Best Scream ever!!!!!

[THE INCISION]

Ok this topic I was going to post a poll but I think it better to just let you all just name to best screams off, out of the top of your heads. I would say(in no particular order)...
Hypocrisy-Rosewell 47
Faith no More-Cukoo for Caca
Carcass-No Love Lost
Meshuggah-futile breed machine
Tool-ticks and leeches
Stuck Mojo-Violated
SYL-The entire City, Heavy as & SYL albums
Devin Townsend-Deadhead
Now nowbody even think of posting Dani Filth in here.

[Tsorovan]

• Maynard - Eulogy (24 or 28 seconds or something like that)
• Jens - New Millennium Cyanide Christ (03:59)
• A multitude of Daniel Gildenlöw (Pain of Salvation) low-register "roars" in assorted songs. Too many to recall right now.

[Ekstasis]

Cult of Luna on the latest album The beyond

[alphaWave]

If distorted vocals are allowed:

Anaal Nathrakh - When Humanity Is Cancer

If not:

Looking For An Answer - Last song from the split with Kontraattaque

Those are the ones I could think of from the top of my head, I'm sure there are others worthy of mentioning.

Edit:

I'd also add the vocalist of Dropdead on their 2nd full-length CD

[Shujin]

Any DEP release from Calculating... backwards. Any Pig Destroyer release. Barney's screams in Taste the Poison on Enemy of the Music Business. Most early Burzum tracks.

[meshuggah1324]

• Jens - New Millennium Cyanide Christ (03:59)

No doubt....

[cynic eyes]

jens
steve tucker
phil anselmo
agony scene
earl from Into The Moat
black dahlia murder
howard jones
chad from mudvayne

in no order, sorry i like too many

[Shujin]

Definitely Pops from Deadguy.

[hkrooh]

No doubt....

There's no screaming in No Doubt. You know, it's ska or something.

EHHEHEHEHEHEHEHH!

[THE INCISION]

No doubt....

There's no screaming in No Doubt. You know, it's ska or something.

EHHEHEHEHEHEHEHH!
:roll: you mistook that one smart guy

[meshuggah1324]

No doubt....

There's no screaming in No Doubt. You know, it's ska or something.

EHHEHEHEHEHEHEHH!

I meant "no doubt" Jens scream in NMCC (llliiiieeeeesssss!!!!!) is one of the best screams. Not the chick singer of No Doubt. :lol:

[Nickodemus]

Me...

...last night.

Yes, I have that effect on the ladies.

[hkrooh]

THE INCISION and meshuggah1234:

No shit, it was supposed to be a joke.

[Sammich]

isnt it frightening when people cant catch on to somethin so obvious?

[hkrooh]

Yeah :|

[meshuggah1324]

:cry:

[mEsHuGgAh]

i'll make gwen from nodoubt scream better than jens hah!

[mEsHuGgAh]

dev on "violated" from mojo!!!! \m/

[Tyrant]

Definately Jens on NMCC, the second scream in particular. Really, nothing tops that.

Maynard also has a few good ones, although not very ferocious, to me, they sound good. One is in the Grudge, and another one is in Judith.

Phil Anselmo also has a good one in track no.8 on Great southern trendkill, right after the quiet bit. Although in general, I don't think Phil is a great screamer, this one in particular is quite vicious.

The only other person I feel comes close to jens in terms of powerful screams (we are talking screams here, not singing in general.....) is Max Cavelera, namely around the time he recorded the first soulfly album. Fuck, he absolutely roars, shit singer, but he can certainly roar like a beast.
There is one particular live version of tribe where he lets off a scream that would make an enraged gorilla cower in to the corner like a little sissy english boy.

[THE INCISION]

i'll make gwen from nodoubt scream better than jens hah!
Oh fuck you man, you make that black rasta horn player scream like jens haha.

[THE INCISION]

THE INCISION and meshuggah1234:

No shit, it was supposed to be a joke.
So was mine buddy! :lol:

[cynic eyes]

i dont think gwen is hot :(

[Tsorovan]

Very vulgar.

[hkrooh]

THE INCISION and meshuggah1234:

No shit, it was supposed to be a joke.
So was mine buddy! :lol:

Ok. So that comment concerns just meshuggah1234 then. :]

[THE INCISION]

Um fuck I dont know what did you say?

[Tapman]

The best scream to me is without doubt Mikael Åkerfeldt's in "The Leper Affinity" (The long one near the end of the song) from Opeth's "Blackwater Park". It's so powerful and intense. It sounds so surreal. Like it's not a human doing it. I really like that. I have no idea how that guy pull it off. And then he also sings with the sweetest melodic voice in some passages, switching from that to growl effortlessly. I really admire that guy.

Tsorovan:
I like Daniel Gildenlöw's low-register "roars" too. But they're not really screams to me. It's kind of like a light growl, but melodically sung, or something.

[Sammich]

Mikael Åkerfeldt's in "The Leper Affinity"
it is lovely isnt it

[alphaWave]

While I think Åkerfeldt has a great voice, his growls/screams never strike me as particularly aggressive. You can quite easily tell that he growls quietly, sort of (which he admits himself) and therefore trades in some of the power and bestiality for (my guess) more control over his voice and lower pitch. This is probably also how he manages to effortlessly switch from clean vocals to growls in a matter of seconds.

[Nickodemus]

Hypocrisy-Roswell 47

There's also a good one in "until the end" from their self-titled disc.

[mEsHuGgAh]

HYPOCRISY.... :rock: :eeek:

[Mark]

Mikael Åkerfeldt's in "The Leper Affinity"
it is lovely isnt it
If he could actually sing the end of Karma all in one breath he would get best scream hands down.

[THE INCISION]

Mikael Åkerfeldt's in "The Leper Affinity"
it is lovely isnt it
If he could actually sing the end of Karma all in one breath he would get best scream hands down.Oh hell yeah or Mikaels scream in Blackwater Park, song kicks ass!

[Tsorovan]

Tsorovan:
I like Daniel Gildenlöw's low-register "roars" too. But they're not really screams to me. It's kind of like a light growl, but melodically sung, or something.I molded the word's meaning. If one were to mean scream 100% literally... well, then they all suck and have no artistic or musical merit at all.

[ClevelandRR]

They're looking for best emotional outbreak, with a microphone to catch the tearing of vocal chords.

[Tsorovan]

I know that they are, but I disagree. None of the screaming you've mentioned is particularly emotional. It loses that quality when you do it all the time.
Ah well. I'll leave you alone in your little hardcore screaming club then.

[grandpascorpion]

No one's mentioned Yamatsuka Eye (Naked City, Boredoms, etc). Now, thar's a throat that delivers every time.

[Tsorovan]

True! If I had to choose only one screamer, I'd pick Yamatsuka/Yamantaka for sure.

[Nickodemus]

Ice T's opening scream on the Voodoo song on Cop Killer.
It cracks me up everytime.

[Tyrant]

Doesn't anyone else find it funny how Ice T now plays a cop on TV?
KILL THE BASTARD!!!!!

[mEsHuGgAh]

Fuckin thugs, either end up dead or a cop!

[Barry Clark]

This one "When People Go Bad" show had this cop pull over some dude for poorly steering his automotive machine and suspected he needed more practice. When the cop walked up the driver side window, the driver shot the cop like twice in the chest. Cop screamed like a bitch. I would have too, but I wasn't the one shot. That was the best scream ever.

[arora]

ihave a freind that can scream hella cool.like jens but higher pitched.

[Yarnboy]

Hello?? SAAAANNNNEEEE...MAAAYYYYYY.. That part gives me fucking chills. I know it's "me", but he says may.

[OrganicAnagram]

panteras singer, even though he's a dickless piece of shit, hes got a crazy ass voice

[BFG 9000]

Am I the only one who loves the fucked up powermetal scream by Chuck Shuldiner in the cover version of Painkiller?

That's probably not a technical standout, but it delivers an unique feeling, IMO

[Thrakem]

I know Devy's been mentioned, but how about the scream at the end of the Ocean Machine album?
I recon that's one of the most amazing screams around...

Also - the dude from Mnemic. Can't remember for the life of me which song though.

[timdog]

After Things Beyond Things. Yes, that is one hellishly crazy scream.

I know Devy's been mentioned, but how about the scream at the end of the Ocean Machine album?

[MARCANTA]

listen to the first scream in dark funeral - the arrival of satans empire :D

[Tapman]

While I think Åkerfeldt has a great voice, his growls/screams never strike me as particularly aggressive. You can quite easily tell that he growls quietly, sort of (which he admits himself) and therefore trades in some of the power and bestiality for (my guess) more control over his voice and lower pitch. This is probably also how he manages to effortlessly switch from clean vocals to growls in a matter of seconds.

This is like a month late or something, but what the heck.

What I like about Åkerfeldt's growls is that it sounds so efforless. He have such control over the way his voice is shaped and it seems like he's totally relaxed while doing it. He also growls a lot more dynamic than any other growler I have heard. I don't know how loud he growls compared to other guys, but I definately prefer his growls over sounding like a gorilla on heat like a lot of guys, in my opinion, does. That just ruins the feeling for me. I like when it sounds more controlled.

But if you could give some good examples of growling that you prefer I'd really like to check them out.

[hillemoon]

hey headz......
i red your meanings...............I only can agree!...................
an ocean full of dreams
is only a drop on the stone of passion,
in contrast to that
what i felt when I heard it!............by hille :scatter:
.................................................. ..................................................

[alphaWave]

Tapman, I don't think there are many growlers worth mentioning. Here are a few that come to mind:

- John Tardy, Obituary
- Kam Lee, Massacre
- Karl Willets, Bolt Thrower
- The guy from Corrupted (don't know his name)
- Erich Keller, Fear Of God

There are other vocalists I love, but they aren't exactly growlers, so I'll leave it at that.

[balkanboi]

Am I the only one who loves the fucked up powermetal scream by Chuck Shuldiner in the cover version of Painkiller?

That's probably not a technical standout, but it delivers an unique feeling, IMO

agreed.

i have to mention Karl Buechner on Earth Crisis' "Breed The Killers" album. He's hell of a screamer. Well, depending on the album

[meshman]

The dude from Ion Dissonance has a very vast range of screams. I can't believe how high pitched he can get. As far as growls, nothing beats good old Corpse Grinder, IMO. Jens is the shite, but his vocals on Nothing left me unfulfilled---there were no "CHAAAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSS!!!"-styled breakdown screams and they were all pretty monotone.

[Nickodemus]

Anyone familiar with Macabre?
Scary Gary's high pitched screams in the "White Hen Decapitator" are far from brutal, but still amaze me.

[Bramfluke]

Right on Tsorovan!

I was just thinkin, when I clicked on the thread, Maynards scream near the end of Eulogy.

...and yeh Patton in Cuckoo for caca - sounds like a little kid without his toys or something. Its gold.

I also love Tomas from At The Gates's scream at the start of Under A Serpent Sun - It compliments that killer riff so much!

[meshrocks]

All those who have mentioned Maynard are forgetting the end of "Jerk Off": the "DIE!" scream. I get chills every time I hear that song. That's his most memorable scream in my book.

I'm also quite fond of Jens' "SUFFER IN TRUUUUUTH!" at the end of the song, right as the outro starts up.

[Tsorovan]

Didn't forget it; everything before Ænima is bleh.

[meshrocks]

Whether or not the song is good, I imagine we're talking about individual screams aside from the music itself. The scream I mentioned from Opiate is just a good, old-fashioned, blood-curdling scream. I imagine you could appreciate his vocal performance on its own merits. Or not. Oh well.

And, I'm forgetting which lyric this is from the song "Pushit", but, after the "I am somewhere I don't wanna be..." break, before the last heavy part that ends the song, he(I'm not sure if it's really a scream) "screams" either "I must persuade you another way" or "there's no love in fear", and he sustains it for a couple of seconds. I'm too lazy to figure out right now which line is correct(which is funny because I've heard the song many times), but I figure you know what I'm talking about, because it may be the best moment in that song. If I'm in the right mood, it gives me a certain type of chill I've never experienced from anything else in my life.

[Bramfluke]

I know what you are talkin bout man!
:)

[meshuggah1324]

I want to hear Jens go back to the Chaosphere vocal style where he went all out and puked up his lungs with long held out "burning man" screams....

[balkanboi]

To continue the original topic...

Zack De La Rocha - "Freeeeeeeeedooooooom!!!"

Now start shitting about how that scream is nothing special yadda yadda

Also, Tsukasa Harakawa (if I remember the name correctly) from Hellchild has some unbelievably unique and strong screams...

[meshrocks]

Towelhead, you can't go wrong with about any Zach scream. Personally, the one that gets me more jazzed, since it's in more of a monumental moment(for me, since the "Freedom" scream is in a pretty heavy emotional part of the song), is the "YEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAH!!!!!" scream at the end of "Fistful of Steel" on the same album. Of course, almost everything about that album is pure ownage. :rock:

[balkanboi]

agreed

"waaake uuuuuup!!!!"

funny thing is.. i always liked RATM, but they were more like some "anti-corporate band working for a corporation", you know... i liked them but didn't really respect them too much... i respected some bands that were more radical... nowadays i look back and RATM have more sense than those bands i respected more... they accomplished something, and those other bands just vanished... i guess most of their members fit into a system, while Zack is still trying to spred the message, despite all the money he earned


try to find Hellchild's album "Bareskin"... warm recommendations... Mr. Harakawa has the most unique voice

[meshrocks]

I always liked Rage for the funkiness of the man Morello's riffs and the energy that they brought forward with their music. Sounded like everything was true and from the heart(I thought it was, but maybe it wasn't?), and it added another level to my enjoyment of their music.

[FreedomEndured]

Either LIEEEEEEEEEEEE[...]EEEEEEEEES - NMCC - Meshuggggggah

Or Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin

[Carpediem]

Phil Anselmo at the beggining of "The Great Southern Trendkill"

gotta love it :wink:

[meshrocks]

Ah yes! Found another one... Maynard's "Time has come to PAYYYYYYYEEEEE!!!!!!" scream in the breakdown of Rage Against the Machine's "Know Your Enemy." ...mmm mmm good...

[cl8on]

Angela Gossow does some pretty bad arse Screams :shock:
nice!! :D

[balkanboi]

Ah yes! Found another one... Maynard's "Time has come to PAYYYYYYYEEEEE!!!!!!" scream in the breakdown of Rage Against the Machine's "Know Your Enemy." ...mmm mmm good...

Wait a sec... that's Maynard?!?!?! Damn, it sounded familiar...

[meshrocks]

Yep. It was interesting that Maynard guested on Rage's debut album, and Tool was just getting started pretty much the same year(at least it was the year they released Opiate, their debut EP). It was also interesting that Adam Jones and Tom Morello went to the same high school and played together in a band. Interesting that two of the biggest and best hard rock bands of the last 15 years were getting started at the same time and were related in such a way. Maybe interesting only to me.

[*sorethroat*]

Angela Gossow does some pretty bad arse Screams :shock:
nice!! :D

WORD. a friend of mine was the guitarplayer in her former band called mistress (no kidding...suits perfect to this cyber bitch from hell :twisted: ) and he showed me an older demo tape with her on vocals...her style was different compared to the current arch enemy stuff (I'm talking about anthems...)...no...those were growls from another realm....some truly deep crazy shit (mistress was a great death metal outfit from cologne by the way)! And I always thought otep was badass female shouting...VERY impressive...

answer to topic: What's the deal with single screams in songs...? My opinion is when a shouter has the balls (or in angela's case...BALLS) he'll do a good job on the whole song/record! If not then he just had a good day at the studio when it sounded intense...
Best shouting is achived at the limit of the vocalists very potential...example: Jens/none/humiliative: (HEAR ME I'M IGNOMINY) THERE'S NO RENAISSANCE IN
BLEEDING (he's having some trouble by now, followed by the wonderful moment of letting go:) NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Perfect.

Dez Fafara had his moments...Mike Patton does some crazy shit...and if you like it those 2 blood brothers vocalists do a pretty cool job!

Another duo from hell are those hogs from raging speedhorn...yes indeed

[Sammich]

angela sucks...as does the chick from otep....so pathetic : )

[cl8on]

^i detect a bit of jealousy there
angela is cool
otep is not

[Sammich]

yeah im so sad i cant act like a man : (

[Tsorovan]

Oooooooh! There's the jealousy card being played again!

Can we get an insta-ban on the word "jealous*"?

[cl8on]

yeah im so sad i cant act like a man : ( :lol:

[NinjaHavoc]

angela is cool

She uses a pitch shifter.

[meshrocks]

Dirge, do you want to laugh? Find the intro to Otep's album(I believe it's only less than minute and a half) where she starts ranting and crying and screaming about her childhood and becoming what she is today, or something like that. It's good comedy.

[killswitch_19]

As I Lay Dying - Distance Is Darkness (1:57)

[BFG 9000]

I believe in a thing called looove! Oooooooohhh...... GUITAR! :lol:

[Alaxandra]

My vote would have to go to MJK for his Grudge/Eulogy masterpieces.

Other honourable mentions are of course, Jens, who has the pronounciation of a fucking God.. and the dude from Lamb of God.

[StarChild]

While I think Åkerfeldt has a great voice, his growls/screams never strike me as particularly aggressive. You can quite easily tell that he growls quietly, sort of (which he admits himself) and therefore trades in some of the power and bestiality for (my guess) more control over his voice and lower pitch. This is probably also how he manages to effortlessly switch from clean vocals to growls in a matter of seconds.

Yeah, I use the same technique... Definately makes it a lot easier to switch to clean vocals...

StarChild

[meshrocks]

My vote would have to go to MJK for anything he's ever done. He could read the phone book and make me splooge.

I corrected your quote a little bit; I hope you don't mind. The italicised part is actually only something I could do, so don't start defending yourself or anything, as I realized that would sound a bit weird if you said that. Anyway, yeah. It's more accurate this way, if you ask me.

[cl8on]

the first scream in Just Barely Breathing by Killswitch is pretty damn
cool.

[NinjaHavoc]

I think Akerfeldt's growls sound goofy... and so do his clean vocals.

[Sammich]

yeah...right...

[Ryan]

Psycroptic's "Septer of the Ancients" track two - first scream. It takes talent to scream like a bitch. :-)

[Mark]

yeah...right...Seriously

By the way, don't hate on Psycroptic if that is what you're trying to do, I honestly can't tell.

[Ryan]

love psycroptic. good band. :!:

[cl8on]

psycroptic :metal:

[Tsorovan]

Can I "hate on" Psycroptic? Thanks.

[cl8on]

no because you don't hate them :lol:

[Tsorovan]

True, I just don't care enough about them to hate them.

[Ryan]

dont you date one of them?

[Tsorovan]

Come again?

[Ryan]

nevermind. its not funny enough to elaborate and reitterate.

[Apathy]

How about Jennie Thordendal on Sol Niger Within (track 18) and shes does the high pitched scream with the drums... it's pretty cool actually

[Sammich]

um....

[Sojo]

How about Jennie Thordendal on Sol Niger Within (track 18) and shes does the high pitched scream with the drums... it's pretty cool actually

Cool if you're this guy (http://www.thestranger.com/2003-10-30/feature.html)

[IRmeshuggah]

haha wow thats haunting

[DeadBirdy]

Sean Ingrams 17 second scream after the guitar solo on the Coalesce cover of Heartbreaker (Led Zepplin)

[lyingeyes83]

jens
steve tucker
phil anselmo
agony scene
earl from Into The Moat
black dahlia murder
howard jones
chad from mudvayne

in no order, sorry i like too many


fuck that fucking shit with a few exceptions...fuck hardcore and FUCK mudvayne!!!

[lyingeyes83]

isnt it frightening when people cant catch on to somethin so obvious?


It's depressing, anti climactic and frustrating like leg day at the gym or my last job and all of my personal relationships.

[Deth_Metal]

ww.wormed.net

most weird heavy vocals i've heard. fuck knows how he produces those noises?