Los Angeles screamo band Knumears know exactly where they sit in the lineage.
Whether you call it screamo, skramz or post-hardcore, they treat it less like a revival and more like a living language - pulling in the classic hallmarks of the style (wildly swinging dynamics, throat-raw ferocity and total emotional exposure) and pushing them forward with the kind of conviction that only comes from actually loving the form.
Since the band formed in 2021, Matthew Cole, Dante Garcia II and Frankie Lopez have gone from sweat-slick local shows, kids climbing speakers, screaming every word back, to national tours that carry that same energy from room to room.
New single ‘My Name’, taken from their forthcoming debut album ‘Directions’, is a tight two-minute burst that shows exactly why that reaction follows them. It kicks off on a blown-out bassline before tearing into distortion-heavy guitars and shredded vocals, snapping between melody and mayhem with almost no warning.
The track folds old-school 90s skramz intensity into a punchier modern hardcore edge, never lingering long enough to settle. As Cole puts it, “what draws us to this type of music… is the absolute raw emotion”, and that sense of immediacy, of feeling everything at once, loudly and without polish, runs straight through the song.
With ‘Directions’ on the way, this feels less like a teaser and more like an M.O.
🎧 Watch the video for ‘My Name’ below