A question for metal fans.

[PleaseDele]

Weak


EDIT: for those complaining about not hearing the lyrics, let me share something on that. I hate being able to understand everything that's being sung. I also hate knowing the lyrics before I know a song, because I often find myself listening to the lyrics rather than the music. I always get to know the music before the words, and if I hear the words before the lyrics i find it hard to enjoy the music as much. This is one reason I enjoy listening to bands like Rammstein so much because I don't know, or care, what they're saying. And if I want to find out I look it up, and I'm not saying lyrics are unimportant, they're just secondary to music. So if you can't understand what the singer is saying, and that's why you won't listen to death metal or something, get over it. Seriously, you don't need to hear the lyrics, and if you want to know what they are, look them up

I've seen an argument going around sayign any yahoo can scream (or growl for that matter).

This is not the case. In my opinion and experiences with live shows it's ones that can also actually sing quite decent or even well: think Scar Symmetry old vocalist), Mercenary (bassist now does all the work) and Opeth. These guys also have a good solid basis for clean singing.

There is a lot of technique involved with the actual growling and screaming. This is however, my main problem with it. I've seen bands that think growling and screaming is easy and therefor go that route and it sounds horrible.

It might be a bit easier because you don't have to work with as much melodies as clean singing, but pronounciation will ask for even more technique of projection and control over the mouth area. It's a different ball game. However I find most contestants are hardly A-List players.

Listen to this man. Also Akerfeldt is the greatest metal vocalist of all time.

Thanks for quoting me, but I'm gonna have to disagree with the part you edited in your previous post.

I don't think lyrics come in second or rather SHOULD NOT come in second. Cause if they were you can easily replace vocals with some noise synthesizers or guitars with extreme effects and get the same effect of "roughness." It would also mean that Death Metal Rooster and other parodies are no longer the parody the maker wanted it to be.

I guess what I'm trying to say is: if lyrics come secondary, they are merely an excuse for incoherent growling like an animal which I just think is silly. Unless the song as ment as sounding like an animal. Then it's awesome.

 

[Vonnis]

The vast majority of metal I listen to is mainly or only screaming and grunting. It fits the music; just as the guitars get distorted, so too does the human voice. If done right (and it takes practice to do so) it adds an inhuman quality to the music, which is especially fitting for death or black metal. I'm not a big fan of the kind of screaming you seem to hear in a lot of metalcore or screamo, but I don't like those genres anyway.

 

[Micalas]

I'm not that big on the screaming or grunting either. There are some songs where it's done well and I like it but I tend to stick to prog metal and power metal where it's kept to a minimum. You can still get that metal sound without death growls.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kjMlN2umoM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc62kCsDT9M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wquboYw-acY