Over the last decade, Canada, too, has been home to a considerable screamo revival, with exciting and influential bands popping up in Nova Scotia, Toronto, Vancouver, and everywhere in between.

(We’ve previously checked in with present-day screamo scenes in Southeast Asia, the Balkans, and Central and South America.)

The revival movement, on the other hand, is a diverse global affair, with fans from around the world turning to bands like Italy’s Shizune, Mexico’s joliette, and Japan’s Heaven in Her Arms. The original screamo scene of the early ‘90s had a distinctly American mentality: it was, after all, a community predominately led by white men from the United States. Revival bands are less hesitant to take risks with style and genre, toying with boundaries by incorporating elements of hip-hop, integrating spoken-word segments, playing with chiptune, or using harsh noise.Īnother key difference is its diversity, both in terms of the musicians’ identities as well as the places from which they hail. Though certainly spurred on by an appreciation for the dissonant, emotive bands of the mid-late ‘90s and early ‘00s like Orchid and Saetia, the current screamo revival breaks from tradition in several ways.

Incubus band screamo