Question posted by samantha rowell: ”i know emo is just a trend and everything but ive been told its a state of mind. cant a person be emo without being depressed?”

Answer: Emo is a shortened version of the word emotion. Whether expressed in music or day to day life, the easy expression of emotions that most people would try to repress is a large part of what being emo is all about. That doesn’t, however, limit emotional expression to negative feelings only.

We all know that emos have a very bad wrap for generally being depressed people. This has stemmed from a lot of things, most notably the trend of cutting. There were also quite a few drama queens and kings out there that helped this negative stigma along.

That was all mostly in the beginning of emo culture though. I can safely say that there are very few emos that I met when emo first became a trend that weren’t depressed or had their emotions completely out of tow. Luckily, more stable people started jumping on the bus due to the love of the music and fashion style and quickly helped to start curbing the negative stereotypes.

I’m not going to say that there are no emos who are depressed. That would be a flat out lie. The culture was built on the display of mostly negative emotions and very close to gothic attire. What has evolved out of it though through the passing years is almost a completely different monster.

Cutting is far less of a trend. You don’t have to dye your hair black to be considered emo anymore. Depression has been replaced by hyper randomness. And colorful clothing and accessories is far more favorable than sticking to the original trend of all black.

Emos now a days typically convey a full range of normal healthy emotions. In fact, I’ve met quite a few that are more upbeat and happy than most people that I know. So the answer to the question is no. You don’t have to be depressed to be emo.

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Huge List of Emo Bands

Get Your Music Fix with This Huge List of Emo Bands

Merry Christmas guys!

For my Christmas gift to the site, I’m posting the giant list of emo bands that I had been posting one alphabetical letter at a time. I actually finished organizing the list about two weeks ago when I joined up with iMesh to download some new music for my MP3 Player. Having said that, this list has been updated from the original list that ended up getting deleted when the site went down. New bands have been added over the course of the last few months.

This list will be continually updated as new bands are discovered. To help the list grow, you can suggest a new band in the comments section or join our forum and post a YouTube video of the band that you want to recommend under the music section. You can join the forum by Clicking Here and Registering.

How updating this list works

When you suggest a new band, I will review them via YouTube. If I can make an instant determination that the band falls within the emo genre, they will be added to this master list immediately, no questions asked. If I can’t make a clear decision, I will post a poll asking the opinions of Emo Rawr’s readers and subscribers. Since patience isn’t one of my virtues, I will only wait until 10 votes have been cast as to whether or not the readers consider the band to fall under the emo genre. If the majority of the 10 say yes then the band will be added to the master list and the poll will be closed for voting and removed from the site. If the majority vote is no, then the band will not be added to the list.

Sometimes you might find a band on the list that you don’t particularly consider to be emo. Some bands have already been removed from the list. I must be honest and tell you that I haven’t reviewed every single band on the list, though I will eventually get to listening to all of them. If you see a band on the list that you don’t think should be there, please post your thoughts in the comment area. I will review the band and make a decision. If I can’t make a clear cut decision, then I will create a poll and let the readers decide. If you suggest that an emo band be removed that is obviously an emo band, for instance a band like Hawthorne Heights or My Chemical Romance, your suggestion will be ignored. Sorry, but if the majority of emos that I know listen to the band, then they are staying on the list.

As with the previously posted list, I will be creating a page on this site for each individual band. Once the band’s page has been created, I will link the band’s name to their page so that you can easily navigate to it to check out pictures of the band, a short band bio, and samples of their music. It’s an easy way to expand your musical horizons without having to leave the site.

The last time I posted this list it was frequently stolen and used on other websites without authorization. If you plan to post this list on your website or blog, please link back to this page or at least to the site url http://emorawr.com It took me a long time to organize this list and it is an ongoing effort to keep it updated. Please give credit where it is due.

Having said that, here is the improved list. This is the biggest list of emo bands you will probably ever find.

#’s -

12 Step Romance
30 Seconds to Mars
48May
1905

A -

A Case Of Grenada
A Cursive Memory
A Fire Inside
A Kiss for Jersey
A Skylit Drive
A Static Lullaby
A Thorn For Every Heart
Acceptance
Action Action
After the Fall
Aiden
Alesana
Alkaline Trio
All Time Low
Amanda Woodward
American Football
Ampere
Amy Can Flyy
Anadivine
Anatomy Of A Ghost
Angel Hair
Antioch Arrow
April’s Love Affair
Armor for Sleep
Army Navy
Arse Moreira
Art Of Dying
Artist Vs. Poet
Arthur
As Cities Burn
Asking Alexandria
Assfactor 4
At the Drive-In
Atreyu
Attack Attack
Aussitôt Mort
Automatic Loveletter
Autumn Coronary

B -

Bad Astronaut
Balaclava
Baron Noir
Bayside
Before Their Eyes
Ben Gibbard
Best of Winter
Black Veil Brides
Blacken the Skies
Bleeding Hearts Melody
Bless the fall
Bloc Party
Blood on the Dance Floor
Boa Narrow
Born Dead Icons
Boy Sets Fire
Boys Life
Boys Like Girls
Boys Night Out
Braid
Brand New
Brave Saint Saturn
Brazil
Breaking Pangea
Breathe Carolina
Breathe Electric
Breather Resist
Bright Eyes
Bring Me The Horizon
Broken Social Scene
Brokencyde
Bucket Full of Teeth
Built to Spill
Bullet for my Valentine
Burden of a Day
Burnman
Buxton

C -

Calvary
Capn Jazz
Car Crash At Midway
Catherine
Chamberlain
Chase Coy
Chervona Rutta
Chevelle
Chiodos
Christie Front Drive
Circa Survive
Circle Takes the Square
City of Caterpillar
Clikatat Ikatowi
Cobra Kai
Cobra Starship
Coheed and Cambria
Comeback Kid
Commander Venus
Conation
Copeland
Corn On Macabre
Cost of An Arm
Count the Stars
Cowboys Became Folk Heroes
Creation is Crucifixion
Crestfallen
Cross My Heart
Curbside Service
Current
Cursive
Cute Is What We Aim For

D -

Daitro
Dance Gavin Dance
Danse Macabre
Daphne Loves Derby
Dark New Day
Dashboard Confessional
Days Away
Dead By April
Dead Poetic
Dear Diary I Seem To Be Dead
Death Cab for Cutie
Decypher Down
Denver Harbor
Desert City Soundtrack
Destroy The Runner
Die, Emperor Die!
Dispensing Of False Halos
Divide by Zero
Dogwood
Dot Dor Curve
Drag Down First
Drive-By Truckers
Drive Like Jehu
Drop Dead Gorgeous

E -

Early Thursday
Efra
Elliott
Emarosa
Embassy
Embrace
Emery
Emo Side Project
Emo Summer
End of Julia
Enoch Ardon
Enter Shikari
Envy
Envy on the Coast
Escape the Fate
Eternal Cadence
Ethix
Evans Blue
Ever Since July
Ever We Fall
Evergreen
Eyes Set to Kill

F -

Fall of Transition
Fall Out Boy
Falling in Reverse
Feeling Left Out
Fighting Jacks
Finch
Finding Westerly
Flashbulb Memory
Floodgate
Fly by Night
For All Those Sleeping
Forever…And a Day
Forgive Durden
Former Members of Alfonsin
Four Hundred Years
Four Year Stong
Frail
Framing Hanley
Friction
From Autumn to Ashes
From First to Last
Frou Frou
Funeral Diner
Funeral For a Friend
Further Seems Forever

G -

Gallows
Get Fucked
Glassjaw
Godhead
Good Charlotte
Gospel
Gray Matter
Greeley Estates
Gunslikegirls
Gym Class Heroes

H -

Halifax
Harriet the Spy
Harry and the Potters
Hawthorne Heights
Head Automatica
Heavens
Hellogoodbye
Here I Come Falling
Heroin
Hey Mercedes
Hidden In Plain View
Hiding With Girls
H.I.M.
Hollywood Undead
Hoover
Hot Cross
Hot Rod Circuit
Hot Water Music
Houston Calls
Hugs
Hundred Reasons

I -

I Can Make A Mess Like Nobody’s Business
I Hate Myself
I Killed the Prom Queen
I, Robot
I Wrote Haikus About Cannibalism In Your Yearbook
I Would Set Myself on Fire for You
Ignition
Illuminations and Detonations
In Fear and Faith
In Memory
Index for Potential Suicide
Indian Summer
Into Eternity
Ivoryline

J -

Jamison Parker
Jawbreaker
Jet Lag Gemini
Jets To Brazil
Jim Adkins
Jimmy Eat World
Joan of Arc
Joshua Fit for Battle
Julia
Julien-K
June
Just Surrender

K -

Karate
Kaivalya Pada Pine
Kakistocracy
Keepsake
Kerosene 454
Kevin Devine
Kill Hannah
Kind of Like Spitting
Kissing Chaos
Kobayashi
Knapsack
Kris Anaya

L -

La Quiete
Lannen Fall
Last Days of April
Last Weeks November
Lee Marvin Computer Arm
Less than Jake
Letter Kills
Life at These Speeds
Life in Jersey
Lifetime
Light the Fuse and Run
Limbeck
Lincoln
Long Since Forgotten
Louise Cyphre
Love Like… Electrocution
Love Lost But Not Forgotten
Love She Wrote
Love Story Hero

M -

Mae
Make Me
Malady
Mannequin
Mary Reilly
Mass Movement of the Moth
Matchbook Romance
Maxeen
Maximillian Colby
Mayans
Mayday Parade
MeWithoutYou
Memento Mori
Memphis May Fire
Men, Women & Children
Merel
Midtown
Mineral
Modern Dance
Mohinder
Moneen
Monsula
Moss Icon
Motion City Soundtrack
Muse
My Captain
My Chemical Romance
My Morning Jacket

N -

Nada Surf
Nat Weller
Native Nod
Navio Forge
Neil Perry
New Order
Never Shout Never
Nightmare of You
Noneleftstanding
Northstar
November Blessing

O -

Oceana
Odd Project
Off Minor
Ok Go
On the Might of Princes
Onelinedrawing
Orchid
Ordination of Aaron
Ostensibly
Our Last Night
Outsmarting Simon
Owl City
Owls

P -

Palatka
Panic! At the Disco
Paramore
Parkway Drive
Pasta Rocket
Pedro the Lion
Pg.99
Phoenix Bodies
Piebald
Pierce the Veil
Please Inform the Captain This is a Hijack
Plunger
Policy of Three
Pop Unknown
Portrait
Portraits of Past
Pretty Faces
Pretty Girls Make Graves
Punchline

R -

Raein
Rainer Maria
Red
Red Admiral
Red Animal War
Relient K
Remember Maine
Rites of Spring
Rufio
Ruhaeda
Ryan Adams

S -

Saetia
Sakita Sarra
Samiam
Saosin
Saturday Looks Good to Me
Saves the Day
Say Anything
Scary Kids Scaring Kids
Schoolyard Heroes
Secondhand Serenade
Secret and Whisper
Selfmademan
Sense Field
Senses Fail
Set Your Goals
Shikar
Shot Maker
Shroomunion
Sideshow
Sigur Ros
Silver Bearings
Silverstein
Silversun Pickups
Simple Plan
Sinkthefucker
Sl’s3
Sleepytime Trio
Slick Shoes
Slow Coming Day
Something Corporate
Sonny Moore
Sophora
Soulside
Sound the Alarm
Sparta
Spitalfield
Split Lip
Spoken
SR-71
Starflyer 59
Stars Hide Fire
State of Shock
Steel Train
Stereo Skyline
Still Life
Stole Your Woman
Stop It!
Story of the Year
Straylight Run
Stretch Arm Strong
Suicide Silence
Suis la Lune
Sunny Day Real Estate
Swing Kids
Systral

T -

Tafkata
Takaru
Taking Back Sunday
Teddy Geiger
Tegan and Sara
Ten Grand
Texas is the Reason
The Academy Is…
The All-American Rejects
The Anniversary
The Apoplexy Twist Orchestra
The Audition
The Automatic
The Avenging Disco Godfathers of Soul
The Beautiful Mistake
The Cab
The Classic Crime
The Cure
The December Drive
The Devil Wears Prada
The Disease
The Early November
The Early Novembers Ace Decenders
The Escape Engine
The Flaming Lips
The Format
The Get-Up Kids
The Gloria Record
The Good Life
The Hated
The Higher
The Holy Shroud
The Hurt Process
The Infarto, Scheisse!
The Jealous Sound
The Juliana Theory
The June Spirit
The Junior Varsity
The Khayembii Communique
The Killers
The Kodan Armada
The Last Chance Diaries
The Legion of Doom
The Lyndsay Diaries
The Medic Droid
The Misfits
The Movielife
The New Amsterdams
The Postal Service
The Promise Ring
The Ready Set
The Receiving End of Sirens
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
The Rocket Summer
The Rocking Horse Winner
The Smiths
The Snake the Cross the Crown
The Spill Canvas
The Spirit Of Versailles
The Starting Line
The State Secedes
The Sunstreak
The Used
The Years Best
The Years Gone By
There for Tomorrow
This Time Only
Those Ides of Mesentery
Thrice
Thursday
Time and Distance
Time Spent Driving
To Be Juliet’s Secret
To Dream of Autumn
Tokio Hotel
Too Sorry For Apologies (Jimmy Robbins)
Towers Transistor Transistor
Trust Company
Turn Around Norman
Twelve Hour Turn
Typecast

U -

Ultimate Fakebook
Umbrellas
Unwound
Underoath
Uranus
Usurp Synapse

V -

Valencia
Vanna
Vanilla Sky

W -

Waking Ashland
Waterdown
Weezer
We Fly Our Kites at Night
We The Kings
What Price, Wonderland?
When All Else Fails
Wilco
Wolves
Wow, Owls!

Y -

Yage
Yaphet Kotto
Yashin
Yellowcard
You and I
You Me and Everyone We Know

Z -

Zao
Zebrahead
Zegota

Huge List of Emo Bands

Alright, so today’s treat is a video of yummy emo boys kissing. It’s actually a video that I hadn’t seen before today. *gasp* lol My only complaint is that most of the videos are kind of blurry. In fact, I think there are only 2 that have a crisp picture. Having said that, it still got my day off to a good start. lol

Don’t worry guys, I do plan on putting up videos of emo girls and emo girls kissing. You’re just going to have to wait for it.

Band: Brokencyde
Song: FreaXXX

One of the readers on this site recently emailed me and told me she would like to see pictures of emo girls on here. I had honestly forgotten that I hadn’t posted any since the site got deleted and had to be rebuilt. I was so focused on getting the traffic back up to par that I completely ignored the fact that girls aren’t the only people who come to this site. I greatly apologize. The next few picture posts will focus on emo girls. So, now that I’m finished rambling, here are the goods.

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You guys have nagged me to the core for it, so I’m bringing it back and doing it a ton better than I did last time. Here for your drooling pleasure, 100 Pictures of Jared Leto, accomplished actor and lead singer of 30 Seconds to Mars. He is very yummilicious. I could have just posted pictures of his emo look, but I decided to add quite a few of his alternate looks. This guy is a friggin’ camelion. He’s reinvented his look countless times, and I must say that most of them have come out pretty good.

Jared Joseph Leto was born on December 26th of 1971. Awww, a Christmas baby. << . . . You could wrap that up and stick it underneath my tree. Anyways, back on topic . . . I must be in a pervy mood today.

Jared Leto has had a long and successful career. He started out acting on the hit tv series My So Called Life and went on to have rolls in many movies including: Panic Room (he has horrible hair in this movie), Alexander (playing Alexander’s bestie with benefits), Requiem for a Dream (one of my personal favorites of his), and quite a few others that I’m too lazy to list.

He’s also lead singer of the popular emo band 30 Seconds to Mars, hence how he got his own page on this site. :-p 30 Seconds to Mars will get their own page on the site later on. So, now that you know the basics, let’s take a little poll and then get to the good stuff. Enjoy the pics!
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