Hey guys. Often in the Emo community, it's hard to express your favourite band without being called this, that or the other thing  ::) so what are your thoughts? I've put 'Other' as an option. I love a lot of emo bands, way more than the 5 here. If you'd like to know, my current favourite band is Black Veil Brides, then moving to Hawthorne Heights, and back to Black Veil Brides lol. If you'd like to extend on this, comment your favourite song by that band!

Every rock band was considered emo back then. I'm not even sure what fits the criteria and what doesn't ;D

I liked Fall Out Boy and Bullet For My Valentine most back then, of the bands that were regularly accused of being emo.

I hated Emo when I was younger and I was unfortunate enough to experience my entire core childhood when it was at it's peak (2004-2009). :P If I had to choose a band though, I would personally say that Evanescence was the best out of the lot. Even though, I think of them as being more of a Nu-Metal band, to be honest.

I don't think Evanescence really qualifies as an emo band...and it seems like Fall Out Boy would be more fitting for that list anyway.

Evanescence really isn't emo, it's a very nu-metal/alternative metal band with some gothic/darkwave shading

Always thought you at least had to be pop punk before being qualified as emo ???

Not listened to a whole bunch of this stuff (just some hit singles of back then), but stuff like Fall Out Boy and Paramore wasn't too bad :)

Does ThreeDaysGrace count? I Hate Everything About You and Animal I Have Become gave me the respect of this band.

I would vote for Evanescence, but they do not belong on this list, as other users have already pointed out on this thread. They're not emo, they're alt-metal, in the same camp as bands such as Papa Roach, Three Days Grace, Breaking Benjamin, Seether, etc.

Good Charlotte are technically not emo either, they're simply categorized as "pop-punk", and their biggest hit "The Anthem" sounded very skate-punk and not goth-emo at all.
Even Black Veil Brides are not technically emo. They're a sh!t band either way, but they're more metalcore as well as a piss-poor throwback to glam metal (which was already a sh!t genre to begin with back in the '80s). Re-edit this post, and replace Evanescence, Good Charlotte, and Black Veil Brides with Fall Out Boy, Panic! At the Disco, and Paramore.

So with Evanescence out, my vote goes to My Chemical Romance, because I do like the song "Welcome to the Black Parade", it sounds like something out of a gothic musical.


Does ThreeDaysGrace count? I Hate Everything About You and Animal I Have Become gave me the respect of this band.


Three Days Grace are not emo by any means. They're alt-rock and alt-metal.

I don't know but not Paramore since the guys no longer have the emo aesthetic and have a gendered hipster aesthetic.
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...because I do like the song "Welcome to the Black Parade", it sounds like something out of a gothic musical.


I only started to like "Welcome to the Black Parade" very recently, to be honest. I hated it at the time it was released and it's association with the Emo scene completely tarnished the song for me. On it's own merit though, it is a good song.

Every rock band was considered emo back then. I'm not even sure what fits the criteria and what doesn't ;D

I liked Fall Out Boy and Bullet For My Valentine most back then, of the bands that were regularly accused of being emo.

Exactly. I was confused not too long ago when people (including some from this board) started calling FOB, Panic & MCR pop punk. I'm like "since when are they pop punk  :o...pop Punk fell off heavy after 2002/3 then emo bands took over." They  were all called emo back then, even Paramore. 

Three Days Grace are not emo by any means. They're alt-rock and alt-metal.


Then emo bands must sound completely out of my taste since ThreeDaysGrace has some of the most perfect lyrics to describe that sh!t.

Also come to think of it, what Slowpoke and Millennium said. I mean, I heard about Screamo and it sounds incredibly repulsive.

Emo is about emotive lyrics, but there’s also a rich musical tradition behind it. A great place to start to learn about the musical roots would be a band from the second generation like Sunny Day Real Estate or War On Drugs.