Best Metal Frontman?

[Iceni]

Devin Townsend, from what I've seen, seems pretty entertaining.

[metal4ever]

ronnie james dio!!! he's the only one whose vocal range didnt change in the slightest during his whole career. but yeah rob's voice is amazing aptly called the "metalgod". bruce has lost his beautiful voice that he had for all the 80s albums. he strains too much now nonetheless he can still sing way better than the newbs nowadays.

[metal4ever]

di'anno's punky voice certainly suited maiden. wish he wasnt fired. we wud have had all the remaing albums in his voice hahaha. bayley has a dark-type of voice not suited for maiden, but there r still some fav songs like the clansman, dont talk to starngers, and even educated fool. beautiful singing!

[DancerToADiscordantSystem]

Ronnie Radke if subgenres count. Otherwise Ozzy

[Iceni]

Just gonna put it out there that without these bands modern metal as we know it would be very different or not exist at all.

This would be a fallacy of retrospective determinism.

[Woutjinho]

Still haven't voted. Frontman?!? You mean vocalist! For instance, Tom Araya... Not the big man behind Slayer. Jeff Hannaman wrote most of the amazing stuff and Kerry King did some of it too. Tom didn't even record all the bass lines on the albums himselves... King and Hannaman seems to have done some of it as well. (so I've heard on Slayer Saves)

[krazyassmofo]

I voted for Bruce Dickinson. Strongest voice left, since the passing of Ronnie James Dio.

[tkmikkelsen]

Paul Di'anno over the train wreck that was Blaze Bayley.

[DarkCornatus]

I think Bruce coming back really hurt the band' date=' they don't know which direction to head in anymore and it's resulted in largely lacklustre albums, perhaps they should have just ended Maiden when he left in the first place, AMOLAD is a good album but it's not worth seeing one of my favourite bands completely destroy their credibility[/quote'] I agree a little, but they were already on the downfall on the last two albums (FOTD and NPFTD) with him there anyway after Adrian Smith left (as he helped write a lot of the better material). Those albums became successful through hit songs more than being greats in the collection. However, they made a comeback with BNW and DOD imo. AMOLAD was decent, but i never really got into it as it's where i really noticed Bruce's vocals to be suffering in the studio. They still are amazing live though! So i'm glad they kept going! On topic - definitely Di'anno over Blaze. Blaze is just downright not suited to Maiden. Di'anno worked perfectly with the first albums, better than Bruce would have even imo.

[Rockyourmetaloff]

Bruce, I like his flag

[RelentlessOblivion]

This would be a fallacy of retrospective determinism.

Or in layman's terms: metal would, most likely, evolved in any case.

[PirateNinja]

Rob Halford, no contest

[RelentlessOblivion]

Depends on what you're looking for in a frontman. Dillinger Escape Plan's frontman, and in fact the entire band, are completely nuts. I don't care for their music one bit though.

[FatherAlabaster]

Depends on what you're looking for in a frontman. Dillinger Escape Plan's frontman' date=' and in fact the entire band, are completely nuts. I don't care for their music one bit though.[/quote'] I'm one of those snobs that liked Dimitri better.

[BlutAusNerd]

I'm one of those snobs that liked Dimitri better.

Me too, his vocals were way better, and he fronted them at them at their best musically too. Mike Patton also killed it on the Irony Is a Dead Scene EP.

[FatherAlabaster]

Me too' date=' his vocals were way better, and he fronted them at them at their best musically too. Mike Patton also killed it on the Irony Is a Dead Scene EP.[/quote'] I agree about Patton, it was great hearing his melodies over their stuff. Puciato obviously worked his ass off, and I thought Miss Machine was okay, but not a patch on the older music.

[Black Milk]

I thought Lord Worm had the theatrics on lock, without getting into the whole makeup and overstated stage show bullshit. He was legitimately frightening to many, didn't even sound like a human. Real shame Flo's fucking ego tore that band apart. There's MANY far better vocalists and writers in death metal but Worm just comes to mind first when I think great metal frontmen Note that Im totally ignoring the comparisons between the frontmen in the poll, because I think its just no longer up for debate concerning the greatness of each of those. Except for Hetfield and Araya. Not sure what makes them great. Araya's always been a fairly stationary and one-dimensional performer and Hetfield is.....a douche.

[PirateNinja]

I agree about Patton' date=' it was great hearing his melodies over their stuff. Puciato obviously worked his ass off, and I thought Miss Machine was okay, but not a patch on the older music.[/quote'] I prefer Puciato, I never really vibed with the first album tho so I guess I'm bound to say that. That said it's only Miss Machine and One Of Us Is The Killer that do it for me, the other 2 are mediocre at best. Irony is a dead scene ruled tho, without doubt, pretty much anything Patton touches is goldust

[PirateNinja]

Note that Im totally ignoring the comparisons between the frontmen in the poll' date=' because I think its just no longer up for debate concerning the greatness of each of those. Except for Hetfield and Araya. Not sure what makes them great. Araya's always been a fairly stationary and one-dimensional performer and Hetfield is.....a douche.[/quote'] XD lol, I love Metallica but yeah, he really is.

[RelentlessOblivion]

Perhaps Bobby Blitz would have been a better option in the thrash frontman department?

[FatherAlabaster]

I prefer Puciato' date=' I never really vibed with the first album tho so I guess I'm bound to say that. That said it's only Miss Machine and One Of Us Is The Killer that do it for me, the other 2 are mediocre at best. Irony is a dead scene ruled tho, without doubt, pretty much anything Patton touches is goldust[/quote'] I like older Patton better, Faith No More's "Angel Dust" is an all time favorite. I enjoy what he did with Zu, and a bit of Fantomas, but I can do without most of his other stuff.

[deathstorm]

I like mike Patton vocals on faith no mores epic. I like that song

[PirateNinja]

I like older Patton better' date=' Faith No More's "Angel Dust" is an all time favorite. I enjoy what he did with Zu, and a bit of Fantomas, but I can do without most of his other stuff.[/quote'] Fantomas was a bit much at times, suspended animation especially. the first Mr Bungle album and the Bungle stuff before Faith No More were awesome, bowel of chiley more than the rest. General Patton vs The X-ecutioners was great and the stuff he did with John Zorn, think they called Hemophiliac. Was never that into Tomahawk or Peeping Tom. I have high hopes for the new Faith No More album, whenever that surfaces.

[PirateNinja]

Perhaps Bobby Blitz would have been a better option in the thrash frontman department?

Yeah. Or Joey Belladonna. Probs gunna get hate for that lol. He's sounding a bit haggard these days tho

[BlutAusNerd]

Yeah. Or Joey Belladonna. Probs gunna get hate for that lol. He's sounding a bit haggard these days tho

Yeah, he can't hit the high notes anymore. The rest of the band sounded pretty good when I saw them about 9 years ago.