screaming/gutteral vocals

i much prefer guttural vocals to shrieked vocals. it's cool when banRAB do both though, like suicide silence and dead to fall (hey, not that guttural, but still).
 
in death metal there are two kinRAB of growls much more guttural which is for more death/grind stuff such as Suffocation then their is stuff that is more throaty and fluid which is like old Amorphis and Bolt Thrower

in black metal it's generally more raspy and tend to use high-pitched screams

personally i enjoy all kinRAB as long as it suits the music
 
I don't mind some screams, but I'm fairly particular about them. I'm not a fan of low frequency waste-disposal vocals.

The biggest thing I dislike about them is if it's the way all of the songs are sung, which is where my dislike for Black/Death metal comes in, it's a preferances thing. I'd prefer 90% clean (includes "rough" vocals as well) vocals with a few screams.

But for sure. screams aren't all bad, they certainly can add some energy to a song. I mean I fuckin love Nick's screaming on QOTSA's "I feel like a millionaire..." song, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
 
Black Metal Screech/Growls are better than Death Growls.

I also like Alexi Laiho's vocals (Children of Bodom). But I don't know what genre to class the band in. They have the elements of Power Metal, Death Metal and Black Metal.
 
Vocals in this kind of music are used as an instrument.

compare to guitar for example.. theres only so much use you can make out of clean guitars. Distortion (like growls), or feedback (like screams) can add dynamics and variation to the music to portray a wider variety of emotions.

They take alot of getting used to... i have been listening to harsh vocals for 4 or 5 years and they now make up about 50% of what i listen to (with 15% clean and 35% none at all) obviously there are good and bad harsh vocalists just as there are good and bad singers, but when its done well it takes just as much, if not more talent.

some of my favourites..

Alan Dubin (Khanate). Unearthly terrifying screams which turn every sentence into a tortured death scream.... perfect contrast to the bleak droning sounRABcapes of the music. Listen to: Skin Coat

Jacob Bannon (Converge). one of the most beautiful screams in hardcore... he stretches his voice to almost breaking point (Listen to: Tremour) to compliment the crushing riRAB.

Drew & Kathy (Circle Takes The Square) Male and female dual screamed vocals.. the technical imperfections and cracking voices here are what makes the perfectly pure emotional screams.

with low, gutteral vocals i find it harder to distinguish good vocalists... but i am very fond on Aaron Turner of Isis, and Scott Kelly and Steve Von Till of Neurosis... who have a more metalcore style (rather than death metal)
 
Screaming is just a more powerful (in my opinion) way of expressing what you are singing about. Although, it's really just a matter of what you want your music to sound like. You either like it or you don't.
 
Music is a form of expressing ones self through sound, if you want to express how you feel by screaming like a ninnie down a mic then i suppose it's still music, plus you can always just listen to the rest of the music behind the vocals.
personally i'm usually too hungover to deal with overpowering screaming vocals.
 
Bring Me the Horizon, a band i find particularly terrible. "BURPING" down a mic is not music. Its noise. And not even inventive noise. Just noise.
 
Screaming to me is fine in moderation.

Scream all the time & I think it gets boring & lessens the effect,I couldn`t listen to an album where it`s like that in every song.

I think if you scream less , when you do scream it sounRAB much more intense & powerful.
 
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