Araya was always my fave. And his vocals on SoH are all class you fucks.
Hetfield on the first four
Mille Petrozza before he started sounding like a frog
Russ Anderson from Forbidden was a good midrange singer with a decent scream
John Connelly from Nuclear Assault
BEFORE YOU SEE THE LIGHTI dont wanna start up another controversy over how little i care for Slayer but no Tom sounds pathetic on South of Heaven.
He sounds more authentically tortured or evil (depending on the performance) than almost any other vocalist that I know. His voice is awesome.
If you look at him as a singer, which I suspect you may be doing, his singing (if you can call it that, I sure wouldn't) is technically quite bad.
Tom G Warrior is just some kind of friendly chromosomally deficient caveman grunting "HEY-EYYYYY!" to his neighbors.
I don't think he sounds particularly tortured or evil post-Hellhammer. I just think he's a cool, charismatic and an all round good metal vocalist. Who can deny that UUGGHH?
"Woah, this guy sounds like a total badass, I want him to fuck me backstage". .
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His vocals to me sound fucking apocalyptic.
Lemmy. Blackie Lawless. Young Bruce Dickinson. Pre-Broadway Jon Oliva. Anyone with swagger and grit. Those are/were cool singers. Tom G Warrior is a mega fuckin' nerd, which is more what I assumed the appeal to him was. I mean, in a way I get it, Celtic Frost had some of the most nerd-cool lyrics of their time, vivid and escapist and all of that, the songs on the whole are cool in the way fantasy/sci-fi fandom X can be cool and appealing, but he does not have a cool voice.
Give examples of particularly tortured and/or evil performances from him, at least post-Hellhammer. Even when I struggled with death metal I thought his voice was kinda relaxed/drunk sounding if anything. Like, Schmier up to Release from Agony, there's a painful and strained vocal performance. Tom G Warrior is just some kind of friendly chromosomally deficient caveman grunting "HEY-EYYYYY!" to his neighbors.