Top 10 Best Vocal Techniques In Metal

Death Growls are my favorite vocal style in metal. They are brutal and powerful, evil and demonic. Love this! I prefer this one over any other technique, but that's of course a matter of taste!

Hail metalLic growls!

Many people will prefer this, since they are not fans of guttural vocals. But also in extreme metal there is use of great clean vocals like in Melodic Death Metal.

Works with everything. I like it when a vocalist uses both clean vocals and growl / scream.

I love operatic vocals in metal.

The very evil and harsh sounding higher pitched guttural vocals in metal. In my opinion not as powerful as Death Growls, but still sounding extremely evil and satanic.

I can do this better than growling. I still suck at doing this though.

Similar to the Growl in terms of pitch and demonicness, but sounding more clipped.

A mixture of both guttural and clean singing to a rough sounding singing style with well hearable tones.

An insane, frantic and fierce sounding vocal style, very prominent in Grindcore. Many fans of extreme metal do not like this, so I'd say it's rather an acquired taste.

The Shout is a mid-pitched and rather clipped guttural vocal style. Its very prominent in Hardcore and Metalcore.

Sounds like someone is barfing or burping in my ears.

Every metalfan knows this characteristic "BREEE" sound. It sounds cool, but shouldn't be overdone.

I am not a big fan of this to be honest.

I do not like this much..

Very common in deathcore. It's also acquired taste I guess.

I didn't add this item but I think it really sounds good on some metal songs - Iced Earth use this quite often (Damien, Dante's Inferno)

Doesn't Korn use this?

Yes, Rap is also happening in metal. In modern metal though. Many people like this, many don't.

Ehh...I don't really like it, but there are a few exceptions like Korn.

Get this off the list

Mainly used in slam.