History Main / CarefulWithThatAxe

[[TropeNamers Named for]] Music/PinkFloyd's "Careful with That Axe, Eugene", which features Roger Waters screaming his lungs out as if in serious pain.

* BlackMetal band Fleurety has one of the most extreme examples of this trope with their debut [=EP=] ''A Darker Shade of Evil''. The vocals are so inhumanly high-pitched that the singer blew out his voice performing them. [[BrownNote Listen]] [[HellIsThatNoise at your own risk]].

* Right after the solo in Music/{{Nirvana}}'s "Drain You" from ''Music/{{Nevermind}}'' starts, Kurt Cobain lets out a long, ear-piercing shriek.

* The beginning of Music/{{Beck}}'s "Lord Only Knows" off ''Music/{{Odelay}}'' - for all of ten seconds, before the country-blues style song actually starts...

* Hole's "I Think That I Would Die" from ''Live Through This'', said to be about Music/CourtneyLove's custody battle for her daughter. Cue Courtney screeching "THERE IS NO MILK!" like a cat with a sore head. Then it calms down, with just Eric's guitar backing Courtney singing, "It's...not...yours." Then: "FUCK! YOOOOUUUUU!"

* Music/{{Radiohead}}'s [[SanitySlippage "Climbing Up the Walls"]] has a [[LastNoteNightmare disturbing scream near the end.]]

** "GUNS! RAZORS! ''KNIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVES!'' WHOO!"

* Music/RascalFlatts often employs this due to lead singer Gary [=LeVox=]'s incredibly whiny high-pitched voice and Dann Huff's [[LoudnessWar ridiculously bombastic production]]. But quite possibly the best example is when he screams "BOB! THAT! HEAD!" ''really'' loudly at the top of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APUfkpHKmdo Bob That Head]]", and then again near the end. It got to the point that the label sent out an edited version that removed the intro.

** Naked City (as well as bandleader John Zorn’s other grindcore band Painkiller) in general employs this with just about any song with vocals.

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** Also from his project Tomahawk the song Malocchio starts out with Patton screaming 'CHEW IT!! CHEW IT!! CHEW IT TO SPIT IT OUT!!'.
** Fantomas' cover of the ''Series/TwinPeaks: Fire Walk With Me'' theme is sort of an interesting case because it contains a scream that's not actually performed by Mike Patton at all: It's a sample from the final episode of the TV series, which is scarier if you've seen the episode in question.

* Music/DevinTownsend's debut solo album, Ocean Machine: Biomech. Just listen to the very end of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j--lwDc0DY#t=272s "Things Beyond Things."]]
* Music/DirEnGrey's album "Withering to death" loves this trope ''very, very much''. Especially notable are "Merciless cult", "saku", "Kodoku ni shisu, yue ni kodoku" and "dead tree".
** Pfft, listen to "Obscure" from their ''Vulgar'' album. YOU WILL NEVER SLEEP AGAIN. Bonus points if you watch the entire [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxP4R6F-etQ uncensored video]] without freaking out.
*** And then there is Dozing Green. After a very soft, almost lullaby-like bridge, Kyo abruptly breaks out into a series of the most blood-curdling screams ever heard in metal.
** Most of Dir En Grey's music is practically married to this trope if Kyo's diagnosis of edema of the vocal cords is any indication.

** The child abuse segment in "Down With The Sickness" is quite easily the most violently screamy 40 seconds in the band's discography (their later work relies more on clean, traditional metal belting).