Made me smile anyway.įemale Vocals are Supposed to Sound Lovely, Right? Yes, cheerful, soaring and optimistic, also blithely unaware of what’s going on behind their backs. The World is Yours is an astonishing song, and I love the way that in Dream of Retribution you have the vocals plotting hideous revenge while the guitars are utterly oblivious to this and play this cheerful catchy riff in the chorus. They are a group of Swedish melodic and proggy death metallers. Having said that I have been loving the new Arch Enemy album. Maybe we don’t want to hear the words? Arch Enemy Turned My Head What is Death Metal Growl?įor those of you who have never heard a Metal Growl, it is a vocal technique that essentially creates a deep beast like grunting and, well, sounds like the singer is vomiting up the words, cute huh? Often referred to as Cookie Monster vocals you can understand why it’s a bit of a niche style left to a genre of music covering the darkest of human experience. It also says a great deal about how women are creatively bending the world around them that the metal growl is used so artfully. It wasn’t until I heard Alissa White-Gluz of Arch Enemy use the distinctive Death Metal Growl vocal technique that a whole genre of music made sense to me. I know Death Metal is not everyone’s listening choice, and not mine until very recently. Why am I writing about women in Death Metal then? Stay with me here.

You will have seen all the news about protests, events and marches around the world. So, It’s International Women’s Day Today, and frankly, women have come to the end of putting up with the patriarchal nonsense that assumes it rules the world.

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