screamo en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (US) audio
- /ˈskɹiːməʊ/
Etymology
Blend of scream + emo.
Meanings
- (uncountable) A genre of aggressive lo-fi guitar-driven music with predominantly screaming vocals, while preserving structural aspects of the emocore/hardcore emo genres of the early 1990's.
- (uncountable) A genre of guitar-driven music combining late 1990's emo indie rock with interludes of screaming vocals, often accompanied by hardcore or metalcore guitar riffs.
- (uncountable) Any punk rock-inspired music that involves screaming vocals, typically referring to the genres described above as well as certain subgenres of hardcore punk.
- (derogatory, often, uncountable) Any aggressive music with screamed vocals.