history of the metal "growl"?

[Xtokalon]

I'm pretty new to death metal, and I wonder where the death metal growling originated--- who "invented" the growl or was the first to use it?

Also, do any of you growl? I don't know what's wrong with me but I can't growl for shiat-- I mean everytime I try to imitate these guys I end up coughing after two sentences

 

[Onan]

I can growl pretty good and for a long time, both Death vox and Black vox, but i think it requires quite a lot of practice for most people, i guess i'm just talented

As for the origins of the growl, i heard that sometime while recording Bathory's PA blew up so they hooked up the mic to a guitar amp and that's the sound it made, and probably afterwards people tried to make that sound without using all kind of electronical tricks.

 

[BurzumBeast]

I'm pretty sure the vocal styles of Venom, Bathory, and Hellhammer/Celtic Frost are what started extreme vocals in metal.

 

[spikes77]

i believe it was also chuck from Death...lets hope hes ok being that his cancer is acting up again...

 

[Lee_B]

Jeff Becerra from Possessed would have a pretty valid claim, I reckon.

 

[The Wanderer]

yeah, i totally agree with the possessed comment. possessed influenced early death a lot. listen to seven churches then listen to scream bloody gore. yeah.

you guys are leaving out all the thrash guys and stuff. it just didn't happen. it was a progression. lemmy had a lot to do with it. he influenced most of the thrash guys. what about sodom? venom, bathory, celtic frost were all very important, but you guys already got those.

 

[MetalManCPA]

Possessed - darn, somebody beat me with this answer.