Best High-Pitched Metal Vocalists

The Top Ten
1 King Diamond Kim Bendix Petersen, better known by his stage name King Diamond, is a Danish heavy metal musician. He is known for his extensive vocal range, usually sung in falsetto. King Diamond was originally known as the vocalist for Mercyful Fate, but has become notorious for his horror themed Concept albums ...read more.

Sometimes people use a little bit of Falsetto to sing.
But, to be honest, I really dislike this man voice. All song using Falsetto.
In smule app, many peoples sang helloween or maiden songs with Falsetto, even the pitch is low.
what?

His voice is unbearable...

There is no equal! Rock on

All hail the King!

2 Rob Halford Robert John Arthur "Rob" Halford is an English singer and songwriter, who is best known as the lead vocalist for the Grammy Award-winning heavy metal band Judas Priest and famed for his powerful wide ranging operatic voice.

Hear Painkiller.. Or The Beyond The Realms Of Death Or The Sentinel
And you will know that the god of metal is the best high-pitched metal vocalist.. King diamond is good for 3rd and bruce deserve 2nd spot hear the high pitched scream at Number Of The Beast Or Run To Hills and where is tom araya? He did one of the best high-pitched screams at angel of death

Amazing vocals on practically any of the songs. Just listen to Prisoner Of Your Eyes and Turbo Lover. It shows one second it can be a graceful low to a window shattering high. Just simply an amazing vocalist and Judas Priest is an archetype in Heavy Metal.

No one had the power and high notes the the Metal God had. Play Screaming For Vengance, and you'll see what I mean.

If Rob the metal god Halford isn't number 1 on this list then it shouldn't exist.

3 Bruce Dickinson Paul Bruce Dickinson, known professionally as Bruce Dickinson, (born 7 August 1958) is an English musician, airline pilot, and broadcaster. He is most well known for being the lead singer in heavy metal band Iron Maiden and his solo career.Outside his career in music, Dickinson has pursued a number of other activities. He undertook a career as a commercial pilot for Astraeus Airlines, which led to a number of media-reported ventures such as captaining Iron Maiden's converted charter aeroplane, Ed Force One, during their world tours. Following Astraeus' closure, he created his own aircraft maintenance and pilot training company, Cardiff Aviation, in 2012. Dickinson presented his own radio show ...read more.

Yes, he gave a mind blowing scream in the end of the Run to the Hills. but isn't it little bit of overrated for him to be at number 1. I mean there are lots of other high-pitched metal vocalists.

I especially love it when Bruce gives that final high pitched scream in the end of Run To The Hills

4 Miljenko Matijevic - Steelheart Miljenko Matijevic is a Croatian-American singer and songwriter. He is best known as the lead vocalist and songwriter of rock band Steelheart. He has a big following in South Korea and has worked on several South Korean TV series.

@Metal Treasure, why you hating on Mili/Mike? On one site you wrote he didn't belong to the list because he's only 3 octaves and the list is for 4 octaves and higher. Seriously, have you heard this man sing?

Just listen into their hits like She's Gone, Can't Stop Me Loving You, Shiela and I'll Never Let You Go and you will have your jaw dropped.

He isn't exactly a metal singer - glam metal is more like hard rock.

He's the highest pitch male rock singer,pure voice, not falsetto

5 Michael Kiske Michael Kiske is a singer best known as the former lead vocalist for the German power metal band Helloween.

43 names and Kiske wasn't mentioned?

6 Fabio Lione Fabio Tordiglione is an Italian singer and lyricist who has sung with many music bands including Rhapsody of Fire, Labyrinth, Ayreon, Angra, Vision Divine, Hollow Haze, Kaledon, Ancient Bards, and Athena.
7 Neil Turbin

Best screaming anthrax vocalist neil turbin

8 Roy Khan Roy Sætre Khantatat, is a Norwegian singer-songwriter. Commonly known as Roy Khan or simply Khan, he was the lead vocalist for the symphonic power metal band Kamelot from 1997 to his departure in 2011. He co-wrote most of Kamelot's songs with the band's guitarist and founder Thomas Youngblood during ...read more.
9 André Matos André Coelho Matos is a Brazilian vocalist, pianist and composer. He was involved in the heavy metal bands Viper, Angra and Shaaman.

Yes, he's a technical beast.

10 Tim "Ripper" Owens Timothy S. "Ripper" Owens is an American heavy metal singer who currently performs with Beyond Fear, Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force and Charred Walls of the Damned.

He's very good - very powerful voice yet high-pitched (you probably noticed that many high-pitched singers don't have very powerful voices).

The Contenders
11 Alessandro Conti
12 ZP Theart ZP De Villiers Theart is a South African singer, songwriter, and the lead vocalist for Skid Row. Theart first garnered attention as the original singer of British power metal band DragonForce.
13 Joey Belladonna Joey Belladonna is the American Thrash Metal singer, best known for leading the band Anthrax. He also sings and drums for the cover band Chief Big Way.
14 Ronnie James Dio Ronnie James Dio (born Ronald James Padavona; July 10, 1942 – May 16, 2010) was an American heavy metal singer, songwriter and musician. He fronted and/or founded numerous groups including Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Dio and Heaven & Hell. He is credited with popularizing the "metal horns" hand gesture in metal culture and is known for his medieval themed lyrics. Dio possessed a powerful versatile vocal range capable of singing both hard rock and lighter ballads; according to Rainbow/Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore upon hearing him sing, "I felt shivers down my spine." Dio sold over 47 million albums throughout his career. He died from stomach cancer in 2010 at the age of 67.

He's great and I love him but he isn't a high-pitched singer.

15 Geoff Tate Geoff Tate is a German-born American singer and musician who rose to fame in the 1980s with the progressive metal band Queensrÿche.
16 Tobias Sammet Tobias Sammet is a German metal musician, best known as the vocalist and primary songwriter of the power metal band Edguy, as well as the founder, main singer and bassist of the metal opera Avantasia.
17 Cam Pipes

It's funny to see Cam Pipes at this spot and King Diamond at the #1 spot because Pipes as been Diamond's "behind the curtains" live singer since 2005! Love this guy and miss 3 inches of blood.

18 Olaf Hayer
19 Tony Kakko Toni Kristian "Tony" Kakko is a Finnish musician, composer and vocalist. He is mainly known as the vocalist, primary songwriter, and creative force in the band Sonata Arctica since 1996.
20 Timo Kotipelto Timo Antero Kotipelto is the vocalist of the Finnish power metal band Stratovarius and is the creator and vocalist of the power metal band Kotipelto.
21 Russell Allen Russell Allen is a singer and lyricist best known as the vocalist of American progressive metal band Symphony X.
22 Ian Gillan Ian Gillan is an English singer and songwriter. He originally found success as the lead singer and lyricist for Deep Purple, and the original singer on the rock opera concept album Jesus Christ Superstar by Andrew Lloyd Webber, where Gillan had the leading role (Jesus Christ).

Seriously guys, he has the best high pitched scream ever. Just listen to his screams in Made In Japan songs like Space Truckin', Black Night and of course the incredible Child In Time. He also sings with a high pitched voice in Strange Kind of Woman in Made In Japan during the guitar and vocal battle.

He started it all in metal and deserves more love and respect, much more than #31 on this list.
He was Bruce Dickinson's vocal idol. The first album Bruce even bought was Deep Purple's In Rock (1970) - because Bruce heard the song Child In Time and Gillan vocals.

23 Spencer Sotelo Spencer Sotelo is the singer of the bands Endur and Periphery and was the guitarist of From First to Last. He is best known for his experimental direction of vocals in metal in his work in Periphery.

This guy's voice is one of the most unique that I've ever heard. I just started listening to Periphery and his clean vocals sound really... Poppy, but his screams are so powerful it's scary. Great vocalist

His voice is so good. Just listen to Ragnarok by Periphery. He can sing perfectly and scream so sick!

The Sponce Fck Yeah! Love him. He's a perfect being with perfect voice

24 James LaBrie Kevin James LaBrie is a Canadian vocalist and songwriter, who is best known as the lead singer of the American progressive metal band Dream Theater.

James LaBrie is one of the most epic metal singers ever! If it werent for food poisoning, he would probably come in the top 3 with Bruce and Ronnie (RIP)! Don't forget that F#5!

25 Kyo Kyo is a Japanese musician, singer, lyricist and poet. He is best known as the vocalist of the metal band Dir en grey. He has been with the band since its inception in 1997 and was formerly in La:Sadie's.

One of the most versatile vocalists that I've heard about. The guy can go from high pitched clean vocals to screams to death growls to black metal shrieks and so on. This is one benefactor to the fact that Dir En Grey can't really be categorized by a specific genre. They can be alt rock one minute and death metal the next. Kyo is just such an amazing vocalist.

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