who's the best rock/ metal singer?

somethingwitty

Why arent there more mentions of Robert Plant??!!!!
His voice is just so ****ing god damn hot.
Also love Daltrey, Grace Slick, Tankian and Nancy Wilson.:):)

*tOpLaSs

Corey Taylor
James Hetfield
Serj Tankian

Jack Vegas

Eddie from All Shall Perish.

christeb

Freddie is my no. 1 and Grace Slick FTW female voice.

But one that hasn't been mentioned is Jack White. He is balanced on the line between screaming / singing and on stage he exudes rock n'roll. So I'll throw him in there as well!

gcgirl

Freddy Mercury(Amazing Cried when i heard he died)
Robert Plant (Led Zepp God)
Bruce Dickinson(Live he is amazing)
Axl Rose(G N R 1987 1st rock band ever listened too)
Chris Cornell(Brill Him and Eddie singing that song)
Steve Tyler(again very strong live vocally November 1993 Him and joe Perry at the Point!!)
Rodger Daltry(Don't let the sun go down on me on The lost Boys OST Sublime)
David Coverdale(I loved whitesnake and i loved that cd he did with Jimmy Page)
Mike Patton(Another great lead singer)
Eddie Vedder(Evenflow i loved that song!!)
Bon Scott(the oringial and the best)
Paul Rodgers(I think he has a great voice )

AwayWithFaries

Jim Morrison
Robert Plant
Josh Homme(cant believe he hasn't already been mentioned)

CCCP^

Ed Kowalyzck of Live

overexcitedaj

Xyo wrote: »

Layne Stayley anyone?

+1

FunkZ

Joacim Cans, oh yeashh

Phil anselmo ftw

OLP

I've gone through this whole thread and haven't seen one mention of Tom Araya. Shame on ye

Mr. Presentable

Eddie Vedder
Kim Deal

Malice

OLP wrote: »

I've gone through this whole thread and haven't seen one mention of Tom Araya. Shame on ye

Why? The thread title clearly asks "Who's the best rock/metal singer". Araya's vocal talents aren't a patch on some of the other listed vocalists.

ladystrange

Really surprised to see no mention of Myles Kennedy from Alter Bridge. I only discovered them this year with the release of the superb album - Blackbird & now have One Day Remains in my collection as well. Fantastic band and boy can that guy sing, gives me goosebumps, amazing.

I think singers (as with all bands/guitarists/bassist/drummers etc) are down to personal taste so heres a few I would class as best rock/metal:

Geddy Lee, sure, not everyones cuppa but I love his style
Coverdale, loosing it a bit now maybe but god he was brilliant in their early years
Glen Hughes, very underated imo
Geoff Tate, superb vocals all round
Dave Menakitti (sp?), powerful voice
Max Cavalera, f*%kin amazing
Phil Anselmo, again f*%kin amazing

Females vocalists that are up there with the best are the great Ms Joplin, Brody from The Distillers and although not rock I think Kate Bush deserves a mention, one of the best female singers around that has managed to stand the test of time and has been around a lot of years.

Burning Eclipse

ladystrange wrote: »

Really surprised to see no mention of Myles Kennedy from Alter Bridge. I only discovered them this year with the release of the superb album - Blackbird & now have One Day Remains in my collection as well. Fantastic band and boy can that guy sing, gives me goosebumps, amazing.

You shouldn't be, they're not very well known over here. I've seen them live in London twice now and to say he blows me away is an understatement. Last time he sang Hallelujah solo with him also playing guitar, saw a few people moved to tears. He is simply amazing.

Malice

I think many people, myself included, immediately think of Creed minus Scott Stapp when Alter Bridge are mentioned I'm sure they deserve a listen though!

ladystrange

Burning Eclipse wrote: »

You shouldn't be, they're not very well known over here. I've seen them live in London twice now and to say he blows me away is an understatement. Last time he sang Hallelujah solo with him also playing guitar, saw a few people moved to tears. He is simply amazing.

Yeah I've seen that on youtube, takes your breath away just how good he is.

I know quite a few people up this end of the country who'r big fans, gotta spread the word I guess.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRUpbkzEdrY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko6tfrjc1E0

KombuchaMshroom

chris cornell has an incredible voice, also a big fan of scott weiland from stone temple pilots, and serj tankian.

Stev_o

Personally i dont think anyone could compete with the vocals of James Hetfield and Jason Newstead in the hayday of late 1989. Just listen to the live in Seattle blows me away every time no other vocalist has come close to completely beating his studio recorded vocals like Hetfield did.

Im also a really big fan of Anders Fridén from In Flames.

Diceicle

Best vocalist? Tim Williams from Vision of Disorder.

rgt320q

Couldn't really pick an absolute favourite, but Mikael Åkerfeldt (Opeth, Bloodbath) and Hansi Kürsch (Blind Guardian, Demons & Wizards) have to be some of the most amazing vocalists in metal nowadays.

breadbin

i like kurt cobain, he has a good scream when he wants gets the goose pimples up. also paul mccartney as much as i dislike him gets my neck hairs up in golden slumber. oh and jeff buckley is fantastic too

xseanx

Phillip H Anselmo,
hands down, best frontman ever!

brendansmith

xseanx wrote: »

Phillip H Anselmo,
hands down, best frontman ever!

Just bout to say it!

P. Anselmo - Metal
Eddie Vedder - Rock

Acacia

xseanx wrote: »

Phillip H Anselmo,
hands down, best frontman ever!

+1

I'll also add Corey Taylor. Maybe not so much for the metal growl vocals, but his clean vocals are teh sex!

Has anybody mentioned any lady vocalists? Angela Gossow of Arch Enemy does a good growl.

moby1

cant believe this post has gone on 8 pages and no mention of pepper keenan, cool as ****, great singer, great guitarist to boot!, shame shame!

Dublin Spur

Bon Scott by a mile

grames_bond

For me!

living: david coverdale, steve tyler, and paul rogers!

deceased: freddie mercury or elvis presley!

Dirty Frank

Maynard James Keenan - Tool
Mike Patton - This guy has been involved in a thousand projects but everybody knows him from Faith No More
AND... Alaina Beaton - Porcelain and the tramps.(http://www.myspace.com/rockcitynosebleed) I think she's under rated, great range and damn if I can't help singin along to her

Someone said Eddie Vedder a few posts ago.... Pearl Jam are my favourite band and I love them to bits but, God, Eddie isn't the greatest singer ever. He's a classic closed off frontman with a great stage presence but if this is all about vocals, sorry Eddie.

delbertgrady

For range alone, I'm surprised Gary Cherone hasn't been mentioned yet.

(Waits for flurry of Extreme-bashing...)