Favorite Exodus vocalist

[The Butt]

Can't agree. Bon Scott is a nifty singer and all, but his voice is clearly geared towards sleazy hard rock and not thrash metal, so a thrash metal vocalist trying his damned hardest to be him (and he is trying his hardest to be him) sounds forced, tryhard, and kind of sad to me. Meh. *shrugs*

 

[suckerleaf]

To each their own but Zetro's vox just come across razor sharp and mean as fuck to me. I can see the Bon Scott comparisons I guess but in Thrash he comes across as pretty fucking unique.

 

[Satanstoenail]

*shrugs*

 

[RedStorm]

I find your profiles avatar slightly arousing Satan

 

[The Butt]

Your anger pleases me.

 

[H.P. Lovecraft]

Can't agree. Bon Scott is a nifty singer and all, but his voice is clearly geared towards sleazy hard rock and not thrash metal, so a thrash metal vocalist trying his damned hardest to be him (and he is trying his hardest to be him) sounds forced, tryhard, and kind of sad to me. Meh. *shrugs*

Souza, as evocative in some ways as he may be of Bon, has more than enough stylings to his voice to make it palatable to thrash. He uses a rather distinctive snarl and a great screaming technique. If anything he sounds more like a thrash metal Udo Dirkschneider than a thrash metal Bon Scott.

 

[The Butt]

Guess I'll just never "get" it.

 

[Satanstoenail]

Guess I'll just never "get" it.

*shrugs*

 

[H.P. Lovecraft]

Guess I'll just never "get" it.

You don't have to, but just remember if I kill you over this, please don't call it murder, cause murder's such a dirty word...

 

[The Butt]

*shrugs*

shrugception

 

[CiG]

Can't agree. Bon Scott is a nifty singer and all, but his voice is clearly geared towards sleazy hard rock and not thrash metal

Have to take issue with this bit specifically. You might check out his older band Fraternity sometime.

 

[infrablack]

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

They've never had a good vocalist as far as im concerned. All of them were/are borderline garbage.

 

[suckerleaf]

BOO

 

[The Butt]

Paul Baloff is probably the best thrash vocalist, early Tom Araya aside.

 

[H.P. Lovecraft]

They've never had a good vocalist as far as im concerned. All of them were/are borderline garbage.

Shows how little you know of singing.

 

[H.P. Lovecraft]

Paul Baloff is probably the best thrash vocalist, early Tom Araya aside.

I'm not terribly disputatious of that, it's a reasonable claim, Baloff was brilliant. Chuck Billy and Mille Petrozza are both possible contenders too though if you ask me.

 

[The Butt]

Early Mille, probably. I could live with that.

 

[H.P. Lovecraft]

What would you think about Tommy Angelripper? He's got a hell of a voice.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Shows how little you know of singing.

lol, okay.

Out of the ones mentioned so far, Chuck Billy is by far the best. While "singing" clearly isnt a strongpoint in thrash, there are/were plenty of good thrash vocalists ... early Araya, Schmier, Flemming Ronsdorf, Lee Altus, Bobby Blitz, Mike Sanders, Mark Antoni(Realm), Darren Travis, Doty and Rineheart, etc. I can keep going.

I love Angelripper, and i prefer him to most of the vocalists mentioned here, but if you guys are taking about "singing", then his name should not even be mentioned. That's like me saying Cavalera was a good singer.