You wanna be on TOP?
I totally auditioned for the Revue with Nightwish's Sleeping Sun, because I have zero vocal training and I was taking lorie_dublonnet's advice that you can sound good when you try to match Tarja. Lol.
I know what you're all thinking. "Hey, Ashe? If you say you can't sing, then why is it that you want to start a band as a vocalist?"
The answer is simple, my friends. Singing on stage and singing in a band are two very, very different things. If this actually gets off the ground (and now it realistically might, because of what Gabby and I have been discussing.) then I plan to give people a motherfucking SHOW. It's not just singing. I'll growl, scream, flail about, whisper, mumble, laugh hysterically...whole nine yards. Music is art. I plan to use that to the best of my ability. Hell, the inspiration for half the music I write is derived from bands like Dir en Grey, A Perfect Circle, The Clash, The Cure, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, Evanescence, Kittie, and now Cradle of Filth.
Bathory Aria is one of the most brilliant pieces of music that I've ever come across. Read the lyrics. It's pure poetry, a beautifully composed tribute to a murderess with a constant air of sorrow, pain, and derision. And the way it's delivered...he screams throughout the whole twelve something minutes. He screams, but it's beautiful. I haven't "gone places" while listening to a song like that since I heard Ghost Love Score for the first time.
*sighs plaintively*
Okay, ramble over. God my computer has been pissing me off lately. Dropping the connection for no reason and whatnot.