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That's Good Enough for Me Cookie Monsters of death-metal music.
Opinion Journal ^ | Wednesday, February 1, 2006 12:01 a.m. EST | BY JIM FUSILLI

Posted on 02/01/2006 12:32:17 PM PST by ThreeYearLurker

While the extreme branch of heavy-metal music known as death metal is defined in part by often-vile lyrics about violence, catastrophic destruction, nihilism, anarchy and paranoia, its singing style is associated with a beloved goggle-eyed, fuzzy blue puppet.

Death-metal vocalizing is also known as Cookie Monster singing, if not in tribute to, at least in acknowledgment of, the "Sesame Street" puppet that blurts in a guttural growl, his words discharged so rapidly that they tend to collide with each other.

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1 posted on 02/01/2006 12:32:21 PM PST by ThreeYearLurker
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To: ThreeYearLurker

The Cookie Monster is the devil.

:-)


2 posted on 02/01/2006 12:34:55 PM PST by Herford Turley (Conservatism will save America)
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To: ThreeYearLurker

Too much sugar.


3 posted on 02/01/2006 12:36:50 PM PST by atomicpossum (Replies must follow approved guidelines or you will be kill-filed without appeal.)
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To: ThreeYearLurker
Nic Bullen of Napalm Death can sound remarkably like the Cookie Monster; his performance on the band's 1987 debut "Scum" (Earache)--which contains 28 songs, 11 of which are under one minute in length, including "You Suffer," which clocks in at less than two seconds--is a virtual Cookie Monster tribute. Frank Mullen of Suffocation, whose 1991 album "Effigy of the Forgotten" (Roadrunner) is considered a model of death-metal music, sounds like an especially malevolent Cookie Monster.

Isn't this a rip off of S.O.D (Stormtroopers of Death)?

4 posted on 02/01/2006 12:48:46 PM PST by frogjerk (LIBERALISM: The perpetual insulting of common sense.)
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To: ThreeYearLurker

I enjoy the musical stylings of the Swedish progressive death metal band Opeth. They have a blend of Cookie Monster and "clean" vocals. Their songs are epic in scope and length.

I'm not that familiar with other bands, but I once purchased a CD called "Deathmeister" as a gag. That one was quite amusing--the lead track was "I will kill you" by Cannibal Corpse. I would usually blare it at toll booths and elicted odd looks from the workers there.


5 posted on 02/01/2006 2:46:14 PM PST by Cyclopean Squid (Moderates do not make history)
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To: ThreeYearLurker

I like how the writer interviews the Sesame Workshop folks and the guy who did Cookie Monster's voice back in the day. They have no light to shed on the subject, but their inclusion is a clever touch.


6 posted on 02/01/2006 2:57:19 PM PST by Yardstick
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