Post your favorite vocalists! Give an example of their music and why you like them.
[b]Jonny Craig[/b]
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I love his voice, it's just so fucking powerful.
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[b]Don't turn this into a shitstorm about how you hate someones pick or "that music is shit" or anything stupid. Just post your favorites and move on. Nothing negative, please.[/b]
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I saw the thread title and Johnny Craig was the first name to come to mind. Anthony Green of Circa Survive has a lot of power behind it as well.
There's a lot out there that I really appriciate but I don't remeber most of their names.
Johnny Craig is a fucking tank, cleans are amazing
I have three favourites that stand out
Firstly
[B]Bon Scott[/B]
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The voice that drove the most badass rock n roll band to the top. This man is my favourite/most respect vocalist of all time
Secondly, the dude from the Getaway Plan
[B]Matthew Wright[/B]
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Best cleans I've ever heard, period
Finally, frontman of Parkway Drive
[B]Winston McCall[/B]
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He has the most brutal growls, the band themself are far from heavy, but I love his vocals
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his lyrics are incredible too
Thom Yorke...hands down
[B]Rob Halford of Judas Priest[/B]
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His insane vocal range and powerful sound makes him my favorite Vocalist.
Devin Townsend
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His music and voice are both amazing things to behold. Great range, decent cleans and some great growls.
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Steve Wilson, does 20 million different things, he doesn't really vary his style so much, but he doesn't need to, it's good for things all the way from 'Linton Samuel Davidson' from On the Sunday of Life to 'Bleak' by Opeth.
Nivek Ogre.
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His vocal style is kinda hard to grasp, but it's just bloody awesome!
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Teddy Pendergrass
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Jocelyn Brown
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Mariah Carey
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My god, that rack...
[QUOTE=monkey11;22176386]I saw the thread title and Johnny Craig was the first name to come to mind. Anthony Green of Circa Survive has a lot of power behind it as well.
There's a lot out there that I really appriciate but I don't remeber most of their names.[/QUOTE]
Anthony Green was my second pick actually. We should be friends.
Anders Friden and Niilo Sevanen. Both have amazing technique and they just suit their music perfectly.
I do have to say Corey Taylor or James Hetfield. Or Corpse Grinder.
Lol corpse grinder sounds inspiring.
Hetfield is pretty okay though :)
[QUOTE=Kagrenak;22177652]Devin Townsend
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His music and voice are both amazing things to behold. Great range, decent cleans and some great growls.[/QUOTE]
I love Devin's voice. Such an incredible range.
Tom Angelripper of the Teutonic Thrash band Sodom. Fucking insane voice, so insanely powerful and heavy.
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Varg Vikernes of the one man black metal band Burzum. His vocals are very different to any band I can think of, even other black metal bands, with a very animalistic roaring scream than the usual style. It's strange. But my God, I find it just amazing.
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Tomi Joutsen of the folk metal band Amorphis. Truly has a beautiful voice, and he can do some great growls when he does.
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Petri Lindroos, formerly of the Melodic Death metal band Norther and currently of the Viking/Folk metal band Ensiferum. His vocals are better in Ensiferum I think.
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Michael Kiske, former vocalist in Helloween.
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Johannes Nyberg, vocalist in Zonata. No picture though.
Alexi Laiho, vocalist in Children of Bodom.
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Petri Lindroos, formerly of the Melodic Death metal band Norther and currently of the Viking/Folk metal band Ensiferum. His vocals are better in Ensiferum I think.
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They really are. He's an amazing singer.
[QUOTE=Eluveitie;22178935]They really are. He's an amazing singer.[/QUOTE]
I so want to see him live.
Also your username reminded me, Chrigel Glanzmann of the celtic folk metal band Eluveitie
Fucking awesome voice and the band in itself are amazing, very unique since most folk bands that mix folk with extreme metal use black metal and not death.
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Alex Turner, Such a thrilling British voice, I'm learning to sort of sing in his style.
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Jason Kay. Quite a sexy voice, really cool for Acid Jazz.
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Sebastian Bach of Skid Row. Man, he could do the high screams and slow ballads. Might be something to do with those pants ;)
Mikael Akerfeldt
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He has an amazing vocal range; he growls like satan and sings like an angel.
Niilo Sevanen
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His growls are so powerful and emotional.
Warrel Dane
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He was trained as an opera singer, but sings for metal. A very broad vocal range, and he occasionally uses falsetto.
Ronnie James Dio
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I don't need to explain.
Barry White
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If anyone had a voice that would make people cream themselves when they heard it, his would be it.