Best Ever Albums

Re: The clown is down

RoundTheBend — Tue, 17 Dec 2019 23:10:49 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 12/18/2019 04:10

Droophus wrote:

Pennywise wins among this group for me. A magical, disturbing, charismatic stage presence without taking himself to seriously plus a more dynamic vocal range.

Yeah actually, this is true.

Partially chose Pennywise for the face paint, but actually is possibly the best of the bunch for me at least musically.

Re: Who would be your favorite lead singer of a metal band?

RoundTheBend — Tue, 17 Dec 2019 23:09:33 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 12/18/2019 04:09

junodog4 wrote:

Forget Voldemort. Molly Weasley is the only Harry Potter character that should be in this poll.

🤣

Now I gotta know. I think she'd be a great punk rocker at least.

Re: Who would be your favorite lead singer of a metal band?

RoundTheBend — Tue, 17 Dec 2019 23:09:03 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 12/18/2019 04:09

LedZep wrote:

RoundTheBend wrote:

Gollum so far for the win (two votes in the comments at least), but hey, a pretty even spread for a few others too!

On a serious note, does anyone else struggle to take lead singers seriously when they sound like Gollum or Darth Sidious or is that just me?

Sometimes the "overproduction" of some metal groups makes it sound a bit too canned just like bad pop music too (there's good pop music, don't get me wrong) - anyone care to comment?

Part of me is like, I want to understand and then part of me just realizes taste is just different and that's ok.

I can be both amazed at how cool/brutal/interesting the vocals are and laugh at them a bit at the same time, all the while thoroughly enjoying the song. Not sure if that helps you in your metal journey, but like you said, tastes are different.

Link

This one is the winner in that regard. The singer (Travis Ryan) is incredibly versatile and the songs are excellent, and there’s all kinds of vocals here. A good example of vacuum cleaner vocals somewhere around 1:15. And as a bonus their lyrics are highly offensive and gory, but also speak about lots of important issues (ecology, veganism, animal extinction, pollution, future of humanity on Earth etc.) Conflicts all around. Great band.

Woah - that had actual vocal intrigue to me. It had like 3 different vocal styles - the gollum, the darth sidius and one we haven't discussed yet, the balrog or Baphomet.

Like it was barely laughable and actually felt real on some levels. Sometimes it feels a bit too much like a bad spook ally or something on Halloween... hard for me to take for real, but that track was believable on some levels - even if it felt halloweenlike, it still was believable.

Re: Who would be your favorite lead singer of a metal band?

junodog4 — Tue, 17 Dec 2019 20:41:09 GMT

Author: junodog4

Posted: 12/18/2019 01:41

Forget Voldemort. Molly Weasley is the only Harry Potter character that should be in this poll.

Re: Who would be your favorite lead singer of a metal band?

LedZep — Tue, 17 Dec 2019 04:46:30 GMT

Author: LedZep

Posted: 12/17/2019 09:46

RoundTheBend wrote:

The clown is down

Droophus — Tue, 17 Dec 2019 00:21:39 GMT

Author: Droophus

Posted: 12/17/2019 05:21

Pennywise wins among this group for me. A magical, disturbing, charismatic stage presence without taking himself to seriously plus a more dynamic vocal range.

Re: Who would be your favorite lead singer of a metal band?

RoundTheBend — Sun, 15 Dec 2019 16:14:48 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 12/15/2019 21:14

Gollum so far for the win (two votes in the comments at least), but hey, a pretty even spread for a few others too!

On a serious note, does anyone else struggle to take lead singers seriously when they sound like Gollum or Darth Sidious or is that just me?

Sometimes the "overproduction" of some metal groups makes it sound a bit too canned just like bad pop music too (there's good pop music, don't get me wrong) - anyone care to comment?

Part of me is like, I want to understand and then part of me just realizes taste is just different and that's ok.

Re: Who would be your favorite lead singer of a metal band?

RoundTheBend — Sun, 15 Dec 2019 16:10:44 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 12/15/2019 21:10

ahahahahahaha - I now know the worst record ever recorded. It's too bad he didn't actually execute a true metal sound cuz that'd actually be awesome/creepy.

But yeah wasn't asking for the equivalent of Okilly Dokilly.

Thumbnail. Click to enlarge.

Howdilly Doodilly by Okilly Dokilly

More like which bands sound like evil villains of movies (either in a legit way or mocking way).

Re: Who would be your favorite lead singer of a metal band?

PurpleHazel — Sun, 15 Dec 2019 00:56:24 GMT

Author: PurpleHazel

Posted: 12/15/2019 05:56

Fischman wrote:

Few people realize the perfect one already exists and has recorded....

Thumbnail. Click to enlarge.

Almost bought that in a used record store, but couldn't quite pull the trigger.

Re: Who would be your favorite lead singer of a metal band?

craola — Sun, 15 Dec 2019 00:40:17 GMT

Author: craola

Posted: 12/15/2019 05:40

Gollum all the way, and I would appreciate any recommendations on bands/singers that actually do sound like him. Even better if they sing, “myyyy PRECIOUS!!” Duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh..,

Re: Who would be your favorite lead singer of a metal band?

Fischman — Sat, 14 Dec 2019 19:56:27 GMT

Author: Fischman

Posted: 12/15/2019 00:56

Few people realize the perfect one already exists and has recorded....

Thumbnail. Click to enlarge.

Re: Who would be your favorite lead singer of a metal band?

RoundTheBend — Sat, 14 Dec 2019 19:16:12 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 12/15/2019 00:16

Hayden wrote:

Hard call... 🤔

Leaning towards Gollum, but I can't help but feel he'd only use about six words, and he'll really have to work on utilizing his rasp for his singing chops.

Definitely not Hans Landa or Baratheon. Hans even as a choice is kinda weird.

Anton Chigurh could probably whip up some black metal/southern country crossover worth listening to though.

hehe - yeah Gollum actually comes up a lot when I listen to metal - sometimes it is 6 words and sometimes does indeed sound like Gollum, to me at least.

Anton Chigurh... now I could get on board with some of that... there likely already is someone like that, but something isn't coming to mind right now.

Hans was for all the fascist metal bands and Baratheon was for the whiney hair metal bands... closest thing I could think of for Axel Rose... (Glam Metal)

Re: Who would be your favorite lead singer of a metal band?

Hayden — Sat, 14 Dec 2019 19:07:44 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 12/15/2019 00:07

Hard call... 🤔

Leaning towards Gollum. Can't help but feel he'd only use about six words, but he'd definitely be able to utilize his rasp for singing chops.

Definitely not Hans Landa or Baratheon though. Hans even as a choice is kinda weird.

Anton Chigurh could probably whip up some black metal/southern country crossover worth listening to.

Re: Who would be your favorite lead singer of a metal band?

RoundTheBend — Sat, 14 Dec 2019 18:19:11 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 12/14/2019 23:19

LedZep wrote:

Definitely this bad boy

Does it suck or create amazing drone ambience/metal?

Re: Who would be your favorite lead singer of a metal band?

LedZep — Sat, 14 Dec 2019 17:51:04 GMT

Author: LedZep

Posted: 12/14/2019 22:51

Definitely this bad boy

Who would be your favorite lead singer of a metal band?

RoundTheBend — Sat, 14 Dec 2019 16:58:34 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 12/14/2019 21:58

I'm probably a dork for thinking this, but I feel like metal bands are sometimes kind of funny which is even more funny because they really are just trying to be dark, but it turns laughable for me cuz it sounds like one of these guys is their lead singer.

So if that's true, which one would be your favorite metal singer... and if you do vote, which character best describes which real band (jokes are most welcome).

Gollum

Thumbnail. Click to enlarge.

Darth Sidious

Joffrey Baratheon

Thumbnail. Click to enlarge.

Pennywise The Clown

Thumbnail. Click to enlarge.

Hans Landa

Thumbnail. Click to enlarge.

Lord Voldemort

Jigsaw

Thumbnail. Click to enlarge.

The Joker

Thumbnail. Click to enlarge.