That's because you take things too seriously.

Varg Vikernes.

When I heard Lost Wisdom the first time I laughed. Literally laughed.

Hehh... guessing you mean early ST, yeah the vox can be funny at first since the music is such a "rockin" tone for thrash, and the vocals sound like he's really trying to "sing" When I was a kid that's what I imagined motorcycle guys would be listening to or something.

KD vox are strange, I guess I wouldn't have felt the same about them if I heard something less occult than DBTO as a starter. My friend just introduced it to me as "Opera Metal" about 8 years ago and I was blown away and the occult imagery and lyrics made it very surreal and dark for me and easier to appreciate the strange sound.



Funny you mention this, I actually just checked this out for the first time recently after knowing of it for years, and yes the vox are very out of place. However in my opinion it is really good because alone the vox are something that has been done by lots of bands, and so is the music, but not putting the two together. So overall the sound is new although very strange, I like it. The music is good, but really it has been done by a million others and I think would be very boring if it had a singer more sounding like the others who play that type of BM.

Edit:
Forgot to add my contribution, which is Cacophony. Is it me or does the music rule really hard but the vocals sound like a peice of shit! It's like he wants so bad to be a good metal singer but just sounds like an idiot! I want to like this so bad because the music is awesome but the vocals are retarded!

I agree with Cacophony, he pretty much ruins the band. I remember thinking The Ninja had the coolest intro ever, and then he starts singing, I nearly threw up.

I always disliked Demolition Hammer's vocalist.

What? Demolition Hammer's vocals are awesome...


Which Mayhem vocalist in what era?

This band called +3 Broadsword.
They're on a label called unlistenable shit, for quite good reason.
My ears started bleeding; their vocalist is quite literally screaming. Not like death growl screaming, but little girl screaming.

Don't listen to it, it will hurt you.

they sound like abbath taking a shit.

They seriously do.

I think Legion's vocals are very bad, they dont sound black metal at all. Marduk's singers before Legion are waaay better, Mortuus is better as well.
Alex Krull of Atrocity and Leaves' Eyes is inferior when he is singing clean, but his growls are ok. Nothing special.
His wife Liv is decent in small portions, but after two songs or more I cant take her vocals.

I have to take something back, Tom arya's voice was pretty cool, some of his random yells (esepecially in Angel of death) are just fucking lame, though.

AND he can't to them live.

Hmm weird, Reynolds is one of my favourite Thrash vocalists. I really like his aggressive voice.

Not anymore, his vocals sounded funny on The Antichrist, though.

The vocalist on Decapitated's latest release is terrible.
James La'brie has some cringeworthy moments, especially live.

James LaBrie on recent tours is a hell of a lot better than he was on the Six Degrees and Train of Thought tours. In the early '00s he was getting so bad that the other members of Dream Theater threatened to fire him if he didn't shape up.

i don't get the people who say Chuck Schuldiner's vocals are bad from symbolic on. I hear it from almost everyone i talk to about it. maybe i just could never allow myself to think anything bad about Chuck (haha) but i really dont hear anything wrong with his vocals on symbolic or SoP.

i know theyre different but whats wrong with them?????

They're almost intolerably too high pitched, especially in The Sound of Perserverance. That's why, really. When one wants great death metal vocals, one usually doesn't listen go TSOP.

theyre not bad. just hard to get into.

Honestly, I agree. Like I said in my TSOP review, I found them very razorsharp and enjoyable.

I do agree that his vocals on Symbolic were uhmm..less than desirable.

yeah, i still really love all death's music. but thanks guys!!!!

All of Varg's vocals from the first two albums. He at least sounds convincingly in pain on Hvis Lyset Tar Oss and somewhat refined on Filosofem; on the debut and Det Som Engang Var he sounds awful. Especially the debut; god, what an embarassingly ameteurish album.



Any pig squealing vocalist, no exceptions.


Practically every single punk and hardcore vocalist ever. That kid from the Sex Pistols is among the worst.


Araya's scream at the start of Reign in Blood is more annoying than frightening, more distracting than evil, and more womanly than metal.


Ludacris and Ja Rule. Especially "Big Wooooooooda" or whatever it is he calls himself these days.


Attila Csihar on DMDS was almost laugh-worthy....almost.

Ludacris and Ja Rule? They make metal now?

If Attila Csihar is humorous, it's some sick and disturbing humor.

It's even worse live. I remember when I first heard it, I went... "what the?" to the guy beside me. Maybe it is age though.

Nattefrost

Someone mentioned the Sex Pistols on the first page, I just kinda assumed the discussion from there on included any genre.


The thought of them doing metal though.....





When did you see them? Araya's voice has supposedly given out almost completely the last few years, although I wouldn't know from experience.

Sadly I can very clearly imagine Ja Rule doing metal with that froggy growl of his.

Liv was terrible in Theatre of Tragedy .. flat, emotionless, totally uninvolved with the music.

Actually, I liked Liv because her vocals were so simple but it worked for me.

I suppose his vocals would make me cringe too if I was deaf and imagined that he sounded like Ihsahn.

I suppose I'd be in the minority about this, but I think Arayas vocals are much better when he does high-pitched screams, especially on Antichrist. He just sounds so...average the rest of the time.

Haha true, but sometimes its so bad its good. I.E. "This is huh...wawr!"

Inquisition has some vocals which take a really long time to get used to.

Fucking weird ass guttural nasal chanting which has no melody or connection to the music.

Once you get used to it its sorta of catchy, which results in me trying to imitate the vocalists style on average at least 3 or 4 times a day.

Dagon's vocals certainly have a rhythmic connection to the music ..a at least usually .. just listen to "Those of the Night"...pretty damn catchy all right. But yes, he certainly has a weird voice .. really seems like he's possessed, and it's almost unsettling to hear him go from very natural-sounding speaking to that alien croaking in half a second in the live environment.

Yes.


I absolutely can't stand Maynard. At all. His voice makes me want to poke out my eardrums for some reason.

I don't want to hate on Chuck Schuldiner, but as mentioned, his phrasing was kinda annoying here and there, and I feel like I'd like TSoP a lot more if he wasn't so weird-sounding on it.

King Diamond. I like his normal singing voice, but the falsetto stuff makes me cringe violently.


Yes. I can't listen to "war." I can deal with his voice usually, but geez... "war" just makes me cringe. That is some godawful shrieking.


Yeah, something about his phasing and overenunciating at the end of lines, I dunno. There is just something about the later Metallica stuff and the way he sings that makes me embarassed that they used to be my favorite band when I was a kid. He was never that great, but he's definitely changed for the worse.

i know this is pages back, but seriously, dystopia cringe vocals!? theyre amazing! two of my favorite vocalists. theyre still brutal and sincere with a punk rock "fuck you". listen to diary of a battered child, the desperation on his voice is chilling

I cannot find any form of justification for NOT liking his voice. What the hell!?

The main vocalist on Aina's Talon's Last Hope (Demo) is just horrific!

Singer from Holy Dragons is just plain terrible aswell.

Nearly all South American power metal singers I can't listen to without cringing.

John tardy has always annoyed me. Same with Luc Lemay