Top Metal Vocalists, Clean and Harsh

My Top 5 clean vocalists and top 5 harsh vocalists.

Clean

1.Rob Halford- The quintessential heavy metal vocalist in my opinion, his falsettos are out of this world, and the power he had behind his vocals is unrivaled. Songs with particularly awesome vocal performance by him would be, The Sentinel, Dreamer Deceiver, and Painkiller.

2.Ronnie James Dio- Let me just stress this close, VERY CLOSE second. I love Dio, he has the power vocally to get you into any song he's vocalist for. I haven't heard a single bad vocal performance by him. He was an inspiring talent, and a vocal legend, his operatic style was not quite as high of a range as Halford, but nonetheless he was just as powerful.

3.Bruce Dickinson- This man has some power in his pipes, and quite a lot of emotion to boot. His performance in songs like Run To The Hills and Number of The Beast are insanely good. Even in 2010 on The Final Frontier he still had the majority of his vocal power intact, he can't quite hit the high notes as well, but he's still kickin.

4. Geoff Tate- He's the perfect prog metal vocalist. He has the range similar to Dio but not quite the same power behind it. His talent really shines through on songs such as Eyes of A Stranger and Don't Believe in Love. Not much else to say, Geoff rules.

5. Garm- He does clean and harsh vocals but I chose him for the clean category because my god he has such versatility. He can go from the middle low register all the way upward to almost Halford-like highs. He can be powerful, or quiet and soothing. His work with Ulver and Arcturus are particularly awesome.

Harsh

1. Lord Worm- Purely for his strength, this man's screams are something that you would hear coming from an open pit that leads to hell. There's a scream in the song Open Face Surgery that makes my blood curdle.

2. Dani Filth- A lot of people would disagree, but I am saying this on the basis of his past work, he had quite a range on him. He could do deep demonic bellows all the way to nails on a chalkboard break squealing shrieks. He's my favorite harsh vocalist, but for talent, Lord Worm takes the cake.

3. Varg Vikernes- what kind of noises would you expect to hear coming from a torture chamber from medieval times, well probably the sounds that come from this mans vocal cords. He has the ability to convey every torturous hateful emotion ever through his voice and he does it with such power, Vikernes is by far the greatest black metal vocalist of all time.

4. Chuck Schuldiner- One of the first actual death metal vocalists, and no doubt one of the best ever. If you need any other reasons why he's on this list, just listen to the songs. Get ahold of Symbolic, Scream Bloody Gore, or Human, and prepare to be amazed.

5. Antti Boman- Vocalist of Demilich these vocals are like the low pitched gurgle from a demon, if demons could growl that low. I fucking love how its so unlike the majority of death metal vocals, and he did this with no sound effects added. Amazing.

P.S I had an extremely hard time choosing who should be on here, and am already thinking many that I possibly should have included

Honorable Mentions: Ihsahn, Serj Tankian, Tarja, Maynard James Keenan, Dax Riggs, Mike Patton and the rest of the extremely talented metal vocalists who I failed to mention you all rule.

Cheesiest metal vocalist: Shagrath ( on newer releases)

worst metal vocal perfomances: Hetfield on St. Anger and Vincent on Illiud Divinum Insanus