Best Metal Vocalists

Who do you think is the best Metal vocalist?

My favourites are King Diamond, Rob Halford, Bruce Dickinson and Ronnie James Dio. And if you count Alice In Chains as Metal too I'm saying Layne Staley.

Mikael Akerfeldt
VITRIOL (Dave Hunt)
Garm (Kristoffer Rygg)
Francesco Paoli
Neige
Vladimir Cochet

Maybe Jason Keyser...

Corey Taylor for me

tomas lindberg. i remember listening to "with fear i kiss the burning darkness" years and years ago, when i first got into metal, and to this day i still think he's got one of the most passionate and almost disturbing voices i've ever heard in metal.

I don't know about best, but Bruce Dickinson and early Ozzy (for example, his vocals on Paranoid) are my favorites.

Rody Walker (Protest The Hero)

Ronnie James Dio

Blaze Bayley

vitriol is ****ing nuts. and neige is superb.

shimmyshnardd

Bruce Dickinson. :shock:

< Oh I know. :P Saturos3091

Anyway I'm more familiar with the cIassics like Halford, Dio, and Dickenson....

Rody Walker (Protest The Hero)

Mr_Manikin52

Yeah!

Dave Hunt, Warrel Dane, Ross Dolan, and Jari Maenpaa, just to name a few. Darth-Caedus

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Mikael Akerfeldt
VITRIOL (Dave Hunt)
Garm (Kristoffer Rygg)
Francesco Paoli
Neige

Maybe Jason Keyser...

Saturos3091

check out silencer. dude sounds like a suicidal clown. i love it.shimmyshnardd

[QUOTE="Darth-Caedus"]Dave Hunt, Warrel Dane, Ross Dolan, and Jari Maenpaa, just to name a few. Saturos3091

[QUOTE="shimmyshnardd"]check out silencer. dude sounds like a suicidal clown. i love it.Saturos3091

I dont know, but the singer from Opeth has an amazing speaking voice, does that count?

I like Jonas Renske of Katatonia and Tony Kakko of Sonata Arctica.

Jorn Lande

Russell Allen

Mike Patton

Daniel Gildenlow

Mikael Akerfeldt

Roy Khan

Devin Townsend

Bruce Dickinson

Sebastian Bach

Chris Cornell(He may not be "Metal", but Soundgarden was pretty heavy up until BadMotorFinger)

Lemay is awesome as well. Too damned many fantastic vocalists to mention D:

Darth-Caedus

[QUOTE="Saturos3091"][QUOTE="shimmyshnardd"]check out silencer. dude sounds like a suicidal clown. i love it.shimmyshnardd

Mark Pearce and Chris (I don't know his last name)

It's ear sex.

How could I forget Vladimir Cochet (sample 2)? He's one of my favorites. :o

Mark Pearce and Chris (I don't know his last name)

It's ear sex.

Yandere

Devin Townsend

AxeStrangler

His voice in Sex & Religion was pretty good although it was not a metal album. Other than that I've only listened to Addicted! and Ziltoid and I guess I didn't pay much attention to his voice :P

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Mark Pearce and Chris (I don't know his last name)

It's ear sex.

MuddVader

Slam/goregrind tends to sound like that. Here's another example, one that I definitely prefer thanks to the much thicker and fat production (but this thread is about vocals so that doesn't matter :P).

Mark Pearce and Chris (I don't know his last name)

It's ear sex.

Yandere

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Devin Townsend

cyberdarkkid

His voice in Sex & Religion was pretty good although it was not a metal album. Other than that I've only listened to Addicted! and Ziltoid and I guess I didn't pay much attention to his voice :P

Roy Khan of Kamelot is probably one of the best, if not the best metal vocalist I've ever heard.

in terms of actual singing talent, you can't beat Rob Halford. The guy can hit four octaves. Amazing.

That being said, I've always liked Dez Fafara.(DevilDriver, before that Coal Chamber.)

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Devin Townsend

AxeStrangler

His voice in Sex & Religion was pretty good although it was not a metal album. Other than that I've only listened to Addicted! and Ziltoid and I guess I didn't pay much attention to his voice :P

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[QUOTE="cyberdarkkid"]

His voice in Sex & Religion was pretty good although it was not a metal album. Other than that I've only listened to Addicted! and Ziltoid and I guess I didn't pay much attention to his voice :P

cyberdarkkid

[QUOTE="cyberdarkkid"][QUOTE="AxeStrangler"] yeah it was, the dude has a good voice, and can play guitar pretty well, I think Vai gave him some lessons :P

AxeStrangler

Why people are posting vocallists of more extreme styles is beyond question.

[QUOTE="MuddVader"][QUOTE="Yandere"]

Mark Pearce and Chris (I don't know his last name)

It's ear sex.

Saturos3091

Slam/goregrind tends to sound like that. Here's another example, one that I definitely prefer thanks to the much thicker and fat production (but this thread is about vocals so that doesn't matter :P).

in terms of actual singing talent, you can't beat Rob Halford. The guy can hit four octaves. Amazing.

That being said, I've always liked Dez Fafara.(DevilDriver, before that Coal Chamber.)

DarthSatan

Bacon Aylott, he pioneered Mud Dirtcore.

Why people are posting vocallists of more extreme styles is beyond question.

WushuFighter

Ozzy, Dio, Halford and Dickinson. James Hetfield flexes his vocal strengths in a few songs such as Nothing Else Matters and The Unforgiven also, but he's nowhere near the other four.

Why people are posting vocallists of more extreme styles is beyond question.

WushuFighter

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in terms of actual singing talent, you can't beat Rob Halford. The guy can hit four octaves. Amazing.

That being said, I've always liked Dez Fafara.(DevilDriver, before that Coal Chamber.)

MuddVader

If you're a metal fan I can't recommend any band more than DevilDriver. They rule.

Why? It takes talent too.Saturos3091

Whereas if you wanted to learn to actually sing, you either have to naturally talented or spend a huge portion of your life practising.

Clean Vocals aren't always the best, so some death metal vocalists could be some peoples favorite vocalists. I love Amon Amarth's vocalist, Johan Hegg I think his name is or something. I don't like Suicide Silence, but their vocalist can go from extreme high to extreme low really quick which takes a lot of talent too.Bluestorm-Kalas

They aren't the best. But good clean vocals sound "better" than good harsh vocals. Even better is the ability to do both well such as Warrel Dane or Jari Mäenpää.

Christian Alvestam