I'm the opposite. I'm a pretty good clean singer but I couldn't do a harsh vocal if my life was on the line.

I've tried to have a go but I ended up coughing and spluttering afterwards haha.

Don't know how they do it. Must be effects added on their voices nowadays.

Cradle Of Filth is about as far as I can go for listening to that kind of music. You don't know what they're screaming or growling about unless you look at the lyrics lol.

I suppose it takes some form of training yes, but not everyone has the ability to perform such tasks.

You need the proper technique to not **** up your voice (which is not easy but any singer must do this), and scream/growl on key.
If you wanna do punk screaming however, just yell and scream. You can't avoid damaging your voice, but the more ****ed up your voice the more punk you know.

I wouldn't know. I'm not a vocalist.

I've been afraid to try cause of the damage I heard it can cause. Though I would love to see how I end up sounding like if I do it professionally. I wonder what bands my growl would be comparable to.

Not so easy if want to aspire to the height ( or depths lol ) of guys like this

http://0.tqn.com/d/heavymetal/1/S/z/...johntardy1.jpg

^^^

Love John Tardy. One of the most amazing things about Obituary, besides everything else about them.

True that my friend, true that... John Tardy's vocals ARE amazing . If any Death Metal vocalist can truely be called a "singer" I think he has to be the one. Don't get me wrong I really like a lot of Death Metal vocalists but John is definitely my favorite. But even putting Tardy aside Obituary still has that Florida murder swamp stomp going for them. Great band.