C is for Cookie; That's Good Enough for Me
August 16, 2017 2:20 PM Subscribe
A Death Growl is the one of the hallmarks of Death Metal. Sometimes referred to as Cookie Monster Vocals. This isn't lost on metal bands.
Usually associated with male singers, Linzey Rae fronts the band The Anchor, able to death growl which seems impossible, but still there it is. Here's a cookie monster version of Take On Me. Or how about a lesson with her mom? She also has a series of cooking videos called Metal Kitchen.
Cookie begins with C.
Usually associated with male singers, Linzey Rae fronts the band The Anchor, able to death growl which seems impossible, but still there it is. Here's a cookie monster version of Take On Me. Or how about a lesson with her mom? She also has a series of cooking videos called Metal Kitchen.
Cookie begins with C.
This is so wonderful. I had no idea.
posted by blurker at 3:15 PM on August 16, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by blurker at 3:15 PM on August 16, 2017 [1 favorite]
This is remarkably close to the epic vision I had at work one time that occurred to me while our baker was blasting Cannibal Corpse or something, and that vision is this:
That there should be a Cookie Monster death metal band that has songs that are entirely about cookies and baking, or the songs themselves are simple cooking or baking recipes. Perhaps growled entirely in a Nordic language.
posted by loquacious at 3:24 PM on August 16, 2017 [4 favorites]
That there should be a Cookie Monster death metal band that has songs that are entirely about cookies and baking, or the songs themselves are simple cooking or baking recipes. Perhaps growled entirely in a Nordic language.
posted by loquacious at 3:24 PM on August 16, 2017 [4 favorites]
Just going to leave this link of the vegan black metal chef (SLYT) here.
posted by nolabasashi at 3:36 PM on August 16, 2017 [3 favorites]
posted by nolabasashi at 3:36 PM on August 16, 2017 [3 favorites]
Loquacious, Cookie Mongoloid might fit your bill.
posted by fings at 3:42 PM on August 16, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by fings at 3:42 PM on August 16, 2017 [1 favorite]
There's a bunch of women out there with seriously mean growl pipes. I like Kat Katz' contributions to Agoraphobic Nosebleed -- not so much a death metal growl, but a grindcore howl. Here's a good example.
But closer to topic, here's a Slayer cover done by Sarah Longfield, prepended by a skit tenuously involving baked good themes: The cover with great thrash metal vox starts at 0:35, and here's the video from the beginning.
And then there's good old I Wrestled a Bear Once. Original vocalist, Krista, is best described, like, ...what if Bjork was a dark, evil elf instead of a chaotic good elf? No baked goods, but there is a novelty car horn sample.
posted by wires at 4:04 PM on August 16, 2017 [1 favorite]
But closer to topic, here's a Slayer cover done by Sarah Longfield, prepended by a skit tenuously involving baked good themes: The cover with great thrash metal vox starts at 0:35, and here's the video from the beginning.
And then there's good old I Wrestled a Bear Once. Original vocalist, Krista, is best described, like, ...what if Bjork was a dark, evil elf instead of a chaotic good elf? No baked goods, but there is a novelty car horn sample.
posted by wires at 4:04 PM on August 16, 2017 [1 favorite]
brujita, I'm convinced Cookie Monster and Tom Waits are the same person. You never see them together in the same place. Evidence
posted by calamari kid at 4:18 PM on August 16, 2017 [4 favorites]
posted by calamari kid at 4:18 PM on August 16, 2017 [4 favorites]
Frank Oz did the voice/vocals of Chuck Stoat, the leader of a heavy rock band, in Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas (they seem like they're supposed to be scary and metal, but well ...). So while Oz may be surprised that Cookie Monster vocals are a thing, he actually invented them.
posted by darksong at 4:50 PM on August 16, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by darksong at 4:50 PM on August 16, 2017 [1 favorite]
Not so much with the cooking side of things, but Small Child has introduced me to (female) japanese idols who death growl and would like the world to know more about recent faves Candye Syrup, top idol growlers often compared to cookie monster Broken By The Scream, and best of all 20,000 year old demon Pikarin , so with Small Child's help I have composed this comment.
posted by Sparx at 11:29 PM on August 16, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by Sparx at 11:29 PM on August 16, 2017 [2 favorites]
The linked Wikipedia page on the death growl also contains this rather pre-cookie monster citation:
In Hildegard of Bingen's 12th-century allegorical morality play Ordo Virtutum, the role of the Devil uniquely does not employ melodic singing, but is performed in a manner which Hildegard specifies as strepitus diaboli and which is often taken to mean a low and growling voice.
No celesital harmonies for Old Nick apparently: you can hear here
posted by rongorongo at 3:00 AM on August 17, 2017 [1 favorite]
In Hildegard of Bingen's 12th-century allegorical morality play Ordo Virtutum, the role of the Devil uniquely does not employ melodic singing, but is performed in a manner which Hildegard specifies as strepitus diaboli and which is often taken to mean a low and growling voice.
No celesital harmonies for Old Nick apparently: you can hear here
posted by rongorongo at 3:00 AM on August 17, 2017 [1 favorite]
It's funny because Dream Theater is not one of those Cookie Monster metal bands. (Their singer is a more legit singer, and he doesn't usually growl)
Related: Green Jello's "I did it all for the Cookie":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp4nrBJ12bw
posted by habeebtc at 5:47 AM on August 17, 2017
Related: Green Jello's "I did it all for the Cookie":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp4nrBJ12bw
posted by habeebtc at 5:47 AM on August 17, 2017
hmmm - why does this remind me of "Regular Ordinary Swedish Meal Time" - not as many cookies, but crazy Nordic adventures by someone who could at least visually pass for a frontman of a Death Metal band...
posted by jkaczor at 7:10 AM on August 17, 2017
posted by jkaczor at 7:10 AM on August 17, 2017
From the Antifa Cookie Monster department:
Since you can only listen to “Nazi Punks Fuck Off” so many times, here’s a quick little thread of anti-fascist, Nazi-smashing metal songsposted by zamboni at 8:42 AM on August 17, 2017 [2 favorites]
Sparx....yeah, thanks....now I have a silly song about "Baumkuchen" or spit cake stuck in my head!
But Small Child might like "Dazzle Vision".
Or maybe some Flagitious Idiosyncrasy in the Dilapidation?
posted by mortimore at 2:18 PM on August 17, 2017
But Small Child might like "Dazzle Vision".
Or maybe some Flagitious Idiosyncrasy in the Dilapidation?
posted by mortimore at 2:18 PM on August 17, 2017
And then there's good old I Wrestled a Bear Once. Original vocalist, Krista, is best described, like, ...what if Bjork was a dark, evil elf instead of a chaotic good elf? yt No baked goods, but there is a novelty car horn sample.Maybe not so much growling, but if you want some dark evil elf björk shrieking you need not imagine (or live, for the look if not so much the vocals)
posted by palbo at 6:23 PM on August 18, 2017 [1 favorite]
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