Originally Posted by: RazboHa, it's true! They either sound like "Rawr look at me I'm making monster sounds" (are they like 12?) or they sound like some emo case whining about existence. Gawd...

Haha well, even though I enjoy a lot of metal that utilizes screaming or "guttural" (cookie monster pretty much) vocals, thats funny.

To each his own I suppose. As a guitarist, well, I listen to the guitar... If I am fascinated with the guitar work, I dont really care what the vocalist is doing for the most part. How much amazing guitar work are you by chance missing out on because you are focusing on the vocals?

Smashing Pumpkins is a good example of a band that didnt get attention from some people solely because of his vocals, which is complete nonsense.

Also consider the theme in which the band is going for. If a band wants to sound very dark, or very heavy and just obnoxiously brutal, you can only sound so "brutal" singing in a clear voice or even a raspy Dave Mustaine/James Hetfield sort. So the guttural/screaming type of vocals came naturally in the path of metal, so they could make it sound even more dark/brutal than what was previously dubbed dark and brutal; Black Sabbath is a really good example of that.

"How can we sound more dark than Black Sabbath? Well, lets growl like we're demons and tune our guitars lower, cant get anymore dark than that, right?"

As a guitarist, I listen to a very wide spectum of genres where the vocals are no where near comparison, because as a guitarist, vocals come secondary. Its the guitar turns me on, than I respect it, no matter the genre/vocals.