Who are your favorite black and death metal vocalists?

Although, like many, I had plenty of initial trouble getting into the extreme styles of vocals in black metal and death metal, I'm finding myself enjoying them more and more, and trying to figure out why I like certain voices and dislike others (hey, just like with any other genre). Who are your top five black and death metal vocalists? Mine (at the moment):

•Chuck Schuldiner, Death
•Quorthon, Bathory
•Jon Nodtveidt, Dissection
•Nocturno Culto, Darkthrone
•David Vincent, Morbid Angel

the guy from necrofrost will always be my number one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=pg3Cm_5mBUo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHqwzMZ_KUE&feature=related

Shamaatae of Arckanum
Martin van Drunen of Asphyx/Pestilence/Hail of Bullets
Nergal of Behemoth
Pest of Gorgoroth
Tom G Warrior of Hellhammer/Celtic Frost

J. Read and Pete Helmkamp go pretty damn hard - can't really fuck wit their combined discographies (Conqueror, Oder From Chaos, Revenge, Angelcorpse, Axis of Advance, Black Witchery...).
And Quorthon is the once and future king.

scott otm

dude from putrid pile is also A+

gaahl - gorogoroth, trelldom etc.
lord worm - cryptopsy
quorthorn - bathory
martin van drunen - asphyx, hail of bullets
kam lee - massacre

'gorgoroth'

Martin van Drunen, Asphyx/Hail Of Bullets/Pestilence
Tomas Lindberg, At The Gates
John Tardy, Obituary
Ihsahn, Emperor
Mikael Stanne, Dark Tranquility

Oh no, how could I forget Tom G. Warrior?! I feel bad... Siegbran, are Pest's vocals on those Gorgoroth records processed or are they really un-fucked-with??

Gotta mention Will Rahmer of Mortician. Half the time he doesn't even sound like a human voice - sounds like bass amp distortion.

I'm just listening to them for the first time, and man... The dude from Cryptopsy is unreal!

yeah, lord worm is pretty excellent

jon chang, discordance axis

the guy that sounds like a frog, inquisition

I might be in the minority on this, but I like what Xasthur/Malefic does (Did? He's been quiet..). Heavy processed, and buried in the mix. Not the best by far, though.

Nocturno Culto is up there, probably Ihsahn as well.

Some unmentioned ones:

Micke Jansson (Unanimated)
Thomas AG Jensen (Saturnus)
Glen Benton (Deicide)
Karl Willets (Bolt Thrower)
Jan Chris de Koeijer (Gorefest)
Barney Greenway (Napalm Death)
Bill Steer (Carcass)

Also, goregrind processed vocals are great when they sound like a clogged drain (find Urine Festival on youtube).

Jeff Walker (duh)
Dead (Mayhem)

Hoath Torog - Behexen
Tom G Warrior - Hellhammer
Nuclear Holocausto Vengeance - Beherit
Nocturno Culto - Darkthrone
Alan Dubin - Khanate

Lori Bravo - Nuclear Death
Nocturno Culto definitely
Quorthon
Chris Reifert from Autopsy
Tom G. Warrior in Celtic Frost and Hellhammer
Paulus from Rites of Thy Degringolade
dude from Suffocation blew my mind the first time I heard him

Also a sucker for maybe not great vocalists who use the right amount of echo or short delay to give a cryptic reverberation - Von, Mortuary Drape, Vomitor, etc. And honorable mention to black-ish metal vocalists like Cronos and Big Boss from Root.

Missed van Drunen (especially on Consuming Impulse) and Kam Lee!

Attila for lols both on De mysteriis and that Sunn O))) album

co-sign John Tardy from Obituary. Nocturno Culto obv. Yes to Quorthon. Agreed that Cronos can definitely be considered.

The singing on the new Carcass album is A+++++. Also often impressed by vocals on Gorgoroth tracks, but I understand they changed singers a lot so not sure who it would be.

Attilla's fucking awesome too. I love his Sunn O))) work (makes me think of Gary Oldman's Dracula).

yeah Jeff Walker from Carcass is great, good call

It's all about the intro vocals –

Lord Worm's high-pitched girly first scream on "Crown of Horns" (on None so Vile)
Noctorno Culto's belching start to "Kathaarian Life Code" (on A Blaze in the Northern Sky)
Nick Bullen's thick brummie "Genocoide. To the. Starving. Noiyshuns" at the beginning of Napalm Death, Scum

Sure there are many more amazing ones... always love the eternal question of what to do in the three seconds before you descend into an impenetrable wall of atonal malice

Was going to say Lee Dorrian in Napalm Death but then my inner pedant was like that's not black OR death.

The singing on the new Carcass album is A+++++.

Walker sounds fucking amazing, really surprised at how well his voice has held up. I still miss Steer singing though.

finally managed to get a copy of tormentor's 'anno domini' and Attila's vocals on that are pretty fantastic too...

I still miss Steer singing though.

He sings quite a bit on the new one!

like, listen to the outro scream on this bad boy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI66Ii7RZHo

love this dude

Attila on De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas walks the line between Popeye and Marlon Brando attempting to talk while eating a ham sandwich

it's a truly unique performance

oh shit I forgot about Temple of the Maggot- bm band from Mongolia, their singer is reeediculous

It's all about the intro vocals –

Lord Worm's high-pitched girly first scream on "Crown of Horns" (on None so Vile)
Noctorno Culto's belching start to "Kathaarian Life Code" (on A Blaze in the Northern Sky)
Nick Bullen's thick brummie "Genocoide. To the. Starving. Noiyshuns" at the beginning of Napalm Death, Scum

Sure there are many more amazing ones... always love the eternal question of what to do in the three seconds before you descend into an impenetrable wall of atonal malice

Great post -- have to agree on "Kathaarian Life Code"'s intro, which always destroys me

Thurios when he's in Drudkh

Corpsegrinder
Chris Barnes (thru The Bleeding only obv)
Lord Worm
Chris Reifert (the things he does with his voice, fuck)
Glen Benton
Jeff Walker
Bill Steer (on the old Carcass shiz)
Frank Mullen
Wagner "Antichrist" Lamounier
Chuck Schuldiner
Ihsahn
Dead
Attila
John McEntee
Barney Greenway
Ross Dolan
J.L. "Phlegeton" Ray
Tom G Warrior
Chance Garnette (fuck him forever though)
Aaron Stainthorpe
Mike Scheidt
John Tardy
Antti Boman
Mirai Kawashima

Excellent list.

Missing: Jon Nödtveidt.

Tomas Lindberg too.

admittedly only listened to Dissection a handful of times despite liking Light's Bane.

xpost Lindberg's dece. idk if i'd put him on my list but I like him

Too lazy to come up with a proper list rn, but Onielar would def be on it.

Frank Mullen's good on record, but he was phenomenal (and hilarious) live. Jazz hands! I remember seeing Suffocation at what I believe was his final NYC-area show — he pointed out his daughter (early 20s) hanging out at the side of the stage, and then dedicated "Breeding the Spawn" to her.

I got to see him only once (it was always Ricky or someone else the other times), but I did put on their live cd once and was floored at how great he sounded on it.

that's a great story!

Agree with a lot of your choices. My own list:

Corpsegrinder
Jon Chang
LG Petrov
Johan Hegg
Tom G. Warrior
Phlegeton (Wormed)
Mortuus (Marduk, but I like him even better on Funeral Mist records)
Greg Mackintosh (Vallenfyre)
Champ Morgan (Kill The Client)

LG's a great one. Forgot him