Who had great voices for...

[Susperia]

Bah Aguilera is one of the most tasteless vocal masturbators out there. Sure she can sing, but its overexaggerated and overdone to the point of a joke.

Other great metal vocalists (Not showing all bands they are in):

-Chuck Billy (Testament
-Russel Allen (Symphony X)
-Chris Barnes (Cannibal Corpse, Six Feet Under)
-Mirai (Sigh)
-Jens Carlsson (Persuader)
-Nattefrost (Carpathian Forest)
-Lord Gore
-Randy Blythe (Lamb Of God, Burn The Priest) I dont give a shit what you think, this guys early vocal work was awesome.
-L-G Petrov (Entombed)
-Chuck Schuldiner (Death)
-Lord Worm (Cryptopsy)
-Mr Hustler (Blood Red Throne)
-Lenzig (Cephalic Carnage)
-Sven de Caluwe (Aborted)

Do you prefer growling over singing?

 

[swizzlenuts]

Quothorn (Bathory)
Von Demonicus (Arghoslent)


And the guy from Blind Guardian!

 

[Fredy_Brown]

Quothorn (Bathory)

He is good songwriter, but definitely not singer.

 

[swizzlenuts]

I like how he did so many different things with his voice. His vocals always fit the music perfectly.

 

[The_Harmathroditic_Ferret]

He is good songwriter, but definitely not singer.

Quorthon? Quorthon can do almost anything. He can do the black metal shreik, he could hit low and hi when trying to sing. He could sing so many different ways, I'll give him credit as a good vocalist.

 

[Susperia]

Same here. For the most part.

 

[Fredy_Brown]

Uh, singig isn´t really his strong fort. He even admited it.

 

[Susperia]

You made 666 posts already!! Congratulations!

 

[Mort Divine]

666 posts of total idiocy. Not something worth celebrating.

 

[MadeInNewJersey]

Awesome choices to start with Carcassian. Though Bruce Dickinson is in a class by himself, so I keep him out of these sorts of conversations.

I want to add:
Maurizio Iacono - Kataklysm: he does both the deep growls & high-end shrieks that I love so much; so few death metal vocalists have that sort of range. Interestingly enough, he lists Walker (Carcass) as a huge influence on his own vocals, so you can definitely hear a bit of that in the recent Kataklysm records.

 

[MadeInNewJersey]

He is good songwriter, but definitely not singer.

holy fuck, I agree with you on something

Bathory is legendary, Quorthon's vocals ain't the reason

 

[The_Harmathroditic_Ferret]

I like how he did so many different things with his voice.

Thats kind of why I repsect the guy... Quorthon. He wasn't the best, but he could do so many diffent styles of vocals.

 

[Life Sucks]

AA Nemtheanga (Primordial. totally agree)
Frank Brennan (Mourning Beloveth, clean vocals)
Darren Moore (Mourning Beloveth, growls)
Von Demonicus (Arghoslent)
Matti Karki (Dismember)
Jens Fricke (Deny the Urge. the band itself is way underrated as well)
Andreas Hilbert (Golem)

 

[IOfTheStorm]

Quorthon's (clean) vocals are perfect. They fit with his music 100% and i can't think any other voice/style of singing that could be more ideal for his music.

 

[MadeInNewJersey]

Quorthon's (clean) vocals are perfect. They fit with his music 100% and i can't think any other voice/style of singing that could be more ideal for his music.

Come on, man, even his most diehard fans would never say they were "perfect." Jesus christ.

 

[IOfTheStorm]

Perfect for me is 100% passionate, convincing and emotional, capable of giving chills, and being in balance with the music. So Quorthon's singing is perfect.

 

[The_Harmathroditic_Ferret]

Well I certainly don't think perfect. And certainly not consistently perfect. I think he totally butchered the second half of one rode to asa bay. He was singing perfectly in the beginning, and then he starts to speed it up and slur words.

 

[Fredy_Brown]

Your definition of perfect vocals is kinda ridiculous, IOfTheStorm.
I think I am perfect singer then (even if I do lot of false tons tones hahaha).

 

[MadeInNewJersey]

Your definition of perfect vocals is kinda ridiculous, IOfTheStorm.
I think I am perfect singer then (even if I do lot of false tons tones hahaha).

I'm perfect too in that case. :Spin:

 

[IOfTheStorm]

You can either make people laughing when singing in false tones, or give them chills. The vast majority of false tone singers (like you for example, i suspect) falls in the first category (thinking that they can do all that i mentioned, but just sounding funny), Quorthon (and some others) fall in the second one (being all that i mentioned, without sounding funny), and succeeding in that has all the importance.