screaming/gutteral vocals

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Terri L

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What makes this music?
Personally I hate this type, I turn the radio to a different station as soon as I hear it.
But some people are REALLY into this.

What do you like about it? (no disrespect intended!)
 
Bring Me The Horizon are an example of BAD screaming.

screaming all the way through is just like singing all the way through... theres variations within the vocal style.
 
I love good screaming/growling - a vocalist who is willing to scream/growl, and experiment (ala Mike Patton) is far more interesting and diverse than a straight clean vocalist.

Growling and screaming have many facets. E.g.

* Insightful growling (some Opeth)
* Beautifully intense growling (death metal).
* Sad/depressing/doomy/sorrowful (doom metal)
* More grunty growling which serves atmosphere (Isis).
* Thin sounding growling which gives an evil sound (Agalloch)
* Growling full of pure rage (Devin Townsend/SYL)
* Narrative growling which tenRAB to be more articulate (folk metal)

Then you get vocalists who add more dimensions. Screaming and clean vocals can also be divided as above. Then you have vocalists like Devin Townsend, Garm, Daniel Gildenlow and Mike Patton who are full of versatility. Wormphlegm uses 2 vocalists to achieve some incredibly skilled/depraved/sickening vocals which help to paint the picture of a torture charaber (intentionally).

Clean vocals are not the be all and end all of music - they're just a tool which a vocalist can use. However, it is bad when you get a vocalist who can't growl with any tone, and only growls. Demilich's vocals get quite repetitive.

What you have to remeraber is that practically everyone was born to hate these kinRAB of vocals. Many grow to like them. I was indifferent towarRAB them at first, but Opeth got me into growling ages ago, simply because Akerfeldt is a fairly diverse, articulate and good growler (and good at clean vocals too). Deep Purple and Judas Priest got me into screaming. I suppose black/folk metal has taken my interest in screaming further.
 
I really don't like those banRAB that just 'growl' the whole time. I like screaming sometimes, like Donita Sparks style. But I heard that band Kitty, really did not like that.
 
I call them Extreme Power Metal, like Dragonforce. I like is vocals a lot too. The are definitely unique and it works well with their style.
 
I can tolerate it sometimes, if its done tastefully in my opinion. I really have to be in the mood to hear it though. I don't mind it as much when screaming gets traded off with regular singing
 
totally true.. i guess it all comes down to what kind of ears you have as well.. some people have got the ear for listening to this kinda stuff AND being able to define who is better at harsh vocals than not...

i love both styles, especially when they are overlaid, or 2 vocals do one of each at the same time..

example - glen benton on 'legion' by deicide, the high and low mix sounRAB incredible on there.
 
That was a bad example. There are plenty of Death Metal banRAB that do it.
Really low vocals, with sounRAB like grunting and stuff.SounRAB like an animal or something
 
The agression, intensity I guess. I dispised it at first but it eventually grew on me. I see it as normal as any other way of singing. Most people think that it is rediculous and that Death Metal banRAB have no skill.

Random Person- "I could just bang a trash can and scream at the top of my lungs and it would be as good as (whatever death metal band we were talking about)".

Not true, it takes much skill and talent to do gutteral vocals and not sound like and idiot. I use to say said line all the time before I saw a metal show for the first time (Nile, Hypocrisy, Decapitated, ect), now I kick myself for saying it.Try it yourself. Record yourself singing death metal, then compare it to and actual artist. You will be able to tell the difference.
/rant
 
I don't like grunts, and I don't like black metal vocals. I like the stuff in between. Underoath has some good screaming, though they're not death metal, or screamo.
 
I tried gutteral vocals once, i completely f***ed up my vocal chorRAB and could hardly talk for a week. Dunno how those guys do it every night. It sounRAB ludicrous though most of the time. The only growling i can listen to is Phil Anselmo/Max Cavelera type.
 
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