Can anyone help me put my finger on the impression I’m getting here?
Something about the vocals here seems notably less metallic(in the genre sense) than even metal often described as ‘melodic’(say Opeth during one of the non-growling segments); but I can’t quite figure out what the difference is. The difference isn’t down to having a specifically harsh edge(neither this nor melodic-segment Opeth has one, while something like Mastadon definitely does; so I could understand hearing a difference there); but I remain struck by a difference nonetheless.
It’s trivially different from the inchoate guttural growl-screaming stuff; but that’s not a tricky difference. This one I’m having a harder time identifying. There is definitely something warmer and pop-ier than either the instrumental component or ‘metal’ would suggest; but I can’t tell why I get this impression.
It’s just…warm and sort of swelling where what I think of a ‘metal’ vocals in the same context would end up being kind of cold and bleak and distant; if not especially intense. But I cannot identify where this is hiding. Flush out the subtext anyone?
