Can ANYONE actually sing in metal anymore?

[RobRR]

Seriously... I guess its just going with the times, but what happenned to actual vocals in metal today? Everything is screaming, growling, screeching... anything but singing.

REAL good metal singers seem to be a dying breed. The new singer Carlos in Outworld is fucking amazing... but hes only one of a few. Is good vocals in metal a dying art just like the guitar gods? Or is this just another annoying phase?

[Cygnus X1]

Yeah, I'll get the flame for this...
Loved Pantera's playing, couldn't get past the singing.
Dio, Halford, uh, Scorpions, (Duh, brain fart), 80's and early 90's.

Well verified by live performances, great voices hold up on the road.

I can make that puke sound as easy as anything, damn I thought
couldn't sing, so I picked up guitar....maybe I missed my calling.

Or puking....

[FusionFarmer]

COOKIES,, ME WANT COOKIES,,,,,
and a drummer and bass player,,,,

[markD]

roy khan from kamelot has a stellar voice. he delivers it live also. but i know what you mean. i am so over the whole cookie-monster thing. that is why my band has a female singer these days....but now we are considered more of a "goth" band and not a metal band, because she actually sings....depressing, really....

[Cygnus X1]

Make sure she dresses like lita ford, not courtney love!

Might help

The whole rock goddess thing wipes out any thoughts of Goth

[markD]

my singer never dresses like that skank courtney love....but lita ford?!?!?! i know what you mean, but yikes....here's a picture of her....and pretty much what she wears. not metal, for sure, but not goth either....

[CharvelRocker]

Rob Halford can sing as good if not better then he did in the 80s, as does Bruce Dickinson (sp?). Ronnie James Dio also still seems to have a great voice. I think Ryan Shuck ,who sings in Julien-k has a very cool voice as well, but I wouldn't quite call it metal.

[zeegler]

Howard Jones from Killswitch Engage is actually a very good singer.

[RobRR]

I agree Zeeg, but he doesent use it very much.

I was more leaning towards new bands... Ive been trying to put together a band for YEARS... I dunno, maybe I dont try hard enough, but I cant for the life of me, find anyone around here that wants to play GOOD metal, not cookie monster shit. Thats all it is around here, cookie monster or emo... and Im starting to dislike cookie monster almost just as much as emo. Every tough guy around here with a shaved head and a bunch of tats (no offense to you bald tattooed guys ) thinks hes a death metal singer... Ive got news for these guys... its NOT HARD TO DO. Youre NOT special. Stop calling yourself singers.

[CharvelRocker]

I should also add the dude who sings for Rammstein has an AWESOME metal voice. that and the German probably helps

[scotty]

my singer never dresses like that skank courtney love....but lita ford?!?!?! i know what you mean, but yikes....here's a picture of her....and pretty much what she wears. not metal, for sure, but not goth either....

So who is this?

[Cygnus X1]

my singer never dresses like that skank courtney love....but lita ford?!?!?! i know what you mean, but yikes....here's a picture of her....and pretty much what she wears. not metal, for sure, but not goth either....

Gee, thanks for that (wank, wank)...that hair would do well with an 80's frizz job... and a very small leather top? Yup...you're in business!

Just kidding!

She's got enough leather around her wiast!

[guitarsjb]

Stu from Into Eternity has an excellent voice also.

[kelly user]

that fireball group with gus g. dragon force's singer is really cool, sully erna from godsmack. but i totally agree with you rob, "no one" knows how to sing anymore.

[toejam]

Loved Pantera's playing, couldn't get past the singing.

Have you not listened to a lot of Pantera? Phil has a great voice and can sing melodically when he wants to.