screamo

/ ˈskriːməʊ /

noun

1. 1. a form of emo music typically featuring screaming vocals
   2. ( as modifier )

      a screamo band

Word History and Origins

Origin of screamo¹

C20: blend of scream + emo

Example Sentences

She wrote her debut album in the midst of chaos, pouring all of those experiences into 15 gritty, eviscerating songs that swerve between rock, emo, pop, screamo and nu metal.

From BBC

Thursday, the band once described as the “great screamo hope” for helping break the shouty punk subgenre into the mainstream with its 2001 album “Full Collapse,” has returned with its first new song in 13 years on Friday, “Application for Release From the Dream.”

From New York Times

For the alternative crowd: Poppy continues her Nine Inch Nails-inspired industrial streak, Beartooth’s melodic screamo powers on and Jared Leto ’s Thirty Seconds to Mars bring an optimistic take on the apocalypse.

From Seattle Times

Gatherers, “Black Marigold” If early-aughts screamo is classic rock by now, these New Jersey vets brought it into modernity.

From Los Angeles Times

Those songs eventually formed the band’s stormy self-titled 2002 debut, an album that helped popularize the sound of “screamo” after the band fell apart in 2003.

From Washington Post