I always hated Rob Zombie so bad. It sounds as if he's talking through his nose half the time! Also, I hate really low death growls where you can't understand what there saying. I like the music in bands like Suffocation and Cannibal Corpse, just not the vocals.

Chris Barnes (Six Feet Under-era)
Gene Adam (Iced Earth's debut)
Rod Tyler (Symphony X's debut)
Jonny David (or whatever his name is from Job For A Cowboy)
Matt Heafy (I can stand his clean vocals on Ascendancy, and some of his screaming but I really do not like his Hetfield vocals)
The "singer"/wigger/faggot from Waking The Cadaver
Lord Worm (Cryptopsy)
Jacob Bannon (Converge) can get quite irritating

Exactly! Geoff Tate could have taught Halford a thing or two in the early days. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with high pitched clean vocals, it's just that you have to do them RIGHT.

*Note: I'm saying Geoff Tate is awesome, not that Halford sucks. Well, he does suck, but not at singing. I'm a massive fan of both.*

I like Agnostic Front but the vocals on One Voice gets real old after awhile.

Really? I like Rob Zombie's vocals. Quite entertaining

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Abbath: The human Dalek. EXTERMINATE ALL CHRISTIANS. EXTERMINATE EXTERMINATE.

Oh man, I like Abbath quite a bit, especially on "Diabolical FUll-moon Mysticism" (wowww...ooowoowowwwww!"..but that was brilliant.

Ah, when Ihsahn of EMperor tries to sing clean, I cringe a great deal .. especially when he goes for a King Diamond immitation (and I enjoy King Diamond's singing, at least with Fate).

Ihsahn claims that he really wants to sound like Rob Halford, but he doesn't have the voice or the range or the balls or whatever to pull it off, so he ends up sounding like King Diamond instead.



Those jokes are not funny anymore. They may not have even been funny when he first came out.

Plus it can safely be said, evidence from the Painkiller music video during the solo, Rob Halford gives dick rather than taking it.

Dear God. I can't believe there is a market for this. There is absolutely no excuse for anyone to listen to this if they have listened to death metal, brutal death metal or thrash already.

It sounds like a metalcore band trying to be even more brutal and it is even worse than regular metalcore.

Fuck you.

King Diamond > You

Varg Vikernes's vocals on certain songs are some of the most annoying vocals I have ever heard. On Black Spell of Destruction, he's alright, but the vocals on War keep me from even listening to that song (not that the song itself is any good either).

I'm really not fond of Chris Barnes's vocals on Tomb of the Mutilated.

The little I've heard of Tom Warrior's Cold Lake vocals are pretty fucking bad, though that's pretty obvious. How could he go from Triumph of Death or Buried and Forgotten to Cherry Orchards? Not that you can really expect much from a hair metal album, but still...

Maniac during his second time around with Mayhem is pretty annoying.

Dude from Waking the Cadaver. WORST extreme vocals ever. Those vocals are the main reason I gave their demo a 1% rating.

Joey Belladonna is far too much of a nasally fuck to sing for a thrash metal band.

I like his vocals a lot. The nasally, high-pitched stuff works well with a band that straddles the thrash/speed line, like Anthax.

Anthony Gunnells, formerly of Through the Eyes of the Dead. Some of the weakest low growls and easily the most annoying high screams I've ever heard in my life. The fact that he is not involved with any other projects right now is proof that there is in fact a God.

Tvangeste's vocalist (at least, on 'Firestorm'). He is so... Bad.
Tarja (of course.)
Laiho. Again, this is fairly self-explanatory. Especially on 'Blooddrunk'.
Gossow (I just find her annoying.)
I'm not particularly fond of the demon frog that did Demilich's vocals either, though I like the band.

James LaBrie

Laiho and Mustaine (only on a few songs though)

Chuck Billy - at times he's very annoying. Most of his thrash vocals are okay, but too many patterns that go; "Higgity higgity hooooo!" and his death metal vocals are just lame.

I don't think they're that bad, I just wonder why he does them. He seems to forget that he's in Testament, not fucking Deicide.

Anders Fridén, he wasnt that bad back when he did skydancer with dark tranquillity but then when he joined in flames he slowly got worse over the years

Miley Cyrus.

End of discussion.

I think his vocals on the Gathering are excellent, but yeah, his fully fledged death metal vocals on Demonic are pretty poor.

Well if we extend it out of metal we open up a whole 'nother can of bullshit pop.

lol i agree.

However staying inside the lines of Metal, one singer I can't really stand would be the lead singer of Moonsorrow. I liked a few of their songs but now his voice is just kind of annoying.

The Candlemass vocalist Messiah Marcolin annoys the Hell out of me and I can't even explain why. I mean really, REALLY annoys me. I think its a combination of the facial expressions and mannerisms more than just his singing alone. Tell me, does anyone else find this offputting: http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=8th_3AoTm_E ?

Robert Lowe's not quite so bad, but he doesn't thrill me either.

Messiah Marcolin and "Black Dwarf" are both better than you.

Nah he was still pretty goddamn awful even in his DT days. His vocals ruin Skydancer and the demos for me, although I think he became slightly more tolerable on early In Flames albums.

most metalcore singers iv heard sound pretty fucking horrible.

This is a bit more obscure, but the band Goatthrower (http://www.metal-archives.com/band.php?id=23789) has the WORST vocals I have ever heard in metal. I'm 99% sure this is a joke band, but the vocals literally sound like a chorus of gnomes and munchkins trying to do black metal screams (I swear the they sped up the vocal tracks), and EVERY line is delivered in the same pattern repeated ad nauseum: "blah-blah-blah BLAAAAH, blah-blah-blah BLAAAAH!." I -do- enjoy recommending this band to others for the "WTF is that?" factor though =)

Also, wanna be Burzum clones often have horrible, horrible vocals. Very few bands can pull this style off properly, most warble and crack their voices like shrieking pre-pubescent boys.

Second. Messiah for the fucking win.

Most depressive black metal vocals does that to me, Silencer, Hypothermia and Lifelover being the worst of the worst. Though, as i have already made at least one long rant somewhere that displays my hatred for most of this genre, i'm going to spare this forum another one.

Overly cheesy power metal vocals also take the cake. Sonata Arctica's vocalist has to be one of the gayest sounding men on Earth, followed by the guy from Stratovarius. I like my fair share of power metal, but this kind of music sounds way too gay for me to like.

Also, the weaker growl done by a lot of melodeath singers annoys me like hell. Especially that extremely gay type that reeks of metalcore (In Flames, Sonic Syndicate........ list goes on forever).

Also, concerning Messiah from Candlemass, I think he is a very good vocalist, except for one song that went extremely wrong somehow, namely "Black Dwarf". The first time I heard this song, I had to check and recheck so that I had bought an actual Candlemass release and not some other gay shit... Damn, the vocals on that song are horrible.....

The rest of Cadlemass' self titled album is awesome though.

Whoever the fuck does The Dillinger Escape Plan's vocals doesn't even fucking sing or scream or whatever, he just yells.

While they don't make me cringe, Kurt von Ehlerson's (from Pagan Hammer) nearly inaudible whispery screams really annoy me.

Alexi Laihos vocals on bloodrunk make me want to shove his guitar down his throat

Although I really like Megadeth Dave Mustaine's voice goes right through me, especially on A Tout Le Monde (or however you spell it) it shows that he can't sing a fuck, bad song too.

Chris Barnes post-Haunted, King Diamond, Ken Bones from Negative Reaction.

Everyone NEEDS to listen to this band, and then laugh at how fucking terrible the vocals are.

http://www.myspace.com/northernshadowsofficial

His death growls are inhaled and his black metal vocals are like a cross between Donald Duck and Golum with a sore throat. I've seen them live, and it's fucking laughable. Shameful they are from Winnipeg.

He sounds like Shagrath to me. The melodic stuff that the guitarist does is pretty good.

They're definitely power metal, and should get an appropriate vocalist.

IWrestledABearOnce

Makes me sick thinking some people set the bar so low.