Top Ten Singers with the Most Aggressive Screams
Please note there is a key difference between growling and screaming. Growling is more guttural and uses more of the throat, where as screaming uses more of the lungs and is often higher pitched than growls.This also isn't listing off who can scream the best, just who can scream the most aggressively. These guys are known for unleashing the most raw and anger inducing screams on the planet.
Chino Moreno is an American musician. He is best known as the lead vocalist and contributing guitarist of Deftones. Best Examples: Fireal, When Boys Telephone Girls, Rats! Rats! Rats!
Devin Garret Townsend is a Canadian musician, songwriter and record producer. He was the founder, songwriter, vocalist, and guitarist in extreme metal band Strapping Young Lad from 1994 to 2007 and has an extensive career as a solo artist. Yes, his screams are remarkably aggressive.
He's a very versatile vocalist with unique vocal skills - he can scare you to death and then sing you to sleep. Not to mention his vocal range of 5 octaves.
Best Examples: The entirety of Oh My F God and S-storm, the ending scream in Thing Beyond Things
Definitely aggressive beyond belief, so much raw power and anger.
Jonathan Howsmon Davis, also known as JD and JDevil, is an American musician best known as the leading vocalist and frontman of the nu metal band Korn.
Philip Hansen "Phil" Anselmo is an American musician who is best known as the former lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Pantera. He currently is the vocalist of heavy metal bands Down and Superjoint Ritual. Best Examples: Suicide Note Pt. 2, Use My Third Arm, The Great Southern Trendkill
Corey Todd Taylor was born in December 8, 1973. He is an American musician, author, and actor best known as the lead singer and lyricist of the Nu-metal band Slipknot and hard rock/alternative metal band Stone Sour. Best Examples: Eyeless, Metabolic and the ending to Scissors
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. Just listen to Jizzlobber to get a full overview of his aggression, along with Irony is a Dead Scene by the Dillinger Escape Plan
Oh yes, Mike deserves to be in the top ten. Thanks to whoever added him.
Charles Michael "Chuck" Schuldiner (1967-2001) was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist, best known as the founder and vocalist, guitarist and bassist of the American heavy metal band Death. He is considered the most influential figure in Death Metal, with some publications referring to Chuck as the "Godfather of Death Metal". Schuldiner died in December 13, 2001 of brain cancer, his death subsequently leading to the disbandment of Death, but has remained influential among many aspiring metal artists.
He was also known for his polite and life loving attitude and openly condemned stereotypes of metal musicians being harmful and evil. Best Examples: Spirit Crusher, Flesh and the Power It Holds, the Painkiller cover
Best examples: The entire Calculating Infinity Album
Angela Nathalie Gossow is a German vocalist, best known as the former lead vocalist for the Swedish melodic death metal band Arch Enemy.
Kurt Cobain was born February 20, 1967, in Aberdeen, Washington. In 1987, he started the grunge band Nirvana, which became one of the most successful bands ever. He was a talented yet troubled grunge performer. Kurt Cobain became a rock legend in the 1990s with his band. He committed suicide at his Seattle home in 1994. Best Examples: Territorial Pissings, Scentless Apprentice, tourette's
Lead singer of My Dying Bride
Maria Diane Brink is an American singer and songwriter, best known as the frontwoman of American metalcore band In This Moment.
David Michael Draiman is an American songwriter and the vocalist for the band Disturbed as well as for the band Device.Best Examples: In the Meantime, Murder
Chester Charles Bennington (March 20th, 1976 - July 20th, 2017) was an American musician, singer, songwriter and actor, best known for being the lead singer of Linkin Park. Before he was known for Linkin Park, Bennington was the lead singer of post-grunge act Grey Daze who was heavily inspired by Stone Temple Pilots they released two albums with Chester before his death. Wake Me and No Sun Today, a third album called Amends would be released in 2020 consisting of voice samples from Bennington. After Grey Daze dissolved, Bennington would join Linkin Parkin in 1999 formerly called Hybrid Theory, replacing former vocalist Mark Wakefield, who would go on to become Taproot's producer. Even with Bennington's ...read more. Best examples: No More Sorrow, Given Up, Bleed it Out, War, One Step Closer, From the Inside, Somewhere I Belong, Lost in the Echo, Victimized, Morning After, Walking in Circles, The Catalyst, Fire, End of the World, Condemned, Inside of Me, Crawl Back In, Papercut, Breaking the Habit, Numb, In The End, By Myself, Don't Stay, Out of Time, Black Heart, Same on the Inside, Cry Cry, Figure.09, With You, Blackout, and more.
Zacharias Manuel "Zack" de la Rocha (born January 12, 1970) is an American musician, poet, rapper, and activist best known as the vocalist and lyricist of rap metal band Rage Against the Machine from 1991–2000, and after the band's reunion in 2007 until their last show in 2011. He left Rage Against the Machine in October 2000, and embarked on a low-key solo career. With former Mars Volta drummer Jon Theodore, de la Rocha also co-founded One Day as a Lion in 2008. Best Examples: The endings to both Freedom and War Within Breath
Maynard James Keenan, often referred to by his initials MJK, is an American musician, record producer, winemaker, and actor, best known as the vocalist for Grammy Award-winning progressive metal band Tool. He also is the singer of A Perfect Circle and Puscifer bands that vary in style. While he barely screams, even his normal singing can sound unusually aggressive, and Ticks and Leeches has some amazing vocal work
Best Example: Ticks and Leeches
Henry Lawrence Garfield, better known by his stage name Henry Rollins, is an American musician, actor, writer, television and radio host, and comedian.
Christopher John "Chris" Cornell was an American rock musician and singer-songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist, primary songwriter and rhythm guitarist for Seattle rock band Soundgarden and as former lead vocalist and songwriter for the supergroup Audioslave. His vocal range was C2 to A5, while his highest notes went up to G6. He died on May 17, 2017.
Tyler Robert Joseph is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and rapper. He is best known as the lead vocalist and keyboardist for American musical duo Twenty One Pilots.
Robert John Arthur "Rob" Halford is an English singer and songwriter, who is best known as the lead vocalist for the Grammy Award-winning heavy metal band Judas Priest and famed for his powerful wide ranging operatic voice.
David Randall "Randy" Blythe is the vocalist and lyricist of American heavy metal band Lamb of God and side-project band Halo of Locusts.