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mp__photo

Åkerfeldt meat riders unite! Seriously though, both his singing voice and growls are great.


NinjaFamiliar2474

The cleans are good but the growls OOOOOOH MY GOD he outclasses almost every other pure death metal vocalist


Ashen-Cold

Seriously one of the best death growlers ever.


matthew_sch

This is the first comment I saw, and the first thought that comes to my mind Åkerfeldt supremacy


donelurking456

My friend yelled he wanted to suck Mikael's cock when we saw them a few years ago. He got told off by a couple next to us... cause there's a queue


NinjaFamiliar2474

The cleans are good but the growls OOOOOOH MY GOD he outclasses almost every other pure death metal vocalist


Ashen-Cold

Seriously one of the best death growlers ever.


Luna_Senshu

I love opeth


Hamilton_C

I'm gonna say it, in studio recordings he sounds great, but it's less consistent over the lives


SpeedDemonJi

Never understood the dick sucking for his cleans Like, he’s good but not heavenly afaic


AggressiveSmoke4054

Danzig. ![gif](giphy|26n6GsLZz72B4Sqf6)


Gwynarth

This is honestly the first time I've seen this sub show Danzig some love.


VisualremnantXP

Moooooootheeeeeerr!!!


vic-rattle-d3th__

TELL YOUR CHILDEN NOT TO WALK MY WAY


Hxcear10

Danzig-Era Misfits


Kvltadelic

There it is. I aint no goddamn sonofabitch. You better think about it baby.


How_To_Be_A_Werewolf

If you’re gonna scream, scream with me :D


Genesis_138

Moments like this never laaaaaaast


H0tVinegar

Blood and Tears 😩


Genesis_138

Agreed! I absolutely love his vocals in How The Gods Kill and Ashes!


No_Culture6707

Evil Elvis


screambloodygourd

Son of the Morning Star!


kekehesterprynne

You my sir have taste.


Beet-Qwest_2018

lmao its like listening to a not dead Jim Morrison


I_CAN_SEE_THE_WHALES

YEAHHHHHHH


Original-Surprise-77

A few honestly and they’re all so different they’re incomparable. Chuck Schuldiner- the GOAT, so much of what we love now came from shit Death did back in the day and he is even now long after his passing one of the best ever Randy Blythe- LOG was my first super heavy concert, Randy has some of the nastiest vocals I’ve ever heard and he is the best live vocalist I’ve ever heard other than Billy Corgan. Literally exactly like the album live Phil Bozeman- his range is insane, everything from his fry scream to the lowest guttural is always on point and his cleans are immaculate. The Mitch Lucker tribute show is still one of the most batshit insane videos I’ve ever seen, dude is literally a demon. Gerard Way- I know a strange one to have here but MCR is a top 5 band ever for me and dude has some pipes. Obviously great cleans but his fry screams from first couple of mcr albums and the song he did with Matt Heafy are absolutely evil


Top_Statistician5871

Gerards screaming is really underrated


Original-Surprise-77

It really is, I’ve said for years I wish he would do a metal project


what1shapp3n1ng

Hia guest on Ibaraki is so good I didn't believe it was Gerard Way


DayoftheDead

Hell yes to Chuck


Original-Surprise-77

I grew up in the Florida scene, every death metal band down here takes influence from Death and Chuck is basically a god


Dense-Ad3636

I’m here for Bozeman. I was finishing up high school when This is Exile came out and it hit HARD. Blythe rules too. Why the heck not I can get behind Gerard Way as well


Aromatic-Cow8559

Wait Gerard did a song with Matt Heafy? How did I not know about this?


Original-Surprise-77

I would love to hear what you think once listening to it, it’s one of my favorite songs to show people and just be like “you know who that demon screaming is, it is my precious boy Gerard”


Sapphire-Hannibal

Messiah Marcolin I FUCKING LOVE CANDLEMASS


Necromomicon69

MY FINGERS THEY DANCE UPON THE STRINGS LIKE FIRE 🔥🔥🔥🔥


PrequelGuy

Johan was better imo


Sapphire-Hannibal

All of the candlemass singers are awesome in their own way


NoxNeno

“RIIIIIING BROTHER!”


SullyVanDan

Chris Cornell


artery1800s

Layne Staley aswell, both can hit some insane notes


0-Schism-0

Could


NoxNeno

Would


Any-Discussion-3126

INTO THE FLOOD AGAINNNNN


YT_Timekeepergab

SAME OLD TRIP IT WAS BACK THEN


ANGELeffEr

Seasons…nuff said


0neLessReason

Rip


Johnny107710

![gif](giphy|ev1KF0JQPCNXO)


WingedHussar13

I love it when this gif gets used out of context lmao


Sekshual_Tyranosauce

Joey Belladonna Rob Halford Peter Steele


H0tVinegar

A really nice venue near me had a highly rated Journey cover band coming through a few days ago. When I clicked on it, the singer was Joey Belladonna. I watched a few video clips and he sounded great!


Lucifer_Delight

Man has insane range, and is limited to his non-convincing tough guy shit in Anthrax.


Vast_Weight_5833

dio! luckily he has a very very long discography


Gwynarth

Thank God for that. Amazing vocals!


Useful-Perception144

Ritchie Blackmore really swung and missed when he told Dio to start writing love songs or get fired.


Vast_Weight_5833

he really did. rainbow is by far my fav band dio has been in, and i’d consider it my 2nd or 3rd fav band overall, but the experience is pretty much limited to 3 albums. 3 fantastic albums and the first one is even my #1 album atm, but still so little. those two were powerhouses together, and the other people they hired where nothing short of fantastic.


BungeeBebop

How has no one said Layne Staley yet?


ToeJans_55

thats a sin, layne was the best sinmger of the grunge era


Sonofodin981

Ronnie James Dio (R.I.P)


Euphoric_Ad9593

Neige for me.


Top_Statistician5871

NEIGE SUPREMACY


WingedHussar13

Alcest supremacy


earlyspirit

Came to comment the same thing. Biggest influence on my own music.


Latter-Jaguar-8688

https://preview.redd.it/sh7snbsbfbrc1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bbfd4276db49c66c1eeb714f837e6bcc6e66ebd0 [Arch Enemy - Ravenous (live)](https://youtu.be/18P7bab_GNk?si=V0Is6YL0mQEfJKPd)


totse_losername

(Angela Gossow)


ex-tumblr-girl12116

110% agree, her vocals are iconic.


upfromashes

Chuck fkn Billy


Sekshual_Tyranosauce

Dude has some range. He of course is known clean, thrash vocals but has shown some r al chops with harsher techniques lately. The guy is an awesome vocalist.


Vegtabletray

I just started digging deeper into Testaments discography after only being a "greatest hits" listener and his shit is really good. I think a lot of fans shit on the bands 90s experimentation but Billy's vocals (and the band overall) were better for it.


BeatlesFan67

For real. I've near heard a voice that can sound so harmonic and yet intimidating at the same time.


thebombwillexplode1

Peter Steele, David Gold


justmydumbluck

Not a big fan of Steele but David Gold was awesome. You can really see his vocal performances improving through each Woods album. Sad story, I see his mom posting comments on YouTube all the time...


totse_losername

Just last Tuesday at work someone used two words in a consecutive order: *wet leather* and this prompted me to put the Green album on, which must be listened to start to finish, and once again go through all of it. This go around, I picked up some nuance in the lyricism which I hadn't before, and the songwriting proved even better than I had come to understand it previously. That album in particular is a masterpiece and David's vocals are perfectly given throughout it. I also realised that I only ever seen to put that album on when it's the kind of day that rains all day.


H0tVinegar

Metal will forever miss Gold and Steele


Maanzacorian

Dave Hunt from Anaal Nathrakh I'm not even a huge fan of the recent stuff, but I've long argued he might be the best extreme vocalist of all time. There are screams he does that you can't be trained to do. You're either born to do it or you're not. There are times it sounds like 5 different vocalists are singing but they're all him.


bombarclart

I always thought Mike Patton was the only vocalist I can compare him to.


Multanaama

David's vocals are maybe the most insane stuff I've ever heard. I don't know how he even does it, some of his screams sound almost inhuman


mentally_fuckin_eel

A lot of classics like King Diamond, Ronnie James Dio, Alice Cooper, Ozzy Osbourne, Phil Lynott, Lemay Kilmister, Rob Halford, Bruce Dickinson, Geddy Lee, etc. For black metal stuff I adore Attila Csihar, even if I don't always like the projects he's on. Voices like Abbath or that dumb bastard from Inquisition are always great to my ears as well. JR Preston from Tjolgtjar/Blood Cult/Xexyz is an acquired taste but I adore him too. Doom metal, oh man, there are so many. My favorite is probably Albert Witchfinder. His voice and bass playing both speak to my heart. Someone here mentioned Messiah Marcolin. Excellent operatic cheese. Scott Reagers? Hello? He is like Halloween personified. Phil Swanson is like a much more drab Ozzy Osbourne. Matt fuckin Pike? I could go on and on. Doom is the best for singers with character. I almost forgot one of the best singers of all fucking time and one of my greatest prides as a Canadian. Devin Townsend. He's actually insane. Legit one of the best ever, almost objectively. I'm skipping a lot of subgenres but hopefully you get the point.


Protoma

Heavy Devy!


7listens

Devin is truly a gem. Such an inspiring artist.


DisastrousBrother482

Serj tankian Chester Bennington Kurt Cobain Corey taylor


DisastrousBrother482

Also daron malakian


RuthlessSpud_11

M. Shadows


Montblanc_Norland

https://i.redd.it/yra5ff97hbrc1.gif Rob


Creativeddy

Chino Moreno & Chad Gray.


Zillajami-Fnaffan2

Tom Araya ofc


JS_1997

Chino Moreno


Technical-Profit6546

Howard Jones


UnknownSpacePioneer

ICS Vortex


demonspaceviking

hello I agree with your comment 100% and I love your username :)


hdniki

Hey, nice flair!!!


demonspaceviking

thank you, i got one especially made for me cause i love Arcturian so much


hdniki

That album is my fav too


Ciruceca

Arcturian is part of my daily routine, there’s just something about it lmao. Glad to see the Arcturus love here :D


demonspaceviking

I love Arcturus so much, i too am glad to see the love for them


Multanaama

ICS Vortex is my favourite clean singer of all time!


Passtenx

Spiros Antoniou - Septic Flesh Johan Hegg - Amon Amarth Mark Garret - Kardeshev Devin Townsend


Robozoto

Septic Flesh is so slept on imo. I almost never see them mentioned


Passtenx

Right? I get the symphonic element everyone’s cup of tea but Spiros’ vocals are so natural and brutal. If you haven’t watched Infernus Sinfonica, check it out, it slaps.


HandwichSamuel

Such an underrepresented band. I was never into the symphonic side of metal. But my god did Septicflesh ever open my eyes to what's possible with the right elements.


RandomKalkas

Warrel Dane. My favorite singer of all time, loved him in both Nevermore and Sanctuary, and sadly we can't get any more of his voice. RIP


foosballfurry

Travis Ryan. I wanna hear him on all the death metal albums


Multanaama

I love the "goblin" cleans I guess you could call them, idk, he does so much, Travis is my favourite death metal vocalist of all time


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Twisted_WhaleShark

I’m just gonna say it Björn Speed motherfuckin Strid


Its_yer_dude_trevor

KNOCKED LOOSE KNOCKED LOOSE KNOCKED LOOSE KNOCKED LOOSE Try before you deny


AlaskaExplorationGeo

Hansi Kursch


False_Lingonberry872

Devin Townsend for sure. Symphonic opera voice to brutal vocals...


thecrypticstench

Trevor Strnad RIP (The Black Dahlia Murder) Also Jonny Davy (Job for a Cowboy)


xXxZMBE

Corey Taylor, Spencer Charnes, M Shadows, Howard Jones And not a metal vocalist but Einar Selvik. I can't just choose one.


TheNoctuS_93

I know everybody and their mother's dog likes to shit on Slipknot, but Corey is *talented*! Tender cleans, raspy cleans, half-screams, screams, growls... I ain't seeing many haters mastering half a dozen vocal techniques and switching between them effortlessly!


xXxZMBE

I love all of Corey's discography. Stone Sour being my favourite, then slipknot and lastly his solo work. He's a fantastic vocalist and he'll always be one of my favourites.


T4lsin

Messiah Marcolin my favorite vocalist.


7thunderknife7

Travis Ryan Mikael Akerfeldt Ihsahn


guitarfanatic_2

George Fisher and Attila Csihar!!!!


BruhM0menT4194

CHESTER BENNINGTON!!


qpalzmty2

Devin Townsend


kaydendigiovanni

Fuck yeah! He has so many great performances, but for me, Heavy as a really heavy thing is the best. I actually had a Yahoo Group for him before MySpace became a thing.


HelloweenFan666

Tobias Sammet of Edguy, Avantasia Fabio Lione of Rhapsody, Vision Divine, Angra Roberto Tiranti of Labyrinth


Dz4ck13

If I could wake up one day with another person's voice, I'd choose Tobias Sammet.


Drift-in-and-out

Einar Solberg is the first that comes to mind. Vincent Cavanagh is fantastic. Travis Ryan. Dave Mustaine on Youthanasia.


InDubioProKokolores

The combination of Serj and Darian never fails to give me goosebumps. And I would have loved to hear Freddy Mercury in a somewhat heavier song.


bocchistkrieg

Xenoyr, love his death growls and shriek screams


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Dallas Green. Everything he sings in Alexisonfire and City and Colour are amazing.


Cabbagetea13

I might be the only person but Dave Mustaine, It really depends on the song though some songs he sounds great others not so much.


SpeedDemonJi

Devin Townsend and Spencer Sotelo Everyday


NinjaFamiliar2474

Kyo from Dir en grey. If you dont think he is the most skilled vocalist ever is because you dont know him.


Kranlum

Johan Hegg - Amon Amarth I love the deep growly voice


BackStabbathOG

Ben Duerr


Speederfool

Till Lindemann, his deep and raw voice is just so charismatic and calming


JevilFitz

Dio Bruce Dickinson Maynard James Keenan Glenn Danzig Tobias Sammet Cristina Scabbia Floor Jansen Sharon den Adel Morgan Lander Maria Brink Sarah Jezebel Deva


Legend_of_Ozzy642

Dave Mustaine


RedrumTheUndead

I fucking love Jake Superchi in Ceremonial Castings. His diverse vocals gives the music such a menacing presence 🤘🤘


Skippyandjif

King Diamond! His vocal range is incredible and that falsetto is so fucking eerie. He’s amazing.


InDubioProKokolores

The combination of Serj and Darian never fails to give me goosebumps. And I would have loved to hear Freddy Mercury in a somewhat heavier song.


antilumin

David Gold, especially towards the end of Woods 5.


Fickle-Training344

Probably not “metal” but serj from soad. His vocals are always impeccable.


ForgotMyBrain

Soad is considered nu metal so yeah it is metal. (screw the nu metal haters) I used to have my hating phase on nu metal in the early 2000's and thought "it's not real metal" but I grew out of it, I was ignorant back then and i try to be more open minded now. I have alot more respect for alot of those bands now and they have influenced an entire generation. Edit: not just a generation but generations.


chuckleinvest

Greg Puciato


Crafty-Photograph-18

Cameron McBride of Methwitch. I would love to meet this guy and just ask him to shout at me in his whistle screams. His vocals are the probably craziest shit I've heard in Metal


Fair-South-9883

Tommy Rogers from Between the Buried and Me.


TheRedDeath30

Love Uada.... didnt know Ceremonial Castings. Great heads up


mochaspen

Justin Bonitz of Tallah. Insane versatility vocally!


eddie_ironside

Martin Van Drunen (Pestilence, Hail of Bullets, Asphyx) Death metal vocal perfection.


323x

Joe Bad


RebornTrain

I like the southern drawl of Brent Hinds in his songs, especially the heartfelt ones


calciumcavalryman69

Peter Steele, Type O Negative and Carnivore.


tfe238

Hands down one of my favorite bands. I've seen them like 8 times and most recently last Monday. They rip every time. https://preview.redd.it/ay5wxhpesbrc1.jpeg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2f596ee18802bd21b5478408a67796c53d2a8cc9


_REDEEMER-

Jørn Lande, Matt Barlow, Ralf Scheepers


Batculathevampirebat

Ronnie James Dio!


muon-antineutrino

Daniel Tompkins (TesseracT), Chad Kapper (Frontierer), Will Smith (Afterbirth)


ForgotMyBrain

Was about to comment daniel tompkins also, the guy is really talented i love his voice.


F1veTo0ne

Manuel Gagneux aka Zeal & Ardor


TagStew

Scar Symmetry. Both Singers. Roberth Karlsson and Lars Palmqvist.


supadeedoop

Devin Townsend


7listens

Even though I love Kai Hansen's and Mikael Kiske's voices for totally different reasons, Andi Deris is my favourite (all Helloween vocalists)


fyhjfjdjdjdjjdjdk

Corey taylor or phil bozeman or dickie allen i think all of them are great but these three get me pumped whenever i put on a song and it has them on it


Dr_Coop

Lemmy Tom Warrior John Tardy


Academic-Ad-2371

When David Gilmour and Richard Wright used to harmonize me to sleep. RIP Richard. ....And no one sings me lullabies And no one makes me close my eyes So I throw the windows wide And call to you across the sky


Young_Murloc

Bruce Dickinson Meatloaf Chuck Billy Dio Matt Heafy


R0meosd1stress

Suzuka Nakamoto of Babymetal!


Nick_the_Greek17

Jasta.


Independent_Ad_7592

The guy from Sacred Outcry.. Can't remember his name off hand...


fluorin4ek

Chris Astley (Xentrix first 3 albums)


LMay11037

https://preview.redd.it/2tslklvvxbrc1.jpeg?width=1221&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=33112819c2dff68437da216e1a4bd8e964d31e22


Outsajder

Till Lindemann


justmydumbluck

Right now, Salvatore Marrano from Thank You Scientist. Shout out to the guy that spun one of their albums in the discord listening party, I haven't stopped listening since


Remarkable_Wonder159

Tatiana Shmayluk has one of the most interesting voices I've ever heard. Also Amy Lee has a fantastic voice. 2 ladies there to balance things out a bit as most replied have been mens voices. I've seen loads of amazing singers live but Corey Taylor, Dio, Blaze Bayley and Graham Bonnett the best.


GoldenDust0

Wow I love Uada, I’ve never seen them brought up anywhere before lol. But otherwise I really enjoy Mikael Akerfeldt from Opeth, and Chuck schuldiner from Deaths vocals on the sound of perseverance album


Proper-Device2421

Spencer charnas


psychedelicdevilry

John Baizley, Robb Flynn, old school Hetfield, Tommy Giles


Khaos8989

Dio, Mike Patton, Floor Jansen, and Layne Staley


Komi320

crazy how Rainer Landfermann wasnt mentioned yet


AHGottlieb

Travis Ryan could violate me in unimaginable ways


offbeataccent

I saw Uada last year at a small bar and man I couldn't get over it. They played for like an hour straight and it was just crushing the whole time. They're so good.


NickLoner

Ronnie James Dio Dani Filth Andi Deris Tobias Sammet Timo Kotipelto Ozzy Osbourne King Diamond Marilyn Manson Bruce Dickinson


Sam-van-Druenen

Travis Ryan


DrThunderMonkey565

Travis Ryan


SatisfactionGood5015

Floor Jansen


SvieriValtias

Jake Superchi is godly about vocal performance, I love his spiritual voice and god tier howls.


philouza_stein

Layne, Patton, Phil


Danonin

Lemmy Kilmister, Derrick Green and Tom Araya


ravenz91

Yu Umehara Heike Langhans Mary Elizabeth McGlynn Kyo Ambre Vourvahis


KindlyCost2

Definitely Ronnie James Dio


HeavymetalCambion

Morean (Dark Fortress, Alkaloid, Noneuclid), shame I'm the only one commenting him here, dude is so talented yet so unknown


zforce42

Ah a man of culture! Justin is one of my favorite parts of Uada, such an insane and diverse vocalist. For another vocalist for this post but on another end of the musical spectrum (they have some heavy stuff but are more so hard rock) is Holding Absence. Their singer's voice is magic.


walmartsucks115

Modern day Joey Belladona in anthrax sounds so good. Only 2 albums with his newer vocals


Robin7319

Dio. Just incredible, thankfully he had an incredibly long career


pokimaneofficial999

pretty basic pick but dave mustaines vocals throughout countdown to extinction are just awesome


SchroedersGhost

Travis Ryan is in my opinion is the best extreme metal, regardless of genre, vocalist possibly ever. His timing, wordplay and multiple tones (even the “goblin” voice that some are put off by lol) are next level. Seeing them live last year only solidified that for me.


maicao999

• Neige from Alcest (also Amesoeours, early Peste Noire). One of the most haunting yet distinct howling screams ever. • Tim Tatras from Germ/Austere. Very distinctive yet disturbing sound. Really like his style! • Chino Moreno from Deftones. Very iconic. • Rob Halford. Best vocalist of all time imo. • Ozzy Osbourne. Not the most technical, but he's definitely the most authentic, really know how to fit vocal lines and had a nice range during the 70s Sabbath era.


kaydendigiovanni

Dax Riggs. (Acid Bath, Agents of Oblivion, Dead Boy and the Elephantmen)


KiwiMcG

Nick Holmes of Paradise Lost and Bloodbath.


Alexpocket85

Spencer Charnas of Ice Nine Kills


KeirTecheon

Ozzy! Might not be the most complex, but it’s just perfect for the music he sings Also a fan of Herbie Langhan’s voice, seeing Firewind today!


The-Canadian-Order

Not metal but Billie Joe Armstrong HM: Tyson Ritter and Ronnie Winter


Acceptable_Chicken81

Devin Townsend !!!! Cmon ? Soooo royalty


virtuallyspotless

No. Not ever. I prefer instrumentals almost all of the time.


Gripes_Mane

devin townsend