Worst style of music...... EVER.

[Pixel]

I absolutely love growling vocals. Listening to them, and on several occasions in the past, performing them too. But I have come to find that I don't like growls that are distorted using an effects machine. A line or two of this here and there in a song is fine, but a song full of distorted growls fills me with a sense of despair. I prefer growling in its natural form

Also, guitar music by the likes of Satriani, Vai etc. I'm not saying it's crap at all, because it's clearly very well done, but to be completely honest, it bores me.

 

[Harkat]

I do know that through practice and training that you can growl safely, that is without destroying your vocals. I read that Mikael Åkerfeldt has been using growling for 15 years but still maintains the ability to sing cleanly.
So there has to be a technique were you can protect your vocals

'The Drapery Falls' is a good example:
2:15 for clean vocals
4:47 for growls
7:15 - 7:40 for a quick transition between both

 

[aeroplane]

^^Exactly Cosmic well put.

When the lead singer of The Used started out, he had a bucket to throw up in during concerts, because he screamed to the point of making himself physically sick.

Then a few years ago he had to have surgery to save his vocal chords, and was told to either change his singing style or lose his voice. I know a little sacrifice for your art/calling is expected but that is a little too much for me to grasp.

Learn how to sing, use the screams to punctuate a song or tastefully and I have no problem with them, like many great rock/metal artists have done in live concerts for decades.

I don't like "cookie monster" vocals either, if that is what you are referring to. God I hated getting that shit in the mail at the radio station. It is about the only music I refused to play period, which is pretty significant considering I was one of the more open-minded dj's at the station. I was freaking playing Christian rap on Tuesday afternoon's, for example.

Fortunately we had a hardcore metal guy on the staff who I was able to hand it down to.

 

[CREAM'd]

I really,really thought the screamo thing was a joke,so i went onto YouTube and checked it out.Dire,absolute tripe,it is some kinda' teenage joke,isn't it?.Is there anybody here on the Classic Rock Forum who would look forward to a screamo album coming out,then actually go and buy it and sit down and listen to it??

 

[Kuaizi]

I do know that through practice and training that you can growl safely, that is without destroying your vocals. I read that Mikael Åkerfeldt has been using growling for 15 years but still maintains the ability to sing cleanly.
So there has to be a technique were you can protect your vocals

'The Drapery Falls' is a good example:
2:15 for clean vocals
4:47 for growls
7:15 - 7:40 for a quick transition between both

KILLER example! I love Opeth because he just doesn't growl, he has taken care of his vocals so he can do both, adding the best of both! \m/

 

[0000]

I agree, it does have its place in music.
Its like saying Picasso's work isn't art because it doesn't look anything like Vincent Van Gogh.

The one ear thing seems to be the connection..

Sorry, I couldn't resist.. I can't listen to the screaming either, I don't like growling, actually, there is very little metal I actually enjoy listening too, there are a good number of bands or songs that I choose not to listen to because they sound too metallic.. Just not my thing..

I'd also rather not listen to the "shredder" genre.. very boring to me, I can respect what those musicians do, but if I want to be blown away, I'll listen to jazz

I hate the stereotypical smooth jazz though.. I'll try everything, I'm just a bit picky of what I continue "trying''

 

[aeroplane]

I really,really thought the screamo thing was a joke,so i went onto YouTube and checked it out.Dire,absolute tripe,it is some kinda' teenage joke,isn't it?.Is there anybody here on the Classic Rock Forum who would look forward to a screamo album coming out,then actually go and buy it and sit down and listen to it??

F**k that sh*t. I didn't even like receiving screamo albums for free in the mail.

 

[LG]

From the conversations I have had with young fans of Screamo bands over the last couple of years I guess part of the attraction is the teenage "Angst" many of them feel, and these bands seem to provide an outlet/comfort for them somehow.

I remember someone wrote a "I Hate My Chemical Romance" thread and wow, the fireworks went from there. The fans of the band would not take any criticism of their heroes no matter how professionally or dispassionately it was expressed. I was really quite surprised by the whole thing, and I am not a Hater of MCR, just don't find them very interesting.

So I guess like Fisha said and Harkat there is some kind of connection screamo bands have with young people that old dinosaurs like myself simply cannot fathom, and not for lack of keeping an open mind either.

Kuaizi, Mikael Akerfeldt is the exception in that genre, I don't mind Opeth but that is where it ends for me in the Death Metal arena.

 

[CREAM'd]

I used to work with the lead singer in a death metal band,he told me that he could sing his grocery list out as lyrics and it just wouldn't matter as nobody would understand it.He was a really spot on funny kinda' guy,a real laugh to work with,gave me a demo tape(it was about 18 years ago),i wish i had of kept it.

 

[aeroplane]

Being an open-minded radio guy who looked over everything that came into my mailbox, I had the misfortune of reading album jackets, press kits and band bios for numerous screamo groups.

Nothing but drivel about their "rage" and "anger" with a society that has turned their back on them or kept them down.

Long-winded rants written on paper and screamed on a cd from talentless hacks who claim to be oppressed or held back by "the man" make me long for songs from watered down Motley Crue/Poison clones who sing songs about banging chicks in the back of a Camaro. At least they don't have a frigging agenda that they are shoving down my throat.