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It's really common for singers to EMPHASIZE! EVERY! WOOOORD!, but here are some notable examples.

  • Adam and the Ants' "Physical (You're So)": "You're! So! Phy-! Si-! Cal!".
  • Foreigner "JUKE! BOX! HERO!"
  • The Misfits: "ONE. LAST. CAAAAAARRRRREEEESSSS!"
  • GWAR: LIFE! MUST! CEASE! THE PRICE! OF! PEACE! HEADS! WILL! ROLL! BLOOD! WILL! FLOW!
  • Nightwish:
    • "Slaying the Dreamer": I! Truly! HATE! YOU! ALL!
    • "Yours Is an Empty Hope: YOURS! IS! AN! (Beat) EMP! TY! HOPE!
  • They Might Be Giants:
    • Their live intro announces their name this way, punctuated by cartoonish musical stings. "Please give a warm, friendly hand to THEY! MIGHT! BE! GIANTS!"
    • THE ALPHABET! OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOF! NAAAAAAAAAAAAATIOOOOOOOOOOOONS! (From "Alphabet of Nations").
    • Make! A! Hole! With! The! Gun! Per! Pen! Dic! U...lar! To! The! Name! Of! This! Town! In a desktop... Globe! (From "Ana Ng").
    • I know! I know! I said that! I! Would! Quuuiiit! All! Right! I promise! No more! After Thiiis! (From "Thunderbird").
  • Big Bad Voodoo Daddy: "Big! Bad! VOOOOOOOO-DOOOOOOOO! DAAA-DAAYYYY!"
  • The Breeders' "Cannonball": "WANT YOU! CUCKOO! CAN-NON-BALL!!!"
  • Judas Priest:
  • Black Sabbath's "Iron Man: "I! AM! IRON MAN!"
  • Lordi's "Hard Rock Hallelujah": "HARD! ROCK! HALLELUJAH!"
  • Bring Me the Horizon:
    • "Shadow Moses": THIS! IS! SEMPITERNAL!!!
    • "True Friends": THIS! ENDS! NOOOOOOOOOW!!!
  • Björk's "Venus as a Boy": HE! BELIEVES! IN! A BEAUTY!
  • Alice in Chains' "Would?": IF! I! WOULD! COULD! YOU!?
    • Also “I Stay Away": IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII STAYYYYYYYYYYY AWAY!
  • Metallica's James Hetfield, boldly pushing back the frontiers of science, has managed to pronounce every syllable of a word as its own sentence (helps that while making The Black Album, producer Bob Rock told James that instead of using long words, he could emphasize syllables).
    • A word with one syllable. "YEE-EEE-EEE-AAA-AAA-YYY-AAA-UUH!"
    • "Enter Sandman": Ehhhcks! Iiiit! LAH-HIGHT! Ehhhn! Tuuuhr! NAH-HIGHT!"
    • "Damage, Inc.": "BLOOD! WILL! FOLL-LOW! BLOOD! DY! ING! TIME! IS! HERE!"
    • Also, the expansion of the word "empty" in "Cyanide", and "Shape-shiiii-fttttt" in "Of Wolf and Man".
    • "The Day That Never Comes'': "This, I swear! This, I swear! THIS! I! SWEARRRRRRR!!!" In the booklet of the album, that last "THIS, I SWEAR!" is in even bigger letters for emphasis.
    • "All Nightmare Long" starts with "Luck. Runs. Out.". (written that way in the booklet every time it appears)
  • ("This Means War!" by Petra): "THIS! MEANS! WAR!"
  • Garbage:
  • Megadeth's "Peace Sells" "PPEEEEAAAACCCCCE... SEEEEEELLLLS..."
  • Anthrax:
    • IT'S! A! MAD-HOUSE!
    • They take a cue from Judge Dredd in a song inspired by the comic — I! AM! THE! LAW!
    • And repeatedly in their 1990 album, Persistence of Time (WELCOME! TO! THE! BELLY! OF! THE! BEAST)
    • A change of vocalist doesn't deter this (WHO? WHAT? WHERE? WHEN? WHY? from Hy Pro Glo)
  • tool:
    • "Disgustipated": THIS. IS. NECESSARY! THIS. IS NECESSARY! LIFE! FEEDS ON LIFE! FEEDS ON LIFE!..."
    • "Third Eye": "PRY-ING O-PEN MY THIRD EYE! PRY-ING O-PEN MY THIRD EYE! PRY-ING O-PEN MY THIRD EYE!"
    • "Hooker With a Penis": "I sold my soul to make a record, dipshit, AND! YOU! BOUGHT! ONE!" ).
    • "Stink Fist": "I'LL! KEEP! DIGGING! TILL I! FEEL! SOMETHING!"
  • Liz Phair's "Girls! Girls! Girls!" from Exile in Guyville.
  • Bon Jovi: "It's. My. LIFE!"
  • The character of Me (played by James LaBrie) does it awesomely at the end of "Day Eighteen: Realization" on Ayreon's The Human Equation album. "LET! ME! OOOUUUT!!!" Rage (played by Devin Townsend) also does a similar thing at the end of "Day Sixteen: Loser". "NEVER! NEVER! NEVER! NEVER! NEVER! NEVER! NEVER! NEVER!"
  • Ronnie James Dio, at the end of Rainbow's classic "Kill the King". "OH! KILL! OH! KILL! OH, OH!"
  • Stratovarius's "Freedom": "So you will hear! My! Freedom! Call!"
  • The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets in "Flee!": PAIN! DEATH! INSANITY! DEATH!"
  • Starship's "We Built This City": "WE BUILT! THIS! CITY! WE BUILT! THIS! CITY! ON ROCK! AND! ROLL!"
  • Dream Theater examples: "As I Am" ("Take! Me! As! I am!"), "A Change of Seasons" ("I! WILL! LIVE ON! LIVE ON!", also the live version has James shouting "PLEASE! DON'T! GO!"), "The Test That Stumped Them All" ("Hoping to find the answers to the test that stumped! Them! All!"), "Octavarium" ("TRAPPED! INSIDE! THIS! OC-TA-VA-RI-UM!"). James LaBrie really likes doing this. Also from "The Dark Eternal Night": I! Am! The! LAST!
  • Queensrÿche: They love it.
    • Take Hold Of The Flame: "TAKE! HOLD!"
    • "CHILD! OF! FIRE!"
    • Neue Regel: "I! CAN! HEAR! THE! CHIMES!"
    • Chemical Youth (WE! ARE! REBELLION!)
    • The Needle Lies: "DON'T! EVER! TRUST!"
    • Eyes of a Stranger: "Why am I here? And FOR! HOW LONG!?"
    • Empire: "CAN! YOU! HEAR! IT CALLING!"
  • Shikari:
    • "Sorry, You're Not a Winner": "SO! RRY! YOU'RE! NOT! A winner..." "WHAT! HAVE! YOU! GOT? To lose..."
    • "Mothership": "GO! TELL! ALL! YOUR FRIENDS!" "THAT THIS IS! THE END!" .
    • "No Sleep Tonight": "YOU'RE NOT! GETTING ANY! SLEEP! TONIGHT!"
    • "Juggernauts": "THOU! SHALL! NOT! PASS!"
  • Four Year Strong:
    • "CAN YOU! PROVE TO ME! THAT YOU'RE NOT DEAD! AND! GONE!" (From "Nineteen with Neck Tatz"), "RISE! OR! DIE! HERE AT THE TOP OF THE WORLD!" (From "Maniac (R.O.D.)"), "SO LISTEN UP! IF YOU STILL FEEL! AND I STILL FEEL! THEN RISE UP! AND O! VER! COME!" (From "What The Hell Is a Gigawatt?" featuring Jay Pepito of Reign Supreme), "I! STILL! ALWAYS! LOOK UP TO YOU!" (From "One Step at a Time"), etc. etc.
  • Icona Pop: "I! DON'T! CAAAARE! I love it!"
  • Iron Maiden, "The Prisoner": "Run! Fight! To leave! It's tough!"
    • "RUN! TO! THE! HILLS! / RUN! FOR! YOUR! LI-I-IVES!" (From "Run to the Hills").
    • "TWO! MINUTES! TO MID — NIIIIIIIIIGHT!" (From "2 Minutes to Midnight").
    • "CAUGHT — SOME-WHERE — IN — TIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIME!" (From "Caught Somewhere in Time").
    • "YOUR — TIME — WILL — COME!" (From "The Wicker Man").
  • Rhapsody of Fire, "The March of the Swordmaster": "Hail! Hail! Great swordmaster! March! March! Brave swordmaster!" And a spoken version in "The Dark Tower of Abyss": "This... Is... HELL!!!" And in Italian, from "Bloody Red Dungeons": "Luna! Rossa! Pianti! Paure! Rabbia! Ira! Urla! Torture!"
  • Scooter: "Move! Your! ASS!" (From "Move Your Ass!")
    • And "Gothic... doesn't... exist." (From "Fuck the Millennium").
    • HY-PAH HY-PAH! (From "Hyper Hyper").
    • HOW! MUCH! IS! THE! FISH?! (From "How Much Is the Fish?", strangely enough).
  • Stratovarius: "At! The! Speed! Of! Liiight...!" (From "Speed of Light") and "ZERO! THREE! ZERO! THREE! SIX! SIX!" (From "030366").
  • Sublime's "Date Rape":
    That's. When. Things. Got. Out. Of. Control.
    She. Didn't. Want. To. He. Had. His. Way.
    She. Said. "Let's. Go."
    He. Said. "No! Way!"
    That's. When. Things. Got. Out. Of. Control.
    The moral. Of. The. Date. Rape. Story.
    It. Does not pay. To Be. Drunk. And. Horny.
  • Sum 41, "Fat Lip": "I don't wanna waste! My! Time! Become another casualty of society! I'll never fall! In! Line!"
    • "In Too Deep": "It seems that SOME! THING'S! TELLING ME!"
  • Papa Roach: I! CAN'T! GO! ON! LI-VING! THIS! WAY! (From "Last Resort"). First growled, then screamed at the top of his lungs.
  • Even Sonic Heroes' last boss' battle theme: WHAT! I'M! MADE! OF! (From "What I'm Made Of" by Crush 40).
  • I! AM! AMERICAN BADASS! (From "American Bad Ass" by Kid Rock).
    • Earlier in the same song, "And I DID! NOT! STUTTER! WHEN! I SAID THAT!"
  • "Weird Al" Yankovic: "I! HATE! SAUERKRAUT!" (From "Albuquerque").
    • "But you can't! Stay! Heeere!" (From "Polka Power!", segment "Closing Time")
    • "HIT! SEND! RIGHT! NOWWW!" (From "Virus Alert")
  • Sparks' "This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us": "I! AIN'T! GON! NA! LEEEEEEEEEEAVE!!"
  • Metal in general, really. From Man O' War (which basically IS this trope, entirely accepting it into their being) to Black Sabbath to Gojira to Death to friggin' anything. Metal is Sparta, I guess.
  • Sir Mix-A-Lot:
    • I. LIKE. BIG. BUTTS! (From "Baby Got Back").
    • "OH! MY! GOD! Becky look at her butt..." (from the song's intro, later sampled by Nicki Minaj)
  • My Chemical Romance's "Welcome to the Black Parade" has I! DON'T! CARE!
  • The Beatles:
    • Biiiilll-lllyyyyy Sheaaaaarss! (From "With a Little Help from My Friends").
    • "You say. YES! I say. NO! You say. WHY! And I say. I! DON'T! KNOW!" ("Hello Goodbye")
  • To quote Bruce Springsteen from his Live in New York City DVD(toward the end of Tenth Avenue Freeze Out)"The heart-stopping, soul-shaking, earth-quaking, love-making, air-conditioner-shaking, history-making, legendary E! STREET! BAND!"
  • U2: UNOS! DOS! TRES! CATORCE!!!note  (From "Vertigo").
    • Of the "syllabic emphasis" kind: "EL-E-VA-TION!" (From "Elevation").
    • GO! SHOUT IT OUT! RISE UP! (From "Unknown Caller").
  • "Inside the Fire" by Disturbed: DE!VON! LIES! BE!YOND! THIS! POR!TAL! TAKE! THE! WORD! OF! ONE! IMM!OR!TAAAL!! (yes, that was tripple syllabic emphasis).
  • Living Colour: I! AM! THE! CULT! OF! PER-SO-NAL-ITY! (From "Cult of Personality").
  • Muse's "Uprising" has "THEY! WILL! NOT! FORCE! US! THEY! WILL! STOP! DE! GRAAAADING US! THEY! WILL! NOT! CON! TROOOOOL! US! WE! WILL! BE! VIC! TOOOOOOORIOOOOOOOUS!!" From
  • Between the Buried and Me are big fans of the trope:
    • THIS! IS! ALL! WE HAVE! WHEN WE DIE! IT'S! WHAT'S! LEFT! OF! US! WHEN WE DIE! WE! WILL! BE! RE-MEM-BERED! FOR THIS! (From "White Walls").
    • I'VE BEEN TOLD! I'VE BEEN TOLD! I'VE! BEEN! TOLD! (From "Ants of the Sky").
    • THIS! IS! WHAT! WE CALL! A BRAAAAAAAIN! (From "Obfuscation").
    • SWIM! TO! THE! MOON! (From "Swim to the Moon").
  • Alice Cooper: HELLO! HOORAY! (From "Hello Hooray").
  • Asking Alexandria: OH! MY! GOD! (From "Final Episode (Let's Change the Channel)").
  • Queen: WE WILL! WE WILL! ROCK YOU! (Everybody...) WE WILL! WE WILL! ROCK YOU! (Alright!) * solo* (Obviously from "We Will Rock You").
    • WE! ARE! THE CHAMPIONS! WE! ARE! THE CHAMPIONS! NO! TIME! FOR LOSERS! CAUSE WE! ARE! THE CHAMPIONS! OF THE WORLD!
    • HEEEEREEE WE ARE! BORN TO BE KINGS! WE'RE THE PRINCES - OF - THE - UNI!VERSE!
    • RADIO, WHAT'S NEEEEEEWWWWWWW? RA - DI - O... SOME... ONE... STILL... LOVES... YOU-HOOOOOOOOO!
    • I! WANT! TO! RIDE! MY! BI-CY-CLE! I! WANT! TO! RIDE! MY! BIKE!
  • Sex Pistols: and I! wanna BE! AN-AR-CHY! DE-STROY! (From "Anarchy in the U.K.").
  • Angelspit: WREAK HAVOC RIGHT! NOW! RIGHT! NOW! RIOT! NOW! WREAK HAVOC RIGHT! NOW! RIGHT! NOW! RIOT! NOW! UNLEASH HELL! (From "Wreak Havoc").
  • The Dead Kennedys do this well. California! Uber Alles! California Uber Alles! Uber Alles! Califonia! Uber Alles California!
  • Impending Doom — NAILED. DEAD. RISEEEENNNNNNN!!! (From "Nailed. Dead. Risen." Even the title is Punctuated For Emphasis!)
  • Children of Bodom: Should I regret, or ask myself — ARE?! YOU?! DEAD?! YET?! (From "Are You Dead Yet?").
  • Christopher Lee in his Charlemagne concept album: I SHED THE BLOOD OF THE SAXON MEN! I SHED THE BLOOD OF THE SAXON MEN! (From "The Bloody Verdict of Verden").
  • Three Days Grace:
    • I! HATE! EVERYTHING! ABOUT! YOU! WHY! DO! I! LOVE! YOU!? (From "I Hate Everything About You").
    • Break! Away from everybody! Break! Away from everything! If you! Can't! Stand! The way this place is! Take! Yourself! To higher places! (From "Break").
  • Industrial Metal masters, Fear Factory, employ this trope for almost all of the vocals in the first half of the song, "Fear Campaign". WHY? NOT? CHECK? IT? OUT? And experience the awesomeness
    HATE! WAR! AND TER-ROR! MUR-DER! DI-SAS-TER! RAPE! DRUGS! AND VIO-LENCE! LOST! IN! OUR! FAIL-URE!
  • Viking metallers Amon Amarth make use of this more than once, with the song "Twilight of the Thunder God" providing a particularly fitting example:
    "Twilight! Of! The Thunder God! Twilight! Of! The Thunder God!
    Twilight! Of! The Thunder God! Twilight! Of! The Thun! Der!! God!!!"
  • Death frontman Chuck Schuldiner loved this trope. His performance in "The Philosopher" turned the word "lies" into a metalhead in-joke.
    • A PATHETIC! EX-CUSE! FOR A HUMAN BEING! (From "Spiritual Healing").
  • Sinergy provided us with: "Listen up everybody! Because THE BITCH! IS! BACK! "
  • Nile Uses this all the time, such as:
    BLACK!! SEEDS!! OF VENGEANCE!! BLACK!!! SEEDS!!! OF VENGEANCE!!! (From "Black Seeds of Vengeance").
    • "LASHED! TO! THE SLAVE STICK!!" (From "Lashed to the Slave Stick").
    • "CAAAST!! DOOWN!! THE!!! HERETIC!!!" (From "Cast Down the Heretic").
    • However, the most spectacularly over the top (and awesome) example is "Von Unaussprechlichen Kulten":
    "AND THOSE!!!! Who slither and crawl! SHAAALL RIIIIIIISE!! Again! Once mooore!! TO INHERIT! THEEEE!!! EEEAAAAAAAAAARRRTH!!!"
  • Katy Perry: CA! LI! FOR! NIA! GURLS! (From "California Gurls").
    • YOU! MAKE! ME! Feel like I'm living a TEEN! AGE! DREAM!... (From "Teenage Dream").
  • The Midnight Beast: At the start of "Lez Be Friends": THE! MID! NIGHT! BEASTS!
  • Shontelle: Tell them I was happy/And my heart is broken/All my scars are open/Tell them what I HOPED! WOULD! BE! IMPOSSIBLLLLLLLLE! IMPOSSIBLLLLLLLE! IMPOSSIBLLLLLLLLE! IMPOSSIBLLLLLLLE! (From "Impossible").
  • Radiohead:
    • YOU DON'T REMEMBER YOU DON'T REMEMBER WHY DON'T YOU REMEMBER MY NAME (From "Paranoid Android").
    • YOU HAVE NOT BEEEEN! PAYING ATTENTION! PAY-ING A-TEN-TION! (From "2 + 2 = 5 (The Lukewarm.)").
  • Rammstein:
    • EIN WEG! EIN ZIEL! EIN MOTIV! RAMM! STEIN! (From "Rammlied").
    • A-SCHE ZU A-SCHE! (From "Asche zu Asche").
    • BÜCK DICH! (From "Bück dich").
    • DU! DU HAST! DU HASST MICH! (From "Du hast").
    • MEIN! HERZ! BRENNT! (From "Mein herz brennt", surprise surprise).
  • Genesis: "I'M RAAAAAEL!!!" (From the title track of The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway).
  • Slipknot:
    • I'M! NOT! LIKE! YOU! I! JUST! FUCK! UP! (From "People = Shit").
    • NO! ONE! IS! SAFE!! (From "Disasterpiece").
  • Brutal Death Metal rightfully uses this a whole lot. A particular example might be Whitechapel with their fittingly named song "This Is Exile" (by the end of the song it becomes awesome how he uses THIS! TROPE!).
  • Madness: ONE! STEP! BEYOOOOOOOOOOOOND! (From "One Step Beyond").
  • Fall Out Boy: This ain't a scene, it's a GOD! DAMNED! ARMS! RACE! (From "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race").
  • Britney Spears: I'M NOT. THAT. INNOCENT. (From "Oops!... I Did It Again").
  • Sammy Hagar: "I! CAN'T! DRIVE! FIFTY-FIVE!" (From "I Can't Drive 55").
  • Gorillaz: "Are we the. last. LIVING. SOULS? Are we the. last. LIVING. SOULS?" (From "Last Living Souls").
  • Sodom: AUSGEBOMBT! (From "Ausgebombt").
    • NOTHING COUNTS! MORE! THAN! BLOOD! (From "Nothing Counts More Than Blood", ironically).
      • KNAR! REN! HEINZ! (From "Knarrenheinz").
  • Die Ärzte: Dauerwelle, Dauerwelle! — Minipli, Minipli! (From "Dauerwelle vs. Minipli").
    • ELKE! DIE FETTE ELKE! (From "Elke").
  • The last two lines of Drunken Boat's "Tragic Hands":
    I. hate. this. city.
    Fuck. my. mind.
  • Lich King are fond of this.
    • CAN! NOT STOP! THE HORDES! OF GHOULS! WORLD! GONE DEAD!
      SO FIRE! YOUR MISSILES AND ROCKETS AND LASERS AND RAILGUNS BUT NOTHING WILL SHORTEN HIS RULE! (From "Lich King III (World Gone Dead)").
    • THE ONLY WAY TO EVER BEAT IT IS JUST! TO! TAKE! THE! STAAAAAAAAIRS! (From "ED-209").
    • HUMAN HISTORY DIDN'T NEED YOU! YOU AREN'T WANTED! AND! ARE! DISMIIIIIIISSED! (From "Waste").
  • The Thrash Metal band Forbidden does an especially spectacular version in "March into Fire":
    • WE ALL! MARCH! INTO! FIIIIRRRRRRREEEE!!!
  • I just listened to The Lonely Island and I JIZZED! IN! MY PANTS!
  • Dead To Me: IT'S ALRIGHT! TO COMPLAIN! IT'S ALRIGHT! TO FEEL PAIN! IT'S ALRIGHT! (From "Something New").
  • From Ex Deo's "Storm the Gates of Alesia": I DECLARE! GAUL! A PROVINCE OF ROME!
    • And debatably the following chant of "Veni!! Vidi!!! Vici!!" would count as well
  • DMX—or D! M! X!, as he likes to call himself—uses this trope frequently in his raps, especially in his single "WHAT'S! MY! NAME?!".
  • A few examples off the top of my head from this band called Linkin Park.
    • "Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! SHUUUT! UUUUUUUUUP!"note 
    • "I'll MAAAAAKE! YOU! FAAAAAACE! THIIIIIIIS! NOOOOOOOW!note 
    • "I'VE! BECOME! SO NUMB! I CAN'T FEEL! YOU! THERE!"note 
    • "YOOOOOOOOUUU! TRY TO TAKE THE BEST OF ME! GO AWAY! YOU! TRY TO TAKE THE BEST OF ME! GO AWAYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!"note 
    • "PUT ME OUT OF MY MI! SER! RYYYYYYY! PUT ME OUT OF MY... PUT ME OUT OF MY FUC! KING! MI! SER! RRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!"note 
  • Rapper The Game has been known to start live performances of "How We Do" by repeatedly chanting "(Insert rapper here) can SUCK! MY! DICK!".
  • The chorus of "Bust It Baby, Pt.2" by Plies featuring Ne-Yo: BUSSST! IIIIIIT! BABYYYY!
  • Most of the bridge of "Holiday" by Green Day. Sieg Heil to the President gas man, bombs away is your PUN-ISH-MENT! Pulverise the Eiffel Towers, who criticide your GOV-ERN-MENT! Bang bang goes the broken glass man, kill all the fags that DONT! A-GREE! Trials by fire setting fires, is not a way that's MEANT! FOR! ME!.
    • From that same album, American Idiot, "It's - Saint - Jimmy! And - that's - my - NAAAAAME! (and don't wear it out!)"
    • GEEK. STINK. BREATH.
  • HammerFall, like most Power Metal bands, use this frequently
    • "KILL! WIN! LIVE! DIE!" — "Any Means Necessary" from No Sacrifice, No Victory
    • "Unbent! Unbowed! Unbroken!" — "Fury Of The Wild" from Chapter V
    • They play this trope across an entire song- "Warriors Of Faith" from Legacy Of Kings
  • "Midlife Crisis" by Faith No More: Your Men! Stru! At! Ing heart! it ain't Bleeding! Enough! For! Two!
    • WHAT! IS! IT! THAT'S IT! (what is it!!)
  • Delta Goodrem: TWICE!: SO! GO! AHEAD!, TAKE! HER! TO! YOUR! BED!!! in "Alcohol". MAY! I! REMIND! YOU!, WHO! I WAS! BEFORE! YOOOOOOOOOOU! in "Control".
  • The genre D-Beat is composed almost entirely of this.
  • SHINee: Oh! I'm! Curious! Yeah! Sajin sok nega! Sun! Gan! Misojieo wae? Hey! Oh! I'm! So! Curious! Yeah! I'm! So! Curious! Yeah!note 
  • The Aquabats!:
    • "Captain Hampton and the Midget Pirates!": "Where? Was? The Captain?!"
  • Good Charlotte: There's something I don't want you to understand! The only way a woman's gonna want a man! The only way you'll ever keep her in your hands is breaking! Apart! Her heart! (From "Break Apart Her Heart".)
  • Foals have I! CAN'T! GET! ENOUGH! SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE! from Inhaler.
  • Gary Moore's iconic duet with Thin Lizzy's Phil Lynott — OUT! IN! THE! FIELDS! — which has often been copied to varying degrees by European Power Metal bands.
  • Taylor Swift: Just think, while we were getiing worried about this trope, and all the liars and the dirty dirty cheats of the world, we could be getting down to THIS. SICK. BEAT.
  • Mastodon use this trope often, particularly during their first two albums.
    • WHITE! WHALE! HOLY! GRAIL! ("Blood and Thunder")
    • BONE! GRAVE! BONE! EN! GRAVED! ("March of the Fire Ants")
    • CUL! TURE! VUL! TURE! EL! EPHANT! GRAVE! YARD! ("Iron Tusk")
  • System of a Down are known for making songs that contain this. Here are some examples from their self-titled debut album:
    • COULD. YOU. HELP. ME!? I. DON'T. KNOW. (from "Darts").
    • I WANT TO FUCK! MY! WAY TO THE GARDEN! 'CAUSE EVERYONE! NEEDS! A MOTHER... FUCKER! (from "Suite-Pee").
    • GO AWAY! GO AWAY! GO AWAY! GO A... WAY! (from "Mind").
  • "THE! KIIIIIIING!" on "Ghost Trail" by Cult of Luna.
  • Wang Chung: "We were so. In. Phase. In our dance. Hall. Days. We were cool. On. Craze. When I. You. And everyone we knew. Could believe. Do. And share in what was true, I said..." (from "Dance Hall Days")
  • Quarterflash: "I'm gonna turn, and, le-heeaave, you, here..." (from "Harden My Heart")
  • Peter Gabriel: "You could have a steam train! If you'd just! Lay! Down! Your! Tracks!" and later, "I wanna be! Your sledge-hammer!" (both from "Sledgehammer" on the album So)
  • Example from a title: D-I-V-O-R-C-E by Tammy Wynette.
  • From the Cavaliers' 2010 "Mad World" show: "THIS! IS! MY RIFLE!"
    • Also from the Cavaliers, from their 2016 "Propaganda" show: "GET! IN! LINE!"
  • AC/DC: "Back in black! Yes I'm BACK-IN-BLACK!"
  • Talking Heads: "I'M! AN! OR-DI-NA-RY! GUY! BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE!"
  • Sabaton in Night Witches - ''FROM! THE! DEPTHS! OF! HELL! IN! SILENCE! CAST! THEIR! SPELLS! EXPLOSIVE! VIOLENCE!
  • Soundgarden's "Birth Ritual" has an impressive one during the Title Drop: "Birth - RITUAL! RITUAL! RI—TU—AL!"
  • Skinny Puppy: "ROT! AND! ASSIMILATE! HOT! TO! ANNIHILATE!"
    • Later referenced by Suicide Commando in "CUT! BLEED! EVISCERATE!"
  • A Ha: "Take, On, Me! (Take on me) Take, Me, On! (Take on me) I'll, Be, Gone! In a day or two!"
  • Covenant: "We. Make. Ritual Noise."
  • BT:
    • "I'm! Loving! You! More!" (feat. Vincent Covello)
    • "I. Know. How. You. Feel. I'm. Feeling. It. Too..." (from "Remember, featuring Jan Johnston)
    • "Love! Peace! And grease!"
    • "Do you Cry? Your eyes? Asleep?" (from "The Force of Gravity")
    • "Loooove! Cooooomes! Agaaaaaain!" (with Tiësto)
    • "Your! 'I! Love! You!'" (from "The Emergency")
    • "Love! Can! Kill you!"
  • Jumalatar: "Aaaaaare? Weeeeeee? Thinking the saaaaaaame? Thing?"
  • Kraftwerk:
    • "Wir Fahren. Fahren. Fahren. Auf der Autobahn."
    • "Trans! Europe! Express!"
    • "We are Show! Room! Dummies!"
    • "We. Are. The Robots."
    • "Eins. Zwei. Drei. Vier. Funf. Sechs. Sie-ben. Acht."(from "Numbers")
    • "Music! Non-Stop!"
    • "Expo! Zwei-tausend! Expo! Two Thousand!"
  • Apollo 440: "Can't Stop. The Rock. Can't. Stop. The Rock."
  • Music Instructor: "Your. Music. Instructor. IS BAAAACK! AGAAAAAIN!" (from "Super Sonic")
  • Josh Wink: "Opening. To the Higher. State. Of Consciousness."
  • Interface: "Tonight. We. Begin. Tonight. We. Start. Searching. For. The Perfect. World. It. Begins. Today.", from "Ignition, the Album Intro Track of The Perfect World.
  • Men Without Hats: "S. A. F. E. T. Y. Safety! Dance!"
  • The Killers: USDA! CERTI-FIED! LEAN! note 
  • KISS: "Gimme...TOUGH!...LOVE!"
  • The Beastie Boys:
    • "No! Sleep! Til Brooklyn!"
    • "You gotta FIGHT! For your RIGHT!...To PAAAAAAARRRRRRRTYYYYYYYYYY!"
  • Stacy Q: "Two...of...hearts."
  • Type O Negative in "We Hate Everyone".
    "We! Don't! Care! WHAT! YOU! THINK!"
  • John Desire's version of "Hot Limit":
    Yo! Say! Summer Love! Wish-ing! Revealing! Precious love is always eating Up! My! Heart!
  • Dead or Alive:
    • "You. Spin. Me. Right. Round. Baby. Right. Round."
    • "I. Am. Being. Haunted. By. A. Love. That. Isn't. There.", and "I Just. Keep. Hearing. You. Running. Up and Down. My. Stairs. But. You're. Not. There.", from "Something in My House".
    • "So! Turn! Around! And Count! To! Ten!"
  • Aphex Twin: "I! WANT! YOUR! SOUL! I! WILL EAT! YOUR! SOUL!"(from "Come to Daddy")
  • The Megas:
    • "What. Have. You. Done?"
    • "You don't just break the mold, you BEAT. IT. DOWN!"
  • Shanice: "Turn! Down! The. Lights."
  • Gerard Joling: "Ain't no LI-VING! Without LO-VING! In a LAND! CALLED! SHAN-GRI-LA!"
  • The Bay City Rollers capitalize on this trope: "S!A!T-U-R!D-A-Y! NIGHT!" (Seems to be infections, the fans scream "WE! WANT! PAUL!" at the beginning of "Yesterday's Hero")
  • Elton John: "Phil! A! Delphia! Free! Dom!" evoking of Billie Jean King arguing with a line judge.
  • Aquagen: "WHY!? ARE!? YOU!? SO!? QUIET!?", from "You Are So Quiet".
  • Green Velvet: "I! Don't! Need! This! $#!+!", from "Answering Machine".
  • Meat Loaf's "Bat Out of Hell": "Like a SINNER!... BEFORE!... the GATES of HEAVEN!"
  • Kenny Loggins: "HIGH...WAY...TO...THE...DANGER ZONE!"

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