With his death's-head features and abrasive voice, like a saw cutting through metal, Bleach is suitably chilling and also very funny as when, having wrestled with a trio of marionettes, he turns to us and admits "puppetry is not as easy as it looks".
The original band, particularly the guitar team of Slash on lead and Izzy Stradlin on rhythm, collaborated to forge a scrappy combination of glam, punk and metal behind Mr. Rose's proudly abrasive voice, which could leap from a baritone growl to a fierce screech.
The most abrasive voice is that of economist Paul Krugman, who has been attacking German policymakers for addressing their fiscal deficits, loudly insisting on the need for more stimulus in the U.S. and labeling everyone who disagrees with him asinine.
If you take the Netherlands (including Geert Wilders, the Dutch Freedom Party chief who is Europe's most abrasive anti-Islam voice) as a prime arena for Europe's kulturkampf concerning Islam's place in its midst, Norway's tragedy has not narrowed its divisions.
Over a choppy and abrasive beat, he voiced the fear that youthful dissent might rend the country apart and pit brother against brother.
Cited by Chavarria as the album's most effects-heavy track, it features a futuristic sound, a convoluted beat, and abstract aural elements such as white noise bursts, high-pitched voices, abrasive instruments, and layers of twinkling keyboard bass.
He sang it for a while, but then one of the backup singers, Melonie Daniels, took over, and through a couple of choruses she took care of all the things Mr. Hawkins chose not to do: working up to a shriek, making her voice passionately abrasive, clobbering the audience.
Its taunting insistence that everyone is racist, voiced in abrasive, staccato Mamet-speak, leaves you feeling battered and vaguely guilty.
While they did scenes involving porno, babies with AIDS and religion, through their unique voices the abrasive subject matter seemed almost quaint.
Azealia Banks NEEDSUMLUV Banks's new release misses her signature abrasive rap-style, but the soulful voice she usually saves for choruses and a skipping UK garage beat help keep this track fresh.
Yet once Mr. Rose got his voice up to full, abrasive yowl and screech, Guns N' Roses was the embodiment of nostalgia-enhanced memories, a relic reanimated like a woolly mammoth suddenly charging across the tundra.
