It’s not often that the Wall Street Journal invokes either death metal music or muppets, but Jim Fusilli’s That’s Good Enough for Me brings the two together:
While the extreme branch of heavy-metal music known as death metal is defined in part by often-vile lyrics about violence, catastrophic destruction, nihilism, anarchy and paranoia, its singing style is associated with a beloved goggle-eyed, fuzzy blue puppet.
Death-metal vocalizing is also known as Cookie Monster singing, if not in tribute to, at least in acknowledgment of, the ‘Sesame Street’ puppet that blurts in a guttural growl, his words discharged so rapidly that they tend to collide with each other.