Skram is a corruption of the word screamo, first coined in 2004 by Alex Bigman, a.k.a. thebigmin, on the messageboard Cross My Heart With A Knife as a joke. Over time, people took it somewhat seriously, and has now come to be used as a less-commercially co-optable term for screamo, since that word has been bastardized into oblivion, used to describe any shitty whine-fest bands on MTV and the Warped Tour that incorporate maybe 30 seconds of screaming per song. Typically, true skram records are pressed only on vinyl, with handmade covers, and in quantities of far less than 1,000. Previous and less successful attempts to create a term that the mainstream media and major record companies would deem too stupid to steal and repackage included kittencore, and the more appropriate, kitten violence. https://youtube/watch?v=Qlex4wzfQmw
Posted on: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 06:51:41 +0000