Cookie Vocals of Death
Boing Boing: The Wall Street Journal on Death Metal and the Cookie Monster Voice
That’s neat and everything. It’s a cool article. With cool quotes like this one:
“It’s not easy to determine where and how Cookie Monster singing actually began. Early death-metal bands such as Death and Morbid Angel that emerged from Florida in the mid-’80s helped create the musical template that characterized the blasting sound as well as that of its Satan- and occult-obsessed sibling, black metal: “
But what most perplexed me was that there aren’t ANY mentions of the actual Cookie Monster metal band : Cookie Mongoloid. I’d have thought that’d be automatically Bay Area’d right into BoingBoing. Hrrfph.
“C may be for cookie … but
F-U-C-K-I-N’ R-A-D spells
Cookie Mongoloid.”
-Willamette Weekly
[Portland,OR]
