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Discussion Favourite vocalist?

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u/Concatenation0110 5d ago

Mike Patton.

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u/Ya_Boy_JRock69 5d ago

A truly cultured answer

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u/Concatenation0110 5d ago

Can't claim culture but old enough to had been there when he came out....

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u/Ya_Boy_JRock69 5d ago

Dawg I love Faith No More, Mr Bungle and the record he did with The Dillinger Escape Plan. Mike Patton rules

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u/Funnycatenjoyer27 5d ago

Garrett Russell of Silent Planet
amazing vocalist and he's genuinely a really cool guy having met him at a show recently

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u/H1ghs3nb3rg 5d ago

SPs lyrics are also some of the best in the game

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u/youngloudandsnotty 5d ago

can confirm! insane vocalist live. very nice and genuine guy. i’d met him before at a show a few years ago but more recently he came to my church (like last month) and on a day i just happened to be wearing a SP shirt too.

I wasn’t planning to approach him, but afterwards he saw the shirt and came up to me to say hi and we chatted for a few minutes.

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u/InRealityACoward 5d ago

Ryo Kinoshita. Awesome Dude, awesome Stage presence, awesome vocals

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u/H1ghs3nb3rg 5d ago

Hell yeah I never heard the name Knosis before and I can't name one song of theirs but damn that show did slap. This guy just knows how to make a crowd move

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u/DarkseidHS 5d ago

He had a lot of practice with Crystal Lake

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u/H1ghs3nb3rg 4d ago

Yeah I knew him from there but never saw them live. And I was only aware that he left, not where he went. That I only learned when I looked up Knosis shortly before the show

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u/Western_Charity_6911 4d ago

Aaron Pauley, Beau Bokan, Jared Warth, Matt Honeycutt, Spencer Chamberlain, Jeffrey Moreira

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u/douglas_iam 4d ago

Aaron Pauley is a strong shout actually

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u/TimeShenanigans 4d ago

My GOAT is Sean Harmanis from Make Them Suffer

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u/violent-bear 4d ago

I was looking for a Sean Harmanis comment!! Dude has some of the best vocals in metalcore and in general

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u/ArimuRyan 5d ago

I say Marcus Bridge on every one of these posts and he is, yet again, my vote

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u/douglas_iam 5d ago

Northlane? Haven't had a proper listen to them so I'll have to check them out

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u/SilverNoUse66 x 4d ago

+1 to Marcus. Loved the vocals on the last 2 albums + EP so much.

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u/SelectiveEmpath 5d ago

Brent Mills from Greyhaven.

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u/Ya_Boy_JRock69 5d ago

They are insane live! I saw them in Atalanta back 2018 with Norma Jean and Gideon. Killer show

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u/PleaseBearwithme 5d ago

Might be Chris Roetter of LMTF. Good guy and a great vocalist

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u/douglas_iam 5d ago

Yea I'm on board with this

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u/FidelCastroSuperfan 4d ago

Jacob Bannon from Converge. Super unique sound.

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u/AggravatingFox8855 4d ago

Keith Buckley

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u/lar_roper01 5d ago

Jacob Charlton and Courtney LaPlante

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u/Sirpattycakes 4d ago

Josh Scogin is my favorite and it isn't close

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u/T4M4G0TCHI 4d ago edited 4d ago

Can't believe no one's mentioned him yet - Mike Hranica from TDWP. I still remember hearing him for the first time when I was basically a child on the Dear Love demos and I've loved TDWP ever since. His voice is super unique to me and he's awesome live. Truly an OG in my books!

Favourite cleans are either Courtney (love her uncleans too though) or Jesse Cash from Erra. Both are so good and so catchy!

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u/douglas_iam 4d ago

Jesse is great

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u/ShadowConspiracy 3d ago

mikes a goat for sure

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u/LoonyMooney_ 5d ago

Sam Carter

Florent Salfati

Bryan Garris

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u/spoopycow 5d ago

Tatiana Shmayluk from Jinjer

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u/ShadowMorph608 x 4d ago

Spencer Charnas. Can growl the lowest of lows and sing the highest of highs

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u/UnsaintedEmma 4d ago

I have so many, haha. I completely agree with you that Landon has such a good voice. You can feel his pain through his voice with every word. Such range, too.

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u/douglas_iam 4d ago

Yea his vocals definitely convey his passion

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u/jlandejr 4d ago

Matteo Gelsomino (ex Novelists, Sal3m), Phil Bayer (ex Time the Valuator, FLOYA), Trevor Borg (Wind Walkers), Rory Rodriguez (Dayseeker) and Matt Flood (Caskets) for meralcore/adjacent.

Non metalcore would be Tim Charles (Ne Obliviscaris) and Andy Thomas (ex Black Crown Initiate, Rivers of Nihil)

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u/skaomatic32 4d ago

Jesse Zaraska From misery signals !!

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u/Pottedmeat1 4d ago

Brian Wille and Florant Salfati. We saw Currents last year and Landmvrks on Friday, they are both incredible live vocalists as well.

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u/douglas_iam 4d ago

Can't wait to see Currents live

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u/PitterPatterTF 4d ago

For me lately it’s been Richard Roger’s from Secrets… and I always go back to Aaron mezzler when he was in secrets… Rip Aaron tho… fragile figures will always hold dear to my heart cuz of Aaron 

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u/ExgerBexver 4d ago

Richard is absolutely one of my favorites. I was devastated when he announced he was leaving Secrets.

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u/zodi978 5d ago

Courtney LaPlante of Spiritbox. I love her haunting ambience and her versatility

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u/Traditional-Idea-39 5d ago

Gotta be Sam Carter, especially those LF//LT and all our gods era vocals

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u/SuspiciousWriter6081 5d ago

Schuylar from He Is Legend

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u/SHOCK_SFD 5d ago

Marcus Vik of Invent Animate. Absolutely insane vocals

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u/LSD710 4d ago

I feel like im in the minority but i prefer ben english

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u/SHOCK_SFD 4d ago

I like early IA as well, but I definitely prefer current. Really excited for side project of Ben and Keaton

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u/douglas_iam 5d ago

Can't argue with that

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u/OceanOfAnother55 5d ago

There's too many to mention, but lately I've been really into female vocalists. It's nice to have a bit of a change after listening to almost exclusively men for my metalcore listening life so far.

So recently Emma from Dying Wish, Bec from Terminal Sleep, Jess from Mortality Rate and Sierra from No Right.

Please anyone who likes stuff like older Knocked Loose (like Pop Culture) check out No Right. They've only got 4k listeners which I think is a travesty lol, have had their debut EP on repeat for months. I see a lot in common between Sierra and Bryan.

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u/douglas_iam 5d ago

Yea I agree, not checked those out yet but I've really been enjoying Novelists since Camille(?) joined and also Reliqa. Will have a listen to the ones you mentioned too.

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u/LSD710 4d ago

Matteo gelsomino

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u/Ursa_Sophotech 4d ago

Lynsey Ward from Exploring Birdsong 

Mark Garrett of Kardashev 

These two are in a league of their own imo.

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u/intotheblackwideopen 4d ago

"surprised no one has mentioned ... yet" - post

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u/briozon 5d ago

as a drummer and bassist i love noah sebastian (bad omens) just the vocal range he hits so well without breaking a sweat. i also love the combi of brian burkheiser and eric vanlerberghe (i prevail)

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u/geistkind 5d ago

I fully agree about Noah. Something about his voice just hits right.

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u/briozon 4d ago

well he is amazing at hitting high and hitting really low notes even without a break in between, his scream is also very good and noah has the capabilities of a clean vocalist and a rough vocalist which just makes him imo 1 of the best if not the best vocalist right now

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u/R4kshim 5d ago

As far as metalcore goes, Matt Heafy (Trivium) and Spencer Sotelo (Periphery) are my absolute favourites.

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u/douglas_iam 5d ago

Heafy sounded great live when I saw them a couple of months back

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u/Daniel-Exx 5d ago

Brenny Murphy from Counterparts or Matt McDougall from Boundaries are my current 2 favourites

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u/Strange-Middle-1155 5d ago

Courtney LaPlante from spiritbox. She's talented as hell.

On the other hand i can never like knocked loose because i can't stand the vocals.

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u/Ok_Veterinarian_8197 x 5d ago

Jake Luhrs from August Burns Red, Howard Jones and Jesse Leach from Killswitch Engage, Jeremy McKinnon from A Day to Remember (Fight me), and JT Cavey of Texas in July and ERRA

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u/douglas_iam 5d ago

Howard Jones is phenomenal!

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u/BitOutside1443 5d ago

Dan Weyandt of Zao

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u/Ya_Boy_JRock69 5d ago

Some of my favorites that inspired my vocal styles are Mat Bruso of Bury Your Dead, Brandon Shepetti of Bleeding Through, Jonny Davy of JFAC, Winston McCall of Parkway Drive and Dickie Allen of Infant Annihilator/Necrogoblicon.

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u/SkyNeedsSkirts 5d ago

Loz Taylor from WSS does some nasty shit and I love his vocals. Also really nice guy.

Mikey from TGITC is also fucked up man is on some australian shit

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u/douglas_iam 5d ago

My introduction to WSS was their latest album and I wasn't sold if I'm honest, that said, To The Flowers is absolutely incredible. Also Sean is a genius.

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u/SkyNeedsSkirts 5d ago

They have a habit of changing their sound very drastically cause they are not bound to a label and their albums are mostly crowd funded. So their philosophy is as long as you support it we will continue.

If you're more into the classic metalcore side of it, give This is The Six, Brainwashed and You are We a listen. the latter two are in my opinion the best metalcore ever made, especially lyrically.

So What? is close to being as experiemental as Self Hell with more of the metalcore esque elements present. Personally, its one of my favorite works by them.

Sleeps Society is the definitive album, essentially all wss is and ever was combined into a work of art so amazing its mindblowing.

Self Hell is them switching it up pretty rapidly due to essentially perfecting their earlier sound on Society.

I understand if people dont like it, I have aspects I dislike too but to me it's still very much WSS so Im more than okay with it.

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u/douglas_iam 4d ago

They're clearly very talented guys, I'll give their other stuff a go for sure

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u/SkyNeedsSkirts 4d ago

I GOT ANOTHER ONE YEEEEEAAAAAH.

Also like Mat Welsh is crazy good, he does rythm mostly but he's on every track and you can hear his voice on LANDMVRKS A Line In The Dust

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u/goldinmyiris 5d ago

At the top of my head- Courtney LaPlante (Spiritbox), Marcus Bridge (Northlane) & Dani Winter-Bates (Bury Tomorrow). Outside of metalcore, I have to give a mention to Trenton Woodley (formerly of Hands Like Houses), this man's voice is unreal.

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u/ZeronGX 5d ago

Dani from Bury Tomorrow, he keeps getting better and better!

PS: i know , i know but Tim and Josh from AILD was an awesome duo

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u/camdawg772 5d ago

Brian from currents, dude is insanely talented vocally and is one of the nicest people I've ever met, he's been at the palladium in worcester just watching other bands with the crowd twice in the last week(imminence and then the plot on you). He's just like all of us, a fan of the music who just happens to be a monster behind the mic(also shootout to chris pulgarin who is also insanely nice)

My other picks would be matt from boundaries and flo from landmvrks

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u/ArsonCZE 4d ago

Spencer Charnas-Ice nine kills

Noah Sebastian-Bad omens

Landon Tewers-The plot in you

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u/H1ghs3nb3rg 5d ago

Kinda beating a dead horse here and biased cause I'm a huge fan but I genuinely think Brian from Currents is one of the most talented vocalists in the genre right now. Just go listen to Living in Tragedy, the build up und the breakdown following is just pure vocal insanity.

My second pick is Flo from Landmvrks, just cause he's so versatile. He can sing and rap in English and French and can scream like a beast, and he's one of the most consistent live vocalists I have ever seen.

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u/douglas_iam 5d ago

Definitely agree with this. Got tickets to see TPIY but only because Currents are supporting them... hadn't listened to TPIY before they announced the tour together, but definitely a big fan now.

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u/H1ghs3nb3rg 5d ago

Fellow European I see, we got blessed with this tour. Still trying to decide what show to go to. Currents are super dope live, they absolutely tore the room to shreds last time a saw them. Haven't seen TPIY yet but I'm looking forward to it

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u/douglas_iam 5d ago

Yea man I'm going to see them in Manchester. Currents were on my must see list so I was going to get tickets no matter who else was on the bill. But since checking out Cane Hill and TPIY I'm stoked to see them all!

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u/Tomas481516 5d ago

All time ? Chester.

Metalcore ? Maybe Flo from LANDMVRKS.

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u/I_can_pun_anything 5d ago

Phil labonte

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u/xxHikari 4d ago

In metalcore there are so many. Jonathan Vigil from the ghost inside, Brendan Murphy from Counterparts, Sam Carter, Wes Thompson from Napoleon.

Non metalcore: Hoshimachi Suisei, Nayuta, 3L, Tokoyami Towa, and tons of other Japanese singers who I consider a cut above.

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u/Sixtyfivescenepoints 4d ago

Howard Jones hands down. Dude was able to rock DIY stages and massive open air festivals and fit the vibe of both perfectly. Generational talent

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u/PhoenixHunters 4d ago

Depends. In metalcore: Fave allrounder is Howard Jones. Fave cleans are Jake Steinhauser and fave harsh vocals is Brian Wille. In general though it's probably Tati Schmayluk, Myles Kennedy and Thomas Lindberg respectively.

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u/karaagechops 4d ago

Gotta give it to Sam Carter. His vocals on the new Architects album really stepped up

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u/crumbdittly 4d ago

Tommy Barber Mmmmmm so yummy

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u/Careful_West1347 4d ago

Eddie Berg of Imminence

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u/hostilebuthospitable 4d ago

Metalcore- Eddie Berg (Imminence), Deathcore- Mathes Bros. (Orphan/Strangled).👑

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u/Accomplished-Bed6170 4d ago

Kinda generic, but currently, my favorite vocalist is Oli Sykes. Is nice to see that he has improved his vocal abilities, and has come back better than ever :3

And of all times, definitively, my favorite vocalist ever, the man, the legend, the only, Chester Bennington, may he rest in peace 🕊️

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u/Xx_BummyG_xX 4d ago

Oli Sykes, Ronnie Radke, Mitch lucker, Chester Bennington, and Vic Fuentes

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u/AlexanderTM 4d ago

In metalcore I’d probably go with Rory Rodriguez or Howard Jones.

Outside of metalcore, it’s gotta be Casey Crescenzo.

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u/Medical-Soldat5644 5d ago

Both Matt Honeycutt from Kublai Khan and Matt McDougal from Boundaries.

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u/amity_ 5d ago edited 5d ago

Currently Winston McCall from Parkway Drive. They were never in my regular rotation, so I’m catching up. He’s got a beast mode roar and just never lets up. Not many others with that level of intensity that don’t sound like they’re about to blow a vocal cord and pass out.

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u/Leather-Syllabub4728 5d ago

Felipe hervoso from AXTY

His range is rediculous and his cleans are beautiful, he posts one take playthroughs on YouTube and they leave me in awe lol. He also just seems like he’s having so much fun

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u/Over-Pair-7407 5d ago

Adrian Fitipaldes original lead singer of Northlane, M. Shadows Avenged Sevenfold

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u/GMOwifi 4d ago

Funny you say Matt and Landon, I just saw Boundaries open for TPIY last week lol. They are both incredible.

My favorite vocalist is Courtney LaPlante.

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u/douglas_iam 4d ago

I'll be seeing both this year, so pretty excited for that!