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Metal Vocals Explained
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Күн бұрынToday we are going through every type of metal vocals. From cleans, to growls, to screams to pig squeals. All the various techniques and bands who play these. We go through all the types, cleans, operatic vocals, Choral, hardcore shouts, thrash singing, Falsetto, high screams, mid screams, lows, death growls, gutturals and Everything else in between.
Intro 00:00
Cleans 06:47
Mixed Vocals 20:30
Harsh Vocals 29:23
Other types 40:58
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@jajoavila5820 6 ай бұрын
Finally!! Metal must be one of the music genres with most vocal variety displayed. This kind of analysis showcase the vast range of experimentation human voices can do within this genre... It never cease to amaze me. Well done sir! For the sake of you keeping the regularity of this channel it would be cool if you could expand in different chapters the info from each of the example... Keep it up with the great work bro! Cheers from Peru!
@VARVIS_ 6 ай бұрын
Gracias Amigo!
@dbeast03 4 ай бұрын
Devin Townsend sticks out as a very special vocalist for me in this context, as I'd argue he has goddamn perfect examples that fills the three main categories and everything in between. He does operatic vocals, typical cleans, semi-spoken vocals, fried operatics, VERY distinctly pitched screams, and post production additions including some distortion, gang vocals, and background operas. Honestly, if you want a showcase of maybe 80% of vocals in metal (missing true death growls and black metal shrieks), Townsend's got a piece which uses it with either Strapping Young Lad or his solo stuff.
@szakovsky1284 5 ай бұрын
Such material and the absence of Mike Patton, the absolute opus magnum of screaming 🦧
@joseosorio763 6 ай бұрын
Favorite metal vocal Chuck schuldinier for far
@j.r.williamson5475 4 ай бұрын
Gojira has some good bits that lay somewhere on the spectrum of mixed singing and pitched screaming, especially on the record L'enfant Sauvage
@abdelilhmanflores 6 ай бұрын
i might be wrong, but i thought inhales fell out of fashion because they were discovered to be a dangerous technique.
@dariuszbagrosznik3089 4 ай бұрын
I just had to comment as soon as I saw that you put in Metallica's Trapped Under Ice which is such a hidden gem, for some reason abandoned by the band (probably because of how hard it is to sing for James) but it's the song that got me listening to the band, so I have a sweet spot for it in my heart.
@djinnxx7050 6 ай бұрын
Whenever anyone talks about metal vocals and Kyo from Dir En Grey/Sukekiyo/Petit Brabacon isn't mentioned, I kinda feel short changed. That guy is a one man showcase of vocals styles, he has insane range and can do almost everything and occasionally uses it all across a single track, from operatic cleans to screams and everything inbetween.
@elponchex 6 ай бұрын
Here's another one. The kind of caveman approach in Sepultura or Fear Factory, where it seems to lack dynamics on purpose.
@Kataxu 4 ай бұрын
I can appreciate that you never mentioned the heavy emphasis on pitchshifted gutterals in Deathgrind/Goregrind of the late 90's/2000s. I still really enjoy it though. The animal vocals are the closest we have gotten to pitchshifted vocals since their inception.
@charlesrubitschung7592 6 ай бұрын
You didn't mention Doom Metal when explaining Clean Vocals especially with no pitch, and Mixed Singing, and Harsh Vocals,
@justsomedude5727 6 ай бұрын
Us Poor doom fans always get forgotten lol, My Dying Bride's and Early anathemas kinda monotone almost spoken word vocals are different examples of clean with no pitch
@particlejim 6 ай бұрын
When it comes to pitched harsh/extrem vocals Travis Ryan from Cattle Decapitation does that weird "goblin" singing thing, it's definitely a harsh vocal style but has a very clear pitch, it's almost like a falsetto melodic false chord or something equally weird (I have no idea how he actually does it tbh)
@allcolorsareentombedinblack 6 ай бұрын
It's fry and it's made with the mixed voice, right on your bridge, and adding “masked singing”, but made a little more nasal. Another approach would be if you tried to make Stitch's voice, or Yoshi's voice and adding your vocal fry distortion on top of it.
@felineboat2799 5 ай бұрын
I’m so glad you mentioned Justin Bonitz. He is my favorite vocalist of all time. One of the most talented and nice dudes I’ve ever had the pleasure of meeting
@arklowrockz 5 ай бұрын
Varg's vocal production on "Filosofem" is absolutely one of my favourite vocal prodcution jobs in metal. Something other-worldly about it.
@VARVIS_ 5 ай бұрын
So true man. Its almost transcendent
@livingstudent87 5 ай бұрын
I don't listen to many mixed vocal singers, but through extension of death, I can confirm that Tim Aymar was pretty good at what he did.
@justinerb3669 5 ай бұрын
He was an absolute beast! His old band Psycho Scream was incredible
@olnnn 6 ай бұрын
I don't know if it would count but the band Cynic used a vocoder a bit to create some interesting sounding vocals which would maybe fit under other.
@VARVIS_ 6 ай бұрын
Yes! Definitely counts. The Contortionist also used vocoders
@toksic424 6 ай бұрын
How about the Chris Barnes EEEEE vocals
@VARVIS_ 6 ай бұрын
It belongs in its own category The mega based category
@lightningmonky7674 6 ай бұрын
I appreciate you used a ton of different examples to help highlight your points, shows you not only have good taste but also a diverse range of styles you enjoy, people underestimate how much variety is in the genres of metal/core
@donaldjabibski4223 5 ай бұрын
Sick video, good work Varpis.
@antonkovalenko364 4 ай бұрын
Mine are always far left or right. I usually don't do anything in between. When you mentioned ultra lows I immediately thought of Iniquity, especially songs like The Bullet's Breath.
@hevy_metal 6 ай бұрын
What a nice video! Great job dude!
@lightningmonky7674 6 ай бұрын
Holy shit this video is awesome! Ive been wanting to see vids like this im glad someone is finally doing it! Thank you! I knew i woukdnt regret my subb
@elponchex 6 ай бұрын
On the subject of metal vocals, there's this chinese band called Ou. Look up 'ou mountain here on KZfaq'. It's kind of like Björk in a metal band and it's brain melting.
@VARVIS_ 6 ай бұрын
Ill check this out when I get back home from work! Thanks man!
@DimeDCSGO 5 ай бұрын
A vocalist that I've grown to really love is Bryan Garris of Knocked Loose. It's a great change from your normal Hardcore vocals
@VARVIS_ 5 ай бұрын
100% agree with you man. Love his vocals
@ghostcat11 5 ай бұрын
>you dont really hear non clean vocals in any other genres then metal normal rock does it(james brown) and so does rap(dmx)
@VARVIS_ 5 ай бұрын
The exception not the norm, but good points!
@henrywalton5967 2 ай бұрын
Burton C Bell is my favourite vocalist for sure
@Duster1995 6 ай бұрын
Great video as always man
@erbihc1781 6 ай бұрын
Gang vocal are the best !
@vitnemec8365 6 ай бұрын
Honorable mentions: Hell is Empty and All the Devils Are Here by Anaal Nathrakh is an encyclopedia of metal vocals, from the lowest resonant sink gargles to static electric screams which the used microphone cannot handle. Liturgy - the way she scream/shouts on live recordings is beyond every conventional technique Fleurety - on their 93-94 demos, the singer used technique that is actually painful and shocking to listen, and eventually destroyed his vocal chords Ved Buens Ende on Written in Waters - Both vocalists did something unique here. Vicotnik used super compressed technique with unusual texture, Czral developed this half off-the-key singing, half declamation Ihsahn from Emperor - inhaled screaming pretty much everywhere (I might be wrong here, but there is something distinct about the way he sings)
@VestigialLung 6 ай бұрын
One of my favorite examples of layering has to be what In Flames has been doing from Reroute to Remain on, where Anders will layer his high fry with his singing (sitting somewhere in the realm of the cleaner side of John Davis). With it being layering his voice with his voice (and likely some sort of clever mixing/production), the vocal tracks mesh together to give the effect of a mixed vocal, just with more going on (since you get all of the character of a clean vocal and all of the character of a scream simultaneously). I know a lot of In Flames fans don’t care for anything RtR on, but throw Trigger on and give the chorus a listen paying attention to the vocals specifically. Even for people who aren’t fans of the style of their middle-later records, there’s some really cool technique in there.
@VARVIS_ 6 ай бұрын
Yes that is a cool technique, I know All That Remains does that as well. I will include it in a further video! cheers mane
@jessefrazzetta666 6 ай бұрын
Good video man I'm subscribed
@IdoBido 6 ай бұрын
Love your content dude
@VARVIS_ 6 ай бұрын
Thanks homie!
@Nissardpertugiu 4 ай бұрын
Well for the image stuff on clicking the video , Rob Halford is certainly not clean vocals, even retaining the melody. Rapid fire, Sinner, Cheater, Freewheel Burning and thousands of others aren't clean. There's some gritt to it, herited from Black soul dudes and blues. Also in between they were doing what would be extreme metal vocals in bits and pieces, again in lineage from Howlin wolf to Wilson Pickett. That Venom would establish as a style.
@hbc431 6 ай бұрын
Was great to see you cover silencer and peste noire style of vocals in the 'other' category they are insane bands i would have also added the pitch shifted goregrind "toiletbowl" "last sip of soda thru a straw" vocals with bands like rompeprop last days of humanity early carcass
@jesusstaline9622 6 ай бұрын
ENTER SHIKARI! ENTER SHIKARI! I love inhales because of that band. You can do so much stuff with them and it always sound so demonic, and they are fun to do.
@BomageMinimart 5 ай бұрын
Great video; well done. Would have liked to see something about modern Brutal Death Metal/Slam vocals (indiscernible caveman grunting - Slam Police, Gorevent, etc.) and grindcore vocals (crickets, barnyard animals, *breeeeeee - VPOAAWAMC, Gorepot, etc.) but I know it's a fine line and this video was already 45 minutes long so I still say: great video; well done, brother.
@SeverTheBond 6 ай бұрын
Beautiful video 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
@JohnSmith-fe6xk 6 ай бұрын
Great vid
@Thugzilla90 3 ай бұрын
I've done extremely low guttural growling and pig squealing. I guess that I'm category other.
@brennuvargr4638 6 ай бұрын
Lost Horizon! \m/ Daniel's vocals are insane. His work in Sacred Outcry is also absolutely stellar!
@trebm 6 ай бұрын
Shower singing! How did you know! Super interesting video dude, this has a ton of useful information, and your knowledge of bands is very impressive. Rody Walker of Protest the Hero is one of my favourites "A Life Embossed" is an insane example, and now I can't stop listening to Dying Wish, Emma Boster's vocals are super satisfying to listen to.
@VARVIS_ 6 ай бұрын
She is an absolute animal!
@thelastdaybreathinginetern1385 5 ай бұрын
Archspire!!! Oliver Rae Aleron from Archspire. They are my favorite band.
@vishalnagaraj5343 5 ай бұрын
Neige's banshee screams are the best!
@VIIZZZYY 6 ай бұрын
Awesome video idea
@VARVIS_ 6 ай бұрын
Cheers broski 👍👍
@regdenee 6 ай бұрын
Fascinating analysis! Numerous intriguing vocal styles have emerged recently, and it seems like the boundaries are being pushed every day. I have a tip for the "other section" of vocals, check the band Fleurety; the vocalist sounds like an eagle.
@VARVIS_ 6 ай бұрын
I will check them out! Thanks!
@CheapSushi 6 ай бұрын
Tangent but I always been a big fan of the Metallic Hardcore vocals of stuff like Norma Jean and also the Myspace Deathcore era vocals (those pig squeals and inhales) but as I got older I started to appreciate non-metal/hardcore vocals. I weirdly still HATE cleans in metal. But what I mean is I started to enjoy and/or love pop or general rock songs where the vocalist had a sound like they chain smoked since a child and/or just have a natural hoarse voice. Like they were obviously not trying to be heavy or brutal in the metal sense but their timbre brought an edge or harshness to something that sounded happy-ish melody wise. I mean, I used to clown on this stuff but heck now I even love voices like Miley Cyrus. It's a nice contrast to the music usually. Oh, another cool as thing are vocals from traditional Mongolian music. I had a Mongolian co-worker who introduced me to some music and damn, they're like natural metalheads.
@VARVIS_ 6 ай бұрын
I included the HU in the other category! All throat singing band
@nofrbls3640 6 ай бұрын
one of my favorite styles is talking, like daughters and chat pile
@JustTheTip556 6 ай бұрын
I really like all types of vocals in metal music but I've always had a soft spot for harsh vocals/screaming that sounds more natural and less technique based. For example, All Shall Perish, i love their vocals. Especially on Wage Slaves. Or Vildhjarta, so heavy and dark sounding. But, there's just a different feeling i get in my soul when i hear more natural sounding screaming with stuff like Norma Jeans 1st couple albums, The Chariot, and older Deftones stuff. Great video, dude!
@__tastye 6 ай бұрын
Fantastic video bro its so entertaining and the examples that u provide for each sub category is paramount in that. My favorite metal vocalist would be corey taylor, he is just a monster at everything. He doesnt do deep guttural growls often but he can do it and it sounds great. And then for insane vocals def Rainer Landfermann. He is insane.
@crazytrain58 6 ай бұрын
Would like to see a follow-up to this! A syle not mentioned that I noticed was whistle tone screams. Bands like Faith No More, Meth Witch, and Dir En Grey use them quite a bit!
@cheekibreeki4393 6 ай бұрын
what about slam/brutal death metal vocals.
@yopo159 6 ай бұрын
SikTh cover all of them on that first LP, The Trees...
@xerodelacroix5552 6 ай бұрын
You literally could have just used Kyo from Dir En Grey for every example of every style.
@nglydngmycngraady5856 6 ай бұрын
I think that a band that also belongs in the other types category would be beherit, especially on the drawing down the moon album. I'm not sure how much of that sound is achieved through the technique and how much through the production but it's for sure one of the most unique ones I know, kinda sounds like your typical war metal vocal but it's whispered at the same time
@lightningmonky7674 6 ай бұрын
Dude i totally have to agree with your take on gang vocals, everything from metallica (trapped under ice) to angelmaker make amazing ude of them, i too would like to hear them more
@DarrynGrills 5 ай бұрын
Have you heard of Kyo, the singer of Dir en Grey? He is probably the most talented metal singer I have ever heard. He can switch between the lowest of guttural growls, and the highest of banshee shrieks, to the cleanest of singing, to what would be probably be categorized as 'other,' and go back and forth between them. He also had a range of around 5 octaves. There is truly no one like him. If you want to check him out, I would first look at "Vinushka" then "Hageshisa to, Kono Mune no Naka de Karamitsuita Shakunetsu no Yami" both live from ADROGYNOUS : a view of the Acro, which I'll link below. Vinushka : kzfaq.info/get/bejne/br1gm5WqzdqaeXU.html Hageshisa to, Kono Mune no Naka de Karamisuita Shakunetsu no Yami : kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hdNxoNGWnNe-e3U.html
@VARVIS_ 5 ай бұрын
I will check this out after work thanks man! My experience with Japanese metal is mostly power metal and metalcore so looking forward to checking it out!
@Sevro720 6 ай бұрын
as a fun fact, inhales are overtime pretty detrimental to you since they’re kinda using your folds unnaturally. It’s a lot harder to sustain inhales since, like I said, they’re unnatural. Very easy to mess em up and very difficult to learn as well. I’m not sure on the biology of it but online there isn’t a lot of good rep on them and I think that says enough.
@allcolorsareentombedinblack 6 ай бұрын
I'd also add arytenoid/overtone screaming, typical of most modern deathcore and deathgrind... Think of Travis Ryan, Phil Bozeman and Ben Duerr's lows, and Travis Ryan's pitched “witchy clean highs” as a type of pitched screaming, he uses them mostly in the choruses (Your Disposal, Death Atlas, The Prophets Of Loss, Scourge Of The Offspring), which idk if it fits within the “mixed singing” category or in “completely unhinged” (e.g. Pacific Grim, on the chorus, when we sings “we never stood a chance against this sick romance”, or Time's Cruel Curtain, or A Living, Breathing Piece Of Defecating Meat)... He also does some sort of pitched lows which sound like shouts but are not... Yeah, you may notice that I love Travis Ryan lol...
@hoaxtuesday 6 ай бұрын
I think shouting style harshes are more a mix of clean and fry screaming. Rather than just shouting as loud as you can yk
@ArtemusCain 6 ай бұрын
Frog Vocals are so great. Just look at early Inquisition releases
@ryderreynolds3005 6 ай бұрын
I really love Dinos vocals from distopia
@fruitilisation4713 6 ай бұрын
Dystopia is the best
@iseeyou3352 6 ай бұрын
Thank u
@snakemaster4036 6 ай бұрын
Another very specific place that you can find whispered vocals are in metalcore, and even some A7X. For example, welcome to the family has a whispered sections, as well as sun killer by spiritbox
@whiteshadow0122 6 ай бұрын
M. Shadows is a very underrated singer. Even in LIBAD, if you take a closer look at everything he's doing you'll notice how good he is, especially considering that he completly lost his voice for a while.
@syntezjaofficial4240 6 ай бұрын
@@whiteshadow0122for me what Matt did on Nightmare was his best work. He still can do that but just new songs would not fit this singing style. Anyway, this was last album when he used metalcore screams (God Hates Us, live version from 2011 I guess is so sick) but he shows his amazing clean singing skills on songs like So Far Away or Victim and distorted cleans on Buried Alive and Tonight the World Dies. But on all albums his singing is great, even from the start in Warmness on the Soul. So great singer.
@whiteshadow0122 6 ай бұрын
@@syntezjaofficial4240 agreed, Nightmare is amazing and one of their most diverse albums.
@KnjazNazrath 5 ай бұрын
Don't mean to be "that guy", but you forgot the sneaker slide vocals used Fleurety's "Black Snow" and "A Darker Shade of Evil" releases that caused the singer to literally destroy his voicebox.
@VARVIS_ 5 ай бұрын
Sneaker slide vocals 😂😂😂 love it
@jfrantic 5 ай бұрын
I think skram vocals could be put within other or screamed vocals. Unsure where they should go
@dukejohn5608 6 ай бұрын
Soen mentioned! 🥳🥳
@fabriziogarreta7400 5 ай бұрын
You forgot cricket squeals
@ozgurdenizcelik 6 ай бұрын
travis ryan
@ryantannar5301 6 ай бұрын
Talk about a deep cut for Yngwie there. Fire and Ice may not be his best, but man is it underrated
@VARVIS_ 6 ай бұрын
Ahhh a fellow Fire and Ice giga chad 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
@FrancisTheBerd 5 ай бұрын
Rob halford clean?
@Hannes10 5 ай бұрын
Algorithm!
@xceasetoexistx218 6 ай бұрын
Gutalax should definitely be in the "other" category, can't even think of a way to describe what the vocalist is doing haha Edit: also wouldn't know where to put classic screamo/emoviolence vocals, thinking of Bands like Saetia or Usurp Synapse, it's not really shouting but high pitched screeching or something
@tymotih 6 ай бұрын
You should check out Wiegedood if you'd like to hear throatsinging in Black Metal. Try the song Now Will Always Be.
@Goryptor 6 ай бұрын
Some of the unique vocalists I'd like to recommend to you that the others haven't mentioned: Franta Storm from Master's Hammer with his drunk witch rasps. Aldrahn from Dødheimsgard with his multidimensional, interstellar dictation. Last but not the least, Dave Hunt from Anaal Nathrakh. When he was at his peak, his inhuman nazgul shrieks were the benchmark of vocal extremities.
@danieldroppa3170 5 ай бұрын
Yeah, I wanted to mention Masters Hammer
@danieldroppa3170 5 ай бұрын
By the way, I liked the harsh voice explanation. Great..and what do you think of Triptykon? Never really thought of them as harsh vocals, nor screams, but they dont sound as clean
@danieldroppa3170 5 ай бұрын
Maybe mixed vocals is a good category
@Goryptor 5 ай бұрын
@@danieldroppa3170 Tom's vocals in Hellhammer were the peak of extremity in 1983. His output in Triptykon can be described as eternal cavernous roars. He's not aiming to hit any notes really but still manages to allow his clean vocals to seep through the overall vocal mix.
@elponchex 6 ай бұрын
How about ricardo iorio styled vocals. That's what we all want to know about. The vocals from Del Entorno by Almafuerte are something else.
@elponchex 6 ай бұрын
It's the kind of singing that conveys one's truths from inside the land.
@lordgothryd6409 6 ай бұрын
Self rep but I feel like the vocalist of Gravenchalice does a good job of the "Harsh Singing" that you said you couldn't find many examples of if you care to check us out. (I'm not the vocalist just the bassist)
@VARVIS_ 6 ай бұрын
Link me a song mane
@torhelgevreb688 6 ай бұрын
For me shagrath
@toksic424 6 ай бұрын
The death metal band Demilich had a very weird vocal style where it's basically just burping. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/btdlnrWplreanWg.html
@JohnSmith-fe6xk 6 ай бұрын
Not necessarily metal but Gruff vocals are another mixed style you find in punk or a lot of ‘orgcore’ bands
@enacheee06 6 ай бұрын
15:54 rip guitar
@daviddivad4461 6 ай бұрын
Not a fan of this ai filter, just looks weird. Great video, but the eyething is annoying.
@VARVIS_ 6 ай бұрын
Good to know. I was trying it out. I have an eye condition called Nystagmus where my eyes will twitch randomly, though it might help. Wont use it again Thanks mate I appreciate the feedback👍👍👍
@zakklebowski7712 6 ай бұрын
@@VARVIS_no one will give two shits about your condition when your making sick content like this man👍👍 keep it up
@the_BattleGoose 6 ай бұрын
@@VARVIS_We are metal heads. We are meant to accept each other and not give a shit about conditions. Just be you homie, everyone else is taken.
@VARVIS_ 6 ай бұрын
@@zakklebowski7712 thanks boys 😭😭🙌🏻🙌🏻 make a grown man cry almost ❤️❤️
@JurgenWurgen-ot4fd 5 ай бұрын
@@the_BattleGoosePoser 😌xD
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