Top 10 Obscure Rock and Metal Songs with Great Vocals
Vocals with autotune are not allowed although typical rock bands rarely use it, if any.Great Vocals - vocals that show a great range, trained and powerful voice; singer can keep a note beautifully and can do upward and downward runs; singer switches very good and has enough breath for what s/he sings, singer can either belt or perform the highest notes in good falsetto; singer uses different vocal techniques.
And last but not least, the material isn't easy to sing.
Vox: Mark Boals
This guy's got a voice and vocal technique to die for. Range, power, sustain, belting,...everything. His voice sounds so trained, like doing everything so effortlessly, although the material he sings isn't easy.
Top vocal moments:
1) chanting in the end
2) belting ("Oh, I made up my mind and oblivion shall reign through the night".)
A song from their final album, 1995. Nobody noticed the album (the album is great, by the way).
Vox - Doogie White (nobody noticed his great vox on the album, either)
Vox - Zachary "Zak" Stevens
Highlight: that long, emotional, powerful and beautiful sustain in the middle (14 seconds long)
Vox: John Lawton
Awesome vox but I put this song lower because it might be less obscure than the others.
Vox: Ralf Scheepers
Highlight: the section 4:00-4:45 with a godly sustain in it.
Guster are an alternative rock band from Boston, Massachusetts.
Highlight: that long note in falsetto you can hear in the 2nd part of the sample.