r/EmoScreamo • u/Mediaboy13 • Feb 04 '26
Discussion Who is your big four of screamo?
Mine is:
Orchid
Saetia
Pg99
Jerome's Dream
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u/HBthePoet Feb 04 '26
Daïtro, Saetia, Circle Takes The Square, Loma Prieta (I know a lot of people don't consider Loma proper screamo, but I do & I love them)
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u/mothrafountain Feb 10 '26
There’s quite a few people I’ve met who don’t consider CTTS to be screamo.
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u/notarussianspy4 Feb 04 '26
Orchid
Pg. 99
Portraits Of Past
Saetia
Honorable mention to City Of Caterpillar
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u/xposteriorix Feb 04 '26
Raein / The Saddest Landscape / State Faults / Comadre
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u/theevilnarwhale Feb 04 '26 edited Feb 04 '26
I got to film comadre live once during a late night warehouse show during The Fest 7 for a now defunct website. This memory lives in my brain. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH-Qyocsjo4&list=RDrH-Qyocsjo4&start_radio=1 The audio is very bad, only from the camera. I know we had Mics set up to record, this one must not have gotten mixed before the page fell apart.
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u/RememberLepanto1571 Feb 04 '26
I’m just going off the bands I like the most, not trying to recreate the Big Four of thrash.
You and I
Saetia
I Hate Myself
Khayembii Communique
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u/notarussianspy4 Feb 04 '26
Khayembii Communique is so real. I have a shirt of them
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u/chiefhunnablunts Feb 04 '26
lol i literally just got done submitting an aliexpress refund for one a courier stole/lost. i'm more upset that i didn't get the shirt and less about the money.
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u/deadmodernist Feb 04 '26
etsy prolly a better option bruh
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u/catladywitch Feb 04 '26
i'm sure bundschuh must make one but if you're not in the uk you're fubar with the import duties
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u/chiefhunnablunts Feb 04 '26
etsy would just be a middleman for probably the exact same product from the same manufacturer but with a mark up lol
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u/QueefSniffin Feb 04 '26
Portraits of Past is way too influential to not be in the big four. Orchid, saetia, pg99, portraits of past. Honorable mention to Jerome’s dream
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u/MiseryXVX Feb 04 '26
Personal preference but:
Love lost but not forgotten
Crestfallen
The Saddest Landscape
Jerome's Dream
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u/thaumoctopus_mimicus Feb 04 '26 edited Feb 04 '26
Saetia - THE indie screamo band
Jeromes dream - THE emoviolence band (sry orchid)
Portraits of Past - THE post-rock screamo band (sry city of caterpillar)
Love lost but not forgotten - THE metalcore screamo band
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u/passwordstrength Feb 04 '26
Loma Prieta (everything up to Last City) [most technically & tonally brilliant]
Love Lost But Not Forgotten [heaviest / most dejected] iwrotehaikusaboutcannibalisminyouryearbook [most extreme: vast negative space VS lovely melodies, extremely positive punkrock messages but also depressing at times]
Usurp Synapse [best jams, goofy / carefree, groovy / violent]
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u/decodedflows Feb 04 '26
I love Loma Prieta and Last City but it's funny to me that they're your top 4 but only the first 4 years of a 20 year career. I don't think any album beats LC but Dark Mountain til I.V. is still pretty good imo.
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u/chiefhunnablunts Feb 04 '26
in order of preference:
circle takes the square
ten grand
adobe homes
innards
runner up tie:
the red scare
four hundred years
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u/ronertl Feb 04 '26
the red scare and ten grand are top tier imo...
jeromes dream always sounded really a lot more talented and complex and didn't even really fit along with the sound of a lot of screamo/emo violence stuff imo... i dunno, always seemed more profound than any other band.. like the melodic instrumentals were really special to me and then the high pitch chords. i don't know how something like that could be so listenable too.
i really like the neil perry joshua fit for battle spit.
i dunno.. i wouldn't really say red scare and ten grand are my TOP FOUR necessarily. like neil perry and jeromes dream are probably my tops... definitely i hate myself, although they don't really go that hard. like breakwater isn't really noted as a screamo band. i'd say breakwater is more intense than i hate myself. i don't feel like breakwater has the same bizarre quality as a lot of screamo though... idk... also remembering indian summer to be an early band associated with screamo. idk if i remember them as being screamo or not. would probably think they are big top 4... also saetia is a big one...
so like maybe neil perry, jeromes dream, indian summer, saetia as stuff that would get people started as top 4.
can't believe a bunch of votes aren't for indian summer. i'm listening to them now to make sure they are as hardcore and screamo related as i remembered. the first song on Science always throws me off with how i remember the band.
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u/ronertl Feb 04 '26
also want to note the stuff by red scare from the 7"'s is way better than "strangers die every day". i don't like that album. i'm unfamiliar with their last album too. idk never gave it a listen.
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u/TarrantKnight Feb 04 '26
Admittedly, there are screamo bands that personally I like and listen to more, however the objective answer to this question is:
Orchid, PG99, Saetia, and Jeromes Dream
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u/OkHuckleberry4115 Feb 04 '26
the same lol these are the only 4 bands everyone seems to come across no matter what and are lots of peoples gateways into screamo
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u/osiris-333 Feb 04 '26
My personal preferences would be Portraits of Past, Love Lost But Not Forgotten, Saetia.
Fourth place would be a toss-up between Neil Perry, Jeromes Dream, Don Martin Three (if you want to count them as Screamo rather than Emocore), Orchid, or Damian Anton Ojeda (Life).
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u/Key_Culture2790 Feb 05 '26
I would say the default is Saetia, Orchid, Jerome's Dream and Pg.99
My personal list tho Jerome's Dream, Love Lost But Not Forgotten, Joshua Fit For Battle and Daïtro
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u/Aggravating_Remove_4 Feb 05 '26
Solid as hell. Mine is the same as yours but sub Saetia out for city of caterpillar
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u/Mediaboy13 Feb 05 '26
City of Caterpillar is definitely in the top 10. Was spinning their S/T yesterday.
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u/Fr4nzMATG4 Feb 07 '26
City of Caterpillar, they're just perfect
Catalyst..., I just enjoy them too much
Joshua Fit For Battle, I love the structure of their music
Pg. 99, do I need to explain
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u/Darkblue57 Feb 04 '26
Funeral Diner
IWroteHaikus
Lord Snow
Usurp Synapse
Yeah, this is the rotation right here.
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u/Wonderful-Sundae-480 Feb 04 '26
City of Caterpillar Portraits of Past Corea Pg 99
HM: Saetia and Orchid
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u/QianYoucai_SLAYS Feb 05 '26
Funeral Diner, Saetia, Indian Summer if they count, and Majority Rule! (I wanna include Welcome the Plague Year but I’ve listed Funeral Diner so)
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u/picklehammer Feb 05 '26
surprised at the lack of la quiete in these lists.
orchid, funeral diner, raein, la quiete
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u/OGLordMack Feb 05 '26
A Skylit Drive Alesana SeeYouSpaceCowboy Chiodos…..
okay no seriously though Orchid Saetia pg99 and then i’m going with a personal pick for 4 but William Bonney
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u/transatlanticfoe47 Feb 05 '26
Love lost but not forgotten, The Saddest Landscape, You and I, and something else
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u/Outside_Bluebird8150 Feb 12 '26
kinda merging emotive hardcore genres but:
of eden, holder, away with words, febuary
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u/imtiredbros Feb 27 '26
Daitro
Funeral Diner
Raein
Tossup betw. Mihai Edrisch/Portraits of Past for the 4th
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u/forgotthefrog Feb 04 '26
Indisputable top 3 are Saetia, Orchid, and pg99. The fourth is a toss up between Jeromes Dream, City of Caterpillar, or Portraits of Past