Fucking Shouter Bands......Instantly Sound Like 10,000 other faceless bands...

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  • Hardrock69
    DIAMOND STATUS
    • Feb 2005
    • 21838

    Fucking Shouter Bands......Instantly Sound Like 10,000 other faceless bands...

    Dressed in black shorts.....goatees.....maybe a buncha piercings....lotsa tattoos...at least one other member of the band has their hair in braids or dreads.....

    Singer up front pretending to be so angry....sounding as if he was taking a crap after eating some green chile burritos and drinking Everclear all night....and being told they have to go to Church.....by the grandma they are mooching off of while trying to become famous....

    Oh PUH-LEEEZE!


    Watched some of Headbangers Ball this evening.....

    Here is the trick....if you want to stand out from all the other Heavy Bands...SING!!!!

    Stop that shouting crap!!
    Everyone who shouts sounds the fucking same...as if they are fucking shouting!!!!

    Commercial for the Autumn Offering's new album was just on....the dude was just shouting in key......

    The only way you can truly sound original is to fucking SING!

    If you are so bad a singer, (or lame) then don't become a shouter....you only sound fucking stupid, but you guarantee when you are 50 you will be able to do little more than croak...and you will sound FUCKING IDENTICAL TO EVERY OTHER FUCKING BAND WITH SOME KINDA GUY (or girl..I must allow equal rights for all except Joe Thudner) WHO STANDS THERE SOUNDING LIKE AN ENRAGED AND DRUNK BOBCAT WHOSE ASS IS BEING SANDED DOWN WITH A BELT SANDER WITH 30 GRIT SAND PAPER ON IT WHILE BEING SET ON FIRE!!!!

    (Note: The author does not condone hurting or mutilating aminuls in any way. The above Bobcat Allegory is meant as a desription of something you would not understand if you were offended by it. So you PETA fuckers can go right back to eating your meat by-product sandwiches and raw greaseburgers).

    There has only been one shouter band I ever really got into....the KINGS Of Shouter Metal...

    PANTERA!!!!

    Hey man Phil actually sang his ass off on the first record!!!

    But nobody could beat him as a shouter...he could sound more horribly horrifying than anyone....

    Right now on HBB there is a half hour special on Motorhead with live videos from their latest DVD Stagefright (which kicks total ass by the way!!!).

    Arguments could be supplied accusing Lemmy of being a shouter, but the difference is that he is actually singing.

    These young shouter bands just want to sound as if their vocals were being drowned inside a garbage compactor that had been thrown in the back of a huge garbage truck with 34 chain saws, 14 lawnmowers and 76 weed-eaters all running at full blast while being crushed by the garbage truck.

    Lemmy just sings the lyrics while imitating the shouter style, and kicks fucking ass.

    So he is excused from these rantings.

    Commercial for Kataklysm and Dimmu Borgir on Nuclear Blast records was just on...I could not tell the difference between them.

    Heh...a band called "Through The Eyes Of The Dead"...they sound completely pointless.

    The singer is on a rasp that makes the Bobcat Allegory sound like an angelic choir.

    The band is pummeling their instruments to the extreme for about 3 or 4 minutes with this ignorant sandpaper bullshit over the top of it.....

    Who in the FUCK is gonna remember something like that?


    Back in the 60s & 70s old people called The Stones, Zeppelin & Hendrix "noise" but they were actual musicians. Who wrote actual music.

    Call me an old curmudgeon motherfucker if you must, but I think all shouter people should be given the chance to prove they can sing, and if they cannot, ban them from ever performing anywhere ever again.

    PPPPTTTTTTTTTTTTTHHBBBBBBB!!!!!!!!!!



    End rant here I suppose....
  • Hardrock69
    DIAMOND STATUS
    • Feb 2005
    • 21838

    #2
    ALAN THE PANTHER APPROVES....do a Google search for images of Pantera...keeping in mind that the word Pantera also means "panther"...and you get THIS!:

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    • BITEYOASS
      ROTH ARMY ELITE
      • Jan 2004
      • 6529

      #3
      You forgot to mention that Phil Anselmo has a kick-ass death metal voice as well:

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      • MAPRamone
        Head Fluffer
        • Jun 2006
        • 460

        #4
        Originally posted by BITEYOASS
        You forgot to mention that Phil Anselmo has a kick-ass death metal voice as well:

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        Yep! If there's no reunion coming (as it appears), EVH should join Pantera!
        dm/dt=kA (Cs-C)

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        • binnie
          DIAMOND STATUS
          • May 2006
          • 19144

          #5
          Hardrock, you are absolutely right!

          Phil is the best of those types of vocalists, although Max Caverlera and Robb Flyn (Machine Head) also do it properly.

          Tom Araya is another good example, it's not singing, but its a distinct and unique vocal approach.

          However most shouting bands think that cookie-monster vocals make them heavier - it doesn't, might make them more "extreme" but heavy is something different.

          What is even worse than out and out shouting, is the shouty verse and then a stab at a melodic chorus that is pro-tooled beyond beleif. I HATE that: it's like, "maybe if we put this 'melodic' bit in we'll get air-play".

          No, it's an awful state of affairs. Truly great bands always have a good singer, it's the first thing you identity with, the most human and directly emotional part of a band.

          Think back to the hey-day of thrash. Hetfield and Mustaine didn't sing, but they didn't shout and scream either, they put the attitude down in a unique way. Thrash dies, IMO, when all the shouty vocalists came along and everyone sounded the same because any semblance of melody had gone.

          All these bands singers want to be Phil - they're not.
          The Power Of The Riff Compels Me

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          • MERRYKISSMASS2U
            Full Member Status

            • Mar 2004
            • 4372

            #6
            Sepultura! I love them! They have cool tunes and they speak Portuguese!

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            • binnie
              DIAMOND STATUS
              • May 2006
              • 19144

              #7
              Yep Sepultura WERE exceptional, when they had Max.

              Beneath the Remains and Arise are two thrash albums up there with the best of them.

              However they really came into their own with

              Chaos AD in 1993, which took thrash and welded it with tribal drumming and old skool hardcore punk. That is a haevy and aggressive record.


              Also Roots in 1995 was fantastic. It was recorded in the heart of the Amazon Rain Forest and they get these tirbesmen to lay down crazy percussion. It's also seriously heavy, but a move in the direction of a garage feel to it - you wouldn't call it thrash per se.

              Awesome band, and one of the only "shouters" to really do something unique vocally. Igor Caverllera is also one of the most amazing drummers out there, IMO. He can make one kit sound like an army of percussion without ever over playing.

              Check em out but avoid anything post 1995 - not good at all.
              The Power Of The Riff Compels Me

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              • MERRYKISSMASS2U
                Full Member Status

                • Mar 2004
                • 4372

                #8
                Originally posted by binnie
                Yep Sepultura WERE exceptional, when they had Max.

                Beneath the Remains and Arise are two thrash albums up there with the best of them.

                However they really came into their own with

                Chaos AD in 1993, which took thrash and welded it with tribal drumming and old skool hardcore punk. That is a haevy and aggressive record.


                Also Roots in 1995 was fantastic. It was recorded in the heart of the Amazon Rain Forest and they get these tirbesmen to lay down crazy percussion. It's also seriously heavy, but a move in the direction of a garage feel to it - you wouldn't call it thrash per se.

                Awesome band, and one of the only "shouters" to really do something unique vocally. Igor Caverllera is also one of the most amazing drummers out there, IMO. He can make one kit sound like an army of percussion without ever over playing.

                Check em out but avoid anything post 1995 - not good at all.
                5 ***** for you!

                Who the fuck is this black dude wannabe they have now as a singer?

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                • MAPRamone
                  Head Fluffer
                  • Jun 2006
                  • 460

                  #9
                  Chaos AD is pure genius! I bought this album when i was 13 and loved it to death.
                  dm/dt=kA (Cs-C)

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                  • binnie
                    DIAMOND STATUS
                    • May 2006
                    • 19144

                    #10
                    Originally posted by MERRYKISSMASS2U
                    5 ***** for you!

                    Who the fuck is this black dude wannabe they have now as a singer?
                    He's called Derek Green I think, Derek somebody anyways.

                    Their last three records have been average at best.

                    Thanks for the props!
                    The Power Of The Riff Compels Me

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                    • Shaun Ponsonby
                      ROTH ARMY ELITE
                      • Oct 2004
                      • 6345

                      #11
                      Never liked any of thee bands.

                      For some reason, bands today seem to think you NEED to scream and shout to be a metal band. Bullshit. Why can't they "sing" like Lemmy or James Hetfield before he tried to be a real singer?

                      A lot of the fans of this shit that I know actually dismiss bands like Priest and Sabbath saying "They're not metal. They're about as heavy as a a very small sandwich."

                      Obviously, these people have just seen Turbo Lover and Paranoid on Scuzz and decided that they know the band's history. Listen, fuckers, without Priest and Sabbath these bands wouldn't even be here because the genre wouldn't exsist.

                      Anyone can do it. I probably could.
                      Fast & Bulbous, Got Me?

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                      • binnie
                        DIAMOND STATUS
                        • May 2006
                        • 19144

                        #12
                        Yep, I think you made another valid point SP.

                        These bands are part of a TREND. it's ironic, because Philo Anselmo, the person their singers all want to be, is the most anti-trend person I can think of!

                        I'll say it again.

                        SCREAMING DOESN'T MAKE YOU HEAVY

                        But it might make you anonymous.
                        The Power Of The Riff Compels Me

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                        • Mr. Vengeance
                          Full Member Status

                          • Nov 2004
                          • 4148

                          #13
                          The tone-deaf shouters drive me crazy, because there are so many of them now. There used to only be a handful, and they were good. Slayer, Venom, (Cronos is Pavarotti compared to today's bands), Exodus, Death, among others. Now all I hear is a fucking guy grunting over some cheap ass guitarists who are tyring to play faster and faster.

                          Note: Fast doesn't mean heavy, you dopes!
                          Stay Frosty, muthas!

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                          • MERRYKISSMASS2U
                            Full Member Status

                            • Mar 2004
                            • 4372

                            #14
                            Originally posted by MAPRamone
                            Chaos AD is pure genius! I bought this album when i was 13 and loved it to death.

                            The only song I hated off that record is "Biotech is Godzilla". It's FUCKING STOOOOOPID!

                            Originally posted by Mr. Vengeance
                            The tone-deaf shouters drive me crazy, because there are so many of them now. There used to only be a handful, and they were good. Slayer, Venom, (Cronos is Pavarotti compared to today's bands), Exodus, Death, among others. Now all I hear is a fucking guy grunting over some cheap ass guitarists who are tyring to play faster and faster.

                            Note: Fast doesn't mean heavy, you dopes!
                            I totally agree with you! And I love the expression "cheap ass". I like anything hypenated with ass.

                            Cheapass
                            gayass
                            fatass
                            uglyass
                            dumbass.

                            They're all pretty funny.

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                            • Hardrock69
                              DIAMOND STATUS
                              • Feb 2005
                              • 21838

                              #15
                              I think CHAOS A.D. is fucking cool. The only thing of theirs I ever heard, but it fucking kicked ass!

                              I had some friends from Dallas...a fucking killer band called Double Cross who introduced me to that album....

                              You guys put it in a good nutshell...

                              Screaming and playing faster than is humanly possible does not make you HEAVY.

                              In fact, it lessens the impact.

                              Imagine if you will, vibrations caused by the footsteps of a mouse.

                              Really fast pace, but very light.

                              Then imagine the vibrations caused by the stomp of a T-Rex.....

                              The faster you go, less of an impact there is.

                              The bands who are problably the heavisets are the doom bands. Bands who do not play very fast.

                              Even the following bands do not ever play REALLY fast: AC/DC, Rammstein, ZZ Top.

                              Oh well.

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