Best Melodic Death Metal Vocalists

Melodic death metal is a side genre of death metal it is actually called "Gothenburg metal" but melodic death metal is the best title for it...

So there won't be vocalists of bands like Cannibal Corpse, Death...

The Top Ten
1 Johan Hegg (Amon Amarth) Johan Hegg, born in 1973 in Stockholm, Sweden, is the singer of melodic death metal band Amon Amarth. He joined the band in 1991.

Nobody can deny his amazing vocals his voice is very powerful and amon amarth is one of the best bands that melodic death metal will ever see with powerful guitars and drums
Hear Cry Of The Blackbirds, Twillight Of A Thunder God, Guardians Of Asgard, The Pursuit of Vikings..

His voice is so mighty, awesome, and powerful. He is one of the reason why Amon Amarth rules!

You see this guy isn't growling, that's just his extremely viking voice!

Barely any technique, but sick voice. His high growls are unique

2 Alexi Laiho (Children of Bodom) Alexi "Wildchild" Laiho (April 8th 1979 - December 29th 2020) was a Finnish guitarist, composer, and vocalist. He is best known as the lead guitarist, lead vocalist, and founding member of the melodic death metal band Children of Bodom. He was also the guitarist for Sinergy, The Local Band, and Kylähullut. ...read more.

He got very powerful growl-screaming voice one of the best growling voices and one of the best melodic voices in death metal I have ever heard seriously
Hear every time I Die, Are You Dead Yet? , Angels Don, t Kill, Transference, Halo Of Blood, Roundtrip To Hell And Back, In Your Face and you will know that he deserve to be at the top

Master of guitar but mediocre vocalist and composer. His vocals are not very powerful especially higher screams and do not sound demonic and hellish as they should.

Alexi sings what a non metal fan will understand, that's why he is the Best metal vocalist to me in the Best modern metal band. Gush Alexi your vocal wets my ears..

The Greatest singer ever. Alexi Laiho is the Melodic Death Metal God.

3 Mikael Stanne (Dark Tranquillty) Bengt Mikael Stanne is the vocalist and one of the lyricists for the Swedish melodic death metal band, Dark Tranquillity and the ex-vocalist for Swedish power metal band HammerFall.

He got very amazing growling voice and a singing melodic vocals
What I like in his style his melodic switches from a growling voice to an angel voice..
Hear Terminus, Misery's Crown, Uniformity, The Mundane and the Magic, What Only You Know

He may not have the best harsh vocals, but his clean vocals are probably the best and most melodic. Just listen to songs like Misery's Crown and Ether Novas.

So much better then Laiho. Growls are amazing and SO MELODIC and you can actually understand his lyrics unlike a lot of other metal vocalists

This seems to be already on this list... can someone delete this entry?

4 Anders Fridén (In Flames) Anders Fridén is the vocalist/lyricist of the Swedish metal band In Flames. Fridén was also the vocalist of Passenger, a side project.

On his first couple of albums with In Flames, he sounded great, but on the later albums, not so much. His growl is a bit too screechy for my taste, and his cleans are a bit obnoxious.

He's not that much of a vocalist, but has the perfect fry screaming voice.

5 Björn "Speed" Strid (Soilwork)

Alexis? Seriously? His range sucks compared to Speed. Oh yeah, he doesn't sing either. Speed is good at everything.

One of the outright best vocalists in the world. Ridiculous range, fantastic voice, fantastic screams as well as cleans.

Easily the most versatile melodic metal vocalist in the world, he should be #1 on this list without a doubt.

Bjorn is the best vocal singer in the world and should be #1 in this list.

6 Niilo Sevänen (Insomnium)

Very amazing vocalist really his growly voice is very awesome and powerful sounds like a pure death metal
And his melodic voice is so awesome..
Hear Mortal Share, Unsung, Weather The Storm, Through The Shadows, Regain The Fire, One For Sorrow, Down With The Sun.. And you will know that this vocalist is very awesome

His voice is so powerful and intense, I thought that he added lots of effects in the studio recordings to make it sound that good, but after hearing him live, I can say that he sounds just as powerful live.

His voice I powerful

7 Alissa White-Gluz (Arch Enemy)

She's awesome in Arch Enemy and the Agonist. Plus, it's Alissa White-Gluz

She is so damn hot!

8 Jeff Walker (Carcass) Jeffrey Walker is a bass guitarist and vocalist from Windle, St Helens, UK. He is best known for his work with death metal band Carcass for which he is also the main lyricist.
9 Pekka Kokko (Kalmah)

Has the most brutal voice in melodic death metal, listen to Defeat and other songs on the Black Waltz.
Alexi maybe a great guitarist but he's definitely not a death metal vocalist.

From high pitch screams to brutal low growls, this man can do it all. Listen to the album "they will return" and then "12 gauge" and then feel the difference.

Very awesome vocalist really I love his voice it is very amazing voice(for me the best voice in melodic death metal) with songs like Hades, Heroes To Us, Withering Away, Alteration, Seventh Swamphony,Moon Of My Nights

The best vocals in the genre.

10 Trevor Strnad (The Black Dahlia Murder) Trevor Strnad was an American singer and musician mostly known as the lead vocalist and frontman of The Black Dahlia Murder.

I haven't found a second vocalist with the same range and diverse sound as Trevor. If someone did, please send it to me.

Trevor has an amazing voice. He can do high screams and traditional growls. Trevor is awesome, BDM is awesome.

You should stop what you're doing and listen to this band right now.

The Contenders
11 Peter Tägtgren (Hypocrisy) Alf Peter Tägtgren is a Swedish musician, multi-instrumentalist and producer. He is the founder, main songwriter, lead vocalist, and guitarist of the death metal band Hypocrisy as well as the industrial metal band PAIN in which he is the only member.

Very good range from low growls to high shrieks and ability to switch between different registers also good clean singing. All his vocals sound really hellish and demonic.

He's very good

12 Christian Älvestam (Scar Symmetry, Solution .45)

Has amazing growls as well as pretty good clean vocals

13 Mikael Åkerfeldt (Opeth) Lars Mikael Åkerfeldt is a Swedish musician, prominently known as the lead vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter of progressive death metal band Opeth, as well as being the former vocalist of death metal supergroup Bloodbath for three albums up until 2012. ...read more.

People saying "Eww that's not Melodic Death Metal its Progressive Death Metal" really should listen to Opeth first..
While listening you clearly hear euphonious melodies all over their music. The right genre name would be "Progressive Melodic Death Metal", but since that name is pretty long and "Melodic" is a vague description for music, many leave this out. PURE "Progressive Death Metal" without beeing too melodic are played by Death or Horrendous.

Åkerfeldt is the guy to beat. Genre arguing is pointless; the minute differences between them amount to jack when no one agrees to any precise characteristics describing a genre, and when there is no way to measure just how very melodic one band is versus another. "Oh, look, Åkerfeldt is 7.89% more true, pure melodic, goblin-tainted Nord rock and/or roll than Mikael Stanne! "

Think about it this way: Opeth mixes death metal with melody, therefore, they are a melodic death metal band. It's that simple.

Opeth is a Technical Death Metal band genius, not Melodic Death Metal.

14 Angela Gossow (Arch Enemy) Angela Nathalie Gossow is a German vocalist, best known as the former lead vocalist for the Swedish melodic death metal band Arch Enemy.

Seems to be one of the few female metal singers who could make awesome music without sex appeal. Pure talent. Arch Enemy is so much more than having an attractive woman singing, that goes for both Angela and Alissa (though I prefer Angela, she has a better growl).

She's hot, and a badass singer!

15 Ryan Clark (Demon Hunter)
16 Tomas Lindberg (At the Gates)

Tomas Lindberg is a god of Gothenburg Sound!

17 George Kosmas (Be'Lakor)

His voice might not be as powerful as johan hegg or mikail stanne, but it fits perfectly with the band. one of the best melodeath vocals for sure

After Niilo Sevanen...George is the new rebirth of melodeath that thrived on 90s...and material wise be lakor is fantastic...

18 Petri Lindroos (Norther) Petri Lindroos is a melodic death/folk metal guitarist and vocalist. He is currently the lead vocalist in Ensiferum and, prior to this, was a founder and lead vocalist for Norther.

Alexi and Him are the very best of Melodic Death

19 Seiji Kakuzaki (Intestine Baalism)
20 Johannes Eckerström (Avatar)
21 Brendon Small (Dethklok) Brendon Small is an American producer, writer, animator, stand-up comedian, voice actor, and musician.

He is genius vocalist, Actor. And the idea of virtual band is very sucessful idea and the stories that he sing about is very exciting.. Hear murmaider, Murmaider II (The Water God), Thunderhorse, Bloodlines, I Ejacute Fire, Awaken

22 Chad (Garden Of Shadows)
23 Niklas Karlsson (Orbit Culture)
24 Mohammad Shakib (Negrura)

Great death metal vocalist

25 Ken (Serpent)
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