Stage 3 has "Glottal Compression", but not Hyper glottal compression, which is what he calls distortion. I remember him answering this along the lines of not wanting people to rush into it and get hurt.
He seems like a really nice guy, and it could be a sincere concern of his. But I can't help but to think a lot of vocal coaches refuse to include distortion in their programs because either they want to keep it as a secret for personal lessons, or that they don't know how to teach it.
But as someone who wants to do rock singing, singing powerful distortion is sort of the final goal. range->control->power->distortion.
We're gonna try to sing distortion one way or the other, and no well-meaning vocal coach can stop us by taking it out of their programs. They might as well put it there to give us at least a little guidance.
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yeah, its really hard to get any noticeable chest mix up there without blowing out my voice really really fast.
I actually think Milijenko was using very strong pharyngeal resonance to disguise as a heavy mix.