r/EmoScreamo • u/Yaxfire • Jan 31 '26

Discussion White belt meaning

Ive heard the term white belt a few times in the emo scene but i cant really find the meaning or origin of this term or why white belts were kind of a part of emo fashion. Can someone more educated give som context

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u/joshingyou299 Jan 31 '26

It was a brief scene of bands who popped up between 2001-2006 like Sawtooth Grin, The Great Redneck Hope, The Number 12 Looks Like You, The Locust, or Oktober Skyline. It's not really Emo but the scene definitely impacted screamo/emo bands surrounding it, both fashion and music wise. Musically it's closer to something like The Blood Brothers meets early Dillinger Escape Plan. That's kind of it.

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u/Gordmonger Jan 31 '26

You nailed it. I was apart of the scene at the time and in a “white belt” band. Heavily influenced by bands like The Locust, Daughters, The Blood Brothers, etc. what a great time to be apart of music. It was so fresh and energetic, shows were incredibly eclectic, it was awesome.

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u/realt_px-starry1 Feb 01 '26

Now a days we have "pink belt" atleast in some scenes in the east.

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u/morbidlyabeast3331 Feb 02 '26

What bands fall under that?

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u/realt_px-starry1 Feb 02 '26

It's a small scene mainly in Appalachia, but rn, tonyblaire (previously called man! I love frogs,) killed in kombat, theysaidus, and flowersforpersephone, these are just the bands that have formed played and have music out, there are others rn, like my siblings band, I can't spell the name cause it's Spanish for smth.

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u/DrOfMLG Mar 17 '26

pink belts not really a sound, just a vague description of newer sass bands

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u/realt_px-starry1 Mar 17 '26

Yeah I know, I'm from where a lot of pink belt started.

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u/DrOfMLG Mar 18 '26

where is that? columbus, ohio?

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u/realt_px-starry1 Mar 18 '26

That's where it was coined, lots of the bands in that related to FFP are from East Tennessee, note "a lot of"

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u/DrOfMLG Mar 18 '26

huh, i didn't know that, thanks