11/7/2022 0 Comments Deathmetal growlThat’s where was like, ‘hey Chuck, you already did it here, you know? So go, go, go with the death metal. Like I said, when we were doing Demonic I had no idea about that song until months tracking into tracking Demonic. Like, ‘this band went even heavier?’ You know? Low was a kickass record. But me, I am always on the side of heavier. “It was not up to me to say ‘hey do more’ or ‘hey do less.’ ‘do you.’ That’s all I will say. Derek was like ‘come on Chuck, more.’ So granted, when a Testament album like Demonic came out, I would imagine there was probably a lot of Testament fans that were scratching their heads at that. I never felt the ground rumble below me as a vocalist is doing his thing. Music: Death Metal, in general, is a really loud, heavy and technically demanding music. John Entwistle did it way back in 1968 in The Whos song Boris the Spider, and then it was Kam Lee and Chuck Schuldiner that developed the modern vocal delivery. DEATHMETAL GROWL FULLAbsolutely.’ Then to have Chuck being full growl death metal for the majority for that album… but when Chuck sings, Jesus man. Basically its low growls and high pitched raspy screams thats the most integral part of the song. I was like, ‘I gotta work with this guy at some point. When I saw him do when we played some shows with them, he just rumbled the entire venue we were playing together at. “I remember it was, myself, Eric’s cousin Derek Ramirez who was the second guitarist for this project… and we hadn’t quite established our bassist yet at the time, but we were writing songs and I was like ‘wow, these are good songs!’ I remember Derek and myself… Derek moreso than myself, Derek likes to give me a lot of the credit or the blame for leaning toward the super duper death metal thing. Derek was like, ‘Chuck! You gotta be heavier and death metal!’ and I’d always wanted to work with Chuck. That was a challenging time for a lot of metal acts, the ones who did not play death metal.’ “Testament undergoing a lot of the same kind of things a lot of things the previously established metal acts were going through in the mid ’90s.
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