be metal, but is too scared to go the full way, and isn't quite hard rock, so it sits uncomfortably in the middle trying to combine death metal and hard rock into something just sounds boring to listen too, I mean everything sounds so cookie cutter, every time I hear any screamo band, which is bizzare as there should be stand out bands, but I NEVER hear them, it's like the genre just cherry picks bland elements from everything to stick it into one cavalcade of mediocre-fell short of being okay-ness.
Hero in a half shell said:
The Escapist seems have loads of people on it into punk/metal/screamo - really heavy extreme sounding music, in any music thread virtually ever song posted ends up being either guys screaming in microphones, or songs from a Japanese anime, (but that's another story,)
My music taste isn't as hard, I like layering guitars in delicate and intricate harmonies and singing 'normally'. E.g. anything by Boston, or for a slightly harder vibe the scorpions.
I dunno, -proper- punk deserves its merit if we're talking Dead Kennedys, the ramones etc, most people usually like metallica or maiden era stuff, (ie the 80s), which is very harmonic and intricate (especially maiden) screamo always provokes ire as far as I've seen.
While I am massively into metal and punk, I appreciate anything of almost any genre that sounds GOOD, which is what music should be about, I know music is merely a matter of opinion, but some stuff is undeniably bland and uninspired and especially in a genre like Screamo, generic cookie cutter is order of the day.
viranimus said:
Looking at Nü metal as a case example, for every Static X there were a dozen Spineshanks, Sunna, etc. Screemo is not exempt from this trend. However, I honestly do not really know who the seminal EMO/Screemo bands are. Im presuming 30 seconds to mars, MCR Bullet for my Valentine, but I just dont know enough about that specific scene to know. Im sure someone else would.
You make a good point, (ie all the stuff I snipped) however sticking 30 seconds to mars, MCR and Bullet in the same catagory is a bit unfair on all three of those bands, I enjoy MCR and Bullet (or at least the first bullet album, which was a very strong album). MCR are a solid reasonably unique "pop" rock band, (I hesitate to use pop, because they're not exactly paramore, but not quite hard rock either) while Bullet are solidly entrenched into the Metalcore genre, which has come back to bite them.
