Top 10 Songs With Sustains by Metal Singers Longer Than 10 Seconds

Lung volume, breath control and volume control matter!
The Top Ten
1 Open Face Surgery - Cryptopsy

Lord Worm - over 25 seconds long sustain, in the form of a scream.

2 I Want Out - Helloween

Michael Kiske - about 20 seconds (background vox).

3 Laying the Demon to Rest - Theocracy

Matt Smith - about 23 secs. It's longer than Kiske's at #2 but I put it at #3 because Matt suffers a bit towards the end.

4 Hail and Kill - Manowar

Eric Adams - 19 seconds (LIVE! )

5 Thor - Manowar

Eric Adams - about 33 sec long, in the form of a scream. A very convincing sustain. It's from 4:36-5:08. I didn't consult the Guinness book of records but this is the longest scream/sustain I know.

6 Painkiller - Judas Priest

Rob Halford - about 18-19 seconds. A perfectly crafted sustain.

7 Keeper of the Seven Keys, Pt. 2 - Helloween

Michael Kiske -18 seconds towards the end of the song. Perfection!

8 Eagle Fly Free - Helloween

Michael Kiske again - 16 seconds.

9 I Want Out - Gamma Ray

Ralf Scheepers - effortles 15 seconds LIVE! (Ralf is currently in Primal Fear). But on the song sample here isn't Ralf, it's Kai Hansen.

10 Hallowed Be Thy Name - Iron Maiden

@AggressiveBlaze - this is the best song on this but my idea was to rank the songs by the length of the sustain and there are songs with longer sustain.

Bruce Dickinson - 13 seconds (LIVE! 1982)

The Contenders
11 Silence Calls the Storm - Quo Vadis

16-17 seconds in the intro

12 A Dark Passage - Blind Guardian
13 And Plague Flowers the Kaleidoscope - Ne Obliviscaris

Tim Charles: 2 great consecutive sustains in the background for about 12-13 seconds each, at 2:50 and 3:03

14 Missä Miehet Ratsastaa - Teräsbetoni
15 Anti - Mayhem
16 The Marshall Arts - Razor

An insane 26 second long shriek from sheepdog

17 Golden Dawn - Edguy
18 Handful of Rain - Savatage

Zachary Stevens - 14 seconds. Awesome!

19 Pyhä Maa - Teräsbetoni
20 Nailed to the Wheel - Edguy

Tobias Sammet - about 13 seconds.

21 Gardens of the Sinner - Gamma Ray

Kai Hansen - about 11-12 seconds.

22 Flight of Icarus - Tim 'ripper' Owens
23 The Man (That I Don't Know) - Primal Fear
24 Wages of Sin - Winter's Bane
25 Given Up - Linkin Park

This song is NOT metal. And the band isn't metal.

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