Screamo
Screamo is an intense offshoot of emo and hardcore punk known for screamed vocals and sudden shifts between chaos and quiet melody.
It began in the early 1990s in the United States, especially around San Diego. Songs are often short and fast, with dissonant guitars and frantic drumming broken up by slow, delicate passages, and lyrics about emotional pain. In the 2000s the word was also used loosely for any emo or post-hardcore band with some screaming.
Artists it is known for: Orchid, Saetia, Pg. 99, Envy.
- Family
- Punk & Emo
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A genre
- From
- San Diego, early 1990s
- Also called
- skramz
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 9%
About 7,400 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have screamo among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Screamo artists
Pierce The Veil
Bring Me The Horizon
Sleeping With Sirens
Dance Gavin Dance
Silverstein
A Day To Remember
Hail The Sun
Ice Nine Kills
Sunny Day Real Estate
A Heartwell Ending
The screamo artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.