emo tree 8( (PDF)

early 80s

straight edge
Minor Threat
Youth of Today
Judge
Bold
Gorilla Biscuits

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Black Flag - Damaged
Negative Approach - Tied Down
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first wave
second wave

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vvv

early 90s

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moshcore
Hatebreed
Emmure
Terror

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melodic death metal
At the Gates
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late 90s

second wave
third wave

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vvv

early 00s

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metalcore
Integrity
Converge
Rorschach
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spock rock
Swing Kids - S/T

math rock
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mathcore
The Dillinger Escape Plan

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late 00s

third wave
fourth wave

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myspacecore
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sass
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fashioncore
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Drop Dead, Gorgeous
Alesana

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The Blood Brothers - ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn
The Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower - Dissertation, Honey
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Death From Above 1979 - You're a Woman, I'm a Machine
XBXRX - Sixth in Sixes
These Arms Are Snakes - Oxeneers or The Lion Sleeps...
An Albatross - Blessphemy
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SeeYouSpaceCowboy - Demo
The Cambodian Heat - Bludgeoning Subculture Aficionados
Black Knight Satellite - Scene 14

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san diego
Heroin - S/T
Honeywell/Reach Out Split
Mohinder - O Nation, You Bleed
From Many Wounds, 1896
John Henry West - S/T
Portraits of Past - 01010101
Clikatat Ikatowi - Orchestrated and Conducted By…
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Angel Hair - Insect Mortality
Universal Order of Armageddon - The Switch is Down
Anasarca - Discography
Constatine Sankathi - Baby Unicorn Tripped…
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Le Shok - So What
I Have Dreams - Three Days 'Til Christmas
The Spirit of Versailles - The Confluence of All the Senses

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washington dc
Rites of Spring - S/T
Embrace - S/T
Dag Nasty - Can I Say
Beefeater - Plays for Lovers
Gray Matter - Food for Thought
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Soul Side - Less Deep Inside Keeps
Ignition - Sinker
Fire Party - S/T
Turning Point - S/T
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Fuel - S/T
Exit Condition - Days of Wild Skies
Monsula - Structure
Railhed - Tarantella
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Split Lip - For the Love of the Wounded
Lifetime - Hello Bastards
Falling Forward - Hand Me Down
Don Martin Three - S/T
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Boysetsfire - The Day the Sun Went Out
Hot Water Music - Fuel for the Hate Game
Four Hundred Years - Transmit Failure
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Planes Mistaken for Stars - Fuck With Fire
Small Brown Bike - Dead Reckoning
Twelve Hour Turn - Perfect Progress, Perfect Destruction
Dance of Days - A história não tem fim
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Life at These Speeds - S/T
Ravelin 7 - Světasál
Shortie - Without a Promise
Owen - At Home With Owen
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Gazebo Penguins - The Name Is Not the Named
Dummo - Gelo chiama gelo
Fine Before You Came - Sfortuna
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Manbearpig - Ruined Emo
Title Fight - Floral Green
Auden - Love Is Conspiracy
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Plaids - S/T
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Husker Du - Zen Arcade
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The Cure - Disintegration
The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow
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Slint - Spierland

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emo
The Hated - Every Song
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Jawbreaker - Bivouac
The Nation of Ulysses - Plays Pretty for Baby
Drive Like Jehu - S/T
Endpoint - Catharsis
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Hoover - The Lurid Traversal of Route 7
Still Life - From Angry Heads With Skyward Eyes
Moss Icon - Lyburnum Wits End Liberation Fly
Navio Forge - As We Quietly Burn a Hole Into
Indian Summer - Science 1994
Native Nod - Today Puberty, Tomorrow the World
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Lincoln - S/T

Fugazi - Repeater

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Celeste - Nihiliste(s)
Suffocate for Fuck Sake - Blazing Fires and Helicopters...
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Barrow - Being Without
Heaven in Her Arms - 幻月
Riona - An Age Among Them
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pageninetynine - Document #5
Saetia - S/T
Sleepytime Trio - Memory-Minus
I Hate Myself - Ten Songs
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Envy - All the Footprints You've Ever Left...
In Loving Memory - As Years Pass and Feel Like Seconds
Yaphet Kotto - Syncopated Synthetic Laments for Love
Hot Cross - Cryonics
My Chemical Romance - I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love
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La Quiete - La fine non è la fine - S/T
Suis la Lune - Quiet, Pull the Strings!
End States - Hiretsukan
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Touché Amoré - …To the Beat of a Dead Horse
Pianos Become the Teeth - Saltwater
I Would Set Myself on Fire for You - Believes in Patterns
Merchant Ships - Bummer Times Demo
The Saddest Landscape - You Will Not Survive
Off Minor - The Heat Death of the Universe
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shoegaze
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skramzgaze
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post-rock
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post-screamo
City of Caterpillar - S/T
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I Wrote Haikus About Cannibalism In Your Yearbook - Discography
Circle Takes the Square - As the Roots Undo
Gospel - The Moon Is a Dead World
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Kidcrash - Jokes
Sed Non Satiata - S/T
Daïtro - Y
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The Tidal Sleep - Vorstellungskraft
State Faults - Resonate/Desperate
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Viva Belgrado - Ulises

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mid 80s

late 80s

^^^ first wave
vvv second wave

early 90s

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Reversal of Man - S/T
Mohinder - S/T
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Orchid - Chaos Is Me
Combatwoundedveteran - I Know a Girl Who...
In/Humanity - The History Behind the Mystery
Joshua Fit for Battle - S/T
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Raein - Il N'y A Pas De Orchestre
Jeromes Dream - Seeing Means More Than Safety
Shikari - Robot Wars
1905 - Voice
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Funeral Diner - The Underdark
Bucket Full of Teeth - IV
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Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism

math rock, post-rock
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This Town Needs Guns - Animals
Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) - What It Takes…
Brave Little Abacus - Masked Dancers
Moving Mountains - Pneuma
Algernon Cadwallader - Some Kind of Cadwallader
Midwest Pen Pals - Inside Jokes
Street Smart Cyclist - Discography
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TWIABP - Whenever, If Ever
Glocca Morra - Just Married
William Bonney - Good Vibes
Snowing - I Could Do Whatever I Wanted If I Wanted
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Chinese Football - S/T
I Kill Giants - S/T
Morning Effort - I Heard You the First Time...
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v <--<--Weezer - The Blue Album
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midwest emo
Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary
Cap'n Jazz - Analphabetapolothology
Texas is the Reason - Do You Know Who You Are?
Christie Front Drive / Boys Life Split
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Knapsack - This Conversation Is Ending... Starting Right Now
Penfold - Amateurs and Professionals
Braid - Frame and Canvas
Mineral - The Power of Failing
Jimmy Eat World - Clarity
American Football - S/T
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Jets to Brazil - Perfecting Loneliness
The Appleseed Cast - Mare Vitalis
Cross My Heart - Temporary Contemporary
Rainer Maria - A Better Version of Me
Mock Orange - The Record Play
The December Drive - Hanslikegunsandcrashingsounds
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Colossal - Welcome the Problems
The Newfound Interest in Connecticut - Tell Me About…
Elliott - Song in the Air
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Lil Peep - Lil Peep Part One

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late 90s
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emo revival
Castevet - Summer Fences
Good Luck - Into Lake Griffy
Tigers Jaw - S/T
Pretend - Bones in the Soil, Rust in the Oil
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Frontier(s) - There Will Be No Miracles Here
Crash of Rhinos - Distal
Joie de Vivre - The North End
Everyone Everywhere - S/T
Free Throw - Those Days are Gone
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gates - Bloom and Brethe
You Blew It! - Keep Doing What You're Doing
Prawn - Kingfisher
Foxing - The Albatross
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Sioux Falls - Rot Forever

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emo pop revival
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McCafferty - Beach Boy
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Promise Ring - Nothing Feels Good
The Get Up Kids - Four Minute Mile
Juliana Theory - Understand This Is a Dream
Ataris - Blue Skies, Broken Hearts... Next 12 Exits
Jebediah - Harpoon
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Say Anyting - …Is a Real Boy
Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends
Saves the Day - Stay What You Are
Brand New - Deja Entendu
Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
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Northstar - Pollyanna
Motion City Soundtrack - Commit This to Memory
The Early November - The Room's Too Cold
Armor For Sleep - What to Do When You Are Dead
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Bayside - The Walking Wounded
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sparklepunk
Mom Jeans
Donovan Wolfington
Dogs on Acid
Prince Daddy and the Hyena
Sleep In.
Perspective, a Lovely Hand to Hold
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^^^ second wave
vvv third wave
early 00s

mid 00s

late 00s

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weedpop
Jank - Awkward Pop Songs
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Into It. Over It. - Proper
The Sidekicks - Awkward Breeds
Spraynard - Funtitled
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^^^ third wave
vvv fourth wave

late 00s

early 10s

mid 10s

late 10s

late 10s

fourth wave

^^^
thanks to: Sarcastasaurus, Hobosapien20, and the internet