Best Metal Vocalist right now

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mommas3girls2000

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I'm not close minded, KSE is just so much better than the rest. All of killswitch engage's songs are better than almost any other banRAB best song. I listen to melo-death too, and a whole bunch of core banRAB....so what. I listen to some rap sometimes as well, so i don't JUST listen to core.

I'd rather not blast cannibal corpse and Deicide out of my speakers because it sounRAB like it was recorded in a cave and the vocals are horrid. I am not a fan of satan either, so there is no way i am listening to much death metal. It seems like so many respected metal banRAB these days are atheist satan worshipping weirdo's. I'm a normal person, i dress normal, i look normal, i don't give a **** about the real metal scene. I'll listen to my generic Killswitch engage while all the REAL metalheaRAB headbang to satanic, and poorly recorded music.

Killswitch isn't cool why... because it is generic? That's a pretty stupid reason to say they aren't cool. I think they created their own sound, but whatever.
 
But Death Metal isn't about Satan. It's Black Metal that's about Satan.


What.


That's actually a pretty reasonable conclusion to come to. Why choose to like one generic metal band over thousanRAB of others?
 
I think he's one of the most recognizable screamers out there. His work with HTD was pretty much straight core, but have you heard trenches? Completely different. You get to hear him flex the pipes a little bit with the new band, he still has the raunchy growl though.

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Brennan Chaulk and Michael Murphy did the clean singing on "When Everything Falls" as well as all of their albums up to "Pressure the Hinges" on which Stephen Keech does some clean singing as well. Jimmy Ryan never did any clean singing in HTD. I personally liked "Burning Bridges" a little more. I think the vocals (both singing and screaming) sounded more raw and real.
 
yes, i know that, but that doesn't mean i can't enjoy what they do. it doesn't mean that i have to completely shun their work because they do things or play in a way that isn't that great. they still have good stuff in my opinion.

it seems that you're only dissing Slipknot because of certain pressures that they're a bad band. you'll never be able to fully appreciate music if you're stuck on what other people think about it. if you like music, then you like it, no shame in that.
 
Robert Lowe (Solitude Aeturnus,Candlemass) - easily the best voice in metal

Ihsahn (Emperor etc)
Mike Scalzi (Slough Feg)

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Thanks for the links and information about female metal vocalists. After listening to them and some of the previous artists you mention, I would have to say so far my ranking would be (drum roll)...

(1) JIMMY RYAN. Reason: versatility. In "Trenches" he uses a moody singing voice, and I like his tone better than some of the other men's, yet he also does screaming and (in the previous song posted) growling. One complaint I have with some of the metal songs in general that use growling is that the singer growls the whole way through. I like the contrast between traditional singing and growling or screaming (although I do worry about them hurting their voices!).

I'll have to listen to more people so I have more to compare to, though.

(2) ANGELA GASSOW. Although the songs I listened to only had her growling, she did it well and her animated and intense theatrics during the pieces probably biased me in her favor.

I thought it was interesting that I can't hear any difference in tone between men or women when they growl. This actually makes me think that a woman could produce metal songs that have more variety than a man could, since she could do chilling pseudo-sweet sounding higher tunes (angelic) and then plunge into demonic-sounding growling, which produces a startle factor that men have a harder time achieving, I feel (although a man could do falsetto, but it doesn't sound the same). It is pleasant to see women who are *not* trying to be sweet or cute, which I feel is a "role" that women singers (and female people, in general) play all too often (pressured by society to do so).

The song "Code of Honor" by Deadlock, for example, amused me because in it the woman is singing a sort of melodic goth-type song in some cute pseudo middle ages type dress while sweetly strolling through some meadow, while the man growls the whole time in a singing/growling duet. The separation along traditional gender lines (woman sweet, lovely, etc. and man tough, harsh, etc.) made a song that to me seemed too stereotypical for what I guess I imagine metal to be, which is songs that violate traditional rules of what "good" singing (and "good" music) is.

--Erica
 
I've seen HTD 7 times live. 3 with Jimmy, he always did the back up vocals on several songs. Along with Devon Chaulk, the drummer. There are some parts, such as the interlude in 'American Love' that require multiple vocal parts. While Brennan and Mike and responsible for clean vocals on when everything falls, as you said, Jimmy and even Devon were always singing live. Stephen now attempts to sing clean vocals as well, which normally doesn't sound all that great, but whatever. They are in town at soma soon, I will be attending my 8th show.
 
I think some of you guys reached a point where you think you listen to way too much music that you begin to think that popular underground music is mediocre. If you honestly can't appreciate tool and Maynard's voice; I can't believe that I even muttered that phrase... then I guess go right ahead, lol

Let me give you guys another singer to bash:
Anthony Green

Have fun
 
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