Favorite Lead Vocalist and Why?

[arg]

I almost walked into Frank Mullen in the restroom of Ozzfest this year. Dude looked angry and old up close. I was too stunned say anything in those 3 seconds lol

 

[EspaDa]

@Terasophe

It is. Pinnacle of Bedlam is better than their recent one, though.

I love this track from their newest album

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

Daniel Heiman. The perfect power metal vocalist.
I love King Diamond, I try to have my highs sound as awesome as his.
Hansi from Blind Guardian has such a signature sound. And the layering on their albums is insane.
As far as death metal goes I have always liked John Gallagher from Dying Fetus. Guttural and catchy.

 

[The Ozzman]

@Terasophe

It is. Pinnacle of Bedlam is better than their recent one, though.

I love this track from their newest album

The last two I haven't been sold on. I think I've only listened to Pinnacle a handful of times since it came out. Still one of my favorite death metal groups otherwise. The first 3 and the Despise the Sun EP are some of the most crushing releases of the genre ever.

 

[Omni]

What about non-clean vocalists?

Attila Csihar
Tom G. Warrior
Martin van Drunen
Nocturno Culto
Franta Štorm
Dagon
Amer LeChâtier
David Vincent
Brian Lawrence
Antti Boman

 

[Slayed Necros]

Snake

 

[Master_Yoda77]

COLONEL!

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Martin van Drunen yet. He was godly in his prime, easily one of the best death metal vocalists ever.

edit: Just saw him on omni's list

 

[EspaDa]

Despite being a total dick, Maniac has one of the most ungodly black metal shrieks ever.

 

[Sophii]

Maniac sounds utterly demented. Sounds like a banshee on Deathcrush. And his spoken word stuff isnt too bad either.

 

[Sophii]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Martin van Drunen yet. He was godly in his prime, easily one of the best death metal vocalists ever.

edit: Just saw him on omni's list

Bolt Thrower should be on everyone's list tbh.

 

[Sophii]

I'm gonna say Rob Zombie in the early White Zombie era is one of my favorites. His lyrics are fucking bonkers and his vocal delivery is just as bonkers.

 

[EspaDa]

Maniac sounds utterly demented. Sounds like a banshee on Deathcrush. And his spoken word stuff isnt too bad either.

Have you heard this one?

 

[Sophii]

^ I have. His skitliv stuff is nuts.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

@Terasophe

It is. Pinnacle of Bedlam is better than their recent one, though.

I love this track from their newest album

So you changed your mind? I could have sworn you said it was better than Pinnacle, or maybe it was someone else.

 

[EspaDa]

@TechnicalBarbarity

This search machine is great. I found this:

I'm relistening Pinnacle of Bedlam now, I guess it's slightly better than the recent one.

 

[Omni]

I'll have an interview with Robert Stevens (Dark Age) available online in the near future. Even though he didn't make my list, I also might be interviewing John Cyriis (Agent Steel). That should be entertaining if it happens!

 

[Satanstoenail]

Snake

Beat me to it.

 

[Burkhard]

For me, it's a draw between Dawn Crosby (R.I.P.), Monika Edvardsen and Agnete M. Kirkevaag. Since I like each of them for different reasons, I can't put one of them above the other.

As regards Dawn Crosby, I love the anger she expressed on Détente's "Recognize No Authority" and the haunting multilayered/-faceted vocals on Fear of God's "Within the Veil". In the case of Monika Edvardsen, I love her original, experimental and crazy vocals, especially on Atrox' "Contentum" and "Terrestrials". As for Agnete, the only one still active among these three, I like her soft clean voice as well as her powerful and aggressive (yet usually also still clean) voice very much. My overall favourite Madder Mortem-song "Resonatine" is probably the best example because of the change of dynamics as regards the vocals (as well as the music), though I think "Where Dream and Day Collide" and "Hangman" are also good examples to illustrate what I mean.

Maybe I should also include Dominique Lenore Persi. Even though her extreme vocals sometimes are on the verge of what I can listen to, I like her "normal" voice very much.

And just in case the term "front man" in the initial post was meant to explicitly exclude female vocalists (which I obviously tend to prefer to male vocalists), I'll pick John Arch and Johan Längquist.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

@TechnicalBarbarity

This search machine is great. I found this:

ah, so you did change your mind. I like them both but yeah Pinnacle is a little better.