i love your vocals from bizaroe. any tips on how you achieved that sort of "heat" (i.e. the edginess of the vocals...)? I can sing classically and i can growl pretty well, but i'd like to get a hold of sort of a middle ground....much like your Bizaroe vocals.

I studied with L. Scott Martin in Denver, and he taught me a technique called diaphragmatic costal breathing, where you use your costal muscles to force massive quantities of air past your vocal chords and out your mouth and nasal cavities, causing them to vibrate. This is the "grit" and "edginess" that you hear.

It has the very real benefit of eliminating the strain that lots of heavy singers put on their vocal chords by screaming [a very bad thing]. You know you're in trouble as a singer if you can't sing with grit without making your throat sore or going hoarse.

Done correctly, it's a trippy feeling because you can "place" the vibration on different surfaces of your face (teeth, cheekbones, nose); I actually would tear up and sneeze sometimes if I projected the vibrations off the tip of my nose. Hahahahah. Dumb, I know.

Sounds like BS, but it's true. Scott worked with a number of top flight singers with actual talent, like Geoff Tate of Queensrÿche.

There are all sorts of exercises that get you to the point where you can place your sound external to your body, and raise hell at will. Lots of other important things too, like being properly hydrated, avoiding coffee and alcohol before/during singing, because they dry out your vocal chords. I like beer though.

I was just getting started, which is pretty darn apparent. 

If you're interested, I'll post some of them. Maybe, just maybe, I'll start doing them again and get back up to speed myself. It doesn't take long.