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Heavy Rock with influences from hardcore, punk, metal, blues, jazz, reggae, etc.
Check it:
www.myspace.com/overstandnj

Also our old band. Charge 2001-2007.
www.myspace.com/charge

Peace. Shawn

The tracking and mixing is good and the instrumentation is good, I guess I am just getting old, can your singer really scream like that thru the whole show. I have a 26 year old son that loves that stuff.
(Oh no I sound like my dad did 35 years ago)

Yeah I can go that way through a whole show. In fact I think my voice actually sounds better live and is much stronger now from playing so many shows. I was very sick when we did these recordings.
I had the BRONCH-ITUS!
But now I'm starting to lay back in some parts and go all out on others to add more dynamic to it. I'm learning, this is my first time "singing" in a band.

How old are you guys? I'm 34 and a father as well.
Check my old band that I played bass in. This may be more your speed.
www.myspace.com/charge
Peace!

Pretty interesting. You try singing at all? You're likely to mess up your vocal chords screaming solely. Regardless, it sounds good for that style. I like it.

repressthecadence wrote:Pretty interesting. You try singing at all? You're likely to mess up your vocal chords screaming solely. Regardless, it sounds good for that style. I like it.

Thanks. Yes I can actually sing. When I was a teenager I lived in a Hare Krsna temple and a huge thing was singing Vedic prayers, etc. That's were I started playing music. I always loved music but never played until I lived in the temple.
We actually have written some new reggae stuff, we did a lot of reggae with our old band. So I do some singing on that but I still keep it a bit dirty.
I guess I'm not ready to fully sing yet. I feel it's a harsh time and I feel I want to keep the vibe of the music somewhat aggressive.
A lot of people think screaming is just lazy or bullshit but I tell you it takes much more to do that for me. But I know to come from the center, I took lessons years back as well. So I'm not really shredding my chords to sh*t.
I think in time I will refine what I'm doing and more "melody" will come into play.
Check THE ZEN OF SCREAMING. It's an instructional/Documentary dvd on the art of screaming.

Yeah, it just sucks when you see all those vocalists that don't know what they're doing have to go through vocal surgery and lose the clarity of their singing voices. Good that you've learned techniques to it, though I'm still pretty sure that's one of the most damaging vocal styles there are. I scream a little, but only sparingly, because I like the sound of my voice as it is right now.

Some of my favorite vocalists are Stevie Wonder, Curtis Mayfield, George Harrison, John Lennon, etc.
So I'm sure one day I'll be laying back singing some more chill stuff. I still have that youthful angst @ 34.

Another myth. If you scream RIGHT, you won't do any damages at all. Ofcourse, if you overdo -even- the correct screaming, you'll end up with problems later on. But, trust me, learn how to scream right and you won't have a problem. Good rock and metal singing is all bout pushing yourself to the limit and then backing off. This also builds up vocal stamina.

Andragon wrote:Another myth. If you scream RIGHT, you won't do any damages at all. Ofcourse, if you overdo -even- the correct screaming, you'll end up with problems later on. But, trust me, learn how to scream right and you won't have a problem. Good rock and metal singing is all bout pushing yourself to the limit and then backing off. This also builds up vocal stamina.

Agreed.