Top 10 Metal Musicians with University or College Degrees
This list is ranking the Metal Musicians with University or College diplomas.I ranked them by 4 criteria:
1) musicianship (how good they are at what they do in metal bands)
2) type of the diploma (uni > college)
3) difficulty of the studied subject
4) how far from music the field of study is.
But you can use your own criteria while voting and remixing.
Graduated from Bentley University - computer science major.
At #1 because he was also a Professor - before joining Dream Theater, Mangini was an Associate Professor at Berklee College of Music, Percussion Department.
And yes, a great drummer.
He has a Master degree in Media Technology Engineering.
Currently he's one of my most favorite metal musicians (Obscura). Also, judging by his music and lyrics, he's very intelligent.
He holds a university degree in publishing, multimedia communication, and journalism.
His roles in Fleshgod Apocalypse (technical death metal) - Guitars, Vocals (backing), Orchestration (2007-present)
Current Obscura bassist attended the Music College in Regensburg, and afterwards got degree at Hamburg Music and Art University.
Man, all Obscura members are highly educated - Steffen Kummerer, Rafael Trujillo, Sebastian Lanser and Christian Münzner are also on this list.
Rafael (born 1994) graduated from Munich Guitar Institute in 2014. Currently he's studying Jazz at Amsterdam Conservatorium, University of Arts.
He's a lead guitarist for Obscura.
He's an Electrical Engineer. Attila Csihar is a Hungarian black metal vocalist, best known for providing vocals on Mayhem's De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas album.
Classical music degree from the ArtEZ School of Music, where she was taught classical singing and received her degree with honors.
Obscura drummer graduated with honors from Anton Bruckner University (Austria), where he studied percussion (with a minor in piano)
Sorry guys, he actually dropped out and I am not sure if he got a diploma later so he probaly doesn't belong in this list. He studied at Berklee College of Music (where Mike Mangini was a Professor).
He studied opera for three years. I didn't put him high on this list because I didn't find information whether he got a degree after these 3 years of studying or not.
He has a degree in psychology (he's one of the Savatage and TSO lead singers)