Top 10 Metal Musicians Named Michael, Mike, or Mikael

1 Mike Mangini - Dream Theater, ex-Annihilator

2 Mike Portnoy - ex-Dream Theater

Best drummer ever

3 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.

4 Michael Kiske - Helloween

5 Michael Romeo - Symphony X Michael James Romeo is an American guitarist and a founding member of the progressive metal group Symphony X.

6 Mike Patton - Faith No More, Mr. Bungle Michael Allan "Mike" Patton is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, film composer, producer, and actor, best known as the lead singer of the alternative metal band Faith No More.

7 Michael Amott - Arch Enemy, Spiritual Beggars

8 Michael Weikath - Helloween Michael Ingo Joachim "Weiki" Weikath is a German musician and songwriter, best known as a founding member and one of the guitarists and backing vocalists of pioneering power metal band Helloween.

9 Michael Poulsen - Volbeat Michael Schøn Poulsen is a Danish vocalist and guitarist. He is currently the singer and main songwriter of the band Volbeat.

10 Mikael Stanne - Dark Tranquillity 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.

The Contenders

11 Mikael Niklasson - Dark Tranquillity