As usual, we’ve got an avalanche of worthy metal to discuss this month. Before we get to it, I want to take a crack at addressing one of the most frequent questions/complaints we get from readers: “I like the music, but why do the vocals have to be like that?” Pretty much everyone who listens to metal has fielded some version of this question at some point, and for good reason. For all of the genre’s many transgressive and seemingly anti-musical features, it’s the screaming and growling vocals that grate the hardest on most ears. The vast majority of popular music genres use the human voice as a lead melodic instrument, but “harsh” metal vocals...
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