This story is going to start with a task. Are you paying attention? First, write the name of your favorite band on a slip of paper. Okay, did you do it? Great. Next, crumple that paper up and throw it ...

They are Blake, Mark and Waldo. A couple of years ago, they got together and formed a heavy metal band. This spring, they released their first record, "Beak of Putrefaction." Blake and Mark play ...

Heavy metal bands, at least back in the day, have always embodied the unconventional. Whether it’s insanely taboo lyrical subject matter or wild, almost demonic-sounding vocals, heavy metal bands ...

Blake Harrison and Mark Sloan, the human portion of the parrot-fronted extreme metal band Hatebeak, guest this week on the podcast. We learn about the collaboration’s history, we find out if they ...

The Daily Beast brings word of a Baltimore-based band, Hatebeak, that broke new ground in music as the first known band to have an African Grey parrot for a lead singer. Parrots have long been ...

Parrot-fronted grindcore band Hatebeak will release their first new music in eight years, Number Of The Beak, on June 26. Hatebeak are the brainchild of Blake Harrison (Pig Destroyer) with Mark Sloan ...

There’s nothing worse than a preening musician—although in the case of black metal band Hatebeak’s lead vocalist, we might give him some leeway. He is, after all, a parrot. Hatebeak’s discography ...

You know what’s shocking about a parrot fronting a death metal band? You can’t tell it’s a parrot–not sure if that raises concern about the state of death metal, or if this is an exceptionally gifted ...

From the bowels of hell (it looks like a warehouse filled with unsold copies of Paulie on VHS) comes Hatebeak, the world’s only (?) metal band fronted by a parrot. The death-core group formed in ...

There’s nothing worse than a preening musician—although in the case of black metal band Hatebeak’s lead vocalist, we might give him some leeway. He is, after all, a parrot. It used to be an insult to ...