Our visitor on this week’s episode of How I Learned to Scream is Damonteal Harris of rising slam stars PeelingFlesh.
He takes us again to first listening to aggressive and excessive vocals, how he acquired began attempting to scream and make all types of guttural noises, what his household considered all of it and extra.
Damonteal Harris’ Introduction to Harsh Vocals + Beginning on His Personal
The PeelingFlesh brutalizer truly credit outdated Fall Out Boy with being the primary kind of aggressive vocal method he heard. As for a extra conventional model of harsh vocals, that’d be Suicide Silence and Mitch Lucker.
“I didn’t know that people may do such a factor, however I knew instantly that I wished, um, strive to determine find out how to do it,” Harris says. “It was, like, center faculty, like 14 or 15 [years old] perhaps and I used to be simply in my room making bizarre noises.”
“I used to be a, in all probability a bathe vocalist — a bathe, rest room, closet vocalist or if I had associates who have been into it, we might completely do this goofy factor the place we’re within the room screaming songs collectively, however that is what we did.”
He goes on, “I used to be an solely youngster, so I’d simply, like, come house earlier than all people else, and that was my chill time to sit down there for, like, half-hour and simply get pleasure from an album to the fullest and perhaps follow vocals to it.”
And as quickly as he heard Matti Manner gurgle on Abominable Putridity’s excellent Anomalies of Synthetic Origin, it actually modified all the pieces. “I wanna sound like that. All the pieces I wanna do — I wanna do this.”
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Cupping the Mic — What Does Damonteal Harris Suppose?
Harris is a proud mic-cupper and thinks anybody speaking down on the follow ought to simply recover from it.
“Some would possibly name it the triggers of vocals, however I similar to the way in which it sounds,” he says. “I like the way in which it makes me sound. Do not be afraid to cup. It is 2025, cup that mic. I do not care what sort of mic you bought, cup the hell out of it.”
How PeelingFlesh’s Damonteal Harris Realized to Scream — Watch the Full Episode
Discover out what Harris’ household considered him making all these loopy noises in a band, sitting vs. standing whereas recording and what to not do earlier than going onstage in the event you do not need to sound like Marge Simpson.
Watch the total How I Realized to Scream episode under and test additional down the web page for extra on what PeelingFlesh have occurring this yr.
PeelingFlesh in 2025 – New EP, Tour Dates + The place to Comply with
PeelingFlesh will launch their new EP, PF Radio 2, on Sept. 26 by Distinctive Chief, following up their debut LP The Go Code, which catapulted them to the entrance of the pack amid a brand new technology of dying steel teams.
“This launch signifies one other step for us as a band. We’re all the time evolving our sound and this launch reveals one other stage of PeelingFlesh in terms of all the pieces. Riffs, drums, samples and vocals are all turned to the max and we could not be extra stoked for the world to listen to it,” Harris says.
Take heed to “Midnight” under.
PeelingFlesh, “Midnight” Music Video
PeelingFlesh, PF Radio 2 Art work + Observe Itemizing
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1. “Introlude”
2. “Redacted”
3. “Channel Zero”
4. “Holdin” feat. Jason Frazier of Corpse Pile and CC from Algor Mortis
5. “Autistimus Prime” feat. Kiriakos Destounis of Embryectomy
6. “Flesh Cathedral”
7. “Middlelude”
8. “Midnight”
9. “D.V.P.B.”
10. “Outerlude”
PeelingFlesh 2025 Tour Dates
PeelingFlesh will open Lorna Shore‘s fall headlining tour, which additionally options The Black Dahlia Murder and Shadow of Intent.
See all of the dates on the admat under and gets tickets at Lorna Shore’s website.
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