Cookie Monster Vocals in Death Metal

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The Wall Street Journal has an article on the cookie monster vocal style in death metal.

― Edward Bax (EdBax), Friday, 3 February 2006 22:27 (twenty years ago)

"It's a whole new thing to me," said Frank Oz, who originated the voice of the Cookie Monster. "I've never heard of it."

― Edward Bax (EdBax), Friday, 3 February 2006 22:27 (twenty years ago)

I hear there's this new style of music where guys just sorta talk over beats, too

crazy times

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Friday, 3 February 2006 22:49 (twenty years ago)

oh c'mon john, that's so worth it for the illustration

― james van der beek (dubplatestyle), Friday, 3 February 2006 22:51 (twenty years ago)

I've been ranting about cookie monster vocals for a long time. Doesn't the Wall Street Journal read my very important blog?!?!?

http://also-ran.com

― JosephLarkin, Friday, 3 February 2006 22:52 (twenty years ago)

someone should put cookie monster vocals over accoustic guitar or new agey music

― J. Lamphere (WatchMeJumpStart), Friday, 3 February 2006 23:31 (twenty years ago)

the illustration's great, but taking note of this "trend" in metal vox seriously is like asking whether the synthesizer is here to stay

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Friday, 3 February 2006 23:38 (twenty years ago)

http://wearemongoloid.com/cookie/images/CM_index.jpg

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Saturday, 4 February 2006 00:01 (twenty years ago)

I'm VERY let down by that illustration -- why not the usual WSJ linotype etching of either Cookie Monster or Chris Barnes?

Anyway, note to the Wall Street Journal: it's Angela GOSSOW, among other things.

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Saturday, 4 February 2006 00:35 (twenty years ago)

someone should put cookie monster vocals over accoustic guitar or new agey music

someone should buy sigh's "ghastly funeral theatre" ep.

― baby, disco is fuck (yournullfame), Saturday, 4 February 2006 00:38 (twenty years ago)

someone should put cookie monster vocals over accoustic guitar or new agey music.

Precisely. Why does Cookie Monster never want to acoustic guitar new-agey?

― Cliftonb, Saturday, 4 February 2006 02:43 (twenty years ago)

what's the name of that sports announcer who talks like the cookie monster??

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Saturday, 4 February 2006 02:54 (twenty years ago)

There is actually a lot of cookie monster vocals over more mellow stuff. Sigh (as mentioned) has done it. Check out Agalloch sometime - an excellet Portland group that records for The End whose music is beautiful and the vocals are often of the groweled variety. There's more but it's late.

― Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Saturday, 4 February 2006 04:09 (twenty years ago)

Well, at least they mentioned Carcass.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 4 February 2006 04:20 (twenty years ago)

the illustration's great, but taking note of this "trend" in metal vox seriously is like asking whether the synthesizer is here to stay

Hey, I didn't claim that the WSJ was spotting a brand new trend, here.

Clearly it bothers you, though.

― Edward Bax (EdBax), Saturday, 4 February 2006 05:29 (twenty years ago)

okay...I know he has shit to do with music, but I really want to know the name of that sports announcer, he's hilarious! If nobody has a clue then that's cool, I know jack about sports myself.

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Saturday, 4 February 2006 09:32 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

I've been ranting about cookie monster vocals for a long time. Doesn't the Wall Street Journal read my very important blog?!?!?

I didn't post that, but I gotta agree with the sentiment expressed there: my blog is VERY important.

― Joseph Patrick Larkin (Joseph P. Larkin), Saturday, 10 June 2006 00:30 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

i'm listening to "7 Churches" by Possessed right now...Wikipedia says they formed in 83 and this album came out in 85...

...are they the first cookie monster vocal group? they sound "cookie" to me, but not quite as cookie as the bands that would come after them, but still...are they considered the first?

― M@tt He1ges0n, Monday, 26 November 2007 21:43 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, the "Death Metal" demo from 1984.

― Siegbran, Monday, 26 November 2007 21:50 (eighteen years ago)

ooh i enjoy having that implication of a tangible and severe drop in sales caused by growling as opposed to clean, clear vocals, even within metal

i mean it's obvious but i really like the idea of twisting numbers around to prove that yr stupid annoying metal vocalist is condemning yr band to poverty

― sleepingbag, Monday, 26 November 2007 21:58 (eighteen years ago)

I can provide you with about six hundred bands with a crappy vocalist that never made it big to support your theory.

― Siegbran, Monday, 26 November 2007 22:00 (eighteen years ago)

I realize it wasn't quite the same intent, but John Entwistle essentially did cookie monster vocals in "Boris the Spider" back in the mid-60s. There's also the part of Tubular Bells that has them...

Otherwise, I always think of Death Scream Bloody Gore as being one of the first to use monster vocals in their purest form.

― Nate Carson, Monday, 26 November 2007 23:24 (eighteen years ago)

What about Popeye?

― roxymuzak, Monday, 26 November 2007 23:25 (eighteen years ago)

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