Top 5 Greatest Metal Vocalists Ever

Let me state that this is all a matter of opinion.

Top 5 in no particular order:

1. Maynard James Keenan (Tool. A Perfect Circle)
2. Lajonn Witherspoon (Sevendust)
3. Chris Cornell (Soundgarden, Audioslave)
4. Layne Stayley (Alice in Chains)
5. Peter Steele (Type O Negative)

😘

mine are:

1. Phil Anselmo (pantera, superjoint ritual)
2. Brian Fair (Shadows fall)
3. Peter Dolving (The Haunted)
4. Randall Blythe (lamb of god)
5. Zack de la Rocha (rage against the machine)

I would put Maynard really high in Rock overall, but Metal:

Phil Anselmo.
James Hetfield.
Till Lindemann.

Will get back to you in a bit with the two others.

-AC

Interesting, no Bruce Dickinson.

In no certain order.

Bruce Dickinson
Ozzy
Ronnie James Dio
Rob Halford
Phil Anselmo
Doug Pinnick

Oops that's six.. 😛

bruce dickingson - maiden
ozzy osbourne - sabbath
Zak Stevens - savatage
Ronnie James Dio
James Hetfield - metaliica
king diamond

sorry thats 6 as well😄

By personal preferance:

1) Bruce Dickinson (Who else 😄 )
2) Ozzy Osbourne
3) James LaBrie
4) Rob Halford

And i can't think of a fifth. Im much more in to classic rock and bands like DP etc to be honest. 🙂

Peter Steele
Phil Anselmo
Zach De La Rocha
Ozzy
James Hetfeild

James Hetfield - Metallica
Philip Anselmo - Pantera/Superjoint Ritual/Down
Jamie Jasta - Hatebreed
Ozzy Osbourne
Robert Plant - Led Zeppelin

(Yes, Zeppelin is/was considered metal.)

No order

Phil Anselmo From Pantera/down/SJR
Chuck Billy from Testament
James Hetfiedl from metallica
Maynard James from Tool
Mikael from Opeth

Originally posted by Cinemaddiction
James Hetfield - Metallica
Philip Anselmo - Pantera/Superjoint Ritual/Down
Jamie Jasta - Hatebreed
Ozzy Osbourne
Robert Plant - Led Zeppelin

(Yes, Zeppelin is/was considered metal.)

i woudnt consider zeppelin metal
they are rock
matter of opinion though i suppose

Sabbath and Zeppelin created metal. That's almost a given.

If we were talking about rock singers, I'd go with Keenan, Cornell, Witherspoon, Palumbo, Plant etc, but metal vocalists, that basically means guys who can drive a good heavy metal song along. No clean vocals required. Hence the following:

1. Grady Avenell (Willhaven)
2. Max Cavalera (Sepultura/Soulfly)
3. Mikael Akerfeldt (Opeth)
4. Tom Araya (Slayer)
5. Burton Bell (Fear Factory)

For the sake of arguement, replace Robert Plant w/ Burton Bell (Post- SOANM)

i wasnt sure if i wanted to post on this cos most of the vocalists id choose were hardcore... but Grady woulda definately been on there

HMMM..........Maybe I shouldve been more specific. What I meant was vocalist like who can SING harmoniously and melodically, not the metal screamers/growlers. Now MY favorite top 5 metal screamers/growlers are Randy Blythe from Lamb of God, Phil Anselmo from Pantera/Down/Superjoint Ritual, Max Cavalera from Sepultura/Soulfly, Chris Barnes from Cannibal Corpse/Six feet Under, and Glen Benton from Deicide.

chris barnes rocks
he's much better than the corpsegrinder

peter steele
axl rose
rob halford
ozzy
Zakk wylde 🤘 🤘 🤘 🤘 🤘 🤘 🤘 🤘 🤘 🤘

Well if your gonna list GNR as metal then you'l have to have Skid Row in there too, it's the same music, and Sebastian B(Skid Rows singer) is the best singer in that style of music and thats fact, there aint no James Hetfield, or slayer singer or pantera gonna take that from him, Just listen to any of these skid row songs

I Remember You
18 And life
Wasted Time

Now thats a voice not some halfassed whisky voice or anything.

what about the vocalist of dream theatre