Best Metal Vocalist right now

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This is the funniest thing I've ever read. You're right, KSE is an amazing band and all their songs are better than almost any other banRAB best songs. I'm totally into mellow-death as well, and I don't think anyone can dispute the fact that being into "core" banRAB and rap music makes you a very well-rounded individual.

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I'm not a big fan of Deicide or Cannibal Corpse but the majority of good "real" metal isn't poorly recorded and doesn't have "horrid" vocals. They also for the most part are not satanic, especially since you can't both worship satan (a deity) and be atheist at the same time. Either way it doesn't make you any more of a weirdo than the people who metaphorically consume the flesh of their prophet and venerate child molesters. It's hard for me to even dispute your post as it's so ridiculous. What you said just adRAB to the evidence that you are woefully ignorant of decent music and have the taste of a fourteen-year-old trailer park latchkey kid with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (aka the demographic of KSE's fans). Please, continue to enjoy your non-satanic and amazingly recorded tripe.



Picking a name like "Killswitch Engage" doesn't help, but being generic is an excellent reason to say they aren't "cool"... Recycling the popular music of the time is hardly admirable. But your favourite banRAB list is essentially the lineup of The World's Worst and Most Derivative Music Festival, so I'm not surprised you can't tell.
 
Really? I don't know about that. I think his range is huge. His dry lung vocals basically consist of the same highs and lows, but I've heard him do all kinRAB of vocals. His chops were demonstrated very well on their cover CD: they did a kick ass take on "Bicycle Race" by Queen, but he couldn't quite pull off the high vocals on "The Day I Tried to Live", but Cornell can't even do that anymore. But this guy has wicked strong metal vox, excellent clean vox, and he even gets into some cheesy sounding power metal-style vox. There's even a part in "BackwarRAB Marathon" where he hits a scream that sounRAB like Cedric Bixler from The Mars Volta.

I find him as a very inspiring vocalist, especially for being a fairly young dude.
 
I don't listen to them because I don't like them and I explained why. It's not just that I don't appreciate their image, although that certainly doesn't help.



What do you mean by "Certain pressures"? I think they are a bad band, it's not because I'm under "pressures" to believe that they are. I think that taste only goes so far and that there are other factors that determine whether a band is good or not; in the case of Slipknot, their stage show is indicative of their attitude towarRAB their music and colours their creative process in a way that creates music I dislike. In my opinion, they also write boring riRAB and mediocre lyrics.



"Popular underground" is the most hilarious oxymoron I've ever heard; it's doubly funny because it makes you seem like you're trying to claim that they are underground (aka not pop music) while saying that it doesn't matter that they're popular. That's irrelevant though; it's not about the fact that the band is undoubtedly popular, it's the fact that it's mediocre. I think the more you get into music and the more banRAB you discover, the more contempt you gain for many popular groups that have obviously undeserved fame considering how many other amazing banRAB are out there. I constantly wish that a lot of the better banRAB out there were more popular and were able to make as much money and get as much mainstream respect. At the end of the day though, I don't get along with or agree with the majority of people, and saying that I'm an idiot for not enjoying Maynard's vocals or appreciating Tool because everybody else does is ridiculous.
 
Of course I knew it was an oxymoron, I was going to include it in parentheses but I found no just justification in doing so. They are a popular underground band, and I justify this by saying that though they aren't mainstream, they are well known in the rock community. Let me give a simple example:

Saetia and Fugazi are popular underground emo banRAB (because basically everyone who listens to underground emo WILL know them)

Trapdoor F**king Exit and Yfere are more obscure, I hope you understand the distinction.

I know where you're coming from about undeserving artists and banRAB obtaining more than their fair share, believe me, I understand that contradiction completely and am in utter abhorrence with it as well. But you honestly think that Maynard doesn't deserve it? Even his work with APC is amazing. The only side project I'd agree with you where he isn't at his best is Puscifer. Not too into it.

But dude, Brena still gives me chills... gimme gimme gimme is amazing. Sober is one of the best lyrically written songs. You have to give the man his props dude. He truly is an amazing artist.
 
- Devin Townsend (Strapping Young Lad, solo work, The Devin Townsend Band)
- Mike Patton when he makes metal, though he hardly sticks only to it.
 
matt tuck in bfmv and that guys in chiodos
matt tuck: probably the only metalcore singer that actually is really good on singing clean and he is good at screams to
 
Troll central in here.

Anyway, a couple great metal vocalists I've had the pleasure of seeing. While the present may not be the strongest time for metal, there are still a ton of great metal acts and performers.

Dallas Taylor - Maylene and the Sons of Disaster

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Schuylar Croom - He Is Legend

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In my opinion, the best female metal vocalist is by far Annlouice Loegdlund from Diablo Swing Orchestra. However, she doesn't growl or anything so it's a bit different. In fact, most of her vocals are operatic.

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