Utterly Epic Vocal Performances

[Hell Awaits Us All]

recognizable doesn't mean good. Varg is a very mediocre vocalist

hell, something like early opeth has million times better black metal shrieks than varg (the night and the silent water especially).

 

[TylerTheNuke]

Rainbow(Dio)-stargazer
Judas priest(Rob Halford)-The whole painkiller album
Burzum(Varg)-Det Som Engang Var
Kamelot(Roy Khan)-Nights of Arabia
Tool-(maynard keenan)Ticks and Leeches
Queensryche-Revolution calling

 

[KevenZ]

Funeral Mist - Salvation

simply the most evil and original vocal ever.

 

[Scourge of God]

Varg's voice is recognizable precisely because it is such an outstanding example of its type. His vocals are both vicious and tortured at one and the same time, a perfect combination given Burzum's approach and subject matter. Opeth's vocals sound wimpy in every way, and always have (for obvious reasons, they're performed by essentially whispering into a jacked up vocal mic - boring).

 

[Slayed Necros]

burzum has shit vocals. I love the music as much as anybody, but varg is a shit vocalist

It's up to the listener to decide whether he or she likes Varg's vocals, but to outright deny the sense of epic in his voice, particularly in the track originally mentioned, is pretty absurd.

 

[Skepticism]

I'll say Below the Lights, but pretty much any Enslaved album has amazing vocals. Grutle Kjellson is one of the best black metal vocalists, easily.

 

[ClydeNut]

I have heard Turilli's solo work but I didn't think he did vocals on it.

my bad. You're right about that.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Katharsis - VVorld VVithout End

Holy GOD.

 

[challenge_everything]

I'll say Below the Lights, but pretty much any Enslaved album has amazing vocals. Grutle Kjellson is one of the best black metal vocalists, easily.

Yeah. Entroper off Ruun is an amazing vocal performance as well.

 

[Skepticism]

I'll also add Crippled Lucifer album by Burning Witch, the vocals on that album are the most fucked up things in metal. The song Sacred Predictions is monstrously insane.

 

[Sabin Frost]

My original post mentioned emotional performances as well as sometimes something can be incredibly stirring simply because of the amount of emphasis and feeling behind it. Varg certainly has a lot of feeling in his vocals.

If you have not heard of a dutch band called The Wounded and dont mind Prog. Rock they do some of the most emotion filled work I have ever heard, the song Hollow World in particular is a great example, the opening acapella section is touching. www.myspace.com/thewoundednl

 

[suspect]

Ulver - Bergtatt (the whole album is just awesome, and when you take into consideration that Garm was nineteen when it was released , its even more impressive)

Arcturus - Everything, but especially The Sham Mirrors. Easily one of the best vocal performances in metal.

Emperor - Empty (Incredible sophisticated use of shrieks)

Opeth - Everything. Mikael Åkerfeldt has imo the best growl in metal, combined with an exquisite clean voice as well.

Kalmah - Heroes to Us (A modern metal anthem in my opinion, and the chorus is very impressive, in how Pekka mixes high and low growls.)

Porcupine Tree - Anesthetize (Steven Wilson is a god when it comes to vocal harmonies)

Peste Noire - La Sanie des siècles - Panégyrique de la dégénérescence (just the most evil BM shrieks I've ever heard)

 

[fractured spirit]

azathoth from dark fortress
or the lead singer of manowar

 

[The Ozzman]

Layne Staley - Nutshell, I Stay Away

Almost anything he did really..

 

[Crimson Velvet]

For some incredible Dickinson epicness:

Bruce Dickinson - Book of Thel
Iron Maiden - Hallowed Be Thy Name

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Peste Noire - La Sanie des siècles - Panégyrique de la dégénérescence (just the most evil BM shrieks I've ever heard)

INDEED. I pretty much cannot fucking understand why people dislike this!!

 

[genocide roach]

edguy- hellfire club

hella epic
~gR~

 

[Mort Divine]

Next to fuckin' anything Mark Shelton has ever sung on Dreams of Eschaton is the definition of an epic vocal performance.

Every Primordial song pretty much fits the mold. Agalloch's In The Shadow Of Our Pale Companion also carries an "epic" feel to it.

Plenty of Pain of Salvation songs (well just about every PoS song from The Perfect Element through BE fit the "grandest, most moving" deal.)

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

LOST IN NECROOOOOOOOOPUHLAAAAHS

 

[The Ozzman]

Death - Scream Bloody Gore


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