My favorite "harsh" vocalists:
If you were to ask me the 3 or 4 worst things to happen to metal, one of them would initially be "harsh" vocals in metal. Yet that makes no sense, because there's plenty of thrash/black/death/doom metal bands that use them and suit the music perfectly. But that is underground music, not really something that you see in the mainstream. And while I scoff and spit at the idea of "metal needs to remain underground and never enter the mainstream," I think "Death metal's musical tendencies entering the mainstream through second wave funk metal " is the more accurate description. Whenever I hear someone talk about how they're putting death growls in their mainstream song I want to pry their head open with a crowbar like Homelander in The Boys. Harsh vocalists you will NOT see here: Randy Blythe: He ruined everything. Howard Jones: He also ruined everything. Jesse Leach: Lest you think I'm any kind of Killswitch Engage f...