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I really wasn't doing it to shock people. I just thought it was exciting and interesting and it went along with what I gained from listening to the music.

— Chris Barnes

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I just think that it gets really, really boring doing the same vocal approach, like as some vocalists do.

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It just felt right to enunciate and pronounce the lyrics more clearly [on The Bleeding] because I felt the music was more clearly pronounced.

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Above the pitch, out of tune, and off the hinges.

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