modern bands and clean vocals?

[Fragle]

am i just missing out on a lot of bands, or are there in fact hardly any new bands doing heavy music with clean (and clean only!) vocals? seems like most newer bands either mix em up with screaming/growling, or don't use clean vocals at all, except for e.g. nevermore - but they've been around for 15 years, too (not counting sanctuary days!), so they're not exactly new either.
the thing is, i'm soooo tired of all the harsh vocals. i mean, i like my fair share of cannibal corpse, at the gates etc, but i'm missing the 80s style thrash metal....right now it seems as if the only bands who're still doing heavy music (= NOT cheesy powermetal or glam metal - although i like that stuff, too) with clean vocals are the old heroes like megadeth - dave's vox still suck though even testament - pretty much my fave 80s thrash band with clean vox (gotta love the new order) - went harsh/growly i wish there were bands as heavy as new testament but with the old 80s singing style

so, please tell me that there still are some heavy thrash/speed bands kickin' it with clean and good vocals !!!

[Shawn Lutz]

I'm right there with you. I know I miss out on some great metal only because I, for whatever reason, cannot get past the cookie monster vocals and take it serious at all...I begin to laugh the minute I hear it and ask myself it is skit on SNL

[Fragle]

well, i CAN get past it, in fact i used to play in one of these bands, but my heart and soul are rooted in 80s hardrock/metal, even though it's pretty tough to get past the cheese i just don't like the fact that every modern band sounds the same...other than power metal there's no real supply of great 80s style metal other than the original 80s bands, which is sad

[Rsmacker]

Yeah, I'm with you on this, cos let's face it you can't exactly sing along with Cock & Ball Torture in the car now can you?

I know it doesn't count because they have been around for ages, but I found Death Angel's last LP to be like a breath of fresh air, even though it sounded just like they always did. Erm, if that makes sense!! They didn't jump on the "Vocal" rather than "Singing" bandwagon (like Testament did)

[gort]

You might like the band Fozzy, if you can get past the fact that their singer is professional wrestler Chris Jericho.

[petedz]

Well, I'm looking through my 2006 releases and I can't argue. The only new blood in the mix is power metal (and the young guys don't do it as well). I'm really digging Edguy, Evergrey, Fatal Force, Twilightning, and Vanden Plas from this year's crop. Those are all veterans, though. The new Metal Church and Riot albums are great too, but they have to go on stage with walkers and canes, like me.

I've given a 50/50 cookie-monster/singer band called Scar Symmetry a fair amount of play, but that's mainly because the leads are really slick. I can sorta tolerate the vocals since their transitions from the clear vocals to the growls almost make sense.

[OnlineStageGear]

Speaking of vocals, for the love of god, Nickleback's singer needs to have a different setting for his vocals. Same damn background harmony thing in 95% of his songs. That's part of why all thier shit sounds the same.

Matt

[skorb]

I never waste my time with any cookiemonster vocals. that totally ruins the rest of the song for me. I'm like Shawn where it makes me want to bust out laughing.

[skorb]

Speaking of vocals, for the love of god, Nickleback's singer needs to have a different setting for his vocals. Same damn background harmony thing in 95% of his songs. That's part of why all thier shit sounds the same.

Matt

I would not know, I intentionally avoid listening to that kind of cookie cutter pop rock garbage.

[Sabre]

I'm with you on this one too, I'm sick of growling I need some decent music to be released.

[shadowcat]

check out Abandoned... www.gebolze.de

if you don't know them already, that is.
Very funny guys, too!

[OnlineStageGear]

I would not know, I intentionally avoid listening to that kind of cookie cutter pop rock garbage.

That pretty much sums it up.

[slash]

check out kamelot.

[toejam]

They didn't jump on the "Vocal" rather than "Singing" bandwagon (like Testament did)

What bandwagon? Chuck Billy has been singing like that since the first Testament album. He still sings normal, but he's always mixed it up like that with the death metal-type vocals.

[Joe_Steeler]

Dude, I am soooo tired of the cookie monster vocals it is not even funny. I listen to XM radio a lot and on channel 42 they play cookie monster shit 75% of the time, some of them are so bad it is sort of comical.
Can't understand a damned thing they are singing about and all there is guitars strumming some detuned palm muted chord crap with the monster vocals on top.

I miss the 80s so much. Serious axe work and some pretty good vocalists and even the ones that were mediocre back then will kick some of these numbnuts today a run for their money.