Saetia was a
New York City-based
screamo band that is often considered one of the definitive groups of the genre, and they are often credited as being the source of a resurgence in popularity the genre experienced in the late 1990s. Saetia existed as a band from February 1997 to October 1999, when they broke up. Their name originates from a misspelling of the
Miles Davis track "
Saeta", from his landmark album
Sketches of Spain, which, in turn, was named after a religious tradition of
flamenco music. (This is similar to fellow screamo band Joshua Fit For Battle, whose name was a corruption of the traditional American spiritual song "Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho"; other members of Saetia later formed
Off Minor, which is the title of a
Thelonious Monk composition.)
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