I have an answer for this but i wanted to hear from other people on who they think is the best heavy metal singer...I dont know if someone else has posted this topic before but i would like to know your opinions...thank you.

For my money it's between Chris Cornell and Jorn Lande.

I also liked the now sadly departed Ray Gillen, ex Black Sabbath, Badlands.

Good question ID - current favourites are Jorn Lande and Russell Allen but i have a thing for Graham Bonnet in his prime. :rolleyes:

Yeah Bonnet has a great voice, fine singer.

Devy :)

Not sure his name ( or to lazy to wiki it ) but the singer from Pantera kicks it major. Try singing along with Cemetery Gates :)

Bruce Dickinson.

Bruce Dickinson I think because he can pull it off live. I used to rate Sebastian Bach from Skid Row due to the singing on their debut release being pretty awesome. Live he is very inconsistant though.

Geof Tate from Queensryche was pretty good too.

Yes. Heavy Devy ftw!

Its all about Christineen... and Ziltoid... and City... and Alien... and Passion and warfare.

I never considered Geof Tate cause I didnt think they were heavy enough but yea Hurricane he has a unique and just plain perfect voice I think and much better than the guy from Pantera. I change my vote :)

hands down,bruce dickinson.

Devin Townsend, Mikael Åkerfeldt and Russell Allen, I guess. I find it hard to recall solists when I'm supposed to.

I'll go with Ronnie James Dio ( Sabbath and Rainbow ).

Bruce Dickenson on Powerslave and Piece of Mind is good stuff.

Geoff Tate seemed to always have it together( early stuff is my fave).

John Arch ...perhaps inspired from everyone mentioned above ...seems to be a great guy ( from interviews I've read ).

( don't mind the guitars on these, k )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmozVRLZfdg&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkvqrCGuS10&feature=related

I'd have to say, Dio, and James Hetfield

I always liked Andi Deris, of Helloween, specially in "Time of the Oath" album. He can do some intresting things with his voice: sometimes is like a dark voice, sometimes more brilliant. Also has a cool way to "scream": he makes some harmonics when screaming.

The OP still has me in suspense on his opinion.

I couldn't pick one #1 no way
Rock N Rolf of Running Wild http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3ADg1mwMyw
Blackie Lawless of WASP http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydp8v3gZzAA...=related&fmt=18
Kai Hansen of Helloween http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZelbSh3bH-s

My choices are,
Michael Matijevic (Steelheart) for sheer power and range
or Tony Harnell (TNT) for technical ability he's gotta be the Paul Gilbert of Vocalists 4 octave range and great vibrato

S

Since when Cornell sings metal ?
A friend of mine said Cornell,Vedder,that dude from Creed and that Nickelback guy sing with a dick in their throats.
:lol:

Classic metal - Dio
Modern metal - Roy Khan

Well Cornell sure ain't a country and western singer dude! ;)

maybe a pop rock singer?
So everybody who don't sing country and western sing metal ?
What kinda singer Elvis was?
Sinatra?
Bro are u high?
Maybe both of us are !
:D

Check the link below mate, lol!! Seems like a lot of other people think Cornell's a metal singer as well. ;)

http://www.metalunderground.com/news/detai...fm?newsid=23158

What people?
People who thinks Pearl Jam,Soundgarden and Audioslave are metal ?!
Well people can even think he started playing with Dio or Dickinson still it doesn't turns him into a metal singer.
In what metal band did he sang?
Google heavy metal and you'll see he has nothing to do with heavy metal or its history.(maybe story?)
I'm lost. :lol:
He's a rock singer and most of the time a pop rock singer.
What Soundgarden and Audioslave have to do with Iron Maiden?
I just google'd Cornell and google said it's working on a ELECTROPOP ALBUM.
WHAT THE FUCK bwahahahahahahahaha

The term metal is pretty hard to define mate. What one person will define as metal another won't. I'm friends with some Death Metallers who would say that anything outside that genre is pissy and false metal. What qualifies as metal. Opinions will vary greatly on this and there are no defined parameters.

Nope ROCK is very hard to define but METAL is very easy to define that's why I told you to google heavy metal.
Maybe Wikipedia.
Things are what they are and not what people want.
Cornell wearing skulls and chains???!!!
Singing dark and smart lyrics with heavy guitars!
WHere ?
I want to see it bwahahahahahahah



WAit....why are we wasting our time with Cornell?
He doesn't care about us :rolleyes: :lol:

He sure doesn't care dude.. Thing is the original poster asked for our opinion. I stress the word 'opinion'. I gave mine, it's by no means the gospel truth, just my 2 cents worth. ;)

Peace!!

Mark Boals