Originally Posted by
billl
I think it would be good background music for an action scene on a TV show, and I can imagine people in a gym or locker room getting their adrenaline going to this track--if the vocals were removed, that is. Listening to the musicianship, these guys are cetainly quite athletic individually, and they kick *** as a band. But I don't buy the singer's singing at all. Of course some people love these sorts of vocals, and I'm thinking that many of these people probably understand what I'm saying here, they've probably heard or sensed the objection before: it sounds to me like a child trying to be awesome by making a monster voice.
What I'd like to hear is a defense of this singing style. I haven't had too many discussions about it, but the couple of times that I have, no one has been able to really articulate to me the attraction. It's usually just fans talking about how different groups are awesome, and how they love this or that singer's intensity, how one guy's voice sounds destroyed, or whatever--and it's sometimes leavened with humor, like they know that such a singer sounds just like a bad cartoon hero show looks. But when the music is on, these adult fans do seem to enjoy the vocals without the ironic detachment that they would presumably have while watching He-Man. Again, I'm not asking rhetorically here: How can such singing be taken seriously?
