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About
Joliette is a Mexican screamo, post-hardcore, and mathcore band formed in Puebla and later based in Mexico City. The group is a four-piece, with a lineup centered around vocals, guitars, bass, and drums, and they’re known for combining the emotional intensity of screamo with the angular structures of math-influenced hardcore and heavier metallic textures. Since emerging in 2010, Joliette have built a reputation within the Latin American underground for music that is both technically restless and emotionally direct.
How to Sound Like Joliette
Joliette’s sound is abrasive, urgent, and dynamic, built less on polished clarity than on tension, impact, and sudden shifts in density. To get close to their style, focus on overdriven to heavily distorted guitar tones that still preserve note definition during dissonant chords, tremolo-picked lines, and stop-start rhythmic figures. Their arrangements often balance chaotic bursts with spacious, melodic passages, so it helps to pair aggressive gain with tight muting, sharp rhythmic precision, and occasional ambient reverb or delay used sparingly rather than constantly. The bass should feel present and weighty, often reinforcing the guitars’ attack instead of acting independently, while the drums need a dry, punchy, highly articulate sound that can move quickly between blast-like intensity, mathy accents, and emotionally charged crescendos. Vocally, the delivery leans toward raw, strained screams rather than polished hardcore shouting, which is key to the band’s volatile, cathartic character.
