Some people pick up grunting easily, while others think screaming comes more naturally. ,When I teach people to use metal effects, it varies a bit. What is the best way to learn grunting and how long does it take to be able to do it properly? Think of mimicking a big dog barking “WOOOF”. ” I won’t bore you with the anatomical details, but dark grunt-growls are made with a deep breathy roar. Most used terms are grunts, growls, screams, distortion, rattle and most recently also fry screams. Although some say that growling is a “lower/darker” and softer sounding effect and grunting has sharper sounding edge to it. ,The term grunting is mostly used in the Netherlands, whereas in some other parts of the world they use the term growling for the same effect. We ended up not only talking about the grunt vocal technique but also about her involvement in Magic O Metal, her own company “Wisselkind-Creative Coaching” and personal philosophy. Monica is a trained vocalist and very experienced musician who you might know from the bands X-Tinxion and Downcast Collision. To find out, I asked all these questions to Dutch singer, grunter and vocal coach Monica Janssen. But what is grunting exactly? How does a singer do that? Can everybody learn grunting and how is it possible a young kid can produce such hellish sounds? Photo by hao qin on Unsplash Since then harsh vocals never left the scene again and even is used in other metal subgenres as well. It developed during the seventies rock and got its own identity from the early 80s and snowballing the rise of various extreme metal subgenres where extreme vocals became an important trademark. From the sixties, here and there a premature form of harsh vocals started to appear in “mainstream” music. The use of extreme vocals has been going through an evolution for decades and they even say that growled vocals may have been a part of Viking music. Grunting, or growling, is nothing new in the metal music scene, but a girl of such a young age doing it, isn’t something you hear every day on a global scale. This summer we all were flabbergasted by the grunting performance of 9-year-old Nova Huijben in the Dutch TV show Game of Talents. Septemby Liselotte `Lilo' Hegt - More about our team THE ERA OF VIKINGS
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