The Now was a screamo band from NJ/PA. The band had one sole release, which was a self-titled EP comprised of 6 songs spanning 11 minutes. It was originally released on Robotic Empire. The band was comprised of ex, and current members of Hot Cross, A Life Once Lost, Welcome The Plague Year, Neil Perry, Joshua Fit For Battle, etc. So, if you know those bands, you’ll know what to expect from them. Awesome band, if you haven't heard these guys get this asap!
Can't find the album art for some reason, but when I downloaded it, it was included with the file, so you'll get it after you download. Enjoy :)
Joshua Fit For Battle was a prominent hardcore band based out of Newark, Delaware. Despite Joshua Fit For Battle’s effort to avoid categorization, both fans and critics often consider the band a product of the emotional hardcore uprise during the late 1990’s. Joshua Fit For Battle’s career spanned from 1998 to 2005, until the group disbanded. The band’s releases are still distributed by distinguished hardcore label Level Plane. Amazing band, if you haven't heard these guys yet, don't pass them up.
Cobra Kai was a six piece screamo/punk band from Cincinnati, OH. Can't find much more info on these guys, but I will say that these guys rule at what they do. Below is a link to their discography. Screamo with synth, try it out, it may be an acquired taste, but there really different and really good.
Cowboys Became Folk Heroes was a screamo band originally from Lakeland, Fl. This is an amazing completely underrated and fairly unknown screamo band. If you have never heard these guys and are into this kinda stuff, get their discography right now and listen to it all the way though. So damn good.
i'm trying too hard to forget to just be me.
forgetting to forget the imagined audience.
who i wish would understand me,
yet never know me.
because i can't bear to show what i don't know.
this is why i discuss trivialities.
this is why i seem so strong.
because my shell won't be cracked if i make sure you never find out how to.
yet i want to open up.
i want to see who i am.
i want to see.
but it terrifies me to think that maybe you love me for what i say and not who i am.
My politics just aren't me;
just another wall between you and i.
The select few who've seen through the facade,
i pushed away in horror. afraid of what they knew.
i withheld so much about myself to keep a fucked-up advantage
and now i see i never had anything to gain.
so now there's no more trying to "Just be me".
no more hiding behind a language. just expose myself for what i've been;
a fraud,
cashing in on rhetoric
that i learned to abuse,
what i used to push you away.
that i used to win even though.. every single time i lost.
every single time.
Neil Perry was a screamo band from New Jersey formed in 1998 by former members of You and I and Red All Over. They issued a slew of releases, with forty tracks at their demise. These forty songs were released on a discography 2xCD entitled Lineage Situation by Level-Plane records. Members went on to, or were involved with, Hot Cross, The Now, Superstitions of the Sky, Joshua Fit for Battle, You and I, Welcome the Plague Year, Track Of Monarchs, A Life Once Lost, Interpol etc. Neil Perry is one of my all time favorite screamo bands. Basically one of the best screamo bands of all time. If your into that kind of stuff and for some reason haven't heard these guys get this album immediately.
3 Segundos Antes da Queda (3 Seconds Before the Fall) is a sadly defunct Brazilian screamo band from BrasÃlia, DF. They released a 7-song demo in 2006 and broke up in 2008. That is basically all I can find out about this band, but they are so awesome. Give these guys a chance. Yeah, you can't understand their lyrics, but who cares right? It's the music and passion that really matters sometimes.
Index for Potential Suicide was formed in the summer of 1998 in Charleston, SC by Christopher Ashley of the noise/hardcore band Murder Weapon and Brian Cooper, Robert Findlater and Frank Whiteside of Intentional Resentment. The four’s love for noise and experimental music was the foundation for the band’s early material. As an experimental band with drum machines, samplers, synths, trumpet, etc. Below is their discography. They have a very early 90's screamo sound to them, but keep it original with all the other noise they throw into the mix. Check these guys out.
Jeromes Dream were an influential Connecticut screamo three piece, active from 1997 to 2001. The band had a unique vocal style - singer Jeff Smith opted not to use a microphone while performing live, instead screaming unamplified at the top of his lungs. The band was known for playing very short sets, usually no longer than 10 minutes. According to Smith, they thought 10 minutes was all they needed to get their point across. Amazing 90's era screamo band. Here's everything they did in 2 parts.
I Wrote Haikus About Cannibalism In Your Yearbook was a screamo band from Antioch, California, USA. The music is feelings and the words are thinking too much and out loud. Really awesome screamo band. Here's their discography.
Active from 1998 to 2002, Orchid was first and foremost a hardcore band. Orchid combined a post-modern aesthetic with hardcore punk. Orchid’s members more often cite the German bands Systral and Carol as influences, as well as the French philosopher Michel Foucault. This is one of the greatest screamo bands of all time.