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Best hard rock/heavy metal male vocalist?

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James Hetfield, Chris Cornell, and Lajon Witherspoon (Sevendust). Lots of other good ones, but I'll just stick with those three.
 
James Hetfield
Trent Reznor
The lead singer of Opeth.
Chris Cornell has a good voice.. does he count heh.
Russell Allen of Symphony X
 
Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1
Originally posted by: Eli
Originally posted by: MachFive
Originally posted by: Eli
Someone that most of you have never heard of, Matthew Barlow from Iced Earth. Excellent vocalist.. his best quality is the emotion/feeling he puts forth. He has amazing range.. from soulful singing to deep growling to demonlike shrieking.. I'm talkin high pitch here...

LOL.. you people voting for Tool and Korn and RATM.. get real. 😛 That's not heavy metal singing.

Course, the title does say rock. That skews the results. 😛
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Tool is a metal band, thusly, Maynard is a metal vocalist. Anyone who's heard APC and Tool knows Maynard's got an incredibly haunting voice that can become downright evil at a moments notice. He owns.

He's not better than your Labrie's and Tate's, he's just different.
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IMO, Tool isn't metal. They're unique, and they're good.. I'll give them that, but it isn't heavy enough to be metal to me.. the guitars are too weak.. not nearly enough crunch. 😛 No 220bpm palm muted melodic riffs..
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It's not heavy metal, I'll give you that, but metal is an extremely broad genre, even broader than 'classical music' (it contains doom metal and gothic metal for example, which includes a lot of songs which could also be seen as classical music).
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I agree.
 
Originally posted by: FuZioN
James Hetfield
Trent Reznor
The lead singer of Opeth.
Chris Cornell has a good voice.. does he count heh.
Russell Allen of Symphony X
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Listen to Crimson by Edge of Sanity if you like Opeth 🙂

Edit: Actually, listen to that song if you like music in general. First few minutes may be tough if you don't like harder stuff, but get through it. After all the song is only 40 minutes long anyway.
 
Originally posted by: Eli
Originally posted by: MachFive
Originally posted by: Eli
Someone that most of you have never heard of, Matthew Barlow from Iced Earth. Excellent vocalist.. his best quality is the emotion/feeling he puts forth. He has amazing range.. from soulful singing to deep growling to demonlike shrieking.. I'm talkin high pitch here...

LOL.. you people voting for Tool and Korn and RATM.. get real. 😛 That's not heavy metal singing.

Course, the title does say rock. That skews the results. 😛
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Tool is a metal band, thusly, Maynard is a metal vocalist. Anyone who's heard APC and Tool knows Maynard's got an incredibly haunting voice that can become downright evil at a moments notice. He owns.

He's not better than your Labrie's and Tate's, he's just different.
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IMO, Tool isn't metal. They're unique, and they're good.. I'll give them that, but it isn't heavy enough to be metal to me.. the guitars are too weak.. not nearly enough crunch. 😛 No 220bpm palm muted melodic riffs..
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Then by your definition, Queensyche isn't metal. Most of their stuff is highly melodic, and few songs have the "crunch."

Metal is a genre. Tool isn't in the heavy metal genre, and I would never say that. They're borderline progressive/art metal. But they're metal. To call them anything but metal would be a disservice to the band.

Metal need not be fast. There's plenty of good slower metal out there, hell, Metallica's got some great slow metal songs. Pantera too. I think your definition is rather arbitrary.
 
Originally posted by: FuZioN
James Hetfield
Trent Reznor
The lead singer of Opeth.
Chris Cornell has a good voice.. does he count heh.
Russell Allen of Symphony X
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RUSSELL ALLEN IS T3H RAWK
 
Chris Cornell and Eddie Vedder are the best voices in Rock and Roll. Layne Staley had a nasaly voice but it was so mesmorizing. And Jeff Buckley also had an amazing voice. Not really hard rock/heavy metal though
 
Chris Volz from Flaw. One of the most amazing wide-ranged voices I've ever heard... one of the best singers and probably my favorite "screamer"
 
James Hetfield has really evolved over the years, and he has a great voice.

Honorable mentions to the powerful monster bass of Rammstein's Till Lindenmann.
 
Originally posted by: palidor
james hetfield is a HORRIBLE vocalist. his STYLE-AH! really SUCKS-AH!!!
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Couldn't agree more....

My List:

Real singers:
Robert Plant
Rob Halford
Freddie Mercury

Growlers I can listen to:
AC/DC front men Bon Scott and Angus ?

Interesting vocals:

Ozzy Osbourne

 
95 percent of the singers mentioned in this thread are not hard rock/heavy metal.

The original poster had some great picks. I would have to go with:

Geoff Tate - Queensryche
Bruce Dickinson - Iron Maiden

& my favorite metal singer of all time:

Ronnie James Dio

That guy is pushing 60 now and he still sounds better than ever. His shows are amazing and his vocal range hasn't diminished one bit. There are so many classic songs of his: Last in Line, Holy Diver, Children of the Sea, Rainbow in the Dark, We Rock, Heaven and Hell.....etc,etc
 
Originally posted by: Aceshigh
95 percent of the singers mentioned in this thread are not hard rock/heavy metal.

The original poster had some great picks. I would have to go with:

Geoff Tate - Queensryche
Bruce Dickinson - Iron Maiden

& my favorite metal singer of all time:

Ronnie James Dio

That guy is pushing 60 now and he still sounds better than ever. His shows are amazing and his vocal range hasn't diminished one bit. There are so many classic songs of his: Last in Line, Holy Diver, Children of the Sea, Rainbow in the Dark, We Rock, Heaven and Hell.....etc,etc
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Dio++

How could I forget him?

In that vein, Hansi Kürsch is awesome as well. Blind Guardian's version of "Don't talk to strangers" rivals the original.
 
Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
Originally posted by: LikeLinus
Chino Moreno, Deftones
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Take away all his effects and he sucks.
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lol ok dude. and Layne didn't use effects. FYI Every singer on every album uses effects. Also I've seen Chino live probably 6 times with no effects and he can straight and scream with the best of them. Check out Team Sleep.
 
Lemmy 😛
I love Motorhead, but if i had to pick one singer it would have to be Rob Halford.

Hard to argue with most of the names mentioned so far though.
 
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