[noodles]

Originally Posted by Drew

Am I the only one here who actually likes Billy Corgan's voice?

Yes.

[Metal Ken]

Originally Posted by noodles

Yes.

+1.

[Donnie]

Originally Posted by Drew

Am I the only one here who actually likes Billy Corgan's voice?

No.

[Steve]

Originally Posted by Samer

Maybe in the past, did you hear the new CD?

Yup, and I agree.....


Correction:
Geoff Tate - Rage For Order / Operation Mindcrime

[Shaman]

Originally Posted by David

I'm one of the only people here who thinks growling is pointless.

Don't consider it as vocals, consider it as a new instrument.

It just fits to a certain type of music like Death and black etc. Music like death or black require a certain level of intensity vocalwise that clean vocals just can't deliver. Think about it, Cannibal Corpse with LaBrie

I like "real" singing more than growling personally, but I like my Death/black raw with intense vocals. I don't want it any other way

I see you don't like extreme metal, fine, but don't go around saying that growling etc. is pointless, mmkay. You don't see me saying that James LaBrie's singing is pointless, just because I don't like it. It takes balls to say this: "I don't personally like it." And just leave it there. That's the mature way of handling things. Peace and out

("The fact that you don't like something, doesen't mean that everybody else that think otherwise, are wrong")

Oh, and Euronymous never sang on MayheM. He was always just the guitar player.

Attila sang on De Mysteriis.., Maniac sang on all the other studio albums, and Dead sang on various bootlegs and stuff.

[eaeolian]

Originally Posted by distressed_romeo

Mr Doctor from Devil Doll. Do a websearch on the name. Some seriously disturbed stuff...

Best, I dunno. Most disturbing? Absolutley.

Who I'd go to for "best", right now:

Russ Allen (Symphony X) - for "clean" metal singing, he's the best out there right now with...
Jorn Lande - a close second. Both have great voices, and both take on an extra "something" in the live arena.
Zak Stevens (Savatage/CircleIICircle) - a technique monster, and another one that's better live than recorded.
Tom Englund (Evergrey) - unique, and love or hate, especially in the early days, but so expressive.
Mike Ackerfeldt (Opeth - I never can spell his last name) - nice clean voice, and a growl that's both dark and evil and articulate.
Tim Roth (Into Eternity) - yeah, he's not the lead singer, but he writes everything, has a great clean voice, and has a good harsh voice.
Urband Breed (Tad Morose/Bloodbound) - smooth with a vew rough edges, another technique monster (I saw him do two hours in Chicago, and nail everything), who's also super-expressive.

Originally Posted by NightmareX

Yup, and I agree.....


Correction:
Geoff Tate - Rage For Order / Operation Mindcrime

Hard to ever argue with that. Two of the superior vocal performances ever recorded by a rock singer.

[Shaman]

Originally Posted by eaeolian

Tom Englund (Evergrey) - unique, and love or hate, especially in the early days, but so expressive.

I just saw Evergrey's A Night to Remember DVD the other day, and I must admit that that his voice really brings shivers down my spine. In a positive way There are not a lot of "metal" singers around with a voice as expressive as his.

Somehow I managed to forget him when naming my favourites..

[Samer]

As far as clean v.s. growling.

I dont think it makes music less intense with clean vocals.

Look at nevermore, they are faster and heavier than most death metal bands, there clean vocals are brutal, but at the same time musical.

Not alot of people can pull it off, and alot of people in the death/ black metal community have somthing aggainst power metal singers for some reason?

[Oogadee Boogadee]

vox i like:
Devin Townsend
the Kamelot guy
dio
old Chris Cornell
Sebastian Bach
old hetfield
david Vincent
david L Roth
Sauron (previous decapitated growler)
Symphony X
david coverdale
Rust In Peace Megadeth
Tim Owens
CFH & VDP Pantera
Pharaoh singer

vox that annoy me
a lot of bruce Dickenson - he's got great moments, but his ugly ones are really fucking ugly
Live mustaine
joey anthrax
new hetfield
dani filth
all emo
all metalcore
new A7X
any singer who sings higher than they're supposed to.

[Shaman]

Originally Posted by Samer

As far as clean v.s. growling.

I dont think it makes music less intense with clean vocals.

Look at nevermore, they are faster and heavier than most death metal bands, there clean vocals are brutal, but at the same time musical.

Not alot of people can pull it off, and alot of people in the death/ black metal community have somthing aggainst power metal singers for some reason?

Clean vocals seem to be a lot more at home with black metal than death metal IMO. Maybe it's because black is not based so much on brutality as death is. There's a lot more athmosphere going on in black, so clean or operatic vocals sound killer in it. A prime example: Emperor - With strength I burn. And of course, Amorphis Well, Amorphis is more of a melo-death band, but you get the point.

Yeah, I agree with you on Nevermore, Dane's vocals are first class. I wouldn't even want to hear Nevermore with growling. And I like Symphony X's vocalist too. I am not a fan of the music, but the singer is great.