Top 10 Baritones In Metal Music

The Top Ten
1 Dio - Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Dio

@visitor - Dio is definitely a high baritone and not a tenor.

Voice type: Holy Magical Baritone

Dio is awesome but he's a tenor

2 Geoff Tate - Queensrÿche

Voice type: "How he did it? " Baritone

3 Hansi Kürsch - Blind Guardian, Demons & Wizards

Voice type: Extraterrestrial Majestic Baritone

4 Roy Khan - Kamelot

Voice type: Ghost Of The Opera Baritone

5 Matt Barlow - Iced Earth, Ashes of Ares
6 Jon Oliva - Savatage, TSO

Voice type: Mad Mountain King Baritone

7 Phil Anselmo - Pantera, Down

Voice type: Vulgar Bassy Baritone From Hell

8 Ralf Scheepers - Primal Fear, Gamma Ray

Voice type: Hybrid X-Factor BariTenor
Ralf's a Baritenor (baritone voice, tenor range). Baritenor is a rare type of voice and an awesome hybrid because it's very versatile.

9 Corey Taylor - Slipknot, Stone Sour Corey Todd Taylor was born in December 8, 1973. He is an American musician, author, and actor best known as the lead singer and lyricist of the Nu-metal band Slipknot and hard rock/alternative metal band Stone Sour.
10 Peter Steele - Type O Negative Petrus Thomas Ratajczyk, better known by his stage name Peter Steele, was the lead singer, bassist and composer for the gothic metal band Type O Negative.

Amazing vocalist and human being

The Contenders
11 James Hetfield - Metallica James Alan Hetfield was born on August 3, 1963. He is an American musician, singer and songwriter known for being the co-founder, lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist and main songwriter for the American heavy metal band Metallica.

Voice type: Killed 'Em All Baritone
He doesn't have the polished vocal technique of Tate, Khan, Dio, Hansi, and so on, but he's great in his own right. He's maybe even a bass-baritone.

Because that's Het. )

12 Stu Block - Iced Earth, Into Eternity Stuart "Stu" Block is a Canadian singer-songwriter, who was the frontman for Canadian progressive death metal band Into Eternity, and is now the lead vocalist for American heavy metal band Iced Earth.
13 Jørn Lande - JORN, Avantasia, Masterplan, Ark Jørn Lande is a Norwegian metal and hard rock singer known for his solo career as Jorn, and providing vocals for Avantasia, Masterplan, Ark, Beyond Twilight, Millenium, Allen/Lande, Mundanus Imperium, Vagabond, The Snakes, Ayreon.

Voice type: Full Throttle Baritone

14 Eric Adams - Manowar

Voice type: Warrior Power Baritone

15 Fernando Ribeiro - Moonspell
16 Jeff Scott Soto - Yngwie

Voice type: Awesome Pipes Baritone

17 Paul Di'Anno Paul Andrews better known as Paul Di'Anno, is an English singer best known as the first vocalist to record with heavy metal band Iron Maiden, from 1978 to 1981.
18 Nick Holmes - Paradise Lost
19 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.
20 Zachary "Zak" Stevens - Savatage
21 Ian Gillan - Deep Purple, Black Sabbath 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).

The greatest rock singer ever. But if he's a baritone then I'm a basso profundo. He's a tenor.

22 Daniel Gildenlöw - Pain Of Salvation Daniel Gildenlöw is a Swedish musician and songwriter. He is best known as a multi-instrumentalist and vocalist for the progressive metal band Pain of Salvation.
23 Aaron Stainthorpe - My Dying Bride
24 Tony Kakko - Sonata Arctica 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.
25 Jonathan Davis - Korn Jonathan Howsmon Davis, also known as JD and JDevil, is an American musician best known as the leading vocalist and frontman of the nu metal band Korn.

Voice type: "I myself question my sanity" Baritone

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