This compilation is a highly curated collection of the best current screamo bands from both Japan and the USA. 12 bands displaying a wide range of styles while still maintaining some similarity to each other.
What has always fascinated me, and the impetus for this series, is how people creating music so many miles apart can share aesthetics and values, influencing each other. The Japanese underground has so much to offer the American underground, and the American underground has so much to offer the Japanese underground. Hopefully this series can advance the relationship.
Toronto band Respire deliver a post-hardcore tour de force on the largest scale possible, orchestrally rich and incessantly uncompromising. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 6, 2021
Their raw production elevates this Helsinki band's energetic style of emo, packed with math rock-inspired dynamics and charging melodies. Bandcamp New & Notable Jun 15, 2023