Favorite vocalists!?!?!?!

[vampiregenocide]

Travis Ryan of Cattle Decapitation. This man makes some utterly insane sounds. I'm sure he is a demon.

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Randy Blythe. Sounds like he ate a dragon and it fought back.



Maynard James Keenan. Just a beautiful singing voice. The man is incredible.



Jonny Davy



Hal Sinden. Good friend of mine and poster here. His vocals (particularly his screams) are madness.



Chad Gray. He's not as good as he used to be, but still awesome.

 

[Jakke]

BTW, didn't we do this just a couple of months ago? Not that it's anything wrong to do it again mind

 

[decypher]

Steve Hogarth, King Diamond, John Arch, Geoff Tate, Midnight, Alexander Veljanov, Morten Harket, Bruce Dickinson, Carl McCoy, Peter Steele and many more...

 

[MatthewK]

That's a first. Most people I know can't stand him!

Well, personally, I think his voice is a big part of the reason Sonata Arctica stands out amongst the many derivative and nearly indistinguishable "power metal" bands. But I would never suggest anyone should like or agree with the things I like.

 

[Windwaker]

Cedric Bixler-Zavala of The Mars Volta
Rody Walker of Protest the Hero

That's pretty much it.

 

[RearyGay]

Devin Townsend and Warrel Dane are my favorites.

Devin Townsend because he always goes way beyond my expectations, and Warrel Dane because no one portrays emotion like him.

 

[Tordah]

Mike Patton.
Todd Smith (although he is kind of limited compared to Patton).
Devin Townsend (of course).


Do I really have to say more?!


Warrel Dane (because I'm essentially in his range and love his twisted sound).
Roy Khan.
Tom Englund.


Such character. Incredible.


Robert Plant.
Stevie Wonder.
Hansi Kursch.

Apologies for the disgustingly long list.

 

[Overtone]

Dev
Garm
Anneke
Tom Englund
Sting
Adrian Belew
Ozzy
Geddy Lee
IA
Mikael Akerfeldt

 

[MJS]

First 3 or 4 are pretty much in order... then just randomly added as I thought of them after that. I'm sure I forget 20 or so.

Maynard
Layne Staley (might as well include Jerry Cantrell, since they were the AIC sound)
Linda Perry
David Draiman
Tori Amos
Bjork
Danzig
Chris Cornell
Mike Patton
Tommy Victor
Mike Muir (Everything up to and including The Art of Rebellion)
Jonathan Davis
Hope Sandoval
Andrew Wood
Corey Taylor
Chuck Billy
Amy Lee
Jim Morrison
Sabastian Bach
David Lee Roth (Back in the day... not now.)

 

[Blind Theory]

Hernan "Eddie" Hermida-All Shall Perish
Dave Mustaine-The Dave Mustaine Band
Matt Heafy-Trivium
Trevor Strnad-BDM
Marcus Bischoff-Heaven Shall Burn

 

[sahaal]

Lord Worm
Trevor Strnad
Sven De Caluwe
Karl Schubach
Ryan Devlin
Elliot Coleman
Hank Williams I through III
Johnny Cash
Eric Church

 

[Ninetyfour]

and Elliot in Zelliack, both phenomenal vocalists

 

[Don Vito]

Well, personally, I think his voice is a big part of the reason Sonata Arctica stands out amongst the many derivative and nearly indistinguishable "power metal" bands. But I would never suggest anyone should like or agree with the things I like.

No, I agree with you

 

[thrsher]

bjorn speed strid
burton c bell
frank mullen
chris barnes
matthew barlow
rob halford
tim owens
donald campman

 

[makeitreign]

Mark Wahlberg

 

[Ralyks]

Daniel Gildenlow
Ray Alder
Warrel Dane
Daniel Tompkins
Mike Patton
John Arch

 

[Wings of Obsidian]

Maynard James Keenan (Tool)
Angela Gassow (Arch Enemy)
Maria Brink (In This Moment)
Amy Lee (Evanescence)
Hayley Williams (Paramore)
Cristina Scabbia (Lacuna Coil)
Mikael Akerfieldt (Opeth)
Christian Machado (Ill Nino)
Lzzy Hale (Halestorm)
Dawn Richardson (Fireflight)
Tarja Turunen (Nightwish)
Anette Olzon (Nightwish)
Bjork

Many of my favorite vocalists are females....idk why....I just "love" the soothing sound of a female voice in metal. (If I had to pick a clear cut winner though, it'd have to go to Maria Brink from In This Moment.)

 

[I Voyager]

Russell Allen
RJD
David Coverdale
Mikael Akerfeldt
Stu Block
Marco Hietala
Hevy Devy
Randy Blythe
Corpseginder
Bobby Blitz
Spencer Sotelo

 

[ittoa666]

Mikael Akerfeldt an Micheal McDonald.

 

[Volteau]

Mikael Akerfeldt:

Dan Tompkins:

Russell Allen:

Roy Khan:

Paul McCartney:

Honorary mentions to:

James LaBrie for singing amazing at times:

Steven Wilson for creating the most amazing vocal harmonies in the history of music: