50 Best Screamo Songs for IG Reels & Stories

Best Screamo Songs for Instagram Reels and Stories

There’s a different kind of charge that screamo brings when the semester kicks in. It’s raw and ragged, like the sound of someone peeling the nerves off their throat and throwing them across a dorm hallway. You’re not floating into campus life smiling with iced coffee in hand. You’re stuck in traffic, speakers rattling, and the vocals are ripping through the static in a way that makes the mess feel real. These aren’t polished pop, rock, country, and R&B songs that wrap everything neat. Screamo thrives on the uneven edges that make starting out feel more like a punch than a plan.

The energy lands somewhere between defiance and collapse. You can hear it in the strained chords and the way the drums never quite let you breathe. It matches nights when the party gets too loud or mornings when the silence feels heavier than it should. Not every track talks directly about the start of school, but they slam into that restless energy that hangs around when change refuses to slow down. There’s comfort in the fact that the chaos itself has a soundtrack, even if the lyrics circle something else entirely.

What matters is that the songs hit in the middle of the mess. They echo the nerves, the sudden flashes of confidence, the late-night texts you regret in the morning, all tied up in screams that don’t fake calm. It’s not the type of music that smooths over the rough spots. It sits in the uneven, lets it grow louder, and leaves your story sounding like a memory already burning at the edges. Here are the best screamo songs for Instagram reels and stories.

1. 'Ohio Is for Lovers' by Hawthorne Heights

2. 'Cute Without the 'E' (Cut from the Team)' by Taking Back Sunday

3. 'Welcome to the Black Parade' by My Chemical Romance

4. 'I Write Sins Not Tragedies' by Panic! At The Disco

5. 'Check Yes Juliet' by We The Kings

6. 'King for a Day' by Pierce The Veil featuring Kellin Quinn

7. 'Face Down' by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus

8. 'The Downfall of Us All' by A Day to Remember

9. 'A Boy Brushed Red Living In Black and White' by Underoath

10. 'The Taste of Ink' by The Used

11. 'The Great Escape' by Boys Like Girls

12. 'Helena' by My Chemical Romance

13. 'The Kill' by Thirty Seconds To Mars

14. 'The Bird and the Worm' by The Used

15. 'Tears Don't Fall' by Bullet For My Valentine

16. 'Can You Feel My Heart' by Bring Me The Horizon

17. 'Knives and Pens' by Black Veil Brides

18. 'Famous Last Words' by My Chemical Romance

19. 'Until the Day I Die' by Story of the Year

20. 'A Box Full of Sharp Objects' by The Used

21. 'Understanding In a Car Crash' by Thursday

22. 'The Artist in the Ambulance' by Thrice

23. 'What It Is to Burn' by Finch

24. 'Reinventing Your Exit' by Underoath

25. 'Can't Be Saved' by Senses Fail

26. 'Bulls in the Bronx' by Pierce The Veil

27. 'One Armed Scissor' by At The Drive-In

28. 'All That I've Got' by The Used

29. 'I'm a Fake' by The Used

30. 'My Heroine' by Silverstein

31. 'Smashed Into Pieces' by Silverstein

32. 'All The Small Things' by blink-182

33. 'I'm Not Okay (I Promise)' by My Chemical Romance

34. 'The Seduction' by He Is Legend

35. 'In the Shadows' by Story of the Year

36. 'A Decade Under The Influence' by Taking Back Sunday

37. 'Unwritten' by Natasha Bedingfield

38. 'Dirty Little Secret' by The All-American Rejects

39. 'The Final Episode' by Asking Alexandria

40. 'Until I Feel Nothing' by Carnifex

41. 'Second & Sebring' by Of Mice & Men

42. 'The World Is a Vampire' by The Smashing Pumpkins

43. 'The End of All Things' by Panic! At The Disco

44. 'Say So' by Doja Cat

45. 'Worn Path' by Loma Prieta

46. 'Your Graduation' by Modern Baseball

47. 'In Fear and Faith' by Circa Survive

48. 'And Now It's Happening In Mine' by Touche Amore

49. 'Bite to Break Skin' by Senses Fail

50. 'Amnesia' by Yelawolf & J. Michael Phillips