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The Science and Art of death metal screams.

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Being able to belt out a tune like Adele or Pavarotti, we know it's not just about raw talent.

We know that the best singers in the world work on their technique, how to control their breath and develop the stamina to hit note after note for a two-hour concert.

But pop stars and opera singers, they're not the only vocalists who figured out how to harness their voices for maximum impact.

Death metal vocalists also train their voices to hit a unique guttural register.

And that scream is not as easy to master as you might think.

Vocal scientists at the University of Utah wanted to understand how death metal singers make their iconic screams.

And what they found is not only insightful for metalheads, it might help improve treatment for people with some

types of vocal injuries. Joining me now to talk more about this research are my guests, Dr. Amanda

Stark, speech pathologist and vocology researcher at the University of Utah based in Salt Lake City, Utah,

and Mark Garrett, lead singer of the band Kardashev and a vocal coach based in Phoenix, Arizona. Welcome to you both

to Science Friday. Thank you for having us. Yeah, thanks so much. Amanda, how did you get interested

in studying death metal singing? Yeah, so these extreme metal vocalists use a completely different

pattern of vocalizing than we see in other styles of music.

They tend to have a lot more activation of the supergotic structures.

So the things that are happening, tissues, muscles, etc., above the true vocal folds.

And so when we think of a singer, they use mostly this kind of pitch of their

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