Panterachat

Posted: **Sat May 20, 2006 5:41 pm**

I sorta got on a tangent about this with Floyd in another thread, but I'm curious as to all of your vocal influences and how much it really affects your final sound when you sing? I know and I've seen too many people really try and sound like a particular singer and absolutely suck. Even if they're on their best game, they still sound like another guy so they're pretty much only fit for a first rate cover band.

Lately, I haven't really tried to rip anyone off, but I find a kind of Halford/Cornell/Danzigish mix has been the most interesting and fun to play around with lately... One mainstay, so it seems, that never gets old messing around with are the Dave Brockie-esque bellows.. Something about his vocals exude pure fun without really compromising the intensity and quality of the songs.. He's like the David Lee Roth of metal.

Posted: **Sat May 20, 2006 6:10 pm**

when i was doing death metal, i was definitely bleeding-era chris barnes and kyle symons(sickness). to sound that deep, that powerful and still be so clear. i also like other death metal singers who sound absolutely inhuman(disgorge, clean flesh, etc)

but that kinda stuff tears the hell outa my throat. in my band i have these influences:

warrel dane
ripper owens
matt barlow
roger waters
jim morrison
michael hutchence
lg petrov
nick cave

my bands influences are thrash/deathy type stuff, but modern sounding

its seems like no one sings anymore. every singer nowadays either whines, tries to sound like queer swedish death metal, or is a phil anselmo clone.

Posted: **Sat May 20, 2006 6:12 pm**

Really, vocals are my absolute weakest thing which is pretty much why I don't do them at all. My vocal range is pretty much in the lower Michael Hutchence/Patton/Pete Steele/Leonard Cohen range. Slow and deep ( :o ) and almost deliberate. I have a "phone sex" quality to my voice (so I'm told) but it's pretty limited and already well-done by other people already, so I'd never actually use it.

Posted: **Sat May 20, 2006 6:20 pm**

Phlegeton, Ruben Rosas.

Posted: **Sat May 20, 2006 6:40 pm**

Brandon wrote: ripper owens
matt barlow

Bruce Dickinson, DIO, I dig vibrato

Posted: **Sat May 20, 2006 7:19 pm**

I think I could have a half decent baritone if I took some lessons as my voice is pretty deep naturally, but I'd rather stick to playing the guitar.

Posted: **Sat May 20, 2006 7:39 pm**

Post mpegs.

Posted: **Sat May 20, 2006 8:06 pm**

For me as a sort of fuck about on my own/backing singer mainly jerry cantrell, nola era phil anselmo and layne stayley (his highest stuff is about the limit of my voice.)

Posted: **Sat May 20, 2006 8:20 pm**

<THe_FeAR> wrote:Post mpegs.

haha, I was considering posting an mp3 of me singing, but the only one I have is a joke song of me bellowing/growling and then singing like some silly emo-core Avenged Sevefold singer..

Posted: **Sat May 20, 2006 10:54 pm**

jello biafra

Posted: **Sun May 21, 2006 12:22 am**

i can do a killer axl rose and rob halford voice, partilularly on the high screams. but since it's not the 1980s anymore, and i'm not singing for 3 inches of blood, that style doesn't have much use to me, except when i'm drunk and just fucking around.

my favorite vocalists that i really strike to mimic the style are the ones that sound clear, deep, and powerful. these include matt barlow, john bush, tom englund, and danzig.

Posted: **Sun May 21, 2006 1:57 pm**

Leather Beezt wrote:jello biafra

Posted: **Sun May 21, 2006 2:34 pm**

J. Geils

Posted: **Sun May 21, 2006 11:44 pm**

Mike Patton, Phil Anselmo, Jacob Bannon, James Hetfield, the singer from 100 Demons, Rob Halford, the guy from Killswitch Engage.

Posted: **Mon May 22, 2006 12:07 am**

Leather Beezt wrote:jello biafra

i hope youre joking, but knowing you, youre not. the dude sounds like a homosexual daffy duck.

Posted: **Thu May 25, 2006 4:06 am**

Brandon wrote:
Leather Beezt wrote:jello biafra
i hope youre joking, but knowing you, youre not. the dude sounds like a homosexual daffy duck.

It's called Punk.

with a dick in your ass.

Posted: **Thu May 25, 2006 9:14 am**

danzig yo

Posted: **Thu May 25, 2006 8:50 pm**

Mine are ROB HALFORD, PHIL ANSELMO, LEMMY KILMISTER WOOOOO

Posted: **Sat May 27, 2006 10:26 pm**

SuicideNote wrote:
Brandon wrote: ripper owens
matt barlow

Bruce Dickinson, DIO, I dig vibrato

Speaking of vibrato... The other day i went to see my girlfriend sing in her chourus group or whatever the name is. One girl had a solo part...She had a great voice but every fucking word out of her mouth sounded like zakk wylde style wide assed vibrato during pinch harmonics.

Posted: **Sat May 27, 2006 10:35 pm**

David Vincent

Posted: **Mon May 29, 2006 5:44 pm**

CHESTER BENNINGTON

Posted: **Mon May 29, 2006 5:45 pm**

Brandon wrote:
Leather Beezt wrote:jello biafra
i hope youre joking, but knowing you, youre not. the dude sounds like a homosexual daffy duck.

Posted: **Mon May 29, 2006 7:46 pm**

Steve Von Till along Scott Kelly at the moment.

Posted: **Tue May 30, 2006 5:25 am**

david gilmour
les claypool
gary busey

Posted: **Wed May 31, 2006 12:13 pm**

bruce dickinson from iron maiden

Posted: **Wed May 31, 2006 12:50 pm**

dick-in-son

Posted: **Wed May 31, 2006 2:13 pm**

Posted: **Thu Jun 01, 2006 10:35 am**

I don't really have any specific influences when it comes to my vocal stylings. I've just tried to see what works for me and still sounds half way decent.
Back in middle school and high school I was very much into singing and did the whole chorus thing and actually did fairly well. I went to some All-State competitions and did well, then in 9th grade I started smoking and it all went down hill. I could no longer sing in the lower end tenor range and became more of a barritone. That's about the time I joined a band as lead vocalist. I've never thought I sounded like anyone but what I wanted myself to sound like, I never sat and listened to a specific singer and tried to mimic his voice. Well, except for Eddie Vedder when I would sing "Yellow Ledbetter" in karaoke or something, and I still do a good impression of him to this day.
Time went by and a couple years later I joined up with a heavier band and did some good growling and screaming.
Now days I can't do any kind of screaming or growling because everytime I do I get choked up and start coughing all over myself. So I've had to work on my voice to mold it in a different way.

So yeah, I've had no real influences on my sound specifically.

Posted: **Thu Jun 01, 2006 11:19 am**

so when you do yellow ledbetter on karaoke, how are the lyrics spelled out on the screen? 'on a feelin, on a wishin and a wishin way, and i know and i know and i know a betta colaaaa again'?

Posted: **Thu Jun 01, 2006 12:13 pm**

axlash wrote:so when you do yellow ledbetter on karaoke, how are the lyrics spelled out on the screen? 'on a feelin, on a wishin and a wishin way, and i know and i know and i know a betta colaaaa again'?

I've actually never sang the correct words for that song in karoke, I just make the same sounds that Vedder makes.
Daughter is a cool song to do as well.

Posted: **Sun Jun 04, 2006 10:15 pm**

I've tried to do the growling a la Matt Bachand, but have no idea how to do it.

Posted: **Sun Jun 04, 2006 10:21 pm**

Treggator wrote:I've tried to do the growling a la Matt Bachand, but have no idea how to do it.

Posted: **Sun Jun 04, 2006 11:12 pm**

El Duce

Posted: **Sun Jun 04, 2006 11:22 pm**

axl, halford, hetfield, danzig, sabastian bach

Posted: **Mon Jun 05, 2006 1:38 am**

well i usually fool around when i do death metal vocals. i record it and i use a program to enhance it to sound like vocalists from regurgitate, last days of humanity and inferior concha.

Posted: **Mon Jun 05, 2006 6:57 am**

Browns Town wrote:El Duce

Watch out for that train!

Posted: **Wed Jun 07, 2006 11:45 am**

Treggator wrote:
I've tried to do the growling a la Matt Bachand, but have no idea how to do it.

Posted: **Sat Jun 10, 2006 3:04 am**

Tony wrote:
axlash wrote:so when you do yellow ledbetter on karaoke, how are the lyrics spelled out on the screen? 'on a feelin, on a wishin and a wishin way, and i know and i know and i know a betta colaaaa again'?
I've actually never sang the correct words for that song in karoke, I just make the same sounds that Vedder makes.
Daughter is a cool song to do as well.

On a freeeeda on a Wizad on a wayee

Posted: **Tue Jun 13, 2006 1:04 pm**

Chino Moreno, Phil Anselmo, Kurt Cobain, Barney Greenway, Henry Rollins, and Billie Joe Armstrong mainly.

Posted: **Tue Jun 13, 2006 2:03 pm**

PflÃ¶yd wrote:
Browns Town wrote:El Duce

Watch out for that train!

Panterachat

Who are your singing influences?

Who are your singing influences?

who is your singing influence?