Hatebeak is an American
death metal
Death metal is an extreme metal, extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. It typically employs heavily distorted and low-tuned guitars, played with techniques such as palm muting and tremolo picking; deep death growl, growling vocals; aggressive ...
band, formed by Blake Harrison and Mark Sloan, featuring Waldo (b. 1991), a
grey parrot. Hatebeak is reported to be the first band to have an avian vocalist. They never tour so as to not distress Waldo. Hatebeak is signed to
Reptilian Records. They released the album ''Number of the Beak'' on June 26, 2015, through Reptilian Records.
The band's sound has been described as "a jackhammer being ground in a compactor".
Aquarius Records magazine called Hatebeak "furious and blasting death metal".
Hatebeak made its second record with
Caninus, a band whose lead singers were two dogs.
Hatebeak's goal is to "raise the bar for extreme music".
Band members
* Waldo the Parrot – vocals
* Mark Sloan – guitar, bass
* Blake Harrison – drums (died 2024)
Discography
*''Beak of Putrefaction''
split
Split(s) or The Split may refer to:
Places
* Split, Croatia, the largest coastal city in Croatia
* Split Island, Canada, an island in the Hudson Bay
* Split Island, Falkland Islands
* Split Island, Fiji, better known as Hạfliua
Arts, enter ...
with
Longmont Potion Castle (2004)
*''Bird Seeds of Vengeance'' split with
Caninus (2005)
*''The Thing That Should Not Beak'' split with Birdflesh (2007)
*''
The Number of the Beak'' (2015)
*''Birdhouse By The Cemetery''
split
Split(s) or The Split may refer to:
Places
* Split, Croatia, the largest coastal city in Croatia
* Split Island, Canada, an island in the Hudson Bay
* Split Island, Falkland Islands
* Split Island, Fiji, better known as Hạfliua
Arts, enter ...
with
Boar Glue (2018)
See also
*
Zoomusicology
Zoomusicology () is the study of the musical aspects of sound and communication as produced and perceived by animals. It is a field of musicology and zoology, and is a type of zoosemiotics. Zoomusicology as a field dates to François-Bernard Mâc ...
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Biomusic
Biomusic is a form of experimental music which deals with sounds created or performed by non-humans. The definition is also sometimes extended to include sounds made by humans in a directly biological way. For instance, music that is created by t ...
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Caninus
References
External links
Hatebeak at Metal Archives
Enough Fanzine - Beak of Putrefaction
Hatebeak on Bandcamp
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American death metal musical groups
American grindcore musical groups
American musical trios
Zoomusicology
Musical groups from Baltimore
Musical groups established in 2003
Musical groups disestablished in 2009
2003 establishments in Maryland