DeathMetal Vocal tutorial: How to Pig squeal & Guttural growl

So, there aren't many videos on YouTube about Gutturals, so I decided to make this audio-only vid to help. Other people explain it making it pretty difficult to understand

The vocal technique that this vid is made to help is the False Cord/Death Cord vocals. Or to make more simple to understand, the "Cookie Monster" Vocals.

This video is teaching the exhaled vocals. I suck steel balls at inhales, and they hurt me very bad. So if you're learning to Inhale guttural or pig squeal, then sorry, this video won't be helpful to you.

Now, this is how I do them. I made this trying to help, because I'm pretty sure that what I do to get this sound is very simalar to how most bands/people to it... I THINK!

TIPS: When you fill up with air, expand your stomach. If you expand your chest, it will be much harder to manage air like that. Imagining having your stomach filled with air by expanding your stomach, makes it alot easier to manage the air flow and Diaphragm power. Use lots of diapragm, and also push from your chest. Pushing from your chest kinda helps me, and some other people to keep aggression away from their vocal cords to protect them. When you exhale, letting the air out while performing, DO NOT let all the air gush out, it can lead to having your vocal cords slam against eachother aggressively and over time, and surgery. So that is a bad idea. Stay TOTALLY RELAXED! Or, as relaxed as possible. When performing, you should think of keeping everything in your throat "Loose and relaxed". If you think of "Tight" in your throat, what you're gonna do is: constrict and tighten your vocal cords, wich can devistate your voice. And the big one... DO. NOT PUSH! If you force the sound out of you, your vocal cords will violently slam eachother and that can hurt you pretty bad. To know that you're pushing too hard, it WILL hurt. And if you're pushing a little too hard, it will hurt like 5+ minutes later. So Do not push, I have learned this the hard way!

For the high pitch False Cord screams, I'm still working on those, and I've been practicing alot! So once I'm more comfortable with the technique and get it to sound better, I'll upload a video explaining my best I possibly can on screaming/highs.

The band I mention is called "Dawn of Demise". If you love death metal as much as the next guy, you love these dudes!

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[Rougethegothbat]

I'll bet you pull some funny faces when you do gutterals.

[MerryOnceAgain]

Nice Amon Amarth there. "SET ME FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE."

[MetalSk8Shred]

@nounever Yes, gutturals are pretty close to impossible to pronounce things clearly and understandable. Sounds exaggerated by saying "close to impossible" but it's true! If you want monsterous/beastly gutturals, you'll most likely have to sacrifice pronunciation. If you want pronunciation, you have to sacrifice some of the monster/beastly sound! But there is that spot you get get in between to where it's still moderatley monster/beast and understanding, but it's personal preference.

[nounever]

@MetalSk8Shred the real problem is not how to pronounce it but how to do it sustainably and how to avoid straining your larynx, evem when you put your diaphram into it, even the abominable putridity vocalist quit because his larynx had it.

[MCleber94]

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAA­AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH MA DA FA K44

[CombatWombat1995]

The dude in the middle and the guy on the far left are brothers right?

[YelwaFaelnirv]

@MetalSk8Shred Good. Thanks ! :)

[MetalSk8Shred]

@YelwaFaelnirv Yes, you do use your diaphragm for singing too, but I don't think you need to push from your diaphragm super hard like you would for death metal vocals.

[YelwaFaelnirv]

(I have to write my comment in two parts, as it is too long for youtube xD)

I just have a question (english isn't my mothertongue, so I didn't understand everything you said) : what I didn't get is whether you use the diaphragm the same way as for singing ? I mean, like the open throat-thorax+diaphragm technique ?

[MetalSk8Shred]

@MikyWrita To be honest man, I wouldn't know 100%. But I've been doing these kind of vocals for two years and my voice hasn't been damaged or any different than it was before I started. And there are excellent vocalists out there that have been doing it for 20 years or more and they can still do them! So I'm pretty much positive that if you're doing it with no pain, there are no worries. I do them just fine and they are loud as fuck. (Gutturals aren't as loud) but no pain or damage.

[MikyWrita]

@MetalSk8Shred I have to ask you something.I can do a growl really good,and it doesn't hurt,so does that mean that i can't mess up my throat in any way?