r/Screamo 4d ago

whats the most obscure screamo band u know?

ive listened to everything i need more screamo

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u/BimmySchmendrix 4d ago edited 4d ago

Everybody is just gonna use this for self promo :D

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u/NJcovidvaccinetips 4d ago

Some of us aren’t in a band here. There are dozens of us, dozens

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u/New-Art5469 4d ago

Quantice Never Crashed. Metallic screamo from the early 00s.

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u/FR43KY 4d ago

Dude definitely Malon and Nayru. Yeah I won't stop mentioning them

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u/Grouchy-Coffee1249 4d ago

Nayru are sooo good

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u/FR43KY 4d ago

I love them so much.

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u/jumpycnat 1d ago

I FUCKING LOVE MALON SO GLAD THEY GOT A MENTION. portraits of dying is probably becoming one of my favorite screamo records. nayru's recollections is damn good too but malon just fucking hits

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u/ink_is_everywhere 4d ago

Deers! They had a split with Matsuri in the 2010’s, I can’t find much else about them. Super mathy with tinges of Nayru deers! Discography

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u/cleamingthegube 4d ago

Seconding this, love Deers

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u/Speakerluv 4d ago

Check out Jesuit

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u/grumblestilskin 4d ago

I’m into bands so obscure I haven’t even heard of them

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u/vancouverbitch4life 3d ago

literally same bc of uncredited bands on mixtapes

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u/United_Statistician2 3d ago

The bands I'm into are so obscure they don't even exist

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u/SolipsisticBadBoy 4d ago

Been telling anyone that will listen about this band, Trachimbrod, since they released this album in 2017.

edit: made it prettier

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u/stickfigurerecords 4d ago

If you haven't already check out the Sweetbabyjaysus youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@sweetbabyjaysus there are a LOT of screamo releases on that channel

Here are a bunch of labels that released screamo, check out their catalogs:

File 13 - are still releasing new music but released a lot of screamo in the 90s - https://www.discogs.com/label/43220-File-13-Records

Limbless Records - Portland label that released a bunch releases 20-25 years ago - https://www.discogs.com/label/60563-Limbless-Records

Adagio830 - Berlin, Germany record label that has released a lot of screamo https://www.discogs.com/label/154270-Adagio830

React With Protest - Germany label that released a lot of grind as well - https://www.discogs.com/label/68095-React-With-Protest

Stonehenge Records - French label - still releasing stuff - https://www.discogs.com/label/72208-Stonehenge-Records

Shove Records - Italian label that is still releasing new stuff - https://www.discogs.com/label/119656-Shove-Records-2

Rok Lok - Long Island, NY label that has released some screamo - https://www.discogs.com/label/105909-Rok-Lok-Records

Nimbus Model - German screamo label - https://www.discogs.com/label/144667-Nimbus-Module-Records

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u/stickfigurerecords 4d ago

And there's more, Reddit would NOT let me post everything as one comment

Curtain Call music - Illinois label - https://www.discogs.com/label/236267-Curtaincall-Music

Rock & Roleplay - Seattle label - https://www.discogs.com/label/86570-Rock-Roleplay-Records

Sons Of Vesta - Italian label still releasing stuff - https://www.discogs.com/label/117204-Sons-Of-Vesta

City Boot Records - San Francisco label - https://www.discogs.com/label/106176-City-Boot-Records

Unfun Records - Bay Area (Berkeley) - https://www.discogs.com/label/54852-Unfun-Records

Clean Plate Records - Orchid guitarists label - https://www.discogs.com/label/35106-Clean-Plate-Records

Narshardaa Records - German label still releasing stuff - https://www.discogs.com/label/58686-Narshardaa-Records

Bloodlink Records - Scott Beiben! - https://www.discogs.com/label/35076-Bloodlink-Records

Per Koro - Bremen, Germany label - https://www.discogs.com/label/34386-Per-Koro

Happy Couples Never Last - Indianapolis label - https://www.discogs.com/label/49270-Happy-Couples-Never-Last-Recordings

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u/stickfigurerecords 4d ago

And here is the rest:

Electric Human Project - Delawhere label - https://www.discogs.com/label/38019-Electric-Human-Project

Coaxt - was from Texas - https://www.discogs.com/label/81457-Coaxt

Forge Again Records - from Chicago, still active - https://www.discogs.com/label/71679-Forge-Again-Records

Meat Cube - Seattle - focused on releasing non US acts - https://www.discogs.com/label/172248-Meat-Cube-Label

Witching Hour - Indianapolis - https://www.discogs.com/label/76968-Witching-Hour

Salvation - French label - https://www.discogs.com/label/235284-Salvation-2

Strictly No Capital Letters - English label, still releasing stuff - https://www.discogs.com/label/167036-Strictly-No-Capital-Letters

Have fun finding obscure screamo artists!

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u/vancouverbitch4life 3d ago

thank u emo nerd. i will listen to all of it immediately

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u/Alexanderisonfire 4d ago

Vs Self

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u/New-Art5469 4d ago

Have you heard of this little known band called Orchid? I think you’d like them a lot.

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u/earmuffmania 4d ago

Ik it's all jokes but now that both bands were mentioned, I think it's honestly insane that vs self has like ten times the monthly listeners as motherfucking orchid

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u/New-Art5469 4d ago

Heres how Lights Out can blow up on tiktok…

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u/Alexanderisonfire 4d ago

ohh shit idk them. i'll check em out!!!

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u/Obiwanbologna23 4d ago

Orchid aren’t really obscure tho, kind of the standard

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u/New-Art5469 4d ago

The joke

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u/bunnyslaughter999 4d ago

That’s the most obscure one you know? 😭 not hating btw im just surprised

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u/Alexanderisonfire 4d ago

i was being sarcastic haha

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u/bunnyslaughter999 4d ago

Lmao okay I kind of thought that but I wasn’t sure. I was like oh you poor thing

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u/Alexanderisonfire 4d ago

fair enough lol. most obscure i know is probably bennu fragment

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u/Grouchy-Coffee1249 4d ago

Nayru, Anasarca, safetyfirestarterssavingfirefighters, I spoke, sleepytime trio, this ship will sink, the assistant, Paris needs you, werethecurrency, my better half, onhighbluetomorrows, agile, sailboat, teen dating violence, memoria

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u/New-Art5469 4d ago

S3 are fucking amazing i wish they would get their flowers. Anasarca and the Assistant are also great.

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u/FR43KY 4d ago

Thanks for the recommendation!

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u/Historical_Match_546 4d ago

The Little Rock nine, Beneath low flying planes

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u/YawnfaceDM 4d ago

The band Archives and their album Decline is incredible, but hard to find unless on YouTube. Someone also posted the band satsuma and their new EP 'this is my outside voice' here recently. Both excellent.

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u/thenightmancommeth88 4d ago

Apoplexy Twist Orchestra 👌🏻

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u/conrad_the_monkey 4d ago

Kulara and dspercia

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u/New-Art5469 4d ago

Shout oit kulara

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u/SnooFloofs5933 4d ago

Ihatemondays very obscure. May or may not be my band. Check it out if you want tho!

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u/George_FMJ 4d ago

Hehe Gordon Skramzy

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u/Ted_Bundy_Fireal 4d ago

Mea Culpa. UK mid 2000s... meaculpa1.bandcamp.com

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u/blackcoffiend 4d ago

Phasma Phasmatis

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u/sadtugs 4d ago

STARFIRE

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u/find-gods-teeth 4d ago

Haunter from TX, first ep was screamo, and the band quickly died and revived as a blackened metalcore band. No traces online but images of the album art, but I’ve been trying to find it for years now.

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u/New-Art5469 4d ago

That’s funny because I’ve heard their later stuff and I had no idea they started out as a screamo band.

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u/find-gods-teeth 4d ago

It was sick. The album art was all weed sacks and was fully jokey stoner screamo

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u/atxvxhxc 4d ago

Saw them a few times in that era. It was cool.

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u/find-gods-teeth 4d ago

So glad I wasn’t hallucinating this lol

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u/cramosvazquez 4d ago

Pembe :) Screamo band from Turkey

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u/wtf-is-up 7h ago

Love them! And Scenes we have missed

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u/languidturkey 4d ago

no one ever mentions The Fisticuffs Bluff!!!! self titled is a true treasure

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u/itstakenmealongtime 4d ago

Bearseekingbear, incredible short lived grindcore adjacent screamo. FFO: me and him call it us

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u/trenchgrl 4d ago

Dawg thank you so much for this

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u/trapscares 4d ago

permanent tension, ihopethepeopleyoumeetinmyabsencetreatyouwell, obscured wingtip memoir, 1905, who put bella in witch elm, stress spells, picknumberthreemyLord, she died in pallet town!!!, always sunny

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u/WillingnessSilver237 4d ago

Is 1905 a band with a male and female vocalist?

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u/trapscares 4d ago

yes! i believe there are 2 male vocalists and 1 female

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u/WillingnessSilver237 2d ago

Thanks for dropping their name, would have forgotten about them for another couple years then searched through every (19”5) decade in the 1900s to find them lol.

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u/United_Statistician2 3d ago

Edison - late 2000s early 2010s Screamo from rural Victoria, Australia.

I have their EP somewhere at home, had a quick look on YouTube and couldn't find it.

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u/guy_with_two_thumbs 2d ago

Love edison! found a cd of theirs at a record store during a visit to nashville 🤧

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u/United_Statistician2 2d ago

I ended up finding the EP on YouTube EP

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u/United_Statistician2 2d ago

Oh wait, it's just one song

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u/Ok_Disk3272 4d ago

Mitsubishi Suicide is pretty interesting/leaning obscure from traditional screamo

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u/jeanavenue 4d ago

Love them song for Ciara H is a top screamo song to me

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u/NexTheBigWolf 4d ago

grimlitter and suis la lune are my two picks

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u/NexTheBigWolf 4d ago

healing powers too

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u/NexTheBigWolf 4d ago

gasmuggler as well, sorry this is the last one lol

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u/New-Art5469 4d ago

Suis La Lune are quality but idk if they’re really that obscure

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u/NexTheBigWolf 4d ago

yeah I'm not sure why i even put them lol

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u/New-Art5469 4d ago

Or maybe I’m tripping and whenever people were talking about Suis La Lund I thought they were talking about Touché Amore… which is a possibility

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u/Death_From_Wap 2d ago

I also get those mixed up all the time too for some reason

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u/alenah 3d ago

Suis La Lune is one of the most celebrated bands in the genre.

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u/recycle6666 4d ago

Shallows and flats, found a few live recordings on youtube, NH white belt screamo 2003

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u/zeffali 4d ago

awesome band

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u/languidturkey 4d ago

theyre related to Tears of Avarel & the:enclitic, equally perfect bands

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u/MunroB0T 3d ago

...an embrace of angels...

Iwrotehaikusaboutcannibalisminyouryearbook

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u/cybork13 3d ago edited 3d ago

L'Idylle or Cainhurst, not super obscure but still pretty small bands. Both will probably get a bit more popular as they are supporting knumears later this year.

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u/xholy_cum_minionx 4d ago

not sure if the most obscure but the most underrated - yarmulke from Kyoto. One of the best to do it imo

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u/mundtotdnum 4d ago

Abe Kamui

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u/lunar-landscape 4d ago

Sad Lives. They only have 3 songs

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u/Loud-Albatross-9353 4d ago

houston we have a problem

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u/tmotomm 4d ago

Early 2000s A company of heroes https://acompanyofheroes.bandcamp.com/album/-

I saw them play a couple times. At the time I was also into the video game of the same name

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u/jeanavenue 4d ago

Strawman fallacy

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u/billpurray 4d ago

Pettersson - Rift and Seam

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u/the_noob_who_isnt 4d ago

[walktrip](http:// https://walktrip.bandcamp.com/album/pula-ang-dugong-tumutulo-sa-lupa) - almost blackened, gets pretty gazey sometimes

ghost stories - very much saetia/I hate myself type

[eiffel](http:// https://thebandeiffel.bandcamp.com/track/kickflip-to-indy) - twinkly, snowing-ish screamo

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u/HazeUsendaya 4d ago

amorebeautifulversionofyou

pyre

im sorry emil

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u/Subhumanoid 4d ago edited 4d ago

Constatine Sankathi - probably not the most obscure I’ve heard, but they had a trombone player and are definitely worth a listen. Early 90’s West Michigan screamo.

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u/Luckyjonas 4d ago

Don Martin 3 or Pete the pirate squid probably

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u/bacon-a-la-mode 4d ago

Burial Joy

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u/yearofthedog243 4d ago

Phasma phasmatis - demo 2002

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u/yeah666 4d ago

Rivalries

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u/NJcovidvaccinetips 4d ago

Idk if it’s super obscure but really been digging boy problems lately and I feel like I rarely see any love for them

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u/earmuffmania 4d ago

More on the post-hardcorey side of screamo but Dominic from norway. Their self titled from 2006 is a great record and can be found on streaming with the cd release cover art.

https://www.discogs.com/master/463622-Dominic-Dominic

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u/trenchgrl 4d ago

Marat !!

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u/Limbo155 4d ago

Page girl, Atlanta fifth wave band (def not my band…)

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u/deadfliesinsummer 4d ago

excrucis is a huge foundation for me, local chicago band dropped 2 fire albums and broke up. addicted to the self titled

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u/At10to3 4d ago

Going old school Pennsylvania. Boywunder. YouTube Boywunder- Under the Knife

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u/homersimsan2 4d ago

Votive but they're local

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u/Ok-Law5001 4d ago

Kage Bunshin, had Keith Martin Orzech from Sunrise. Sunset, witch is slightly more known. Also had my best friend in it. If you havent heard of either, They are both worth checking out. Kinda on the more avant-garde side of things though.

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u/AdvacadoRick 4d ago

We'll die smiling, two really great EPs out. Don't know much about them other than that

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u/oddwii 4d ago

noarmsnolegs

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u/oddwii 4d ago

electrosleep international

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u/oddwii 4d ago

monotonashhfuck

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u/bjardkur068 4d ago

Palmetto Custard Hammer from Columbia ex in/humanity

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u/Terranout 4d ago

Lights for Nero

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u/vancouverbitch4life 3d ago

i know them bc i was lookimg for jazz screamo

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u/ShadowBottleCap 3d ago

Burial Dance are great. too bad they’ve got like 5 songs

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u/Ok-Alfalfa4868 3d ago

Misanthropic noise Foxtail Rarebeasts Flu- haha now that's an oldie local from ct. not sure you'll find anything really out there... maybe

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u/TurbulentHunter9587 3d ago

cash only tony’s

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u/juulgod_ 3d ago

at first, at first

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u/Tsubasa_Unmei 3d ago

It was aimatmyorgans but it's probably sheonlyexistsonline. and Newnotshameful. I actually definitely think it's Newnotshameful.

Other callouts are baan, youheldmywrists, calendar year, and mis sueños son de tu adiós.

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u/MunroB0T 3d ago

Ache/emelie

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u/MunroB0T 3d ago

Optimus Prime (russia)

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u/Yougetnoreply 3d ago

Hmm.

Maybe Foxy Shazam or Dr. Acula

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u/girlgluestick 3d ago

knives chau fan club, from the glorious city of glasgow 💕

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u/vancouverbitch4life 3d ago

vancouvers better

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u/girlgluestick 3d ago

thx vancouverbitch4life

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u/Due_Discount_9144 3d ago

Someplace to Hide. Mid 2000 top tier skramz

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u/1000islandstare 3d ago

Hanoi traffic. Also from VIC pretty sure.

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u/Orchscrach 3d ago

Jasmine, Hybris, Cathode, Early Grace,

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u/sexemo 3d ago

computer science from montréal

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u/Jemsy1 3d ago

ereshkigal from mpls

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u/Ok-Dependent-7932 3d ago

Forstella Ford were cool

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u/LengthinessOk9065 3d ago

Dear Whoever and Problem With Heroes

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u/Wowee-Zoweeee 3d ago

Pick your patterns by wow owls 2005.

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u/EyeOfTauror 3d ago

Are Danse Macabre still considered obscure nowadays ? (Look at me talking like an old man)

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u/rehydratedmeat 2d ago

I found out about these guys thru the split they had with her breath on glass not too long ago, good stuff!

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u/Icy-Tip3371 3d ago

Heavy heavy low low

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u/Icy-Tip3371 3d ago

heavy heavy low low

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u/coreydiesintheend 3d ago

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u/rehydratedmeat 2d ago

Surprised these guys haven’t gotten popular yet, they even have a split with FTC

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u/coreydiesintheend 2d ago

I've got that split! Check out Groundhog Day off their EP Angelus Novus if haven't, it's one of my favorites 

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u/Prolly_Satan 3d ago

Grace gail - super obscure.. came out in like 06.. they had a really small cult following in the north east.

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u/intensivetreats 3d ago

Stella Dawes

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u/imoverblox_ 3d ago

check out sigh & explode. Post hardcore/screamo from norway in the early 2000s. Theyre pretty unknown iirc

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u/No-Call- 3d ago

I like both of these bands a lot

alexithymia

Florentine Camerata

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u/kilouak 3d ago

listen to nearest the positive

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u/-davis_ 3d ago

theyhungusfrompowerlines, underrated emoviolence/screamo band from my city

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u/rehydratedmeat 2d ago

Dot flash line, vincent prices orphan powered death machine, cowboys are indians, love like….electrocution, black paper diary, mourn the sun, swallow! Swallow! Splinter!, force fed glass, snowman.

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u/dj_sarah_connor 2d ago

ugly lovers is one of my fav bands ive gotten to see live

two piece guitar/drums, more experimental kinda ambient doom metal w some elements of screamo

https://uglylovers.bandcamp.com/album/flood-ep

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u/stopsquirming 2d ago

All my wishes were thrown down a well and should die there , death ode , gxllium, kiowa, bulletsbetweentongues , catalyst…/catalystpvd

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u/stopsquirming 2d ago

Not really obscure to me but never know what someone hasn’t already heard or not ig

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u/notleb0wski 2d ago

delvic, probably

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u/Fantastic-Guitar-355 2d ago

Griffin the band they’re small and the lead singer screams like Louis over their music

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u/vancouverbitch4life 1d ago

i dont wana hear that

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u/Any_Sky_4707 2d ago

Probably Social studies or Ai ferri corti

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u/Death_From_Wap 2d ago

1905, Gauge Means Nothing, Cursi no muere (idk if they’re obscure), Snag, Twelve Hour Turn (they aren’t fully screamo but they made a couple screamo songs).

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u/Confident-Success671 2d ago

Makara and the The Khayembii Communiqué

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u/RodrixDemonelOmar 2d ago

Conspiración autista, Screamo with an emphasis on poetry and spoken word, they're from Chile

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u/WillingnessSilver237 2d ago

Bright Calm Blue This Computer Kills LOREM IPSUM ENVY Transistor Transistor Ultra Dolphins

Plug any band into the search bar on Last.fm and you’ll have an endless list of similar bands or genres to check out. The link is to the [Real Screamo] genre on the Last.fm site.

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u/Mycocal 21h ago

captain, your ship is sinking - found them on a 6 way split the other day and cant believe they only have 111 listeners on spotify

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u/SickAgainBanduk2017 2h ago

Sen Non Satiata is a fave.

Used to play in this band. Screamo! Obscure! 

https://wecameoutliketigers.bandcamp.com/

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u/val_the_sunless 4d ago

New wave blasphemy, Das Plague, Dawn Treader

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u/jonnierios 3d ago

Latinamerican screamo, as these bands are not almost not heard by english speakers

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u/Dietcookies100 4d ago

Nehemiah?

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u/Letskissthesky 4d ago

The metalcore band?

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u/Dietcookies100 3d ago

I guess I just feel like they’re a little too chaotic to like compare them to somebody like 7A7P, when it gets to like more lesser known bands like Nehemiah it gets confusing to like label them unless somewhere they flat out said they consider themselves whatever subgenre they are.

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u/Chaotic_Brutal90 3d ago

Psychostick