I think 'punk' used to mean a guy who took it up the ass in prison. The more you know!
also shut up dude, I'm having fun and being informative otherwise I'm bored here in the MUSIC FORUM
I'm glad you're having fun but this was honestly one of the worst and most irritating topics I've read here, mostly because of that whole pedantic debate about whether this constituted punk. It's pretty funny since I called the Monkees punk in a topic just to fuck with people and no-one called me on it at all whereas most of these guys are at least recognisable as some variation on the emo/hardcore sound, so yeah...
Also Blitzen there was a topic a while back about hardcore that mentioned a few of the bands here so check that out I guess:
http://www.gamingw.net/forums/index.php?topic=5543.0. I can't see the appeal in these guys at all though. The Blood Brothers are pretty much the only screamo band I can tolerate, and by all accounts they're regarded as sellouts by the other bands because they decided to make music that didn't completely suck balls and actually tried to progress their sound from just being duddaduddaduddaduddadudda*grating soundalike vocals* so take that as you will I guess.