This list includes 25 essential, classic albums that in one way or another helped shape the genre, and which still hold up and/or remain influential today.
(Some people refer to it as "skramz" to differentiate from the mainstream stuff, but man do I hate that word.) In the underground, screamo has never really gone away (and its influence has popped up in the music of some more comparatively popular bands like Touche Amore and Deafheaven), but '90s-style screamo is once again having a real resurgence, which is all the more reason that it's a good time to revisit some of the genre's classics. The word "screamo" got co-opted by the mainstream in the early to mid 2000s to describe post-hardcore bands that took influence from screamo (like Thursday) and poppier bands like The Used, Silverstein, From First To Last, and basically any band that ever screams in their music, but the type of screamo I'm writing about in this article is the kind that was pioneered in the punk underground of the early '90s and stayed underground even as bands like The Used took off. Screamo eschewed the toughness associated with hardcore and metalcore and often favored melodic, soaring passages that shared musical DNA with post-rock bands like Mogwai, Sigur Ros, and Explosions in the Sky, but it also had a type of always-on-edge chaos and represented a heavier, harsher alternative to emo bands like Sunny Day Real Estate or "Midwest emo," which often sounded closer to indie rock than to the hardcore bands that emo was built on. Its roots as an established genre can be traced back to the early '90s, when a crop of bands started taking the impassioned, desperate sounds of the "emocore" bands of DC's Revolution Summer in directions that were even more intense and abrasive. Like both post-hardcore and metalcore, screamo emerged out of hardcore, and - as its name implies - emo. I recently did lists on classic albums within 2000s post-hardcore and '90s metalcore, and here's a list of classic albums from another subgenre that frequently crosses paths with both of the aforementioned subgenres: screamo.
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