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Originally Posted by asiankaos
How do bands like reach out get cast as emo? They are so all over the place I just don't see it. Melodic in parts sure but emo? I don't know thats just me.
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It's all about the vocal style when you're referring to bands like Hose Got Cable, early Lincoln, and even Rice. Native Nod and Moss Icon were some of the first bands to really let loose on the mic within the genre, so when the pained shreiking was applied to raw Hardcore acts with melodic interludes, it was seen as an extension of emo (which is not to say that these bands are lyrically irrelevant... Heroin wrote some truly tortured lyrics).
What puzzles me is that you don't see Reach Out as emo... they're in the median of Emo and Hardcore Emo.