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Screamo: Landmark Recordings

12 releases

  1. 1998SaetiaSaetiaJagged, restless songs that became a key reference for the later screamo vocabulary.
  2. 2000Jeromes DreamSeeing Means More Than SafetyAn unusually fierce document of late-1990s / early-2000s DIY screamo.
  3. 2001Pg.99Document #8A dense, communal kind of chaos that helped define another side of the style.
  4. 2002City of CaterpillarCity of CaterpillarAlbumScreamo joined to long post-rock builds, now seen as an essential early-2000s record.
  5. 2003Circle Takes the SquareAs the Roots UndoAlbumCelebrated debut that took 1990s-style screamo into longer, more ambitious song forms.
  6. 2003envyA Dead Sinking StoryAlbumAlbum by the Japanese band, filed under screamo alongside post-hardcore and post-rock.
  7. 2008La DisputeSomewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and AltairAlbumSpoken-word-heavy record that draws on screamo among several neighbouring styles.
  8. 2012Loma PrietaI.V.AlbumA 2010s album filed under screamo and powerviolence.
  9. 2018Infant IslandInfant IslandAlbumDebut album that Noisey suggested could serve as a linchpin for modern screamo.
  10. 1999OrchidChaos Is MeDebut album filed under screamo as well as emoviolence.
  11. 2024Infant IslandObsidian WreathAlbum
  12. 2025For Your HealthThis Bitter GardenAlbum