Top 10 Metal Vocal Performances of the 21st Century
Very often the best vocal performances are not on the most popular songs of the singers. And even more often, the best vocal performances are not on the most popular metal songs.Heavy metal has always had great singers but some newer vocal performances are underrated, or just unnoticed, compared to the songs of the 70s, 80s and 90s.
Hansi Kürsch nailed it from start to finish - every second of it. Every transition, single note and emotion. A song with a progressive structure that doesn't even have a chorus.
Matt Barlow, 2001. He's got one of the most powerful and emotional voices in metal. And a recognizable timbre.
Tarja Turunen, 2004.
Stu Block - a very versatile singer, several styles on one song from both clean and death vocals. Just play the song sample. Stu Block currently sings for Iced Earth.
Tarja Turunen, 2000
One of the greatest songs ever made. Hansi nails it completely.
Russell Allen, 2011.
Stu Block, 2006 (clean vox and death vox).
Hansi Kürsch, 2010 (7:00-7:05 - this guy never cease to surprise me with something new to his vocal style: he sounds like a soprano and soprano is a high female opera voice).
Devin Townsend, 2006. Growls and awesome operatic vocals.