TASTE SO GOOD

[opabinia]

I was doing something on The Internet, when I got curious: Is there any melodic death metal without the Cookie Monster voice?* I don't think what I'm looking for exists, but I did find this piece.

* Or the LARP operatics, or... Basically, this sounds nearly perfect -- barring the unfortunate "SOLSTAFIRRRRRRRR!" at 1:42 -- until 3:03, when it all goes to Hell. I just can't get into grown men trying to sound like demons and shit.

Comments

[mickey-murder.livejournal.com]

I would totally buy a cookie monster death metal album. Yes I would. However it is indeed a tough search to find something like that. You're almost better off searching for instrumental-only death metal acts. There are plenty of those. In the meantime....

[lepidosiren.livejournal.com]

[mickey-murder.livejournal.com]

Also not death meal but god damn good imho. The Haunted. nsfw

[bottleimp.livejournal.com]

Just because:

http://www.metalblade.com/behemoth/

Scroll down for the video. Deeply NSFW, but approximates some kind of narrative. Plus the first girl is radioactively hot.

[lepidosiren.livejournal.com]

Good Lord.

[split-synapse.livejournal.com]

You might like Mercenary... there are some heavier vocals, but the songs tend to be more melodic than not: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnXOVDWS6-E

Also, not really death metal (then again, neither is Agalloch), you could try some Green Carnation for non-larpy prog: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdX2-c0OEPQ&feature=related

[lepidosiren.livejournal.com]

Mercenary

So close! Reminds me of this Testament track (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEuBITrf-kE). Can't deal with the I JUST WANT TO BE MEEEEEE lyrics anymore, though. :)

Will look at GC later.

[ahaseurus.livejournal.com]

A lot of melodic death metal (minus the voices) sounds a lot like 70's orchestral rock and other subgenres in that cluster. I think the <GGGGRRRR> is a cover for liking things that actually sound good ;-)

Yeah, if you find any, post them, please!

[mistresshellena.livejournal.com]

Yeah, no need to continue your search. Cookie monster metal is the best!

[jhimm.livejournal.com]

I could be wrong, and I haven't paid a lot of attention to metal in any detail since the mid-90's, but at least at that time, what separated "death" metal from other sub-genres of metal -was- the vocal style. Metal w/o that vocal style isn't, or at least wasn't, "death" metal. Anything that was too slow to be "speed" metal, to clean to be "thrash" metal and didn't have the gargle with gravel vocals (I'd like to think they weren't quite so ridiculous 15 years ago, but I could be rose-colored about that) was... well, I don't remember now what it was, but it wasn't "death" metal. I'm aware enough to know that sub-genres have shifted, evolved, split, splintered and risen or vanished entirely. I wasn't even sure anyone still did "death" metal, having all been replaced by "black" metal, "dirge" metal, "doom" metal...

That Agalloch song, while actually a pretty sweet piece of music, is barely metal to my out-of-date genre detectors. It's almost like death alterna-rock, which is completely bizarre. Again, perhaps things have changed more than I know and that's center of the bell curve these days.

My Dying Bride had a different style on every album. Their album "Like Gods of the Sun" is definitely metal, and definitely dark, but features actual -singing-. Of course, it also features a lot of violin, and lyrics about being embraced by a vampire, and/or being a knight in a feudal land and seducing the queen.

If you don't mind religious lyrics, there was a band called Living Sacrifice (one member of this band went on to help found Evanescence years later) which did a lot of death metal that, while gravely and raspy, wasn't cookie monster. Their debut, eponymous album is pretty straight up early 90's death metal. Their album Nonexistent you may want to steer clear of, though. The first -three- times I listened to it, I didn't even know there were vocals on the entire album. They are so raspy, so wraith like, so buried in the mix for the most part, I thought it was some kind of noise effect added into the mix and that they'd dropped their singer. Their later albums fused death metal and hard core and are pretty solid, but again, pretty gravely, although, not nearly the cookie monster cliche that stuff today all seems to be. And they did shows in jeans and tee shirts, not LARP gear. No make-up.

[lepidosiren.livejournal.com]

...what separated "death" metal from other sub-genres of metal -was- the vocal style.

Zounds! I can see how that would complicate the search a bit. ;\

I'll look into the bands you mentioned. (I think being embraced by a vampire would be OK. Safer than seducing a queen, anyway. Jesus, didn't that guy see Troy (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0332452/)?)