I can't pick a single favorite, so i just name afew... The dude from Vader (cant think of his name right now), this guy just sounds bad ass! and of course "corpse grinder". and one of those Kokko brothers from Kalmah can sing some nasty death metal! Word up!

I don't have a favorite either really. I like Jamie (Brodequin), Rachel (Sinister), and let's see... who else but--

erik rutan (hate eternal)
steve tucker (morbid angel)
peter (hypocrisy)
the guy from psycroptic.

peter from hypocrisy

RustedAngel said:

Hate Eternal is fuckin' sick.

They were my favorite at the MA Metalfest (along w/Strapping Young Lad)

ugh... anyways... the dude from Iniquity is disgusting, Severe Torture's vocalist also sounds like he is defecating from his mouth... Decrepit Birth's vocalist is also ridiculously low... TYAG has a decent gurgler ;)

my picks:
cock and ball turture (vomit vocals)
black dahlia murder
vehemence

Mikael Åkerfeldt!!!!

Oh yeah, and...

Bill Steer
Jon Nodtveidt
Angela Gossow

most gurgling is easy. EEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEEEEEE OOOOO EEEEEEEEEEE O EEEOEEEEOEEEEEEEEOEEEEEEeee.

RustedAngel said:

not getting as low and as clear as the guys i mentioned...

oops i fucked up

Doug from BOE!

Craig Pillard (Incantation, DOM, Womb, Methadrone)
David Vincent (Morbid Angel)
Pete Helmkamp (Order From Chaos, Angel Corpse, Revenge)
Aaron (old My Dying Bride)
Glen Benton (first three Deicide only)
Kam Lee (Massacre)
LG Petrov (Nihilist/Entombed)
Johan Edlund (Treblinka, first Tiamat)

Josh Pratt - Evilution
Glen Benton - Deicide (Legion album Super Pissed sounding)
FRANK MULLEN - Suffocation
Brett Hoffman - Malevolent Creation ( Retribution )
Sherwood Webber - Skinless ( BEST LIVE VOCALIST - HAS SUPERIOR PRESENCE, Knows how to command the crowd )
Ross Dolan - Immolation ( Dawn of Possession )

Morbid Angel-Dave Vincent is good. Better in the old days.
Strapping Young Lad- NO one sounds like him.
Nile-all three sound good
Suffocation-Frank sounds good
Corpse Grinder-I think he takes the cake. He rules.

i'm partial to my singer doug(b.o.e) he is really fucking awsome he does all the vocals on the cd himself xcept the intro to one song but other than him i'd say
for just vocals - brett hoffman - X malevolent creation

stage presence - is a tie for me sherwood - skinless or all that remains singer phil those 2 definantly hold a crouds attention real well

What is wrong with you people? No one has picked the best vocalist in death metal, John Gallagher of Dying Fetus.

1. John Gallagher - Dying Fetus
2. Chris Barnes - Cannibal Corpse years
3. Glen Benton - Just listen to the new Vital Remains
4. Sherwood - Skinless
5. Lord Worm - Cryptopsy

Lord Worm
Terenece Herreara
Sahsa of CBT
Matt Harvey
Adam Mason

lord worm
vehemence
devourment
malignancy

I find it funny how no one lists matti way.Even though he basically paved the way for bands like brodequin and decrepit birth . DB rocks but they rip off disgorge way too much. Matti is so much more guttural. And saschas vocals from CBT are produced from a pitch shifter no gore grind counts lol.

three best guttural DM vocalists

1) matti way ( disgorge cali)
2) the guy from (clean flesh / erotic incisions i forgot his name sorry )
3) Ruben rosas ( devourment )

trevor strnad from the black dahlia murder

funeralxthirst said:

agreed.

i forgot to mention trevor. my bad.

blue said:

Way to go.

retzam said:

Stevo-IMPETIGO
Sven-ABORTED,Leng T'che
Doug-Senseless Mutilation
Danny-Molested Senses
Jeremy-Life at Zero

hektik said:

i like disgorge, but literally every song sounds EXACTLY the same.

I just trying out this "Quick response" thing. oh and i think it twas Agiel that has this crazy vocalist. but i'm not sure.

TheGreatSpaldino said:

Gallagher from Dying Fetus... of course!
maybe lord worm too...don't know... or Norah Jones?

me.

doug when he was in tears of avarel... still the best vocals i've heard to date

DeOdiumMortis said:

I don't understand this guy. What does he do besides smash watermelons with a giant mallet?

Run for President, play with words, be funny. Ever watched one of his TV specials? He only smashes stuff for the last 5-10 minutes.

DeOdiumMortis said:

Wait, no he didn't run for President did he?? I thought he only ran for governor of CalEEfornia.

Peter Tägtgren !!!!!!!!!!!

DavyP- ex.RK.... yeah im good

HiImPaul said:

His name is Joe Wolfe and he is fucking sick! He is in a new band called NECROTIC DISGORGEMENT with ex-members of REGURGITATION.

Chuck Shuldiner (if you don't know what band he's from just kill yourself right now)
Lord Worm (Cryptopsy)
Frank Mullen (Suffocation)
John Gallagher (Dying Fetus)
Peter (Vader)
Nile (All 3 of them)
Mikael Akerfelt (Bloodbath, Opeth)
Glen Benton (Deicide, Vital Remains)

It doesn't take a brain surgeon to know that the best death metal voice is Mikael Aferfelt, mikey can do things with his voice that just leaves you scratching your head...
Jonas from Katatonia has some great death metal growls on there earlier stuff too.

Danny from Malignancy. Last Sunday he spit out probably the best scream I've ever heard.

Incantation's Craig Pillard \m/

Joe Wolfe from Clean Flesh, Erotic incissions and Waynne Knupp Original growler from Devourment

Worm, Worm, Worm, Mikael Åkerfeldt, Worm, Worm

Best Death Metal vocalist is John Paoline (Mortal Decay). He's definitely the most original and unique vocalist in DM. He has a variety of different vocal styles all mixed into one. Some others are Ruben Rosas (Devourment), Matti Way (Disgorge era), Antti Boman (Demilich), Jerry Bosco (Dehumanized), the vocals of Virulence on Dormant Strains, Fermento, Afterbirth's vocalist. Joe Wolfe was pretty extreme, but after hearing Cranial Devourment with Uffe (ex-stabwound) his vocals are way more inhuman.

I'll take the liberty to say Pete Helmkamp as well even though it's more black metal.

Darren Travis of Sadus

the singer of Cattle Decapitaion- i haven't heard too much from them, but live he pulls of some inhuman fucking screams

Craig Nast of Vastion has this incredible hawk scream i've never heard anyone do

one singer that blows my fuckin mind is Joe Horvath of Circle of Dead Children.

Stevo De Caixo - Impetigo
Gurge - Lord Gore (No way you can get deeper than him)

Those aren't really my "favorite" DM singers, but I think they are the best.

barney of napalm
travis or cattle decapitation
matt of disgorge

shane from 2 dead sluts one good fuck does this velociraptor scream...it's fuckin' great

Oh, I forgot about Matt Harvey from Exhumed/Dekapitator

Rob Halford

Chris Barnes

Cannibal Corpse is gay

I hafta to say Adam Mason again. If you've heard Rice on Suede you'll understand.

James Lee from Origin is my favorite death metal vocalist, that dude from Black Dahlia is pretty good also. Another one of my current favorites is the dude that does vocals on the newest diabolic cd.

mike_fod said:

Its funny you say that cause i was just listening to them in the car mimicking his voice on my mind bleed tragedies. I also walk around imitating his voice at work when he sounds like a cricket taking a shit.

This may sound strange but I loved the vocalist from Embalmer.
The Bone Box and The Necro-Filing Cabinet were favorites.
John Ureteaga on Stench of the Deceased is unbelievable.

Glen Benton

Hate Eternal Fuckin Destroys all, Except for Death, who destroys all and hate eternal. hah. R.I.P.

embalmer is one of the funniest bands ever. they rule. the drums in bone box make me laugh so hard. i love it.

but definitely the best one is Peter Tägtgren from Hypocrisy!

by 'peter tagtgren' I meant Chuck Schuldiner. And all of my further posts are to be ignored. From this point on, My comments cannot be trusted. Nooch.

...just an update for all you six feet under fans, we are still the most incompetent band ever and still just as gay. even more, gay in fact. Be on the look out for Graveyard Gayness 2. Just when you though we had reached the epitome of GAY, I went and ass fucked Cans from hammerfagg and outgayed even my self. Just wait to see what I do next! We are thinking maybe recording a live orgy with In Flames and inviting Hammerfagg over for that for some guest butt digging. stay tuned.

I went and ass fucked Cans from hammerfagg and outgayed even my self.

ahahahahahahahaha, that's hilarious. oh chris barnes, you are the best self-deprecating comedian ever.

Jeff Gruzzzzzzz!!!!!!!!!!!-Old Vital Remains
Nick Holmes-Paradise Lost(fist 3 albums ONLY)
LG-Entombed

Nick Holmes-Paradise Lost(fist 3 albums ONLY)


good choice

even though most of them have been mentioned already...
lord worm
matti way
michael akerfeldt
everyone in impaled, especially the lows
the guy from emeth
sven from aborted/leng t'che
the guy from neuraxis is pretty sick if you ask me

The G said:

Hahahaha

FRANK MULLEN
CHRIS BARNES

me

are you fucking kidding me??
ok, guys.....CBT does not count, the fucker uses a vocal changer (pitch shifter, whatever the fuck it's called)......

my favs
The Vocalist For Lust Of Decay (pardon the fuck out of me for not knowing his name).......Lord Worm...............Glen Benton......Chris barnes (on the first corpse album)......Chuck Schuldiner(on the first 3 or 4 albums)

as for Gutteral/Gurgling/Burp vocals....... i'd have to go with Wayne Knupp and Ruben Rosas (the 2 vocalists from devourment)

brutalhank said:

brutalhank said:

hahaha

i think i'm the best "fat-guy-doing-death-vocals-and-grind-screams-while-playing-drums-at-the-same-time" vocalist since autopsy broke up

BWAAHAHAHAHA

wait....autposy's drummer/vocalist was'nt fat
skip that, i rule that cattergory (cause theres no one else in it)

Chris from Autopsy is amazing!!! So are you, Orgy.

Kalopsia said:

god damn right man. I think CODC and Sublime Cadaveric Decomposition have the nastiest vocals to ever be in death metal. Although Cock and Ball Torture also has my vote.

orgymaggotfeast said:

the new CBT ablum does not have pitch shifted vocals anymore. It is really weird to hear comming from them. It is all hardcore vocals now on Egoleach. I like it alot, it has a very different sound.

matti way : disgorge - cranial impalement
w00t

matti way - disgorge/cinerary/liturgy etc
phlegeton - wormed
rebuen rosas - devourment
lord worm - cryptopsy
chuck schuldiner - death
adam- goratory
i don't know the names of the 2 singers - disconformity
sven - aborted
danny nelson - malignancy
sherwood webber - skinless

the first skinless cd i think is sherwoods most brutal vocal work.

Pete...Angelcorpse

retzam said:

Fuckin' A

Matti Karki
Will Rahmer

Bill Steer no good??

still beer?


mikael akerfeldt
and erik rutan
johan hegg is pretty nuts too

coldnorthernvengeance said:

ya, Pete's badass. I love that laugh he does at the begining of Hammer of the Gods

Joost- Inhume/Cliteater

jamey jasta from napalm death. he is so good.

dreadkill said:


hahahahahahahahaha, i love how I just read the thread about him appearing on the new nd album and went straight to this.

Chris Blue
(he needed the money)

retzam said:

hehehehehe. i love reading funny threads that are related to each other

glen benton
old chris barnes
mikael akerfeldt
tony jordan <--seriously, it's hard for anyone to fuck with his voice...

Kalopsia said:

I was getting worried that no one was saying anything about Chuck Shuldiner....a pioneer of death vocals.

Scott Carlson
Chuck when he was still "Evil Chuck"
Kam Lee (Death)
Lee Dorian
Don of the Dead (for the between song Christ bashing)

Jeff Becerra- Possessed

goratory nli said:


i gotta hear that shit

Dissector said:


yeah he was fucking great!

ha! thanks man!

hail dissector!

i really love the new direction you guys seem to be headed in, kinda reminiscant(sp?) of impetigo....beautiful thing

im too lazy to look up all of these peoples actual names, so i'll just list the bands

opeth
arch enemy
black dahlia murder
vader
dyig fetus
katatonia
nile


on the other hand, do you guys think is the WORSE death metal vocalist? lets go with people who are in relatively alright bands.
personally my pick would be the guy from six feet under....i dunno, something about his voice just pisses me off, or makes me laugh. that little squeal on "the day the dead walked" is priceless.

I dont like the devourment vocalist at all. He sounds like a muffler, but thats not necessarily bad. Theres just something I dont like about it.

The dual-vocal approach of the band Cock & Ball Torture kicks my ass real hard. One guy is so low he sounds like a frog, and the other guy sounds like Elmo from sesame street.

I've been listening to Splatterhouse alot lately, those 3 guys together are pretty sick...

anonymous said:

it's the same guy. one's unprocessed, the other's a pitch shifter

yah but I hear new CBT has very different vokills, still havn't heard it yet though.

for sures matti is ridiculous..but does anyone remember back in the day, broken hope from chicago??
chris barnes/butchered at you know what
frank/ effigy of forgotten
old,old, exhumed..not from no.cal but the band i heard once on knac\'s manic metal in 1990or 91\'

glen is a puss

BornSoVile said:

the new CBT does have more normal sounding death vocals on it(kinda reminds me of cryptopsy), but they still use a lot of the inhuman sewer gurgling too.

Rick Fleming (embalmer) = sickest vox EVER on the track "necro-filing cabinet"

the dude from HEMDALE (who's name escapes me at the moment)

Sven from aborted

Crowtorture

Phlegeton (wormed)

the best death vocals are when any woman is beaten to death

death metal vocals are so rediculous, i think most death metal vocals sound kind of stupid, depending on the band, but i will admit i think CBT's vocals are hilarious, i don't care if they're fake, their vocals rule. and circle of dead children's singer is funny too......but fuckin cannibal corpse, or skinless or hate eternal or any crap like that....lame.....i prefer normal, angry screams or higher ended screams as opposed to vocalists who try to sound like they're gargling semen

Jim Otis- RITUAL SACRIFICE

Lord Worm, Kam Lee, and Jason from Akercocke. I like Ross Dolan, too.

Bruce from Rigor Mortis...

MARTIN VAN DRUNEN from PESTILENCE/ASPHYX/BOLT THROWER. Hands fucking Down.

dread_104 said:


FUCKING RIGHT!!!!!! ILLUSIONS possesses some of the most insane, inhuman music AND vocals ever! D.T.P.!!!!

Strep_Cunt said:

Ooooooooohhhhhh...::

the rooster said:


Mathew j. Rositano

That guy from Abhorred sings wicked fucking good. John?

joost from cliteater, also from inhume. but his vocals are way better in cliteater.

Blue said:


I agree,,,I can't wait for the new cliteater to come out,The advance stuff is pretty sick

most definately JOOST of INHUME(nl grind/death), then FRANK of SUFFOCATION and FISHGRINDER of the mighty CANNIBAL CORPSE because they simply know how to get the crowds pumped AND sqeal like pigs. Great performers..........

Frank Mullen
Lord Worm
Ross Dolan
Muhammed Sucimez
Mikael Akerfeldt
Peter Tatgren

among the few

Mikael Åkerfeldt - Opeth/Bloodbath and Nathan Gearhart from Vehemence closely followed by Fat Albert.

the guy from prostitute disfigurement is the best

I am the best death metal vocalist ever

Adam>Goratory.

I think the best death metal vocalist would be a band that just drops a dead guy on the stage. Now thats real death metal.

this guy

Adam from GORATORY has the best vomit vocals I've ever heard

Besides that my personal favorite is Thomas Lindburg, especially on 'with fear I kiss the burning darkness'

COOKIE MONSTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

that dude from R.I.s Ritual Sacrifice back in the day was amazing...

I am not goin to find the names but i will list the bands

Cryptopsy
Necrophagist
Cephalectomy
The Black Dahlia Murder
Suffocation
Six Feet Under
Cannibal Corpse
Origin
Behemoth
Deicide

There the best death metal vocalists ever

Over a year's worth of posts and no mention of Dan Swano, for shame!

Mikael Akerfeldt by far
Doug Cerrito
Corpsegrinder
cookie monster
Dana from Ghostbusters "there is no dana only Xul"

i am the best death metal singer
i'm ok laying brick, guitar, fucking slacking, jerking off.....but i will say, i can fucking scream!

FRANK RINI (INTERNAL BLEEDING)
JOESEPH WOLFE (HEINOUS KILLINGS...)
RICH LIPSCOMB (FLESHGRIND)
RUBEN ROSAS (DEVOURMENT)
CHRIS BARNES CANNIBAL CORPSE)

this is so hard, here's a fucking alternate list:

MATTI WAY (DISGORGE...)
GLEN BENTON (DEICIDE)
SEB (SUBLIME CADAVERIC DECOMPOSITION)
JOHN GALLAGHER (DYING FETUS)
FRANK MULLEN (SUFFOCATION)

those guys ALL kill it; as well as paved the way... keep in mind, we're talking BRUTALITY here. they're are numerous others in my eyes...

There cannot be one best death metal singer. There are many ways to play death metal and many ways to sing it, and not all styles work well with one another. Death would not sound good with the diarrhea gurgling of bands like CBT or Retch.

im actually really surprised it took like 2 years to come up with that answer... and it's so fucking obvious too! sdkghsdkghsdg

Peter Tatgren [sp?] hands down.

Rich Horror is the best death metal vocalist ever.

Jeff Becerra!!
Martin van Drunen

SlavonicIdentity said:

Malleus and Consuming Impulse have some of the best vocals ever recorded. Especially Consuming..

Hell yes they do!! I can't believe more people did not say van Drunen.

Oh my God, I seriously said Angela Gossow??? I know it was 3 years ago but geesh. Alright, well, here's my new list:

Mikael ��Åkerfeldt
David Vincent
Bill Steer
Chuck Shuldiner
Lord Worm

Ooo, and Shagrath's vocals on Enthrone Darkness Triumphant.

adam fucking mason


and of course sherwood webber

MARTIN VAN DRUNEN from PESTILENCE / ASPHYX / BOLT THROWER... hands fucking down.

Ross-IMMOLATION
Stevo-IMPETIGO
Peter-HYPOCRISY
John Gallagher-DYING FETUS
Jeff Gruzland-VITAL & GODLESS
Jim Fleet-PHLEM
Ruben Rosas-DEVOURMENT

devin townsend is pretty sick as well

barney, napalm death

John Paoline [Mortal Decay], Antti Boman [Demilich], Matti Way [Disgorge era only]