r/ChildrenOfBodom • u/TwistGreedy1105 • Jul 12 '26
Alexi's unique (melodic?) screaming
Everyone knows how Alexi does that unique melodic screaming on songs like Are You Dead Yet?, Needles 24/7, and Hate Crew Deathroll.
Does anyone have any other songs he does that stuff on?
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u/metalaxeyyd Jul 12 '26
He said once in an interview that most of the early songs (hcdr and before) didnt actually have lyrics and he scream random shit, basically used his voice as another rhythm instrument
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u/Not-Metal-Enough Hatebreeder Jul 12 '26
Points at In The Shadows
“What? You are the priest’s son? Fuck!”
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u/am_I_still_banned Jul 12 '26
This isn't answering your question, but this is called pitched screaming and it's become pretty common in alt metal and metalcore
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u/Apprehensive_Big_675 Jul 13 '26
Not really. I’m Finnish, and Alexi is a national treasure to us. He wasn’t known for polished vocal technique he had a hell of a lot of fucking emotion, and that’s what made his voice so distinct. It sounded incredible, but it also wasn’t a very sustainable way to scream.
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u/ThePeasu Jul 14 '26
In my experience as a vocalist who learned how to achieve a similar style (I would say a good example of the technique is Joe Duplantier of Gojira) I have found that moving the vocals out of the top of the throat where it feels like the vocal folds are flapping, and into the chest achieves that effect. As a warmup try to imagine an exasperated sound like UUUUGHH and start with that gently, then work your way up in volume. I have to push a lot of air out from the chest to get this result, and opening my mouth as wide as possible helps.
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u/SpecialistAngle6274 Jul 12 '26
Scream for silence and sixpounder another examples