Grindcore and black metal further demonstrate taking hardcore and metal influenced vocals to new extremes. The hardcore shout was incorporated into the range of vocal utilized in thrash metal, and the death growl originated from further experimenting with harsh vocals in thrash metal and later death metal proper. Hardcore punk meanwhile used harsh shouts after general punk demphasized melodic vocals and hardcore emphasized general aggression. Industrial music used a vast variety of vocal techniques, often multiple ones for a single song, but it's most famous for it's distorted screams which became a trademark style in aggrotech, but had little influence on metal, at least not until much later. With the exception of various avant-garde pieces that never got much attention, harsh vocals didn't become a primary method of lyric delivery until the late 70s with industrial music (which came out of avant-garde) and hardcore punk. Robert Halford managed to bring metal screaming to a new level, but it was still very different from the vocals extreme metal is known for.
While traditional heavy metal moved away through the blues in most, it kept the tendency for screaming at climaxes, though the general singing style is more operatic.
This pattern continued into rock n' roll and hard rock. While the shouting was harsh in comparison to the screaming of the day, it's a far cry from the harsh vocals of today, and the only actual screaming was the most intense moments of a song. Screaming and shouting was first used as a method of lyric delivery rather unintentionally with the Blues, where some Blues thing did it in order to heard in noisy clubs. In order to discuss history of mixing clean and harsh vocals, first the history of harsh vocals needs to be discussed, as the first harsh vocals were technically mixed with cleans. Like the other bands, Fear Factory moved more towards the verse/chorus format over time, making the history rather complicated, so I'm looking for people more versed in these things to help me piece this all out. Killswitch Engage did utilize a mixture of clean and harsh vocals before those albums were released, but in a different style: their debut uses the clean vocals more for atmosphere rather a catchy hook, and I believe they were inspired directly by Fear Factory. As far as I can, the vocal indeed originated in melodic death metal with In Flame's Clayman, and Soilwork's A Predator's Portrait. The first metalcore band I know of to use this style is Killswitch Engage, and they differed from earlier metalcore bands by taking more from melodic death metal than directly from hardcore punk. Post-hardcore mixed clean and screamed vocals since it's inception, but it didn't really use that particular style until after metalcore adopted it. Like hardcore punk, early metalcore often had spoken word passages, and like general extreme metal it occasionally had brief sung portions, but that had little in common with the distinctive verse/chorus style which later developed. So, metalcore is known for having screamed verses and clean choruses, but it's hardly a defining characteristic of the genre. Posting this as a discussion rather than an article as in all honesty I don't know where many of these trends came from and I need some fact checking for my theories.
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