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So, now we're holding metal vocalists to an impossible bewilderingly high standard? Jesus. Try comparing David Draiman to oh.... I don't know, Kenny Chesney, Kanye West, Harry Styles, hell Michael Buble, at least someone vaguely contemporary. No one modern lives up to standards like that. That's literally maddening, not even Simon Cowell at his most Season 1 of American Idol sinister would think of doing that.

@Dfaulds Hit the nail on the head of my argument. Its such a misnomer that people have this awful cliched perception of metal guys as somehow limited or incapable of doing anything else, which in reality, the vast majority of them aren't only okay singer, but occasionally brilliant singers, and usually possess that rare quality most singers seem to lack, a unique tone, something that sets them apart, while being solid vocalists. That's not applicable to many genres of music, most rappers can only rap, they cannot sing worth a damn, same for many male country singers, they're by the numbers and dull, and usually thoroughly average vocalists. I'm going to post a ton of vids that attempt to illustrate my point of these guys being vastly underrated.

 

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Speaking of how cut rate most country vocalists are.

This is David Vincent, singer for Morbid Angel, perhaps one of the finest cookie monster vocalists Death Metal has ever produced, he has one of the more genuinely sinister voices in metal, but he's not even close to a good singer. That being said.... on a whim he decided to just for shits and giggles to record a country album, and he's every bit as good as most modern country vocalists, but unlike most of them he truly has that old school outlaw tone.

David Vincent Death Metal growling. Brilliant song by the way.

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David Vincent singing outlaw country. This is ****ing great.

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I'm putting these up to show the wide range of vocal stylings metal has to offer, not that all of them are astonishing, simply immensely talented, unique and very underrated and capable of far more than people think they are.

Metallica doing country.

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Bruce Dickinson from Iron Maiden.

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David Coverdale from Whitesnake.

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Alice Cooper singing a beautiful haunting ballad, one of the better ones.

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Dio, one of the finest vocalists metal ever produced.

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Peter Steele, very unique tone, and IMO one of the most powerful vocalists in the history of metal.

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Paul Stanley doing vocal calisthenics peeling the paint off the walls.

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Dee Snider from Twisted Singer just showing off. While its a cheesy 80's metal balled, its still solid.

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Phil Anselmo screaming yelling singer from Pantera singing very unconventional metal soul/blues.

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Pepper Keenan from Corrosion Of Conformity singing a beautiful country song.

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Few can lace Axl Rose's boots.

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My favorite song from Ozzy Osbourne.

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Till Lindemann from Rammstein can actually sing.

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Hell... even Lemmy could produced some beautiful vocals.

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Amazing Chris Cornell and Eddie Vedder duet.

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Speaking of Mikael Akerfeldt he recorded a stunning cover of Deep Purple's Solider Of Fortune. Listen to it first, then listen to how he usually sounds. Granted, there's still some solid clean vocals in the latter.

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