"I Like the Music, But Do They Have to Scream?"
 

A lot of people seem to have trouble getting into one of the staples of metal: screaming/growling/shrieking and it's cutting them off from a lot of great music. I used to have this opinion when I was growing up with metal but something just happened along the way and I was cool with it.

I was wondering if you guys had any entry level screaming tracks or any methods to get used to the style. I was also interested if anyone is able to share their personal experience of how they stopped worrying and learned to love the growl.

I liked thrash. I like progressive metal. I liked Deftones.

My buddy liked Meshuggah but I just couldn't quite get around the heavier vocals on songs like Bleed, but then he showed me New Millenium Cyanide Christ and I loved it, since the vocals were quite close to thrash and it was a little easier to digest. From there I just got more and more tolerant to it. I only really enjoy it with a couple groups though, and only tolerate some of it cause it is kinda annoying at times, but never really grating or too much to handle like it used to be.

Slayer > Bathory > Morbid Angel > etc

when i was in my early teens i thought my chemical romance were metal... i was NOT used to hearing screaming/shrieking in music i guess just cause i was never exposed to it. it made absolutely no sense to me why anybody would enjoy listening to the screaming but yeah... after getting more and more into metal it started to sound okay to me but honestly, some of it still sounds annoying.

I just woke up one morning and decided to stop being a ****ing pussy.

qwertyy you're so manly and tough <3

Basically this.

^ says the guy who's afraid of clowns.

Death metal growls used to be something I just couldn't take seriously, then at some point I realized that I didn't actually have take music seriously to enjoy it.

You listen to ****ing Nightwish and Dragonforce, you still ARE a pussy.