BEST BAND EVER: Results!

Hetfield strikes me more as a distinctive singer than a good singer. Strong accent and all 'YEAHHH-EHHHH'. John Arch is too pipey for my liking (says she who likes Jon Anderson's voice). I really like Markus Becker's voice a lot, very clear and has decent strength and range. But at his best, (and not screeching his way through Painkiller) Halford is terribly good. Voting for Halford.
 
Hetfield was a solid vocalist until after the Black album tour when he went off the rails.

Arch is still as awesome as ever, tough break being in this group though. Still 2nd best in it.

Becker is energetic, and his vocals work for AK, but he's nothing special otherwise.

And obviously Halford wins this round.
 
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Eliminated after Round 69:
James Hetfield
John Arch
Markus Becker

Promoted after Round 69:
Rob Halford

Chuck Schuldiner (CONTROL DENIED, DEATH)

King Diamond (solo, MERCYFUL FATE)

Mikael Åkerfeldt (BLOODBATH, OPETH)

Sammy Hagar (VAN HALEN)
 
Love Åkerfeldt and Schuldiner and Hagar is a cool dude, but King Diamond’s ability to sound like a ghost and a dark mage all in the same verse gives him my vote. I get that some people don’t care for his over-the-top falsetto, but he’s one of my favorite singers and can put on as good a performance now as he could in the ‘80s.
 
I think that King Diamond sounds pretty goofy.
Hagar is cool but I don't really care about him one way or another.
Åkerfeldt is obviously very talented, but I went with Chuck simply because I prefer screaming over growling, and Mikael's clean voice doesn't really excite me.
 
Mikael Akerfeldt has very good clean vocals and...passable growls, but I have a hard time picking any growler, ever.

King Diamond is iconic and if you like his style of vocals, he remains the best to do them. I don't like his style of vocals.

Chuck whatever growls, fuck growls, growls are what singers do if they can't sing or choose not to sing.

Hagar, but it seems like it'll be Akerfeldt's round.
 
There are some Death demos where Chuck is singing instead of “growling”, and he sounds like a weaker Halford. He’s not really a growler though, his approach to harsh vocals is different. On the last two Death albums he’d evolved to screaming, and their cover of Painkiller has some of the best vocals ever. The way he mixes the highs with harshness is unbelievably powerful.
 
Chuck very clearly screams for the most part. There's a big difference between screaming and growling.

Although I guess it doesn't really matter what everyone calls it. I've learned to call this fry higher pitched sound that Schuldiner did screaming.
 
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I have to go with Akerfeldt. His singing is beautiful, and he is one of the few artists whose growls I like - in fact he's my favourite growler.
Schuldiner's scream just hurts, and King Diamond sounds like a cross between Rob Halford and Mickey Mouse.
 
I like a good growl but more a deep one, not so much a helium voice one like Chuck. (Yeah, I know, I do like Abbath nevertheless).

I'm not fond of Hagar's style, which leaves a tough choice between King Diamond and Akerfeldt. King Diamond has a great style for the genre, but I've got strong Akerfeldt bias here, not least because he has both clean vocals and growls in his arsenal, and both sound good.
 
Midnight said:
I have to go with Akerfeldt. His singing is beautiful, and he is one of the few artists whose growls I like - in fact he's my favourite growler.
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Prime Mikael Åkerfeldt (growls-wise) had the best growls in the game, imo. His best growl work is featured in Bloodbath, not Opeth. He sounds like an absolute beast on the Breeding Death EP and the Resurrection Through Carnage LP. Though that's not so say that he didn't bring the goods to Opeth.
 
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