"For many years of my life, I’d be downright baffled when I met a person familiar with the screamo records I grew up on. The genre seemed like such a small, insular product of the area in which I lived and, since it was birthed before the internet could signal boost it to a larger audience, I assumed it stayed there. So when a stranger could reference The Now or Off Minor, it was like they spoke a secret language, like they were quoting some public access TV show that I thought no one outside my friend circle had seen."