Who is the greatest metal singer of all time?

[sonicnerd23]

Dave Mustaine.

[David2380]

Without question dickinson...one fthe greatest singers in any genre let alone metal..

[gmarsh]

ozzy!@!

[ardshipman]

I believe there's a pretty funny track, a colloboration with someone, where he does rap sort of. It's from the '80s though, just a curiousity you reminded me of.

I guess we can trace rap back to Beat, and before that, Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance.

Technically you can trace rap back to the 1800's, They were called Square dance callers!

And as for what is and is not considered metal, That depends on what generation your from, As well as where your from. It's all subjective. Where I'm from Hard Rock and Metal were more or less lumped together, Anything heavier was Thrash. So going by that logic, Metallica (The early stuff), Motorhead, Suicidal Tendencies, Slayer and the likes were Thrash, Not Metal.

As for the singer, However, I gotta go with Halford, But if he was on the list it'd definately be Geoff Tate.

[Ultimatum]

Thrash is part of Metal....

You must have hung out with some pretty misinformed people when you grew up.

[frangrizzlie]

Marco Hietala

[Meatwad555]

Wtf? Axl Rose and no Mustaine?

[WhiffleBallTony]

James Hetfield is (in theory) the worst singer on that list. He doesn't sing, he yells.

When he does sing however...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovBNnm4EqRE

Yes yes yes, because St. Anger is pure **** and we need to take every chance we can to bash it.

Seriously? He only really does any yelling on the first two albums (where he still primarily sings). After that, he's always singing. You can't play a song like "One" or "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)" and yell. Either you have a really ****ty ear and are unable to tell the difference between singing and yelling or you are just taking a chance to join a bandwagon and bash something because everyone else does.

Anyway, enough ranting on my part. I go with Bruce Dickinson. You left out tons of people on that list several of those aren't metal vocalists.

[zeldazeppelin]

I have to say a tie between Halford and Bruce as far as this list goes. I still say Toshi is the best metal singer.