Hatebeak and Caninus, The Band With The Lead Singer of an Animal

Occurrences Hatebeak and Caninus had become a talking point among metalheads the world because of their lead singer is an animal. This is something new, strange and unique for us who just know. Here is a brief explanation of both bands :

Hatebeak

Hatebeak is a death metal band that was founded in 2003 in Baltimore, United States. The death metal band has a unique concept that is by entrusting the position of vocalist to a parrot named Waldo. Waldo is a kind of bird Congo African Grey Parrot which is the pet of Blake Harrison. Hatebeak consists of three members, namely Blake Harrison as a beater of drums, Mark Sloan as guitarist and bassist and Waldo "the parrot" as the lead vocal. Hatebeak already released three albums namely "Beak of putrefaction" (2004 ), "Bird Seeds of Vengeance" (2005 ), and "The Thing That Should Not Beak" (2007 ). Overall third album has a bit of melody and lyrics are hard to understand. This is reasonable because the vocalist is a bird.

The idea of ​​using a bird to be the vocalist Hatebeak is the idea of ​​Blake Harrison. Blake Harrison is an active musician in the scene hardcore-metal Baltimore. Aside from being a drummer, he is also a sound engineer and business man engaged in metal outfit. Blake Harrison also joined the band called Pig Destroyer. Back again to the topic earlier, this idea appears when Blake Harrison watching behavior Waldo is often a sound that is quite noisy Whenever Blake Harrison play metal songs. These birds will imitate the sound of the vocalist of the songs played by Blake Harrison. Waldo is also able to carry out a scream and growl like a death metal vocalist. Seeing this, Blake Harrison and Mark Sloan immediately took steps to combine the advantages of the technique Waldo in their music, as well as establishing Hatebeak and set Waldo as lead singer. Waldo lifted as a vocalist is a symbol of their statements to give another reference to metal music and considered that Waldo is not just being a gimmick of a band.

Invites  Waldo to record the song is not an easy thing. They must find the right moment to record sound Waldo. Sometimes Waldo is very difficult to be invited to the recording and sometimes when Waldo was a good mood then it will become easier. This makes Hatebeak not plan to perform live. Hatebeak also don’t want to be perceived exploiting animals and confirms that this is just a studio project.

In the process of making a song they recorded beforehand usually sound Waldo. After receiving voice Waldo, they then went on to write the rhythm with the sound of Waldo. The final and most difficult part of this process is the writing of the lyrics of the song. Writing lyrics is done by Blake Harrison with attention to every word that came out of the mouth of Waldo.

Hatebeak received a good reception from the metalhead worldwide. Metalhead considers that this is a new breakthrough in metal music. The thump of loud music collided with the sound of a parrot with a wrenching scream to make something rare and very unique. Hatebeak also the only metal band in the world who get sponsorship from organic birdseed company. Perhaps because one of his band members are birds or their success in collaborating with the bird in a musical.

In 2009 Hatebeak announced that they had disbanded. But this year they were reunited and released their latest album in the month of June. The new album is titled "Number of the Beak" and released through Reptilian Records.

Caninus

Caninus is grindcore band that was founded in 2003 in New York, United States. Caninus is a side project created by Justin Brannan that also the guitarist of the hardcore band named the Most Precious Blood. He had a crazy idea to form a band with the vocalist is two dogs. Then Justin Brannan ( lead guitar ) invites Buddy Bronson to fill the bass position, Rachel Rosen as a drummer and of course their pitbull dog named Basil and Budgie as a vocalist.

This idea first appeared as Justin, Buddy, and Rachel are playing along with Basil and Budgie while listening metal songs from Cannibal Corpse, Napalm Death and Terrorizer. Unexpectedly Basil and Budgie barking like a vocalist to follow the music. From this incident, they decided to invite both the dog to join the band. Then they tried to record a song with the vocals of both the dog and then pass it to the closest friends. Turns out the song received a positive response. Many people who requested that Caninus to record more songs. Caninus finally decided to make an album and to finally become one of the band that is very popular with its uniqueness.

Caninus already produced three albums, namely "Now the Animals Have a Voice" (2004 ), Caninus/Hatebeak (2005 ), and Cattle Decapitation/Caninus (2005 ). Caninus/Hatebeak is a split album together "Hatebeak" titled Bird Seed of Vengeance in 2005. The character of the music of this band is powerful, fast tempo, full of energy and complex as grindcore band in general. Just like Hatebeak, Caninus also got tremendous response from the metalhead worldwide. Caninus purpose of the establishment is to spread the message that people are more concerned about abandoned animals and want to nurture. In addition they also bring the message of animal rights, vegetarianism and veganism. This shows their concern for animal life by making two dogs as a symbol to convey a positive message through their dogs barking.

Caninus decided disbanded in 2011 because one of their pittbull dog named Basil died. Basil died from a brain tumor diagnosed and euthanasia.

Hatebeak and Caninus managed to show us about a new thing in presenting a musical. And one more important thing is they are able to train and reward their pet in order to produce something extraordinary.