We've all seen them. The all too pale skinny teenagers wearing skin tight jeans and eye liner. The EMO kid is what they're called I guess. Now don't get me wrong, I have friends who fall under this category and I myself wear a pair of skinnies and some eye liner now and then but some kids take it too far. I used to hate so called "screamo" music. I thought it was pointless until I heard Chelsea Smile by Bring Me The Horizon (BMTH) and I was hooked. The lyrics make sense! One of those Eureka moments and it's still got a hold on me. I now have two albums on my ipod of BMTH. Their newest one, There Is A Hell Believe Me I've Seen It, There Is A Heaven Let's Keep It A Secret, and I also have an older album Suicide Silence with the remix album. BMTH is a British metal band, some say metal, some say rock, some say screamo....whatever. They scream and growl and give you goosebumps. Some awesome tracks to listen to: Crucify Me, Don't Go, Home Sweet Hole, Chelsea Smile, and It Was Written In Blood.
While BMTH is full of growling and screaming 90% of the time, another band has more of a 50/50 going on. Chiodos is an American band with really strange song titles and lyrics but they are simply incredible. Epic strings matched with intense vocals and growling add in some light piano and bam, you have Chiodos. My favorite song of theirs has to be Smitten for the Mitten. I listen to it on repeat. Seriously it kicks ass. I only have one of their albums but it's great and highly recommend them to any screamo fan or closet screamo fan, you know who you are...
Fav songs for the moment....
Smitten for the Mitten- Chiodos
Chelsea Smile- Bring Me The Horizon
Na Na Na Na- My Chemical Romance
The Silence- Mayday Parade
Get Up- Mayday Parade
Emergency- Paramore
Until next time...
-Em
