Hatebeak: world's first death metal band whose lead singer is a parrot
Carla Thornton of the San Francisco Chronicle reports:They are Blake, Mark and Waldo. A couple of years ago, they got together and formed a heavy metal band. This spring, they released their first record, "Beak of Putrefaction" (cover).
Blake and Mark play guitar and drums. Waldo provides the ear-bleeding screeches and satanic-sounding growls. A heavy metal prodigy, Waldo is only 15 years old. That's not all. He is also covered with feathers.
Meet Hatebeak (photo), the world's first death metal band whose lead singer is a parrot.
Blake and Mark are Baltimore-area audio engineers in their 20s who prefer not to reveal their last names ("for the mystery, you know," explains Blake). After they came up with the idea for Hatebeak, a fellow metal lover and bird owner provided Waldo, a Congo African Grey.
How Waldo's vocals are integrated with Hatebeak's paint-peeling guitars and frantic drumming is a "trade secret," said Blake. However, one could reasonably surmise it begins with setting up a microphone in the bird room and hoping for the best.
Hatebeak does not tour. "We don't play live," Blake hastened to reassure his interviewer. "It would be absolute torture for the bird to experience decibels at those levels." Read more.