Every growl is different. If you can't tell the difference between Carcass' vocals and Death's vocals... well you need to pay close attention.
Heh... way to leave the newest Dimmu video off. That is a visual abortion that rates extremely high on the unintentional comedy scale.
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I also have to admire Five Finger Death Punch's Ivan Moody because he can flip the switch from percussive mid-pitch metalcore growls to clean vocals on a moment's notice. Mainstream though the music is, his vocal techniques make the band for me.
Maybe, but I dont care for any of them
STU BLOCH!
Immortal is soooo much better than Dragonlord it's not even funny.
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I'll take my good production black metal with better players over immortal any day
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I'll take my good production black metal with better players over immortal any day
I fail at editing lol
Dragonlord may be more technically skilled but Immortal are much better songwriters and that's what really matters.
Agreed..
Furthermore, with mentions of In Flames, Arch Enemy, Slipknot, Dummy Burger, etc... me thinks many of you are calling any vocal that is not clean a growl.
Are there different styles of growling or harsh vocals?
And there's yet another style that everyone I know refers to as "REE" because all it sounds like they're saying is "Reeee Reeee Reeeeeee," .
me thinks many of you are calling any vocal that is not clean a growl.
I've been to Arch Enemy, Opeth, and The Black Dahlia Murder shows and all these vocalists were able to incorporate a discernible, lower-pitched melody line while keeping their voice guttural.
I thought Serpentine was the newest...
Well yeah, because that's the Generally-Accepted Terminology. Yes, once you get into a detailed discussion of "harsh vocals", then "growl" can refer to a subset of that style, but when used as the opposite of "clean vocals", then "growl" covers the whole set, and I think that's fine.
It's like the word "car". In its narrow, nitpicky form, an SUV is not a "car". But in its wide form, "car" generally refers to any automobile used for personal transport, whether it's a 2-seat convertible or an SUV.
All "clean" vocals are not "clean" either. If we wanted to be truly precise, we'd use terms like "melodic" and "non-melodic" vocals, or even "tonal" vs. "atonal".
Grab the latest Threshold album and listen to the third track, Elusive. Again, this is a genre and a song that should appeal to you. One of that song's most outstanding features is the back-and-forth calling between the clean and growled vocals.
BTW, the growling voice on both Slipstream and Elusive from the most recent Threshold album Dead Reckoning, are done by guest vocalist Dan Swano. All the the clean vox are done by Mac.