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To demonstrate how frighteningly young Trivium is, on their tour this month one of their lead guitarists had to be temporarily replaced so he could get his wisdom teeth removed. Okay, Paolo is only a month younger than me, but that's still scary! Especially since the band's been around for ten years. I feel so inadequate. Anyway, if you hate cookie cutter emo metal music—think AFI, 36 Crazyfists, Atreyu, Taking Back Sunday and other bands which could theoretically play the Warp Tour—you should love Tomorrow Is Monday, here performing their epic hit, "Head On Collision With Rosebush Catching On Fire."

This is a joke by Trivium's lead singer Matt Heafy proving that you can write, perform, and record one of these songs in fifty-seven minutes, no lie.

Also by Wikipedia-surfing I found out that Mesa, Arizona helped make emo mainstream?! No! Arizona wouldn't do something like that!

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I still can't tell the difference between most of those emo bands. Or pop-punk bands in general. They all sound the same.

Well, these are mostly metal, so I guess they're technically called ... post-hardcore? That's what Wikipedia says, though I have trouble with these sub-sub-genres, and I studied music for years. But yeah, the bands usually sound the same, probably because they tend to get more generic as they go along, so your only hope to identify them by sound is to remember the voice of the lead singer.

...Well I guess I'm screwed because most of the lead singers sound the same too.

Some of them ... scream more often than others?

Are there any metal bands which don't scream as much? For some reason the screaming just makes me laugh instead of tapping into my primal state.

But more importantly, if you didn't see this yesterday I am showing it to you now:

The screaming tends to translate better in a concert setting. Also I suspect some singers are actually trained in that sort of MUSICAL SCREAMING thing, so it sounds better, and other singers just fucking scream like angry teenagers.

..... It took me way too long to place the faces of Star Trek. I blame the costumes.

Oh, and in ACTUAL ANSWER TO YOUR QUESTION, uh: Egypt Central, Disturbed after Believe, Trivium on The Crusade album, Polkadot Cadaver, Godsmack, Nightwish, Lacuna Coil, there's a few? All of these bands will still scream sometimes because that's metal but these bands don't use it so much (that I remember, I haven't had any sleep tonight.) Except by Nightwish, their singing is all opera so I don't think they do the metal scream thing.

Sweeet. I'll check them out. I have one or two Lacuna Coil songs, and I def have Polkadot Cadaver. One of the reasons I remember I liked Sevendust was because it was more melodic than screamy.

Not that I don't enjoy the screaming. I do like Mastodon in all their weird prog metal glory.

I also like All That Remains because the screaming is broken up by sudden surprising melodic interludes! The contrast is nice.

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