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And by funny I mean unusual, so no English. :wink:
It's opened to debate whether Spanish, German and French are funny languages too. I'd say no but you can disagree.

So what bands do you know sing/shout/growl/shriek in funny languages do you know? Please, state the style they're playing and which album you know and if you advise people to try it.
Being belgian myself, I've tried to find bands that sing in Flemish but couldn't find any.


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Celeste's lyrics are in French.


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I like the harshness of Finnish in metal. (Moonsorrow, Ajattara)


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Well, Norwegian is a pretty weird language I guess, especially if German is. I like bands like Helheim and Kvelertak who does things in their own dialect. Both accents sounds much grimmer than the one found in eastern parts of Norway.


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I don't think either German, Spanish or French can really be seen as weird...


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Metal in Danish though, would be JUST AWFUL!


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We need more metal in Italian. I think it would work.

In case anyone was wondering La Vita Fugge = This Crazy Life (or this crazy thing in my mind) or similar.

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There are plenty of east-european bands that are non-English - Drudkh the obvious example.


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Adveser wrote:
We need more metal in Italian. I think it would work.

In case anyone was wondering La Vita Fugge = This Crazy Life (or this crazy thing in my mind) or similar.


La Vita Fugge = Life Escapes

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Goat wrote:
There are plenty of east-european bands that are non-English - Drudkh the obvious example.


Indeed. Negura Bunget in old Romanian being another obvious example--Romanian is a beautiful language, and probably not the best suited for black metal.


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Anythink in swedish, swedish is sooo homosex...


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warfleloup wrote:
I don't think either German, Spanish or French can really be seen as weird...


I don't understand them very well so they're weird!

Also !T.O.O.H! sing in some sort of crazy gibberish.


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Ea, of course, if you find funny singing in a dead language recovered during an archaeological study.

One friend's band, called Salman Teloch, has a song in enochian.

I know some groups that sings in catalonian. Sangtrait, Vidres a la sang, Foscor, Avalot...


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Well, nothing is more hilarious than Klingon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stovokor_(band)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRZROp3xVSI

http://www.metal-archives.com/band.php?id=62658


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GeneralDiomedes wrote:



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FrigidSymphony wrote:
Adveser wrote:
We need more metal in Italian. I think it would work.

In case anyone was wondering La Vita Fugge = This Crazy Life (or this crazy thing in my mind) or similar.


La Vita Fugge = Life Escapes


Yes, that may be a straight translation, but from what I recall when I asked two the Italians (one was my boss from old brooklyn NY and another was a lady that happened to be there that understood the language) what it meant they almost had to give me a complete paragraph and "describe" why that particular phrase would be used.

That's what sucks about translations, they almost never work like a math forumula where one thing equals another thing because of context.

I trusted they were right because the lyrics are about a man who is in an asylum.

"Escaping Life" makes sense too.

It is much more elusive than when I wondered what "Entre Nous" meant. It didn't occur to me at the time, but the fact that "Just Between Us" appeared at least a dozen times didn't give me a clue. When I asked a Morrocan co-worker, he translated it as "keeping secrets."


Maybe we should stick with english. Less room for error.

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noodles wrote:
Also !T.O.O.H! sing in some sort of crazy gibberish.


It's Czech, probably one of the most-gibberish like languages, yes. My grandmother was Czech and I always remember feeling utterly alienated by it. I can say one thing though - "Ja nemluvím česky" which is quite handy in case any backwater relatives try and track me down.

Slavic languages sound good in metal, if I take it from a linguist's standpoint it's because there seem to be alot of percussive sounds, good for breaking up the growls.

More metal in Italian would be good, too. The only band I know of that sings (partially) in it are Novembre.


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