Okay MetalHeads, what is it called when SpeedThrashers Sing Like they're about to Vomit

[omega minimo]

and why does it sound so damn FUNNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Like it's sposed to be :evilfrown: :hide: :evilfrown:

IT'S FUCKIN RIDICULOUS!!!!

What is that? :rofl::spray: Are they SERIOUS??!!!!??! :rofl:

[Withywindle]

1. Various things, including the "Growl", the "Death Growl", and just "vocals,"

as opposed to "clean vocals," which are singing with a recognizably human voice. We also call it "Cookie Monster." :D


The really interesting thing about this sound, for me? I know of a few underground metal bands with woman vocalists who do this sound, and....one cannot tell the difference. At all. It is a truly gender-neutral vocal style, which is not easy to find in any music anywhere in the world.

As a female headbanger, this pleases me. :headbang:

[Swede]

2. Have you heard Deathlok's album?

It's pretty good. It's a tv band,yet the album actually works.

Awaken by Deathlok
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jITvLCK3Fes

[omega minimo]

4. ok but is it funny?

:hi:

[Swede]

9. It's music that people enjoy.

Just leave it at that.

[omega minimo]

13. Grow up

[Swede]

18. Whatever dude.

You don't like some music,big deal.

[omega minimo]

19. Catch up Swede. Read the flippin thread.

[Swede]

23. If I was mistaken,my apologies.

There are genres of music that I do not listen to,but I would never presume to dis someones taste.

[omega minimo]

25. I was listening to it on the college station tonight and though I would pick DU's

genius musical brain trust.

It always makes me laugh, in a GOOD way.

:toast: skol

[Swede]

27. skol

:toast:

[Withywindle]

6. OH yes!

I love the show more, though. Anything after that was bound to be anticlimactic. :D

[omega minimo]

7. There's a show? Is that why it sounded like cartoon music?

That was great. And FUNNY!!

[Withywindle]

10. Deathklok is originally a cartoon band, yes.

Google "Metalocalypse," that's the actual name of the show. It's a fucking riot - but it's a riot because it pokes loving fun at tropes that have been in the metal scene for 25 years.

[omega minimo]

20. "Deathklok"

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Cool. Thanks, will check it out.

[omega minimo]

3. "COOKIE MONSTER"

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Hey the feminist thing is awesome, but


"COOKIE MONSTER"

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Thank you so much for the answer............. I've never gotten how serious it's sposed ta be, going with all the leather/stud/tat/shaved/eyeliner stuff.

IT'S GOT TO BE A JOKE RIGHT? I put up the punk rock thread this week that was a wayback trip to when there was a lot of humor in punk. Rob Zombie initiated this metal/vomit schtick........... I just wonder how serious people who are listening/making it are. It makes me laugh. Not AT them, but gawd, isn't it HIlarious?

Listening to the college station, just played "Gorecore" or something and joking it sounded like "Arnold Schwarzenegger on vocals."

[Withywindle]

11. The actual reason that's funny...

...is that a lot of the metalheads I know are stoners. So, round about 2:30 AM, the "Cookie Monster" instinct kicks in for real.

[omega minimo]

14. !

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[EvilAL]

5. Speedthrash?

The genre wars continue.

[omega minimo]

8. Hey enlighten me. I don't know what vomit vocals go with or what it's called.

[EvilAL]

12. You probably mean death metal.

They sing low and very incoherently, like a growl.

[omega minimo]

15. Like their vocal chords deteriorated...............

and it's supposed to be funny or scary or both?

[EvilAL]

17. I'm not sure

what it's supposed to be, different I guess. I'm a metalhead and even though I enjoy the death metal type music, the vocals turn me off of it.
It's very fast and everything metal should be, but the vocals are just too fucked up.

[omega minimo]

21. "Too fucked up"

I dunno. I asked cuz they sound like they're supposed to be scary but they sound funny. :hi:

[rucky]

16. Mongolian throat singing?

[dysfunctional press]

22. screamo?

:shrug:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1zCU2hfEIY

[omega minimo]

26. "You're really frightening. Off you go........."

He was just a baby lizard. Doesn't have his gills yet. :spray:

[mix]

38. that's what i call it

is it a genre or a way of singing?

[armyowalgreens]

44. Screamo is actually a genre of music.

It's screaming emo music.

[dysfunctional press]

49. i'm aware of that- that's why i responded with it.

my nephew used to have a screamo band. he has a music scholarship to usc- he starts this fall.

[Iggo]

24. People had problems with...

...Geoff Tate and Rob Halford back in the 80's. "Why are they singing with such high voices?" "Is this some kind of joke?" "How can anybody like this shit?" Johnny Cash. Bob Dylan. Tom Petty. Hell, half my parents' generation can't stand Tony Bennett. TONY BENNETT, fer-krice-sakes!

Don't like the new stuff? Don't worry. It'll be old-school soon enough.

Just repeat after me:

1. These kids today, with their hair and their clothes!

2. You call that music? Why, back in my day there was music you could understand!

3. For the last time, get the hell off my frickin' lawn!

[Tabasco_Dave]

28. I call it throat cancer metal

I used to listen to Slayer, Anthrax, and Metallica when they where speed metal, back in the 80's. I still respect hardcore metal even though i rarely listen to it anymore but the growling and vomiting sounds just annoy the hell out of me. Maybe I'm just an old fart now.

[omega minimo]

31. LOL

:spray: that's terrible :evilgrin:

[chknltl]

29. The Accused

One of my fave covers of all times is the Who's 'Boris The Spider' as done by the Accused. Spped/Thash Metel, 'vomit' vocals and if your at all familiar with the song you will be rofl-yer-ao! Now that's funny! (It's a pity that there is not likely a youtube example to play for you but this my space link will give you an idea what the band sounds like).

http://www.myspace.com/kingsofsplatter

[omega minimo]

32. I can hear it!!

:rofl:

[chknltl]

37. Found a snippet, click 'listen' on cut 13, Boris The Spider

http://www.gomusicnow.com/album.html?id=48246

Same place has a snippet of them playing Green Eyed Lady: http://www.gomusicnow.com/album.html?id=48256
Click 'listen' on cut-9

They also do a cover of Chicago's 'Color My World' and if memory serves, I seem to recall them playing Three Dog Night's 'Joy To The World' in this same thrash style too. :rofl:

[MorningGlow]

30. "About to vomit"

:rofl: I never thought of it that way. I just refer to it as "when the singer tries to eat the microphone".

It just gives me a headache.

I'm old. :(

[omega minimo]

33. You're not getting older

you're getting better.



And you're worth it.



I had to ask DU if it is tongue in cheek and considered as funny as it sounds or are they trying to actually scare people? :spray:

[Forkboy]

34. This thread isn't complete without a Carcass song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNKl1KqmFeI&feature=related

These bands take the music composition very seriously, but usually not themselves. In talking to a lot of these guys I found that they are very funny, very tongue in cheek in their approach to music. There's no way you write a song called Crepitating Bowel Erosion in total seriousness. A lot of these guys (especially from the older bands) have wives, kids, a mortgage. They're normal in every way until they start playing music.

I listen to a ton of black metal, and that's where the guys tend to take themselves way too seriously (though more and more bands/artists are shunning the dogma associated with the scene, thankfully). I could live without the corpse paint look, and I refuse to spell cult "kvlt".

[chknltl]

39. Church Of Hate, (Tacoma WA) is like that too

Their shows are a work of art, an art appreciated by those with...um... well here's a link to their myspace page. http://www.myspace.com/churchofhate
(My fave song, listenable here, is a little butt waggin' toe tappin' ditty called, "Mouth Full Of Broken Teeth").


Each one of these characters is married (or seriously attached) with kids. They do take their music seriously but truth be told-(and they utterly hate it when I say this)-they are the nicest guys you'd ever want to invite home for a Thanksgiving diner with the relatives! Onstage though is an entirely different, gooey bloody matter. They've been accused of being racist but that is not a truism of these guys. Musically they are equal opportunity haters-hating the racist just as much as they hate women or the Pope. It's their shtick musically but it is in no way a representation of who these guys really are.

[old mark]

35. Back long ago in the '70's, IIRC, there was a band called "Atomic Rooster"

who had a relative hit called "Death Walks Behind You", which I beleve may have been the first such song. There wre many metal bands that did not do this type of music, but AR seems to be the first to use that combination. It didn't seem to be very fast, though - not thrashing.


markO8)


Keerist! Rooster even made it to Wikipedia!

Look it up and see what you think.

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[ornotna]

43. I have that one on vinyl

I need to knock the dust off of it and play it again.

[old mark]

48. They were formed from the remnants of a seriously wierd band called

"The Crazy World of Arthur Brown" who were kind of a comedy/threatening/ loud/ goofy band from England. The guy who founded and led Rooster killed himself a few years ago.


mark

[chknltl]

36. Hey omega minimo here's a nice lass who can sing vomit vocals

Clearly the post of a fanboy but who knows, perhaps you may come to like this band as I do. I confess that I first found this band intriguing because here was a gal who could thrash with the best of 'em. That vocal style is hard on the throat though and over the years this singer has gotten away from them. Here is a bit of a historic look-through if you like, demonstrating the vocal style of Gen, singer for the Genitorturers.

I do not care for this vid but it does demonstrate those early vomit vocals Gen could do which first attracted me to her band. Not really thrash metal, actually better called death metal, I think this song is from '91 0r '92. Gen is seen in the first thirty seconds of this odd vid.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCbQt3HpuNg&feature=quicklist

'Sin City', recorded in the mid '90s gets away from the death metal style and gets closer to mainstream rock, here is the title cut which imho absolutely RAWKS!: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxh3WG5IApU&feature=related That song is followed by 'Terrorvision', more straight forward rock with Gen's usual 'evil' flavor, here she brings back those 'vomit vocals' in parts of it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGFRQPDac2Q

Finally here is 'Cum Junkie', one of Gen's more recent hits. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4ee0OpQOO8 The vid for 'Cum Junkie' needs to play a bit but trust me, the quality improves to near perfection after the opening 'theatrics' and you'll get to see Gen performing live-which imo is quite the treat. Content aside, this song is almost pop rock, long gone are those vomit vocals.
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[omega minimo]

40. Lovely. Truly appreciate your post!!!!

Sent me down a rabbit hole of Nirvana, Cheap Trick, Frances Bean and .............

Try this on for size.

Cosma Shiva
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9us-TlWAO4&NR=1

Nina Hagen
New York New York
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CST7XOxw4Dk

Nina Hagen - Ziggy Stardust
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzdWeMsFnwo&feature=related

Nina Hagen and Don Rickles

NINA RAPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IN what 1985?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8owv5YjHfJA

"MY INDIVIDUAL GOD IDENTITY"

DON RICKLES YOU FUCKIN DRIED UP OLD TURTLE!! YOU BELONG I N A TOILET AQUARIUM WAItING FOR WOMEN WILLING TO COME CHANGE YOUR SOILED WATER. Prick.

Lene Lovich Bird Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maucjGIUzzo

New Toy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7VgDSNxlGU

Lene Lovich - Lucky Number
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nu2QX3GU-U

[omega minimo]

41. Somehow lost the Nina Hagen Kickin Ass on German TV thread, ya gotta check it out

I appreciate your rockin threads so much. They are also -with DU respect - male fantasies, the Pat Benatars and Dale Bazzios of their ilk.

Check out these women who will KICK YOUR ASS WITH A SENSE OF HUMOR and see if you can handle it ----- from the 80's!!!!!!!!!

[chknltl]

42. Half way through links and highly offended

by don rickles comment "...and you want to know why they lost the war." I had to stop watchin that train-wreck right then and there! Ya know, I never thought much of mr. rickles style of humor one way or the other, he IS talented, I appreciate that but this coment...and that smug attitude...I can only hope it was one of those moments for him that we all have, you know the one where we wish that we could go back in time and restate something we know was in PISS POOR taste.

FWIW this is my first exposure to Nina Hagen, (I guess I don't get out much huh), I can't decide if I like her music so far, but I'd be honored to have her as a friend or a neighbor or as someone to have worked with-ok I'd have LOVED to have had the chance to have photographed her at her gigs. When I did photography of local musicians, I always preferred artists who brought more to the stage than their music. (which is why the Genetorturers were my fave band to shoot). Nina Hagen is a visual feast and definitely an artist I would have done anything to have been able to shoot!

logging off for the night, I am bookmarking this because I want to see those other links, thanks for turning me on to Ms Hartley

[ornotna]

45. Gen rocks!

I actually know Bizz. Very nice guy. He has some solo stuff that he's working on. http://www.myspace.com/bangdeluge

[ornotna]

46. This should answer all your questions

ED's Furry Fucking guide to metal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUbBnM9O7uk

[omega minimo]

50. very helpful. only thing missing was

COOKIE MONSTER!!!!!!!!!! :headbang:

[Mythsaje]

47. It's called "fucking awful."

The only person I've ever been able to stand doing it is the guy from Epica. The beauty and the beast counter-balance seems to work for me. Otherwise I just really, really wish they'd shut up.