# Your top 5 metal vocalists **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 17, 2013, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-5-metal-vocalists/676588 "2013-12-17T19:30:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2013, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-5-metal-vocalists/676588/61 "2013-12-25T12:37:21Z")
Here are the hard rock / metal vocalists I _ **really** _ like: Rob Halford Bon Scott Ozzy Klaus Meine I can only think of four. ---
**Author:** ![Steken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Steken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steken)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2013, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-5-metal-vocalists/676588/62 "2013-12-25T12:52:26Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > You reach a limit in which speeding things up more and more and resorting to cookie monster type utterances doesn’t work anymore. Heavy metal hit that limit a long time ago and it has yet to recover. 😕 What an incredibly strange thing to say. There has been a _lot_ of excellent slow or mid-tempo extreme metal in the last half-a-decade or so. Yes, all-blastbeats-all-the-time was a thing for a while (at least within black metal), but that was a long time ago. _Panzer Division Marduk_ came out, what, a decade ago? Or more? Things have changed since then, man. Even Marduk themselves pen a lot of mid-tempo tunes these days, ferchrissakes, after Arioch replaced Legion on vocals. Just in the last year or two, we’ve seen some mind-blowing slooooooow metal coming out: Encoffination, Hellvetron, The Ruins Of Beverast, etc., etc. And if you include doom/stoner/sludge etc., then there’s Cough, Windhand, The Moon Mistress, etc., etc. - not to mention trendier, more mainstream-friendly acts such as Jex Thoth, Rose Kemp, etc. And then there’s the whole 70’s revival thing, with Magic Circle, Blood Ceremony, Jess And The Ancient Ones, The Devil’s Blood, etc., etc. Long story short: Extreme metal is as strong today as it has ever been. ---
**Author:** ![Steken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Steken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steken)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2013, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-5-metal-vocalists/676588/63 "2013-12-25T12:54:48Z")
Ps. Electric Wizard is an absolutely amazing band, but IMHO the vocals are the weakest link in their chain, so to speak. It’s the tidal-wave riffs that carry the thunder. ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2013, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-5-metal-vocalists/676588/64 "2013-12-25T17:33:26Z")
In no particular order: Mikael Åkerfeldt (Opeth) James Hetfield (Metallica) Morgan Lander (Kittie) Dave Draiman (Disturbed) Sandra Nasic (Guano Apes) Special mention: Anneke van Giersbergen, formerly of The Gathering, although The Gathering had mostly moved away from metal by the time she came aboard. ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2013, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-5-metal-vocalists/676588/65 "2013-12-27T20:05:39Z")
[ol] [li]James Hetfield - he sings like a goddamned pit bull would. I love it.[/li][li]Geoff Tate - he has an unbelievable vocal range. He can do it all.[/li][li]Robert Plant - you read that right. Led Zeppelin practically invented metal and Plant was the face and voice to a musical revolution.[/li][li]Brendon Small - the voice of Nathan Explosion in Dethklok (Metalocalypse). The dude is classically trained at Berklee.[/li][li]Rob Halford - can anyone hit those high notes better than he?[/li][/ol] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-5-metal-vocalists/676588.md?page=3)