The term 'real screamo' is used in the place of 'screamo' as that tag has become unsuitable for people who are searching for music which is in the vein of the original screamo music.

Screamo is a genre of music which predominantly evolved from hardcore punk, among other genres, in the early 1990s. The term "screamo" was initially applied to a more aggressive offshoot of real emo that developed in San Diego in 1991, which used short, chaotically executed songs which grafted "spastic intensity to willfully experimental dissonance and dynamics," often with a political message.

Bands of this genre include 44.caliberloveletter, pg.99 and orchid.