HamburgerBoy
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He literally sounds retarded. I don't deny his influence, but by any measure other than uniqueness he is a shit singer.
Who do you think is the best thrash metal vocalist?
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Yeah I don't think yours are as out there as HamburgerBoy's.
Some I remember:
"Black metal doesn't have riffs" or a similar one where he said something to the effect of "Some black metal has riffs, but they're so weak they're not worth being called riffs".
"Trivium is better than Emperor because at least Trivium have riffs"
Some I remember:
"Black metal doesn't have riffs" or a similar one where he said something to the effect of "Some black metal has riffs, but they're so weak they're not worth being called riffs".
"Trivium is better than Emperor because at least Trivium have riffs"
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Id use some of my favorite Bathory songs as examples of black metal with great riffs but i recall how not so subtle he is about how much he hates Bathory for some reason.
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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.
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I dont wanna start up another controversy over how little i care for Slayer but no Tom sounds pathetic on South of Heaven.
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His voice sounds a lot weaker on South of Heaven than it does on previous albums. He sounds like he strains to even do the rougher sections on that album when he could have done them without much effort on all of the previous albums.
I think that he sounds particularly weak on the Judas Priest cover, especially in comparison to the original. The original version of "Aggressive Perfector" is basically the Slayer version of that song and shows how far his vocals have fallen by the time they recorded the cover song.
I think that he sounds particularly weak on the Judas Priest cover, especially in comparison to the original. The original version of "Aggressive Perfector" is basically the Slayer version of that song and shows how far his vocals have fallen by the time they recorded the cover song.
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I agree that it's definitely weaker, but I don't think it's pathetic like MrTagoMago said. It's a different style as well, more fitting to the music on South of Heaven.
He lost the ability to do those high screams quite early. Any attempts at them live past at the latest 1990 are fucking shameful.
He lost the ability to do those high screams quite early. Any attempts at them live past at the latest 1990 are fucking shameful.
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I don't think his vocals are weaker on SoH. They're more refined. They don't sound strained to me at all. If anything his vocals sound more forced on previous albums.
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Although Tom Warrior isn't my pick for the top, to call him the worst of the 80's metal vocalists? Is simply going full retard. Dude is superlative between Hellhammer and Celtic Frost.
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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.
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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?
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Cool? Charismatic? Maybe in attempt, being a once-acne-ridden metal edgelord that discovered Christian Death and suddenly wanted to explore his inner goth. I've never come even close to hearing a Celtic Frost song and thinking "Woah, this guy sounds like a total badass, I want him to fuck me backstage". Cold Lake should be the ultimate proof of how uncool a guy Tom G Warrior was. And that's perfectly alright, if it weren't for Accutane I'd be an acne-ridden metal edgelord right now, but I'm well aware that I'm not cool.
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I don't want vocalists I like to fuck me backstage.
His vocals to me sound fucking apocalyptic.
His vocals to me sound fucking apocalyptic.
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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.
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