who's in a band?

[The Doctor]

i kinda wondered who actually sings in a band here. I sing in a Motorhead tribute band, hasnt got much to do with the classical stuff. But i get classical singing lessons at school.

[darkexodite]

I sing in a heavy/thrash band called Writhen, fairly new, but we're gaining popularity slowly over here (the worst place to start a metal band...)

[guitar_demon]

in california? i thought thay had a really good underground metal scence there

[Credit to Dementia]

Why? Is there some reason you'd associate a good thrash scene with California?

They're supposed to have a good scene within certain parameters. I don't remember what they are. But I think that you're meant to feel that, whatever town you live in, happens to be the worst place to start up a metal band.

[guitar_demon]

oh, i didnt notice the thrash part. well i have heard from several people over there that the death metal scene is hot anyway...but i havnt been there in like 10 years so i can neither confirm nor deny...

[Credit to Dementia]

It probably varies from city to city, anyway. Death metal doesn't really seem to have a focal point in the US anymore.

How's the scene in &#26132&#26132? Still as good as I remember it?

Oh, and to keep the thread on topic: I have sung in a band, and would again, but at the moment I am bandless.

[guitar_demon]

uh the scene sucks theres like 10 people....haha

i used to "growl" when me and a few freinds would jam out cause there were shy as hell and wouldnt sing and make an ass out of themselves

[Dystopia]

Me and my friend Adam are starting a joke band called Project Blowjob. Or at least it was a joke band, where we tried to suck, but then two people came to our practice and said we were good soooo....

Anyways, I drum and do lead vocals. I need to teach my friend how to growl/scream. Our plan was to get a drummer so I could take the mic and run around as just a singer (more fun).

[darkexodite]

Why? Is there some reason you'd associate a good thrash scene with California?

They're supposed to have a good scene within certain parameters. I don't remember what they are. But I think that you're meant to feel that, whatever town you live in, happens to be the worst place to start up a metal band.


Well, bay area thrash is coming back believe it or not, except not as huge as it was during Metallica days, those lucky bastards.

Heavy metal scene seems to be swinging back around all over north america, it's very present in CA indeed, just better in sertain regions. ;)

To tell you the truth, San Fran has to be one of the best places to start anything, because of the wide culture, and acceptance of almost any culture, but unfortunately we don't live there... so we have to deal with the place where we do live, which is nu-metal and hardcore riden. Hardcore is slowly going away, but this place (Fresno), has been the pinacle of hardcore for a loooong time, but now it's moving toward metalcore and grindcore, none of which I admire.
But the promissing thing is that there's a lot of people who are fed up with all of this around here, and are looking for a good all around metal band with a scence of something new, keeping the old roots, and this is where we step in. The only problem is that we just started in the local scene, and it's hard geting noticed because of the crappy selection of public places to play at, most of them are in areas where people wouldn't want to go unless they were payed to, which is upsetting and sad that the rest of this city (which is so wide spread) doesn't have any decent venues in the nicer, more metal friendly, areas.

Anyhow, that's my rant on that, sorry if it's too long, just couldn't resist explaining why Fresno CA sucks so much (but it's getting better... no matter how hard it is for me to admit this).

Well, I'll get you guys some tracks of Writhen's demo sometime, although the voice on there is not mine (I hate it...), and it hurts to know that I sound so much better live, and how much we screwed up this first demo. :(

[powersofterror]

The band that I'm in right now, me and the bass player split our songs in half, he sings on like 2, and I sing the other 2. And we have one old school thrash that we both sing on.

[Chad]

I sing and play guitar in my band Sufferance. We've got a demo out now and have opened for Kataclysm, Axis of Advance, Rites of thy Degringolade, Three Inches Of Blood, and Cryptopsy. We've been called black/thrash by most people, and have been compared to Dissection, Kreator, Sodom and Satyricon.

As for the local scenes, it always comes and goes in waves. We got a pretty good one going one here in Alberta at the moment.

[powersofterror]

:vampire:...gotta a drummer now....

[SmotPoker]

:vampire:...gotta a drummer now....
Grats to you :beer:
I find it hard as hell to find decent musicians to play with in vegas. Hopefuly ill have better luck all the way the fuck across the states in North Carolina, I'm moving there in January. Anyone know anything about the metal scene there, ill be living about 20-30 minutes from Rowly?( i think thats how its spelled)

[powersofterror]

The metal scene here in jerkwater city, (Denton, North of Dallas-TX) is pretty scarce. Yes there are a ton of metalheads, but they seem to always hide in their own little corners and not let it be known. Every once in a while I can see a cool dude with long hair and a Morbid Angel shirt, but it would be too weird to run up to one of 'em and exclaim, "hey, are you cool? I'm into metal too!!!! Wow, wanna start a band with me?:p."

[SmotPoker]

Maybe try hanging out at guitar center and talking to people every once in a while. Here they have a bulliten board at the back of the store where the lesson rooms are, theres a lot of fliers about bands looking for members there. most of em are bullshit though, I met one dude that was legit though. we jammed for a while but didnt really work out for too long.

[darkexodite]

those bulliten boards don't work at all. Over here people seem to either ignore them, or plainly too lazy to call, or they think that they're gods and everyone is below their supreme level, or they're 12 years old...

Yea, they're all a bit lame about it, but I think you get more assholes than legit people through that process.

[cxmachine]

i also play guitar and "sing" in the band i'm with, mostly growls and barked vocals. my clean voice sounds too much like the load years of metallica.

[IcedSyrus102]

i play guitar and sing in my band, my vocals are basically bodom screaming, deicide growling, and megadeth thrash vocals, we are just a thrash black metal band were just starting to get are shit together and about to go record a demo and play shows

[BLS]

I do backup growls every now and then but thats about it.

[Trylakos]

it would be too weird to run up to one of 'em and exclaim, "hey, are you cool? I'm into metal too!!!! Wow, wanna start a band with me?:p."


Haha that happened to my friend :D

[collyersgirl]

My whole family is musical, but i hope to be the first of them to learn to death growl and someday make it into a band when i learn the guitar properly. i'm ok at clean vocals but i need to learn to death growl. Any pointers?

[powersofterror]

Haha that happened to my friend :D
:p
My whole family is musical, but i hope to be the first of them to learn to death growl and someday make it into a band when i learn the guitar properly. i'm ok at clean vocals but i need to learn to death growl. Any pointers?
Jesus, you sound almost like me....the best answer to your question would be to read the sticky of this forum over and over.:scatter:

[blizzard_beast]

damn, my band was coming together, but i fell out with the vocalist (he's also bassist - once he learns) so looks like no more band, maybe if i patch things up with my friend.

[FloodOfFaggots]

I play the mouth and guitar, I know a lead guitarist here and a bass player.

I just need to drummer ;(

The scene here is only people that listen to B2K and Dropkick Murphys and some Christian rock because I live in the Antarctican regions of New Hampshire ;(

[Transient]

i play with metalthrashingmad and lamb of god \m/

songs we do

raining blood into angel of death
kreator -coma of souls,pleasure to kill

malevolent creation-premature burial

working on
sepultura - inner self
children of bodom - silent night , bodom night

things i play with lamb of god \m/ to piss off MTM
decapitated - spheres of madness
random cky songs

[The Execrator]

things i play with lamb of god \m/ to piss off MTM
decapitated - spheres of madness
random cky songs
lmao, we cant play cky anymore, your amp broke last time

[andrewc]

so why does one of the greatest death metal songs of the modern era piss off MTM?

[andrewc]

i scream/growl in a casual grind band, consisting of "writing" old AxCx style songs (make it up as we go along) except the drummer sucks cos he plays at about 1/4 the pace required for grind.

it's a bit of fun screaming out random shit though, hoping to start something a bit more serious though.

[Transient]

i dont know, he hates the first riff for some reason


and i know, escape from hellview must be bad luck!

[powersofterror]

The band I'm in so far is only covering one song while the rest are originals. We're doing....Iced Earth, the Coming Curse:vampire:. We may also do Tormentor by Slayer...

[MetalThrashingMad]

i dont know, he hates the first riff for some reason
I cant stand that dumb first riff, its a dumb dumb riff that is dumb.

Dammit Trans, what about Catatonia and Piece by Piece?

[GravelFistFM]

i am in a band called Gravel Fist. hence the name...but what it is, is a here-say band. like we say were a band, but we never do anything, idk, but i thinik im the only one sewrious about being in a band...and i also hate the band name...fucking a... oh and a question, how many floor monitors would be good eough to have quality feedback? cuz i know one aint enuff, and 2 may be, but idk, mabye three? i just got a job, so i finally can buy shit

[darkexodite]

two, usualy good enough for a decent sized gigs. Bigger bands like Slayer, CoB, Dimmu, etc will use more, but consider the fact that they're successfull and their shows are much larger than an average gig. Two is a good number to stick with.

Well, it's looking up for my band here in Fresno, we're slowly growing, even with a lack of shows, people are slowly creeping out of their holes and showing their metal faces. I'll post a link to my band's site once it goes up to give you guys more insight on us, even though i hate our demo with a passion.

[SlayerDude]

I am.
Me and cannibalcorpse (from the forum) are in a band Apparition. We havn't really done anything except covers so far because we need one more guitarist and a drummer. :p Those would be really useful.

[DeathCS]

I am.
Me and cannibalcorpse (from the forum) are in a band Apparition. We havn't really done anything except covers so far because we need one more guitarist and a drummer. :p Those would be really useful.
It aint a band 'til we get a fucking drummer

[SlayerDude]

Bah...we'll get one soon enough.

[Casketcrusher]

I'm in a bunch of bands.

My main band is a Gore Grind band similar to Exhumed/Impaled music but with Mortician horror intros and stuff. I sing and play lead guitar. However my other guitarist moved away so now I need to find another one.

My other bands are

A Thrash Metal band, I sing and play bass. Accually havent been working on that project for a few months (all three musicians already have bands and this is a side project)

An Old school Death Metal band (think of a cross between Obituary, Cannibal Corpse Bleeding era, and Bloodbath). I play guitar and sing. This is only being talked about and setting out ideas but we should start writting soon.

Now just yesterday I got asked to do a Technical Death metal thing. Sorta like Gorgasm with they're being three vocalists.

[cxmachine]

Bah...we'll get one soon enough.

lol put me up over there and i'll bring a drummer with me

[BEHEMOTH]

I always wanteed to be a singer, but i,m horrendous singing. :bawling: :bawling: :sickface:

so i,d an idea :idea: : play the guitar.
I had got some groups and now i,m constructing my ideal group, wich has one member (the better) fron each band, and 2 especial members, hehehehhe


P.D. Now, I don,t sing anything except the Riffs, hehehehe

[Brutur]

I'm the former of a band called "Hiatus". It is a mixture between progressive metal and black metal. While I'm playing guitar and do the lead Growls, our second guitarist is a female singer who does the clean vocals. We haven't got any samples online yet, but that's only a question of time...

I'm actually thinking to include my clean vocals, arcturus (the sham mirrors) style, but that will take away much time and practice.

I also have a second Project running, named KrorK. An Atmospheric Progressive Doom Black Metal band.... although there were no band meetings lately, but many songs are already finished and will be maybe recorded soon.

[hiimjosh]

The guitarist in my band told me I should sing when I sent him a vocal track I did. No real definition for the songs; it just kind of seems like a minute of mayhem, but it's all controlled.

[FloodOfFaggots]

I play the guitar and the mouth but no one around here likes metal (Just linkin park and Tupac) and no one even likes punk (Which I would sink down to playing because I'm so desperate to kick some ass). I live in southeast NH if anyone actually does like metal around here. ;(

[Lord.Worm]

I´m playing in a 2 year old death/black metal band.
For those who understand german :rolleyes: www.archotype.de
Playing drums for 3 years.

[societys finest]

i play lead guitar for a hardcore/metalcore band called "in her loving memory"

[ExhumedCarcass]

I do vocals in a band called Chamber Of Obscurity. Our sound ranges from Fleshgrind and Exhumed to Brainstorm and Dream Theater. We will be recording very shortly. Here's our websitewww.chamberofobscurity.tk (http://www.chamberofobscurity.tk)

[MorbidGuitar]

i sing in my old band black earth. (guitar too)
ill post a sample..

my first heavy metal band
Black Earth - Recreation of Evil (http://www.geocities.com/guitarenvy/members/morbidgutiar/index.html)
Black Earth (intro sample) (http://www.geocities.com/guitarenvy/members/morbidgutiar/index.html)

hopefully the links work

[Legato]

I do vocals and little bits of guitar, bass, and keyboard in a Power Metal band.

[AccidentalPurpose]

I am working on it. Our origional singer had to move far away. So I decided I would step up to the challenge. I have trouble with pronounciation and volume but hopefulyl you guys can help me with that.
Bands Accidental Purpose
Christian/punkrock/alt rock
Mansfield Ohio
(near canton for anyone of you 3 who like relient k XD, My friend knows them its preety sweet I have yet to meet them yet though awe well maybe when I get on a tour in 6 yrs I can play with them XD)

[Brutally_Hacked]

hey morbidguitar, that 'recreation of evil' = kickass

[MyOwnSavior]

I started a hardcore death/grind band not to long ago called A Beautiful Corpse, in which I do the vocals and play bass. We're looking for a new bassist since I find playing bass while singing is very uncomfortable. Our influences are Terminally Her Aborted Ghost, The Black Dahlia Murder, As I Lay Dying, Dying Fetus, Vehemence, and Exhumed. My profile pic is of me at our last practise.

[Behemoth54]

I play bass in my band Death Envy. We are cureently trying to find a good record deal, but its hard to get one. We sound like a mixture of slayer and metallica, or something like that, lol. We already got 10 songs, 2 of them are slayer tributes, which are "Raining Blood' and "Angel of Death". And 1 song is a bass solo i made, not to brag, but it sounds pretty F$@&ing awsome. :vampire:

[blizzard_beast]

Well...Prove it! Send us a link or mp3's

[DameFraMorkum]

My friend and I are working on a new project right now. We don't have anything finished right now though.

[powersofterror]

My band is progressing slowly. I jam once a week for 2 hours with the bass player, and we both sing and I play lead guitar. We haven't had a rehersal with the drummer in like 2 months, and the other lead guitarist might be able to start coming in a few weeks or less.

We have a few originals so far finished: Extraordinary(roughly 4min), Burnt Beyond Belief(8min), Rest in Peace(3 1/2min), and Powers of Terror(5 1/2 min). The ones that are incomplete are Scapegoat, Life After Death, Open Wide the Gates, and countless riffs.

We are covering Misanthrope by Death, and maybe Symbolic too. Perhaps for the mandatory Slayer cover(:rolleyes: ) we'll do Tormentor, and for the mandatory Pantera cover we'll probably do Message in Blood.

Oh....and our name is Powers of Terror:vampire:

[GravelFistFM]

in an update to my last post...we changed the name...to B l o o d S w o r n. it stands for a promise that cant be broken, all that good shit, but we got a speed/thrash/hardcore feel to it...we have 2 singers..used to have 3...but theres a funny ass story (well to me) behind it...i was the original singer...but i dint have my shyt together, so the band took off without me. next, the bassist was the singer, but he was a fucking douchebag...nobody liked him, his ego was too big for liking...he thought he owned the band...our singer sam wasnt going to be able to do a show so i had to step in for him. i was "inducted" by the other menbers officially without him back int the band because i got practice equipment. so at one of our practices he was being a big prick...and one of the guitarists called him a nigger and was talking smack about the bassist to me...but we didnt know that he was riiight behind us...so he got pissed and took all his shit he had, and some the guitarists were using and left like a fucking baby. we sat around the rest of that day pretty much. so the next day at school he wanted to come back...but he had stipulations, i was out, the other singer was out...just them four...the guitarst that didnt call him a nigger called him out...pretty much told him to fuck off. now he was pissed...he drew up a contract so we couldnt take his shit...the drummer whos still friends with his stopped overto his house and found out that hes getting a lawyer to get a real contract written up. but the thing is...this guys a chronic lier, and the shit he wants back isnt copywrited...what we want to do is tab the songs, and copyright the shit...pretty much f him in the a...and thats the story, hes pissed, wants his songs and our drummer...sooo much drama

[garr1]

does a tribute band count :)
i'm in a iron maiden tribute.

[shimbolla]

I tried posting a song or two by a side project I've got going, but it says "invalid file type" on the attachment upload. :(

[sqol]

I tried posting a song or two by a side project I've got going, but it says "invalid file type" on the attachment upload. :(

i don't believe that you can upload an mp3 or other audio file to the forum, you have to upload it to some webspace, and then link to it :)

[sqol]

Oh yea, and i'm kinda in a band.... although atm there's only a drummer, a rhythm/lead guitarist, and a lead/rhythm guitarist (moi), i'd like to do growly vocals, but the others want to do more power metal, and i wanna do prog-y death stuff :p and we haven't practised as a 'band' for a couple of months either, so it aint really happening :P

[blizzard_beast]

ah, I'm not in a band, I fell out with the bassist/vocalist.
Sqol, maybe you and I should form a band? ;)

[Casketcrusher]

I've been waiting to start a good metal band for at least 6 years. I was in a thrash metal band doing vocals and bass but they kicked me out when they found out I listen to Death and Grind and thought I would turn the band into some Death Metal act (which was not my intention at all) and I was all what the fuck? Your guitarist is wearing a fucking Vader shirt! Whatever!

But we are all good friends still and their Thrash Metal act called Cylidian is just recording their demo "To Serve And Infect."

But I want to start a fucking Death/Thrash Grind band like Exhumed, Impaled, Engorged, Ghoul ect. ect. I have a fucking killer grindcore drummer who can blast beat to the max. He just needs to get double bass pedals and we are set. I do guitar and vocals (screams/high growls) for this band. I am looking for a bassist who can also do vocals (grunts) and another guitarist who can do vocals as well (gurgles). But those are hard to come by.

[Jamento]

I'm the lead Vocalist in my band. I do some low growling for chorus's but most of it is a higher pitched "Dani filth/Narenchiff vocals. I figured out how to hit my whistle register (the high pitch "scream like a girl" thing dani does) without too much trouble. I've only been in the band for 3 practices, and since then we've managed to pump out 3 songs.
The metal scene in canton ohio is pretty big. At all the battle of the bands we have around here seem to be mostly Indie kids playing their gay ass indie songs,like two thrash metal bands and a few metalcore, and several hundreds of metalheads wearing cradle t-shirts.



I don't fucking get it.

[Six_Feet_Under_420]

I'm a singer/guitarist of a death metal band :beer:

[sqol]

... drummer who can blast beat to the max. He just needs to get double bass pedals ...

Correct me if im wrong, but isn't the bass pedals the crucial bit to blast beats?

Im in a band with a couple of other guys, but our bassist said she doesn't want to play, and we don't have a vocalist, i can growl but the drummer doesn't want much growling :p

[younguitarist]

Lead guitarist/back up vocals.

[Cunty Shunt]

I sing for a couple of grindcore bands (high/low pitch)
A goregrind band (true burp vocals-no pitch shifter)
and a stonerrock/ doom band (straight singing)

[Banishment]

I play guitar and sing in my band. I do low to high deathish vox and a lot of clean singing.

I just want to ask you guys why do you have to use such gay names for death vocals? Who the fuck wants to "gurgle" or "grunt"? How can you take yourself seriously if you gurgle? Do you say you are the grunter for your band?

[GravelFistFM]

haha burp. i dont care for names of styles of singing

[Robbie Filth]

I'm in a band or two. :p

[SicSyco]

i do backup vocals in my band. i'm only doing clean vocals in our recorded stuff, but we're currently writing stuff that will use my growls and shit. :stoned:
it's gonna be super sweet casue our bassist wants to scream too, so we're going to have like three different vocals at one time, one high, one medium, and one low :eek:

[SicSyco]

I'm in a band or two. :p
dude i'm in like 4, and i do solo stuff all by myself, and no bands sound the same :mad:

[SomethingThatKills]

I do all vocals(inhale gutterals, some pigs, and higher screams) for Something That Kills People, a death/grind band similar to Cephallic Carnage or maybe CODC.

[Throat Crusher]

Im in a Grindcore/Death Metal Baby killing anger power outlet called Auschwitz Thunder Pig. I do vocals. If some of youve heard what we have, you probaly think its a joke, we dont have any of our full out brutal Mp3's up. We have all the material, and the drumms, were just trying to get time off work and for matt(anhur-shu egyptian god of war) community service. So yeah, if you want to hear what we have so far check out our myspace. Www.myspace.com/auschwitzthunderpig

[7-string warlord]

I do lead guitar and vocals in a band that sadly has no name. But i hope that will change soon. It took me a while cause the other guitarist felt unimportant when i started doing all the leads. But I write all the songs so I should play the leads anyway. :p

[Cassius]

I'm in a few bands.
I play bass in my main band called Children of Xenu, it's kind of a mix between grunge and death metal..Weird but cool sound.
Lead vox/bass in Ipecac..The sound changed quite a bit before we broke up.
And bass in Beat off to the Tune of My Drum (hardcore)

[newHELLonEARTH]

I'm backup vox and guitars in a band, but I'd really prefer to be a fulltime vocalist, (well growler) i growl, inhale growl, gutterals, circle of dead children noises, shit like that. but we got a vocalist who seems pumped just to be in the band so he's staying.

[Throat Crusher]

Circle of dead children newhell, not circle of children, and Cassius Children of Xenu sounds an awful lot like Children of Bodom. lol =). Anyways Cassius you have any mp3's? I know not to ask Newhell cuz he doesnt have a mic lmao. Oh yeah, im working on a sideproject type thing called Nephr, its death metal folk-lore, with egyptian themes, conceptual albums, or album lol, and it uses guitars, drumms, war horns, trumpets, orchestral, bass, and sitar type things in the music. So its got an overall cool sound with the brutal vocals, but on one main orchestral track there is clean vocals, and i havent decided if im gona use them again on this album. Im still working on a lot of it, but its sounding good. Ill post a myspace link when i get around to uploading the mp3's im on dial up lol.

[newHELLonEARTH]

haha whoops, i knew that. i edited it anyway.

[Throat Crusher]

I want to hear Children of Xenu. You cant have Children in your name untill youve proven yourself lol =). Children of Bodom, Circle of dead Children, proven yourself.... lol jk.

[newHELLonEARTH]

haha yeah.. i quite enjoy listening to metaltabber's bands

[Cassius]

Children of Xenu is a pretty new band, so we don't have anything recorded yet. But as soon as we do I will post it for you folks.

[Throat Crusher]

Kick ass, im doing like a black metal side project its realy crappy and more or less sticking to the true roots of black metal.. heh check it out www.myspace.com/wormwoods =() tell me what you think. Nephr didnt work out lmao... It sounds lame, but it got boring fast, it was to much of a nile cover type band.

[Otiz]

Since he did it I'm gonna do it too!

www.myspace.com/stalregn
Alas, no growling yet. I just recorded this yesterday and I have a cold so I can't get the growling down yet.

edit: If anyone cares it's got vocals now.

[Throat Crusher]

Ill do cover art for your band or a logo or sumthing if you'll put a link on your page to my deviant art account. I like Pagan Army though. If you want it e-mail deadlykrizt@gmail.com, and what you want on it.

[Kai Latvala]

Our singer is this crazy indonesian dude who somehow found his way to our cold neck of the world. He can rip out a growl with the best but can also keep pitch with the likes of gamma ray and dragonforce. The name is Dead By Dawn.

[dojo]

When I was 17 I used to play in a rock band. But since I couldn't afford a guitar (i was lead singer, but also wanted to be a guitarist) and I had my finals in 1 year I thought I should better study and graduate. I chose the "geek" way :lol:

I don't regret it at all. Not all people can become professional singers, so I am pleased I tried it and it was nice while it lasted :)

[Robbie Filth]

I sing in a heavy/thrash band called Writhen, fairly new, but we're gaining popularity slowly over here (the worst place to start a metal band...)
Haha my band used to be called Writhen but then i thought it was a gay name and changed it.

But yeah i sing in a band its not proper singing its gutterals and hopefully on the next demo i will do screeching too not like dani filth mind more like Jason Mendonca.

[Helvete]

My Band is called "Inane" ...

[Throat Crusher]

Haha my band used to be called Writhen but then i thought it was a gay name and changed it.

But yeah i sing in a band its not proper singing its gutterals and hopefully on the next demo i will do screeching too not like dani filth mind more like Jason Mendonca.

Dani Filth and the rest of the cradle are cunts.

[Robbie Filth]

Which members of cradle the lineup changes every album :p

[Throat Crusher]

All of them for even giving it a chance. Thats one thing that seems to be strange in the Black Metal world... their isnt a single BM band that has had a full line up stay the same since they started.