Citations:yarl

Noun: "a deep, guttural vocal style with affected pronunciation, characteristic of male grunge and postgrunge singers of the 1990s and early 2000s"

 * 2002 — Patrick Berkery, "Record Review", Creative Loafing (Atlanta), 9 January 2002:
 * So pontificating on how Weathereds earnest morass of block-headed rage, grunge-lite mega-riffs and singer Scott Stapp's machismo yarl' amounts to little more than Pearl Jam circa '91 for dummies is like shooting fish in a barrel.
 * 2004 — Patrick Berkery, One Day Remains review, Chicago Tribune, 23 August 2004:
 * But replacing Stapp's proselytizing and he-man yarl are Kennedy's more everyman concerns (love, truth and the glory of the rock show) and dynamic pipes.
 * 2008 — Michael J. Vaughn, Outro, iUniverse (2008), ISBN 9781440111402, page 10:
 * One of my college kids informed me that the latest acoustic grinder hunk had covered it for a soundtrack — probably with that grungy yarl that everybody ripped off from Eddie Vedder.
 * 2009 — Eric Grandy, "How It Feels to Be On Again", The Stranger, 20 October 2009:
 * They're also clearly a product of their time and place, though, as much textbook emocore as they are at times almost "grunge" or "alternative rock," with Enigk's voice approaching the dreaded "yarl" when he really strains it screaming.

Verb: "to sing in this manner"

 * 2002 — Joey Sweeney, "Why Creed Sucks", Philadelphia Weekly, 25 December 2002:
 * Creed's sound is the sound of what was very likely hundreds of bands from the mid-'90s: monster riffs; deep, thundering Led Zep-esque beats; and searing choruses that played fast and loose with spiritual truisms (à la U2) delivered by a singer well-schooled in yarling--that back-of-the-throat, oh-so-masculine Jim Morrison/Chewbacca noise perfected by Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder.
 * 2009 — Andrew Matson, "Is there any reason to listen to the new Alice in Chains album, "Black Gives Way to Blue"?", The Seattle Times, 21 October 2009:
 * On "All Secrets Known," he yarls "fingers" into "fingerrrrrrrraaaaaaughhhhhzzzzzzz."
 * 2012 — Mike Doherty, "Adele: The new Kurt Cobain", Salon, 21 February 2012:
 * From Puddle of Mudd to Staind to Creed to Nickelback, the yarling grunge descendants replaced rock’s devil-may-care excitement with blazoned earnestness and sludge.