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what do you think of growling/screaming?

GeneHilbert	Date: August 27, 2006 @ 4:02 AM Come on people - pus running out of someone’s ass can be considered art by some; but that doesn't mean I want to see, or even qualify its existence. If you want to sing; then sing. If you want to record snorts, growls, fluctuation, salivation, digestive bowel sounds. Regurgitations, secretions, or any conceived or as of yet un-conceived bodily functions. Then by all means have at it. But art.....? Life is filled with disgusting realities of the dark side of human nature. Dismay, education, awareness, activism, motivation, exhilaration, pleasure, humor, fun, mocking, jest and love?.... Oh my…….Yes Reflection.....? I see enough horror, grief, sorrow, dismay, angst, retribution, suspicion, greed, lust, and opportunism in the world. I don't need to or care to be entertained by it. Especially in yeti speech…..
shouhei	Date: August 27, 2006 @ 6:16 AM I fully appreciate screaming/growling in black/death metal. I see it as an expansion of the way we use our voice to express different things with timbre. I was having a discussion last night with my friend about how singers never really try to make too many different noises, we have the most complicated instrument at our constant disposal but all I ever seem to hear is that crappy soul vibrato all over the place. I wanna hear octave displacement, and gurgling. Sidsel Endresen pulls off some cool noises pretty well, but I ain't heard much else, and it's all a bit avant-garde for me when she starts going mental. hm.
Rikki27	Date: August 27, 2006 @ 9:14 AM when the Beatles did screams it was good because they didnt do it very often. But when bands add screams and growls in EVERY SINGLE SONG! it gets repititive and boring, and frankly annoying
shouhei	Date: August 27, 2006 @ 9:41 AM people say that about every kind of music they don't like. if you don't like it... "it all sounds the same"
jewsus	Date: August 27, 2006 @ 5:16 PM "I was having a discussion last night with my friend about how singers never really try to make too many different noises, we have the most complicated instrument at our constant disposal but all I ever seem to hear is that crappy soul vibrato all over the place." YES!!!!! shouhei, i love you, and if you're female, i'd like to molest you. what a perfect description. we DO have so many different ways to express ourselves through voice. it really is a shame when vocalists fall into a monotonous form of vocals. express yourself, growl if you're pissed off and shriek til your ears bleed if you're feeling anguish. i HATE it when people say there's no emotion in metal vocals. you don't have to sing to be emotional. hell, i feel that anger, sadness, and joy are the most extreme emotions that can be felt. so why not scream them at the top of your lungs? i mean, when you're pissed off, don't you yell? same goes with sadness, you cry your fuckin eyes out right? screaming is emotion in its purest form, as far as i'm concerned. to those who don't like screams/growls, here's a challenge i have for you. find a metal song, anything where you find the guitars/drums/anything BUT vocals to your liking. then look up the vocals and scream the lyrics as loud as you can while you listen to the song. if you can still come back here and say these vocals are boring and lack emotion, i don't think there's any help for you.
EchoMinor	Date: August 27, 2006 @ 10:03 PM now i know alot here might scold me for praising cradle of filth, but dani filth really does add alot of creativity to his vocals. they are rarely the same over and over as it was when they first came out. at first he would do the high pitched black metal screaming, but a doctor said it was ruining his vocal chords so he hired a vocal trainer to help him strenthen his vocal chords and sing some. now he alternates between high pitched screaming, low growl screaming, and low baritone clean vocals.
egac	Date: August 27, 2006 @ 11:48 PM i like it
GreatGooglyM...	Date: August 29, 2006 @ 9:49 AM Life is filled with disgusting realities of the dark side of human nature. Oh yes, and they're very fascinating. A lot more interesting than those sugary love ballads. Eww!
southwing	Date: September 6, 2006 @ 12:31 PM Excuse me, but I would like to stick my tounge on this pole too.... I'm 'Old School Music'. I also have a recording studio. I was hired by a band to record three demo songs for them. I did. The singer, growled and screamed and whispered and shouted, all in the same song, sometimes in the same line. It could have been an engineers recording nightmare,(it actually was very difficult) but to me it was a labor of love. After half a million listens, the song started to grow on me. These guys did a great job writing and playing they're music. I think I did OK as the producer. So, what do I think of growling/screaming? I can't perform that way, but it can be entertaining at times. Heres the link to the mentioned song: http://kms.dmusic.com/

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