History Main / CarefulWithThatAxe

** As well as the song "Painkiller". Almost every word is sung in a voice that can be best described as if the singer is being [[InstantSoprano kicked repeatedly in the nuts]]. [[NintendoHard Good luck]] getting that one on ''[[VideoGame/RockBand Rock Band 2]]''

* One of the most infamous examples, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO_QntXc-c4 Bodies]]" by Music/DrowningPool. --->[''Whispering''] ''"Let the bodies hit the floor. Let the bodies hit the floor. Let the bodies hit the floor. Let the bodies hit the--"'' [''two beats''] '''''"FLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOR!!!"'''''

* One of the most infamous examples, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO_QntXc-c4 Bodies]]" by Music/DrowningPool. --> [''Whispering''] ''"Let the bodies hit the floor. Let the bodies hit the floor. Let the bodies hit the floor. Let the bodies hit the--"'' [''two beats''] '''''"FLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOR!!!"'''''

* One of the most infamous examples, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO_QntXc-c4 Bodies]]" by Music/DrowningPool. *whispering* "Let the bodies hit the floor. Let the bodies hit the floor. Let the bodies hit the floor. Let the bodies hit the--" *two beats* '''"FLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOR!!!"'''

** Even more frightening is [[FanNickname Shmion]]'s "Futari no Birthday": cue the random, bloodcurdling "''IYAAAAA!!''" and desperate pleas not to be killed with the upbeat, cheerful music still going on in the background... fun.

* Music/TheReplacements turn this into a prank on the listener on Don’t Tell a Soul (and the remix, Dead Man’s Pop). The ballad “They’re Blind” wafts you away on an “ooh-ohh” fade-out…then “Anywhere’s Better Than Here” opens with “YAAAAAHHHH!!!”

* Music/TheReplacements: The ballad “They’re Blind” wafts you away on an “ooh-ohh” fade-out…then “Anywhere’s Better Than Here” opens with “YAAAAAHHHH!!!”

* Music/{{Finch}} abuses this trope, namely on their sophomore album ''Say Hello to Sunshine''. Nate's screams are usually punctuated by sharp inhalation.

** Another example is "Don't Leave Me Now," which makes sense in context because the enraged scream at the end predicts the events of the next track on the album.

* One of earliest examples, Early Morning by ''Epitaph.'' Slow trippy rocking about pretty colors and lovely summer days... [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sAG_mzp7eI WHOOOAAAAAA...]]

* Music/WeirdAlYankovic put a hidden track called "Bite Me" on his album "Off the Deep End" to scare people who didn't turn off their CD players.

* ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'' has "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQMY-emlcC4 Do The Hippogriff]]" by the Weird Sisters (FakeBand [[{{Defictionalization}} turned superband]] - the [[strike:screamer]] singer is Music/{{Pulp}}'s Jarvis Cocker) - it doesn't appear in the movie, but the soundtrack version linked there starts with a 6-second scream (and must be a shocker, considering it follows 21 instrumental tracks).

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJTzzVsUNAU Vitas]]'', a Ukrainian-born pop singer, does this in at least one of his songs.

* A mild example in Skid Row's "I Remember You." It's a crushy love song, but in the middle, Sebastian Back shrieks "Oh my darlin' I LOOOOOOOVVVE YOOOOOU!" It's as if someone lit him on fire and let him run around the studio for a bit before they got the fire extinguisher.

* When SynthPop group Future Islands performed their song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ee4bfu_t3c "Seasons (Waiting On You)"]] on ''[[Creator/DavidLetterman The Late Show]]'', vocalist Samuel Herring went into a brief, unexpected near-[[HarshVocals death metal growl]] towards the end of the song. This is not present in the studio recording, where he sticks to his usual low, throaty crooning throughout.

* One of earliest examples, Early Morning by ''Epitaph.'' Slow trippy rocking about pretty colors ant lovely summer days... [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sAG_mzp7eI WHOOOAAAAAA...]]

*** You might say it was *[[GlassesPull dons shades]]* a roaring success. [[note]]'''''YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!'''''[[/note]]

* Ill Remembered often switch between a The Who like deep baritone and Korn like screaming. But the singer just loses it around the end of "Oblivion" screaming over and over again. ("GOD IS LAUGHING WITH A GUN TO YOUR HEAD!")
* Chino Moreno of Music/{{Deftones}} makes his screaming all the more captivating by preceeding it with a gentle spoken word whisper. See for example their major hit "My Own Summer (Shove It)."

* Speaking of Neubauten- [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hw_tnh3QZA8 Here's Blixa Bargeld belting out some blood curling screams]] on one of EN's better known tracks. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBPGzEfH-N4 Also a live version]].

* The 13-second scream in Music/IronMaiden's "Number of the Beast" from ''Music/TheNumberOfTheBeast'' is unexpected not only by the listeners, but wasn't a part of the original song. It was caused by Music/BruceDickinson's frustration over the number of takes, and the producers decided to ThrowItIn. Apparently, he has never been able to reproduce it in subsequent performances.

* ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'' has "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQMY-emlcC4 Do The Hippogriff]]" by the Weird Sisters (FakeBand [[{{Defictionalization}} turned superband]] - the [[strike:screamer]] singer is Music/{{Pulp}}'s Jarvis Cocker) - it doesn't appear in the movie, but the soundtrack version linked there starts with 6-second scream (and must be a shocker, considering it follows 21 instrumental tracks).

** The end of "Canceled Check", a country-ish ditty, has shouting obscured by lots of percussion, random banging on a piano and laser gun-ish sounds; the subtlety of the screaming actually makes it more disturbing. This may come across as someone's name being yelled at the top of their lungs.

* In Music/{{Slipknot}}'s song "Scissors" Corey Taylor sings quietly for some time until he blurts out with loud roars and screams. At the end of the song, he sounds as if he about to vomit, which is quite unsettling...

* Karl Sanders of Music/{{Nile}} is primarily known for his extremely low and guttural vocals (to the point where if the bass guitar is too loud, the two pitches are competing to be heard over each other), but when he wants to, he can let out some quite creepy screams. Notable examples are the breakdown in "Cast Down the Heretic," where he screams the song title along with the rest of the band, as well as some truly unnerving high and distant sounding screams during the bridge of "Masturbating The War God."

* Arthur Von Nagel (of the band Music/{{Cormorant}}) delivers some truly blood curling screams at the end of the song "Two Brothers".

* The end of the song "Cockroaches" by Voivod. Makes sense, though, seeing as it's about a swarm of possibly-alien mechanical insects eating their way across the country and finally getting to the narrator...

---> ''You say i'm wasting all my time, I KNOW WHAT TO DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO''

* Music/ElvisCostello is far better-known for his songwriting than for his screaming, but he's let loose with some unexpectedly bloodcurdling screams on a number of songs throughout his long career, sometimes screaming sections of lyrics (the ending of "Beaten To The Punch"), sometimes...not (the wordless screeches during the uptempo sections that bookend "Man Out Of Time").

* Lard's "Can God Fill Teeth," whose chorus consists of several bars of pained screaming and powertool noises. It's about a man who removes all of his teeth on suspicion that they might be bugged.

* In "Good Morning, Captain" by Music/{{Slint}}, singer Brian [=McMahan=] screamed so hard during the final lines, he threw up after recording the song. The entire album Spiderland is a build up for this moment. How would you imagine the word 'paingasm' to sound? It's that.

* Music/DoctorSteel's discography offers the listener a variety of singing styles, from buttery operatic baritone to steampunk-styled rapping. In his song "Lament for a Toy Factory" he lets out some savage, inarticulate metal screaming as the narrator burns down[=/=]blows up the toy factory who fired him.

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJTzzVsUNAU Vitas]]'', a Ukranian-born pop singer, does this in at least one of his songs.

* While generally a mellow and melancholic Indie Rock band, The National have a few of these, particularly live when Matt Berninger really gets into it on songs like "Squalor Victoria" and "England". Studio-wise, there's "Slipping Husband" where the line "Dear, we better get a drink in you before you start to bore us" is repeated as a whisper then explodes into a cathartic scream. The choruses of "Abel" and "Mr. November" can be interpreted as merely yelling depending on point of view, but may unsettle the vibe for some listeners. And there's the end of "Available" which could qualify as NightmareFuel.

* You normally wouldn't associate the Music/GratefulDead with this trope, but Bob Weir let's a good scream out during the song "One More Saturday Night".
* One of the most infamous and [[Main/BrokenBase base breaking]] examples is Nattramn of Music/{{Silencer}} and Diagnose: Lebensgefahr. His strained, psychotic screams of [[Main/SelfHarm (at times, actual and self-inflicted)]] pain are arguably the main defining point of of both project's output. Seriously, just [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1vwnr_u6fc listen]].

* One of the most infamous examples, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO_QntXc-c4 Bodies]] by Music/DrowningPool. *whispering* "Let the bodies hit the floor. Let the bodies hit the floor. Let the bodies hit the--" *two beats* '''"FLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOR!!!"'''

Not literally, of course, but it sounds an awful lot like it. While some artists [[MetalScream scream constantly,]] others will use unexpected bloodcurdling cries and screams to convey fear, pain, and madness, or just to [[ScareChord freak listeners out.]] See also {{Scatting}}.

* Matt from Music/The1975 is a tenor, so this is expected naturally. That being said, their first album's most chilling (and [[TearJerker saddening]]) moment comes from his epic scream on "Robbers": "Now everybody's '''''DEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAD!!'''''"

** From "Caffeine", this pearl: 'I'M WARNING YOU, I'M WARNING YOU, [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar I'M FUCKING YOU]], I'M WARNING YOU'

* Music/PinkFloyd's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b72I7TwsvBE Careful with That Axe, Eugene]]" is the {{Trope Namer|s}}, and quite possibly the {{Trope Maker|s}}.

* Several JunTogawa songs, most notably "Punk Mushi no Onna", a self-cover where she screams for almost the entire song. Her original song "Punk Mushi no Onna" is almost unrecogniseable in comparison.

* Several [[Jun Togawa]] songs, most notably "Punk Mushi no Onna", a self-cover where she screams for almost the entire song. Her original song "Punk Mushi no Onna" is almost unrecogniseable in comparison.

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

-->"You tried to tell me you love life"
-->"Then find another way to '''kiiii--OOOOOOWWWWL'''!!!

-->--'''Lard,''' "Can God Fill Teeth?" ''official transcription''