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I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that Oz' comment was the funniest thing Ive ever read. The truth is always funny.

With the state of metal these days, you kind of have to seperate metal vocalists between "Clean vocals", and what Korndogg would call "Garbage, howcanyoucallthismusic, shiiiiiiiite" or what we typically know as "Dirty vocals"

In no particular order of course...

Clean vocals
1.Rob Halford(Judas Priest) duh duh duh duh. So many bands vocalists depend on this guy's example that I could die of old age naming them all.
2. Devin Townsend(Strapping Young Lad) in his original band, he much more often used a dirtier vocal style, with only hints of clean stuff interwoven among that work, but after going solo, (besides his far earlier collaboration with Steve Vai) he put his clean vocals right to the forefront of his musical tools, and in his later work, that choice shows, both in his improved songwriting choices, and his live performance.
3.Serj Tankian(System of a Down) I know his voice tends to annoy some people, but between his solo stuff and a renewed intterest recently with his System work, I've become convinced that this guy is the shit. Not to mention that I dont hear any other vocalists who sound like him at all.
4.RONNIE JAMES DIO( Dio, Black Sabbath) SHUT THE FUCK UP IF YOU WANNA ARGUE, IT'S DIO YOU FAGGOT.
5.Tom Araya(Slayer) borderline being dirty vocals, i know, but besides his lightning fast delivery, and his evil versions of halford screams, i would consider his vocals clean, and very few people actually notice his vocal versatility across Slayer's discography.

ANGRY VOCALS REAAARGHHH *cough* eyaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!! *cough*
1.Trevor Strnad(Black Dahlia Murder) yes, thats how his last name is spelled, dont ask me, I dont fucking know who taught his family to spell. While initially this band suffered from being another At The Gates deathcore clone, they were always significant due to their vocalist's dual-pronged attack, utilizing both a guttural growl and an unusual high shriek. As the band has shed their generic trappings and become a truly tremendous blackened melodeath outfit in their own right, so has their vocalsit becom eall the more impressive. His outstanding live presence aside, his capabilities with both vocals styles have deepened and expanded tenfold, and it would be a crime to ignore this band and their vocalist with their vast improvements all around.
2. Chance Garnette(Skeletonwitch) Another dual style vocalist, this guy has great sing-a-long vocal placements not seen since Metallica's glory days, all the more impressive considering he sings in both guttural death metal vocals and the harsh black metal style that is generally extrememly hard for even normal metal listeners to appreciate.
3. Mikael Akerfeldt( Opeth, Bloodbath) Even with the recent Opeth release of the all-clean Heritage, I completely consider Akerfeldt foremost to be a guttural vocalist, if only for the fact that he uses them in both bands he sings for. Heavy, pronounced, and constantly compositionally aware in his placement of those vocals, his likewise excellent clean vocals are really just iceing on the cake.
4. Randy Blythe (Lamb of God) Proof that guttural vocals can require just as much effort as the best clean vocals, Blythe went form the band's first album where he sounded like an indecipherable pterodactyl, to his overnight transformation into a terifyingly heavy version of Phil Anselmo, with almost as much vocal skill as the Pantera frontman had in his best moments even in this lower register. Leaving almost every word in the band's lyrics decipherable in performance despite the near death metal sound of his voice, Blythe's screaming is immediate proof that guttural vocals arent all just talentless yellings of nonsense, much to the chagrin of death metal critics in general.
5. Stu Block- (Into eternity, new Iced Earth) Basically the death metal Rob Halford. Listen to the song "Timeless Winter" by his original band Into Eternity, and prepare to cry yourself to sleep because you will never do anything to any level of talent to match this guys vocal skill. Just kill yourself now to save time.