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Originally Posted by Ki
I can't say I can listen to metal if the vocalist doesn't sound good. If it's mostly instrumentals than it's alright, but if the vocalist shows up regularly throughout the songs on the albums, I can't stand it.
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Well, me neither (assuming there is a vocalist) but my thing is that most metal vocalists who people think are “good” sound terrible to me—they tend to have very bombastic, “look at all the notes I can hit” vocal styles that trample all over the rest of the music and ruin the mood. What I like is a vocalist who works within the music. Someone like Jus Oborn from Electric Wizard or Tukasa from Swarrrm are the kinds of metal vocalists I enjoy. Not that the two of them sound anything alike, but they add something that would be missed if it wasn’t there, while still doing something that is in keeping with the feeling of the music.