Emo violence or "emoviolence", also related to screamo and hardcore emo, is a subgenre of music that evolved from hardcore in the early 1990s, primarily in the Southeast of the United States - Florida in particular. This form of music uses vocals pushed past the point of normal sound by yelling and screaming, with occasional spoken words or singing. Emo violence is often poorly recorded to give it a foggy, lo-fidelity sound. This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Hardcore Emo is a style of music that existed primarily in the early-mid 90s, also known as chaotic emo. Many Hardcore Emo bands are often misinterpreted as Emo Violence bands. ... Hardcore punk (usually referred to simply as hardcore) is a subgenre of punk rock which originated in the United States of America in the late 1970s. ... Lo-fi — from Low Fidelity — describes a sound recording which contains accidental artifacts, like distortion, or environmental noise, or a recording which has a limited frequency response. ...

Emo violence is the direct link from emo to screamo through reprocessing of influences. The term was originally coined by the group In/Humanity as a joke in reference to their own band and friend's bands Palatka and End of the Century Party. The tongue-in-cheek genre descriptor was a play on other meaningless genre descriptors of the time: (namely emo and power violence). In/Humanity claims that the phrase actually comes from the song "Emotional Violence" by the funk group Cameo. This article is about the genre of music. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... This article is about the genre of music. ... Power violence is a cross breeding of musical genres hardcore punk and grindcore that was first mentioned by name in the song Hispanic Small Man Power (H.S.M.P.) by genre pioneer Man is the Bastard. ... Funk is an African American musical style. ... Cameos latest album cover: The Definitive Collection Cameo is a funk, R&B and dance group, best known for the 1986 hit Word Up!. Their lead singer is Larry Blackmon. ...

Etymology

The term emo violence was originally created by the band In/Humanity as a joke with the song "Emo Violence Generation." Chris Bickel, the band's front man, took the name from the Cameo album "Emotional Violence", the usage itself an ironically joking play on the term power violence, as used to describe bands like Infest, Man Is The Bastard and Spazz. It should be noted that emo violence and power violence are two totally different sub-genres. The term then began to be used to refer to other bands in the southeast that played a similar style such as Palatka and End of the Century Party (whose split 7" is perhaps the quintiessential emo violence record). Although the term became more commonplace in the underground hardcore scene, it was always seen as a tongue-in-cheek description, but was used by bands who wanted to separate themselves from emotive hardcore and hated the term "screamo." Bands who play emo violence today (in the EOTCP/Palatka sense of the genre) are few and far between - Those who claim the genre usually have little similarity to its founding fathers. Chris Bickel most notably fronted the bands In/Humanity and Guyana Punch Line. ... Cameos latest album cover: The Definitive Collection Cameo is a funk, R&B and dance group, best known for the 1986 hit Word Up!. Their lead singer is Larry Blackmon. ... Power violence is a cross breeding of musical genres hardcore punk and grindcore that was first mentioned by name in the song Hispanic Small Man Power (H.S.M.P.) by genre pioneer Man is the Bastard. ... Infest is an influential hardcore punk band, formed in September 1986 by Joe Denunzio, Matt Domino, Dave Ring and Chris Clift. ... Man Is the Bastard were a pioneering hardcore punk band who contributed the name, and perhaps also the ethos, to the punk subgenre known as power violence. ... Spazz is a pejorative slang term used most often to refer to overly-anxious, tense, or worried performers or athletes (e. ...

Comparisons

The major difference between emo violence and screamo is the chaos element. Whereas most Screamo albums are meant to be well produced, tight, coherent and less than dissonant, Emo Violence tends to forsake that for a more raw, unpolished aggressive sound. Emo Violence bands tend to claim bands from the late 70's, early 80's hardcore punk movement as their influences. Screamo bands tend to claim other screamo bands and Emo Violence bands as their influences. This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

Unlike screamo or emo, there have been no 'waves' of emo violence. As mentioned previously, very few bands have continued the sound that Palatka, EOTCP and In/Humanity were famous for. Screamo bands like Orchid and Jerome's Dream are often incorrectly placed in the genre. This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... This article is about the genre of music. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. ... Jeromes Dream was a very chaotic screamo band which was formed in 1997 from Amherst, MA. Their songs usually feautred intros with a lot of ambient noise which would eventually end up becoming a breakdown with very high pitched screaming. ...

Notable Artists

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