Huge List of Emo Bands
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
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OMG, couldn’t wait to see this. THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH! Yesterday I was thinking “Hmm, maybe there won’t be a post, cuz of X-Mas”… But I didn’t expect you would post this list I was waiting for!
THANKS AGAIN and merry Christmas! (even if I dont really celebrate it)
Me again…^^
How about “Tokio Hotel”?
I know that there may be many peole who hate them and I’m not sure if it’s emo, but their music IS definitely emotional…
Well, just a suggestion…
You are right, Tokio Hotel should be on the list and was added immediately on your suggestion. Sorry I missed them when I was going through the list.
Haha, Tokio Hotel is AMAZING! The first song I heard by them was ‘Ready, Set, Go’, then I watched their video and was like, YES! <3 <3
K, all my friends say that Bill looks like a chick. Well he doesn't, he's so yummy, same with his brother.
But it's crazy how their two albums are so different, the english ones anyways. I love the German versions of their music.
The First song i heard by Tokio Hotel was this German one… Monsoon… that’s actually my favourite now… i L.O.V.E Tokio Hotel… even though ppl think the twins are gays… (rubbish i say)
What about Hellogoodbye? Listen to Baby It’s Fact by Hellogoodbye. It’s one of my favourites by them.
Added. Good to have you finally come over and take a look at the blog, btw. :-p
Oh i’ve been here a while. haven’t logged in or commented but i read all the posts. Sorry that makes me sound like a stalker but I wasn’t really happy with randomly talking to people without getting the mood of the site first. Like I wasn’t at first on Emo Connection, remember.
Hugs 
umm…where might asking alexandria be? Or the Devil Wears Prada? Maybe Attack Attack. But you really need to have asking alexandria.thats all im asking
Great list. I listened to all of the suggested bands and they were all added to the list. Thanks for this large contribution. It’s much appreciated. ^_^
those are metalcore/trancecore bands
I don’t know whether Kill Hannah counts as Emoband,just wanted to mantion them,maybe you wanna add them (;
Yes, they are definitely an emo band, and one of my favorites. I can’t believe I forgot them.
*mention
What bout Blood On The Dance Floor?
they is an amazing band and i consider them an emo band o-o ^_^
LOL Listening to them on Youtube right now. At first I was like . . . . ohh Jeffree Star anyone? lol I like them, the song I listened to made me smile. Added.
rofl xD they are my all time fave band :3
awesomesauce!
they’re a duo not a band, and they’re pop not emo
aww sweet (:
Thanks for adding them !
Your site is awesome,btw.
Thank you muchly! ^_^
what about dead by apri?
Added.
or i killed the prom queen?
they are awesome! & thnx for adding dead by april
Added. Thanks for your suggestions.
What about falling in reverse or White Chapel?
Added Falling in Reverse.
those guys are popcore and hair metal
How about Papa Roach and Buckcherry? ^_^
It was a close one, but the votes are in. Avril Lavigne will not be going on the Huge List of Emo Bands. She lost by one vote.
YES WOOO! Avril Lavigne’s music is not emo by a long shot xD Especially not her new album, just…no xD
http://www.we7.com/user/view-playlist?playlistId=1641498&m=0
i went through the list picking random bands because im lazy, but anyways this is some of the bands on the list
i can tstop listening to hollywood undead or framing hanly. dude this list is awesome
there should be a list of band names that makes you lol
:O I’m listening to ‘City’ by Hollywood Undead, and have been for like..2 days straight <3
K, I have to share my earth shattering moment. Okay, well maybe not earth shattering but still…So I borrowed my friend’s jumpdrive that had a bunch of music on it that I wanted, a lot of which I haven’t even heard before, including a song I just fell in love with by Coheed and Cambria. So I’ve been listening to it a lot and rockin out and then I was wondering whether it was on your epic list of music and when I saw that it was I was like..wow
‘Welcome Home’ is so beautiful and intense and YAY! <3
Ummm..what about Skillet?
Does Rise Against count? And a bunch of my Emo friends listen to The Ready Set but it isn’t really emo…I dunno.
Typecast?
Typecast has been added to the list. Thanks.
Parkway Drive has been approved via the poll count to make the list and has been added.
those guys are metalcore
I have a list of unknown bands here that i like lol
Barn Burner (I like the song Holy Smokes)
Behemoth
Bad Religion
Cannibal Corpse
(Is Evergreen the same as Evergreen Terrace?)
Infected Mushroom
Lissy Truille (try Self Taught Learner)
Lo-Pro
Lazarus A.D
Miike Snow
Morningwood
Maata Haari
Middle Distance Runner
Neon Trees
Psyopus
Primordial (a little heavier)
Sparks The Rescue
Stars (How Much More is good
those are metal and punk bands mostly
)
hope you like them 
The Boxing Lesson
The Features
The Black Dahlia Murder
The Black And White Years
The Damned Things
The Moog
Thao With The Get Down Stay Down
The Submarines
Whitechapel
those are metal bands and deathcore bands
dude this list is amazing! my life is complete!
Family force 5!!!
Thank you so much, this kindaakes my life better.
*** kinda makes**
Huge list must admit that but u may have forgotten this band called “glamour if the kill”
What about these..
Nine Inch Nails
Flyleaf
Nightwish
Wednesday 13
Murderdolls
A Day To Remember
Hopes Die Last
Papa Roach
Soil
Also bands such as these:
-Nirvana
-Skillet
-Aveged sevenfold
-Ten years
nirvana is grunge, a7x is hard rock, skillet is christian
nine inch nails is industrial, nightwish is metal, papa roach is hard rock and nu metal, murderdolls and wednesday 13 are horror punk, soil is metal
What about Breaking Benjamin and Evanescence? I mean, I guess Evanescence is really more goth than emo, but Breaking Benjamin is pretty emo. In my opinion, anyway.
Yea evanescence!!! ♥
breaking benjamin isn’t emo
Why isn’t Kittie on the list… Kittie is an Emo band…. i guess
I have one more.
Sanctus Real
This artist is amazing!
AFI? skillet? papa roach?
What about Blood on the Dance Floor?
OMG MCR!!!
What About Katatonia, Not the look but completely the Lyrics, Gone, Help Me Disappear, and Teargas are all amazing by them
Im In A Coffin- Weapon Against Myself
Sleeping with Sirens?!?!!?!
Hello, my name is Evan Lester.
I sing for a Dallas TX emo/rock band. We just put out our debut full length record ‘The Art of Fiction’ this year.
We sound like Taking Back Sunday/The Used.
I am looking for any kind of exposure we can get, we would love to be added to your list.
If we could set up an interview or review that would be awesome too.
We have only been a band for 11 months but we have already accomplished a lot. We released a full length record, toured on the Vans Warped Tour, shot a music video (www.avionroe.com/whoiam) we have had our music on MTV and we just finished a national tour with Madina Lake.
I look forward to hearing back from you. Happy holidays.
Evan Lester
214-549-1909
http://www.avionroe.com
Evan@avionroe.com
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first off, some of those bands aren’t emo.
aiden=horror punk/post-hardcore
black veil brides=glam metal and shock rock. used to be post-hardcore
alkaline trio=punk rock
attack attack=electronicore
art of dying=hard rock
asking alexandria=metalcore
at the drive-in=(i’m not sure if they emo, i’d just call them post-hardcore)
Blood on the dance floor=POP (they’re not even rock, they’re POP)
brokencyde=pop
breathe carolina=pop
Bring me the horizon=metalcore/deathcore
bullet for my valentine=metal/metalcore/melodic metalcore/hard rock
Burden of a day=post-hardcore/metalcore(I’m not sure if they’re emo)
chevelle=alternative metal/alternative rock
dead by april=pop rock meets metal i think
dot dot curve=pop/crunkcore
falling in reverse=popcore/glam/pop rock
for all those sleeping=electronicore
four year strong=pop punk
gallows=hardcore punk
godhead=industrial rock
good charlotte=pop punk
gym class heroes=rap
hollywood undead=rap rock (DUH how they are they emo???)
HIM=just simply rock
i killed the prom queen=melodic metalcore
memphis may fire = electronicore
muse=alternative
motion city soundtrack=pop punk (i dont’ see them as emo personally)
owl city = pop
pierce the veil=post-hardcore/experimental
red=hard rock/alternative metal
simple plan= pop punk
suicide silence=deathcore (HOW ARE THEY EMO????)
DEVIL WEARS PRADA=melodic metalcore
the cure=GOTH (Goth is NOT emo)
the misfits=horror punk (again GOTH is NOT emo)
the killers=alternative
the smiths=new wave or something
real emo= rites of spring, my chemical romance, thursday, pg 99, orchid, hawthorne heights, saetia, saosin, dashboard confessional, embrace, senses fail, jimmy eat world, weezer, paramore, the used, story of the year, american football, funeral for a friend, etc