El término screamo se aplicó en primer lugar a un conjunto de bandas que se presentaban desde 1991 en el Ché Café, y que componían un estilo hardcore influenciado por la escena emotional hardcore, particularmente de bandas como Fugazi y Nation of Ulysses. Este conjunto agrupaba a bandas como Heroin, Antioch Arrow, Mohinder, Angel Hair, Swing Kids, y Portraits of Past; y destacó por su peculiar sentido de la moda, inspirado en la cultura mod.
Underoath fue una banda de Metalcore, formada en Tampa, Florida, E.E.U.U caracterizada porque todos sus miembros son cristianos. Actualmente su discográfica es Tooth & Nail Records/Solid State Records. Su estilo musical ha cambiado constantemente debido a los cambios en su formación.
Underoath se formó en 1998 en Florida, con sólo tres integrantes, los que eran Dallas Taylor como vocalista, el guitarrista Lucas Morton, y el baterista Scott Nunn. Un tiempo después el bajista Octavio Fernández y el guitarrista Corey Steger fueron agregados a la banda . Aaron Gillespie también substituyó a Scott Nunn en la batería. El talento de la banda llamo la atención Takehold Records, y rápidamente firmaron contrato. Era entonces que Lucas Morton decidido dejar la banda. En 1999, la banda lanzó su primer disco titulado Act of Depression. El álbum contaba con seis canciones .
I tried to cry out from the inside
But I guess my soul did not pour itself out enough
Blood on the walls, flaming black, blood on the walls
I saw you staring through the cracks
No one was to know what was happening in me I felt no love
I felt no reason to carry on with my life
Everything was wrong, nothing was right, at least that is what I thought
Kids finding laughter at my expense
They were killing me on the inside they couldn't give up their pride
My heart was bleeding from so much grieving
On the outside I looked fine
You couldn't tell but on the inside was eternal hell
I got caught up in the moment of depression
And before I knew it my bodywas lying on the ground
With a gun in my hand my hourglass was out of sand
Thanks to all the people who drove me to death
Without you I could of never ended my breath
Through your anger and hate, I was able to choose my fate
There was a way out, but I chose the easy route
Blast of a gun, breath runs out, final thoughts put to extinction
No more pain, no more love
For you have chosen suicide as the way out
Help them
Ice cold fingers, body lays on the floor
Pool of blood you see, you scream out in terror
Her body is now a part of mutilation, her soul the victim of strangulation
I will not accept this evil anymore
I never thought of who I hurt or I never tried to look for the good
I'm sorry for whoever I hurt, it's not easy to look back on my life
And know I did not know Christ
For now I live in a real hell
I wish I had another chance
Then I would live my life with love