For Those About To Squawk: Metal Bands With Non-Human Singers
March 3, 2006Chris Harris of MTV.com has issued the following report:
Believe it or not, in his spare time the lead singer of the crushing death-metal band HATEBEAK likes to whistle the happy-go-lucky theme song from the "Andy Griffith Show". From time to time, he'll lure dogs into his kitchen so that, when the opportunity's just right, he can sneak up behind them and chomp on their tails. He's also into preening — really into it.
His name is Waldo, and he's a 9-year-old Congo African Grey parrot. And yes, he can screech and growl like DEICIDE's Glen Benton.
Triac frontman Blake Harrison — who, along with fellow sound engineer Mark Sloan, is the human component of Baltimore's HATEBEAK — said his side project is the world's sole avian-fronted metal outfit, and they're definitely the only death metallers sponsored by an organic birdseed company.
Like most good ideas, HATEBEAK were born out of sheer boredom.
"You know, my friend [owns the parrot] and Waldo learned these brutal growls," Harrison explained. "I don't know actually from where — we think some of it's from mimicking water going down the drain, that sort of guttural noise. So, we're goofy dudes, and myself and Mark didn't have a band at the time, so we decided to put something together. Once we came up with name HATEBEAK — that was the big clincher."
Read the rest of the article at MTV.com.
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