So, last weekend I saw this band called Salome at a local club called the Asbury Lanes. Salome are a doom metal band from Virgina. I’m really not sure what the difference between death and doom metal is, but I think doom is generally slower than death metal. Salome feature one guy on guitar, one guy on drums, and a lady on vocals. It’s important to mention that the singer is just about the most beautiful woman you’ll ever see in front of a microphone: petite, slender, blond, porcelain skin, no angular features like a supermodel that make you think “this might be a dude”. Her vocal style sounds like, and this is just a guess on my part, the Cookie Monster trying to pass a pound of shattered glass fragments through its gastrointestinal tract. Some might see some irony in an angelically gorgeous woman singing like she was being murdered (slowed down to 33rpm), but I don’t. It just is what it is. Here’s their MySpace page so you can listen to their music, and here’s a YouTube:
I liked them enough to buy one of their vinyl records (I still have record players — one in on my desk, in fact).
Salome isn’t what this post is about, however. This post is about animal singers in death metal bands.
After posting about seeing Salome on Facebook, my friend Roy posted the Death Metal Rooster:
The Death Metal Rooster is awesome.
This reminded me that there’s other metal bands featuring animals. There’s Caninus, which is grind core metal that features pit bulls. They have actual records you can buy. There’s also other dogs with metal vocal talents, like this Death Metal Dog:
Other than Caninus, another metal band with an animal singer is Hatebeak which features a Parrot on vocals. I wish I had a YouTube of that.
Then there’s a Death Metal Parrot, that’s more like a head banging death metal fan, and not a vocalist.
