what are emo bands?

Question

I am so confused with genre stuff. anyway what makes an emo music and what bands are emo? Is creaming vocal(such as death grunt) being emo? i dun no?!

Answer 1

emo stands for emotional. it began in washington, DC in the mid to latte 80s with bands such as jawbreaker and rites of spring.
they were punk bands, but spoke about emotional things.

soon, the promise ring was signed. this started a new wave of emo, less loud punk and more soft riffs. saves the day was also an instrumental band.

other old emo bands include mineral, joan of arc, rainer maria, the weakerthans.

lately, emo has become "popular". basically any music that's emotional is emo. jimmy eat world and dashboard confessional are examples.

there's also different emo subgenres. "screamo" is screaming emo (ie braid, burning airlines). "emocore" is more hardcore emo.

evanescence is NOT emo. they're rock. AFI is punk.

Answer 2

Actually there are really a couple of of them that I experience. Here are a couple of of them. Just a couple of lol: Atreyu Angels And Airwaves AFI Aiden Avenged Sevenfold Armor For Sleep Alkaline Trio Bullet For My Valentine Boys Like Girls Blink182 Chiodos Cobra Starship Cute Is What We Aim For Circa Survie From First To Last Fall Out Boy Flyleaf Funeral For A Friend Greenday Good Charlotte Hawthorne Heights HIM Hinder Jimmy Eat World Korn Lamb Of God My Chemical Romance Marilyn Manson Paramore Panic! At The Disco slipknot System of a down Smashing pumpkins Say Anything Silverstein Senses Fail Sick Puppies The Used The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus The Offspring The White Stripes The Acadmey Is Yellowcard 30 Seconds To Mars Hope that helped? hehe.

Answer 3

Emo (music)
Emo
Stylistic origins: Hardcore punk, indie rock
Cultural origins: Mid 1980s Washington, DC
Typical instruments: Guitar - Bass - Drums
Mainstream popularity: Sporadically through the 1980s and '90s, growing in the early 2000s
Subgenres
Emocore - Hardcore emo - Emo violence - Screamo
Fusion genres
Post-hardcore - Emotional Metalcore
Regional scenes
Midwestern emo
Other topics
List of emo groups - Timeline of alternative rock
This article is about the genre of music. For other uses, see Emo.
Emo is a subgenre of hardcore punk music. Since its inception, emo has come to describe several independent variations, linked loosely but with common ancestry. As such, use of the term has been the subject of much debate.

In its original incarnation, the term emo was used to describe the music of the mid-1980s Washington, DC scene and its associated bands. In later years, the term emocore, short for "emotional hardcore", was also used to describe the DC scene and some of the regional scenes that spawned from it. The term emo was derived from the fact that, on occasion, members of a band would become spontaneously and strongly emotional during performances. The most recognizable names of the period included Rites of Spring, Embrace, One Last Wish, Beefeater, Gray Matter, Fire Party, and, slightly later, Moss Icon. The first wave of emo began to fade after the breakups of most of the involved bands in the early 1990s.

Starting in the mid-1990s, the term emo began to reflect the indie scene that followed the influences of Fugazi, which itself was an offshoot of the first wave of emo. Bands including Sunny Day Real Estate and Texas Is the Reason put forth a more indie rock style of emo, more melodic and less chaotic in nature than its predecessor. The so-called "indie emo" scene survived until the late 1990s, as many of the bands either disbanded or shifted to mainstream styles.

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.

Answer 4

Dashboard Confessional, Panic! At The Disco, My Chemical Romance

Answer 5

Secondhand Sernade, Senses Fail, Adam and Andrew, Chiodos,
My Last Mistake, Silverstein, Mozart Season, ect...

Answer 6

Emotional... Songs that talk about meaning and life
Artists that are in touch with emotions
My chemical romance
Bring me the horizon
Miss may I
Pierce the Veil
Suicide Silence
Sleeping with Sirens
Motionless in White

Answer 7

it's kinda like slow, but still a beat with some screaming. death cab for cutie, and dashboard confessional are some bands. ohio is for lovers is a good emo song.

Answer 8

Emo stands for emotioncore. It is basically punk with an emotional kick. It is punk, minus the testosterone. In my opinion, it is the most inferior form of punk.

Answer 9

I think people listen to songs that explain their life the most, it makes them feel like someone understands them. Emos like rock, like my chemical romance or asking Alexandra because some might not know it but it explains how they feel

Answer 10

Panic! at the disco
AFI
and
Evanescence are examples of emo bands.
they mostly talk about stuff that makes people sad