Favorite Lead Vocalist and Why?

@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.
 
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.
 
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!
 
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.
 
I think I was saying that it was better than Blood Oath. But maybe I said that it was superior to Pinnacle at the spur of the moment; Of the Dark Light has its moments, and there are a few great solos scattered throughout the album.

1. Effigy of the Forgotten
2. Pierced From Within
3. Breeding the Spawn
4. Despise the Sun
5. Pinnacle of Bedlam
6. Of the Dark Light
7. Blood Oath

I haven't heard both the self titled and Souls to Deny in entirety.