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The vocal cover is one of YouTube’s strangest phenomenons. Why people would want to post videos of themselves essentially doing karaoke is beyond me, as karaoke is embarrassing even under great inebriation. But, no, sober people vocalize, record, and upload without shame. Such is life.
One subset of vocal covers, however, is charming: little girl/young woman doing scary death metal vocals. I won’t post multiple videos of that; you can waste that time on your own. However, I will post one video above that I stumbled across that made me feel strangely better about the world.
It’s a compilation by SmooneGrri, an 18 year-old girl in the Netherlands. (She’s posted a bunch of vocal covers in full, but the compilation, which is entertaining and well-edited, is really all you need to see.) She’s been doing death metal-style vocals for two years now, and is self-taught. Here’s the track list of songs she’s covering:
Waking The Cadaver – Terminate with Extreme Prejudice
Torsofuck – Pussy Mutilation
Dying Fetus – Epidemic of Hate
Devourment – Babykiller
Necroblaspheme – Sanctified in Nonsense
Begging For Incest – Postmortem Facefuck
Implosive Disgorgence – Chapter 2
Suffocate Bastard – All Humanity Lost
Misericordiam – Obsessive Compulsive
I wonder how she’s negotiating the obvious gender issues at play.
She’s covering brutal/slam death metal, with which I’m only tangentially familiar. I don’t care for the music — those are some awful, awful band names/song titles — but what draws me to this video is that this girl is making truly disgusting sounds with her voice. She can’t possibly have social reinforcement for sounding like Regan from The Exorcist. (If only that were the next teen trend.) So she’s discovered this extremely male-dominated, often misogynistic music on her own, and wants to make her mark in it. (I’m sure there are parallels in gangsta rap.) Strange, but kind of cool.
She’s looking for a band. Her contact info is on her YouTube page.
She should have replaced Lord Worm in Cryptopsy.
Such promise… such bad taste. I mean, jeez, some real detah metal anyone??
Pretty Impressive, doesn’t quite pull of Dying Fetus though, but better than anyone else I know
vocal covers are fun even if you fuck up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LszGoZqJdHk
She’s cupping the mic. Bit of cheat right there. If she was getting a totally sick sound, I’d let it slide, but her vocals are pretty average.
Cool. The fact that she has studied this and tried hard means she’s already ahead of 1/2 of these assholes…good luck, girl…
you are asian right Cosmo? Karaoke runs through our blood haha
@Craig St. Jean
a lot of metal vocalists do that, especially in this sub genre, and make use of the proximity effect, thats like saying a power chord is cheating.
I found the easiest way to growl like the brutal/slam death metal bands is right after a big plate of Chinese food.
God damn those are some shitty bands right there, the youth of today.
vocals for 6 years now hehe.
thanks means alot!
could you remove this tho? this is pure my business and i dont like people commenting on shit thats mine, assuming lots of people dont mind their own business
Do you allow comments on your youtube videos?
Stick to your guns girl, people make comments and always will, I´m sure you´ll get a phone call soon.
Those who can do, those who can’t review. Fact of life, good luck to you som, and ignore this baseless attack. I genuinely can’t believe someone would even consider attacking anyones vocal covers a valid use of their time. Internet journalism at its best, oppinionated, raw, and of no tangible use outside feeding the authors ego. Good luck to you sir.
who the fuck is it who wrote about this girl? is he or she a jealous fuck or something? maybe you should do something useful with your stupid life instead of bashing others?
you make me laugh and puke at the same time…stupid fuck.
hey idiot stupid writer of this blog, maybe you have some spare time over and you wanna bash some more? go ahead and bash my webzine
http://www.myspace.com/talezfromdahardside
or do you only bash girls? fag!
I’m having a hard time seeing where Cosmo did any bashing of the girl. Am I missing something?
I grew out of a lot of the music that seems to get great ratings on this site a long time ago, but that is not to imply i will malign someone for enjoying it. Each to their own, but to see the gleeful comments the origional poster made on another recent thread about how much it means to him/her to recieve praise for their work and then try to decimate someone elses, linking to their work and making no attempt to accept that different people have different tastes to their own is offensive.
here are the pertinant parts of the post you missed
no, sober people vocalize, record, and upload without shame. Such is life.
One subset of vocal covers, however, is charming: little girl/young woman doing scary death metal vocals. I won’t post multiple videos of that; you can waste that time on your own.
She can’t possibly have social reinforcement for sounding like Regan from The Exorcist.
if anyone feels slating someone in that way is justified, they need an ego check.
cosmo’s tone does come off as patronizing at times, but he seems puzzled and fascinated more than anything else. why is it so hard for people to understand that once you put something on the internet, it’s there for everyone to see?
if anything, cosmo’s helping to promote this girl. if you look at the statistics on youtube, the embedded video above has gotten at least 250 more views since yesterday.
Implosive Disgorgance was so amazing.
INHALE THIS REEFERRRRRRRRR!
dudes are in Maruta now.
@CW: I know right. She’s from the Netherlands, home of some of the greatest death metal bands of the past and present: Asphyx, Sinister, Pestilence, Gorefest, Thanatos, and Hail of Bullets, among others. Van Drunen is a godly vocalist, as well as Sinister’s original vocalist, Mike van Mastright and Jan-Chris de Koeijer from Gorefest. Goddamn my generation, and those to come, and their lame music!
I think Cosmo just comes off as more in awe really that this stuff happens. No attempt to put the girl down.
whats everyone fucking with the generation thing.. i mean, metal has lots of sub genres, (i like any kind of music) and i think you shudnt compare any old skool (for example) with slam, thats like comparing britney spears to Fleshcrawl or something…
don’t say i dont know nothing about music, coz i do, just because im covering slam doesnt mean i only listen slam.. why people always have to have opinions and arguments about everything, ffs listen to yourself, is it so hard to be happy for someone these days? dunno. i just uploaded my vids to find a band, not to be critised…. im not an attention whore, i dont even think girls shud be in any kind of metal..
i dont see slam as the average metal or anything so why compare that shit to eachother…
thanks to who ever wrote the blog, i know hes just trying to help. but don’t say stuff about me when u don’t even know me.. just leave someone be as they are.. this whole thing made me feel pretty fucked up tbh.
SmooneGrri, good luck with finding a band. I don’t think Cosmo meant to disparage you at all. I am of the opinion that when assholes on the internet insult you you can either shrug it off or call them on it, but when someone just says something that could be taken either way and is not an outright insult, it’s best to not get preemptively insulted. Having a bit of a thick skin should help with any public artistic thing you’re likely to do. Criticism comes with anything worthwhile.
“i dont even think girls shud be in any kind of metal..”
Why do you say that?
SmooneGrri – I support what you do. But whether or not I do shouldn’t matter. You should take praise and criticism equally lightly. Once you put yourself out there, whether in YouTube videos or actually singing in a band, people will talk about you. You can’t stop that – but you can stop yourself from caring about what people say. Focus on your talent instead.
@Invisible Oranges:Yes i know, ive always have been bad with critisism haha.. but i know its all a part of being a musician or whatever.. and not everyone has to like what i do for example, i know that really well. but i was just trying to say that everyone has his own taste in music.
hey thanks for your kind words:)
@Helm: what im trying to say.. lots of girls (ofcourse i know a few who arent like that) take metal-screaming etc to get attention from boys etc. or just because they wanna get famous. but some do it for the music..(which is really good ofcourse) i was just saying that in general, believe me, i absolutely have some respect for some girls around in metal, so no worries.