Top 10 Most Influential Metal Singers
Metal singers whose singing influenced the next generations of great metal singers.He influenced directly Bruce Dickinson and then Bruce influenced almost everyone with clean vocals. Therefore, Gillan singing style has the biggest multiplication effect and I put him at #1.
Bruce Dickinson became attracted to harder/heavier music after hearing Deep Purple's "Child in Time" being played in another student's room. As a result, the first album he ever bought was Deep Purple's "In Rock".
Hansi Kursch was also influenced by Ian Gillan. In Geoff Tate screams I easily recognize Gillan screaming style, etc.
Yes, he's the most influential metal singer ever. More or less every high pitch metal singer was inspired by his screaming. Including Bruce, Hansi, Geoff, Eric, I know a lot of singers who mention him as their biggest influence.
For example, he influenced directly some great singers like Michael Kiske and Tobias Sammet.
He influenced directly King Diamond, Tim "Ripper" Owens and Ralf Scheepers, among others.
Influenced the way Vocalists sing in Groove Metal
He influenced the metal singers with low voices usually found in gothic and doom metal.
For brutal death growls.