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Now the Animals Have A Voice

Tired of Cannibal Corpse? No longer impressed by the vocals of Glen Burton? Then look no further, a new dimension in Death Metal has surfaced, with the absence of any new decent Death Metal singers and to fight back against the joke that is Job For Cowboy, bands are now turning to the animal kingdom to find the most bowel destroying singers the Death scene will ever see.

Caninus

First to rope in animals as lead singers were the NY based Pit-Bull Grindcore band Caninus. Started by Most Precious Blood guitarist Justin Braman as a joke which later turned into a fully fledged band fronted by two rescued Pit Bull Terriers, Budgie and Basil, possibly the cutest names for dogs that in this country are described as 'Devil Dogs' or 'Weapons'. Braman claimed that the band started because so many Death Metal singers were trying to sound like a growling Pit Bull so he took it one step further and put two in front of the mic. The band now claim they are a serious act and perform to highlight the plight of Animal Rights and to promote vegetarianism and veganism.

Hatebeak

Think of some animals that would epitomise the Death Metal sound, Grizzly Bears - ferocious and powerful, Lions - vicious and relentless, Badgers - well they already rock the corpse paint so they don't need anything else but a Parrot? Yep Baltimore based Feathergore band Hatebeak hired a friends Parrot, Waldo, to perform vocals. Apparently Waldo obtained his much lauded Death Metal growl after listening to the sink gurgle, now he fronts one of the most ear bleedingly painful Death Metal acts and makes Glen Burton sound like a school girl. Triac frontman Blake Harrison claims the band started because the Metal scene just didn't have a sense of humour and the scene just needed to laugh at itself, so when coming up for song and album titles Harrison's tongue was firmly in cheek, why not give Beak of Putrification a listen to, a spoof on the Carcass track, Reeks of Putrification or Bird Seeds of Vengeance, a spoof on Nile's Black Seeds of Vengeance. Unfortunately you won't be able to catch Waldo in action as the decibel level his own music creates would surely send him to an early grave.

After wasting hours in edit suites at university listening to Caninus and not being able to figure out whether they were being serious or not a friend of mine decided that there needed to be more than just two animal fronted metal bands and so the concept of The Mad Cow Disease was born, the worlds first Livestock Electro Doom Metal band, think Aphex Twin mixed with the sounds of abbatoir slaughter. Said friend intends to send the track to the same Vegan label that Caninus are on, keep your fingers crossed and wish him luck!!