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| Favorite Hard Rock/Metal Frontmen (1987-present)
recently checked out Loudwire's "The 66 Best Hard Rock + Metal Frontmen of All Time". Heavily disagreed with these, especially the top picks, and as such have decided to make my on top 50 list. | 50 | | Chris Volz Redemption
Chris Volz (Flaw) | 49 | | Dozer Call It Conspiracy
Fredrik Norden (Dozer, Greenleaf) | 48 | | Rob Zombie Educated Horses
Rob Zombie (ex-White Zombie) | 47 | | (hed) p.e. Back 2 Base X
M.C.U.D., Jahred | 46 | | Staind Tormented
Aaron Lewis | 45 | | Ugly Kid Joe Uglier Than They Used Ta Be
Whitfield Crane (Ugly Kid Joe, Another Animal) | 44 | | Black Veil Brides Wretched and Divine
Andy Black | 43 | | Twelve Foot Ninja New Dawn
Nick "Kin Etik" Barker | 42 | | Fair to Midland Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times is True
Andrew Daroh Sudderth | 41 | | Voices from the Fuselage To Hope
Ashe O'Hara (Voices from the Fuselage, ex-Tesseract) | 40 | | Gone Is Gone Gone Is Gone
Troy Sanders (Mastodon, Gone is Gone, Killer Be Killed) | 39 | | Lacey Sturm Life Screams
Lacey Sturm (ex-Flyleaf) | 38 | | Arcane Chronicles of the Waking Dream
Jim Grey (Arcane, Caligula's Horse) | 37 | | Trivium Silence in the Snow
Matt Heafy | 36 | | Hurt Vol. 1
J. Loren Wince (Hurt, Arco's Angel) | 35 | | Red Hot Chili Peppers One Hot Minute
Anthony Kiedis | 34 | | Rishloo Living as Ghosts with Buildings as Teeth
Drew Mailloux | 33 | | Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness
Claudio Sanchez | 32 | | Meytal The Witness
Sahoj Ticotin (Ra, Meytal) | 31 | | Ghost Machine Hypersensitive
Ivan Moody (FFDP, Ghost Machine) | 30 | | Nine Inch Nails The Perfect Drug
Trent Reznor | 29 | | Art of Anarchy Art of Anarchy
Scott Weiland (R.I.P.) (Stone Temple Pilots, Velvet Revolver, Art of Anarchy) | 28 | | Brandon Boyd The Wild Trapeze
Brandon Boyd (Incubus, Sons of the Sea) | 27 | | Nirvana Bleach (Deluxe Edition)
Kurdt Cobain (R.I.P.) | 26 | | Prophets of Rage The Party's Over
Chuck D. (Public Enemy) | 25 | | Rollins Band Nice
Henry Rollins (Black Flag, Rollins Band) | 24 | | City of Fire City of Fire
Burton C. Bell (Fear Factory, Ascension of the Watchers, City of Fire, GZR) | 23 | | Queensryche Frequency Unknown (Deluxe Edition)
Geoff Tate | 22 | | Mudvayne Mudvayne
Chad Gray (Mudvayne, Hellyeah) | 21 | | Metallica Metallica
James Hetfield. | 20 | | Perry Farrell Rev
Perry Farrell (Janes Addiction, Porno for Pyros) | 19 | | Device Device
David Draiman (Disturbed, Device) | 18 | | One Day as a Lion One Day as a Lion
Zack de la Rocha (Inside Out, RATM) | 17 | | Alice in Chains Jar of Flies/Sap
Layne Staley (R.I.P) and Jerry Cantrell | 16 | | Peeping Tom Peeping Tom
Mike Patton (Faith No More, Tomahawk, Mr. Bungle, Fantomas) | 15 | | Killer Be Killed Killer Be Killed
Max Cavalera (Sepultura, Soulfly, Cavalera Conspiracy, Nailbomb) | 14 | | Palms Palms
Chino Moreno (Deftones, Team Sleep, Palms, Crosses) | 13 | | Passenger (SWE) Passenger
Anders Friden (In Flames, Passenger) | 12 | | John Garcia John Garcia
John Garcia (ex-Kyuss, Slo Burn, Hermano, Unida, Vista Chino) | 11 | | Halestorm Halestorm
Lzzy Hale | 10 | | Sebastian Bach Kicking and Screaming
Sebastian Bach (ex-Skid Row) | 9 | | Evanescence Synthesis
Amy Lee | 8 | | Stone Sour Audio Secrecy
Corey Taylor (Slipknot, Stone Sour) | 7 | | Pantera The Great Southern Trendkill
Phil Anselmo (Pantera, Down, Superjoint Ritual, etc.) | 6 | | Eddie Vedder Into the Wild
Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam) | 5 | | Jonathan Davis Black Labyrinth
Jonathan Davis (Korn) | 4 | | Chris Cornell Songbook
Chris Cornell (R.I.P.) (Soundgarden, Audioslave) | 3 | | Guns N' Roses Chinese Democracy
Axl Rose. | 2 | | Ozzy Osbourne Scream
Ozzy Osbourne (Black Sabbath, Ozzy) | 1 | | Puscifer C is for...
Maynard J. Keenan (Tool, A Perfect Circle, Puscifer) | |
JDubb
10.08.19 | Honorable mention: Jeff Martin (Lo-Pan), M. Shadows (A7X), Ryan McCombs (Soil), Joel Ekelof (Soen), Vince Neil (Motley Crue), Josh Homme (QOTSA), Anette Olzen and Marco Hietala (Nightwish), Daniel Tompkins (Skyharbor, Tesseract), Peter Steele (Type O Negative), and many many others... | ArsMoriendi
10.08.19 | Chris Cornell rules good pick. I've been revisiting Soundgarden a lot lately.
Patton and Staley are great picks too.
What's your opinion on Les Claypool? I know his vocals aren't impressive technically, but he has a lot of personality and stage presence | SitarHero
10.08.19 | No Fred Durst? GTFO! | JDubb
10.08.19 | I dig some Primus. Les Claypool is a truly unique vocalist...a good addition to the honorable mention. As for Fred Durst, not on this list! | CaliggyJack
10.08.19 | Where in the all mighty fuck is Ronnie Dio? Sammy Hagar? Fucking Lemmy?
This list is... I don't even have words. | JDubb
10.08.19 | This list is...beyond incredible...thank you CaliggyJack. Glad to make you speechless. Honestly, I dig Dehumanizer and almost put Ronnie James Dio on there for the Heaven and Hell - The Devil You Know album. As for Lemmy...meh. As for Sammy Hagar, seriously? Sammy Hagar-fronted Van Halen (and honestly David Lee Roth-fronted Van Halen as well) was an embarrassment. | DopeFiend
10.08.19 | ABBATH | JoeTex
10.08.19 | billy ray cypress | CaliggyJack
10.09.19 | "Sammy Hagar-fronted Van Halen (and honestly David Lee Roth-fronted Van Halen as well) was an embarrassment."
Absolute heresy. He was a far superior vocalist to David Lee Roth | JDubb
10.09.19 | Ok...playing hardball CaliggyJack. So I will admit I dug Van Halen's F.U.C.K. at the time (1991). For a brief time. Hey, who didn't like the song Poundcake! And I will whole-heartedly concur that Sammy Hagar smokes DLR. However, I can't stomach it now 28 years later. | JDubb
10.09.19 | You know DopeFiend, If I can put Max Cavalera on there than you can put Abbath Doom Occulta. Both probably do not have the ability to truly sing. But Billy Ray Cyrus, hell no JoeTex! | CaliggyJack
10.09.19 | The fact you don't consider "Top of the World" one of VH's top songs leaves me empty inside. | JDubb
10.09.19 | Oh, these repressed memories from 1991...I think I liked Right Now better than Top of the World. But honestly, did Sammy Hagar even have a song that was about a serious topic (see grunge) and that wasn't about him banging lines of groupies under the stage? | CaliggyJack
10.09.19 | Rock is at it's best when it is talking about banging women lol | DopeFiend
10.09.19 | "Both probably do not have the ability to truly sing"
you are a bonafide idiot, sir. | SitarHero
10.09.19 | "He was a far superior vocalist to David Lee Roth"
He's a superior singer*. DLR was by far the superior vocalist and frontman. | JDubb
10.09.19 | The first Van Halen album I had was 5150. Thus my first introduction to Van Halen was Sammy Hagar era. Now, in the 30+ years since, I have listened to most of the DLR-fronted albums. Eddie's guitar work (and the music itself) was much more to my liking in the DLR days, but I don't feel that DLR was a better vocalist than Sammy. However, I have seen neither live, so it is certainly possible that DLR had better stage presence. To call DLR a showboat... | CaliggyJack
10.09.19 | I don't consider vocalist and singer to be mutually exclusive but I get where you're coming from.
JDubb Ironically Gary was the best vocalist live from what I hear. | JDubb
10.09.19 | DopeFiend, we do share some digs (Kyuss, Baroness, Dvne, Down, Type O, Pelican, etc.). So lets keep it civil. | JDubb
10.09.19 | Man, I never bought or listened to Van Halen III. In 1998, I wouldn't have been caught dead listening to Van Halen. Truth be told, I didn't listen to them again for another decade. | SitarHero
10.09.19 | The first VH song I ever heard/loved was Right Now and for the longest time I was a Hagar stan, but as an adult I find it nearly impossible to revisit Hagar's work with Van Halen. 5 out of VH's first 6 albums are classics or near-classics and a big reason why is DLR's charisma and personality.
With Hagar on board the band turned into a milquetoast AOR band with better than average guitar-work but some of the cheesiest vocals and lyrics of the era. It's not entirely Hagar's fault, but he sure didn't elevate the material the way DLR did. | CaliggyJack
10.09.19 | @Sitar I feel like it had less to do with DLR and more with Eddie being more of a virtuoso during DLR's run.
@JDubb All of the songs on VHIII suck except "Without You", but Without You is one of Van Halen's best songs ever. It's got great raw energy and good drum work. | SitarHero
10.09.19 | Eddie was just as much of a virtuoso in the late '80s and through the '90s. Musically speaking most of the VH's early stuff is actually pretty standard blues rock. Great guitar solos alone aren't going to turn songs like that into classics without great vocal performances which is what DLR provided. DLR may have been limited as a singer, but he had as much mojo as Jagger or Plant or any of the great frontmen. He also had a sense of humour which made VH fun.
Hell, the two songs that VH did during the short-lived reunion with DLR in the '90s, especially Can't Get This Stuff No More, smoke most of Hagar's output with the band. | CaliggyJack
10.09.19 | Disagreeee but I respect your opinion. DLR grates on me. | wham49
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