Non-Metal singers you would like to hear sing metal.

novellahub wrote:

How about singers you did not want to hear? Pat Boone comes to mind with his metal album. His "Eye's Of Innocence" cover of Holy Soldier (Encore Album) is absolutely horrible. He sounds like a dying cow!

I found In A Metal Mood to be very amusing honestly

Eyesore wrote:

IronAge wrote:

Christina Aguilera is horrible...she
couldn't sing real metal let alone survive in metal circles.She
probably does play a mean skinflute.

Are you crazy? Her
voice is awesome! Her music is crap, but they're to separate
things.

Unlike all the other musical disney bread pop-tarts,
the woman can sing. She's awesome.....but yeah, wrong music.

My vote:

Michael W. Smith

IronAge wrote:

...it takes a certain attitude,a special something if you will-to belt out heavy metal vocals.If you think she has an "amazing" voice more power to ya-but believe me theres alot more to it.She could try to fake it i guess but not in front of a metal audience.Often times no matter how well off you are in one area,it doesn't always translate to success in another....Id bet you the farm that she'd be totally out of her element.

Yeah!!!!! i totaly agree.

krokus wrote:

I would not like to hear nonmetal people sing metal to be honest. We have enough great singers with a big metal heart and thats the most important thing, not the quality of his/her voice only, also its important the passion and feeling of a true metal singer and that would be hard to do for a false metal head or non metal people.

I have to respectfully disagree. One does not have to have a 'metal heart' to make quality metal music. Didn't Marty Friedman leave metal to make commercial jingles in Japan or some crap like that? So one could say his heart wasn't in metal. Do we now discount all the work he did with Megadeth because it wasn't "tr00"? Ben Moody up and left Evanescence. His heart wasn't in it either. Do we discount all the work he did with Evanescence? (If they are metal or not is debatable. Some people call them pop metal or goth metal.) Ross the Boss left Manowar because his heart wasn't in it. Do we discount all the music he made with them? The point I am trying to make, is that a professional musician or singer who gets paid to perform on an album will do so to the very best of their ability. If not, they will not be professional musicians very long. It has to do more with a person's work ethic than if their 'heart is in it'. It is about one taking pride in their work.
To use an analogy: Lets say I am a professional auto mechanic. I like to work on Chevys. Does that mean I will put less effort into when I have to work on a Ford? I think that if Christina Aguilera or Kelly Clarkson recorded a gothic metal album along the lines of Within Temptation, Epica, or After Forever, and I was to give said album to fan of the aformentioned bands without telling them who the singer was, they would probably love it. If I told them who the singer was first, they would hate it. Metal fans are some of the most elitist fans in the world. In fact I will say that right now, with the proliferation of the female fronted gothic metal bands, their are many singers out there right now who are.........how can I say this.....not very good. Many cannot hold a candle to Christina Aguilera or Kelly Clarkson on vocal abiltity alone. Adding either one of them would be a vast improvement in some bands.

romeolimagolf wrote:

I have to respectfully disagree. One does not have to have a 'metal heart' to make quality metal music. It has to do more with a person's work ethic than if their 'heart is in it'. It is about one taking pride in their work.
Many cannot hold a candle to Christina Aguilera or Kelly Clarkson on vocal abiltity alone. Adding either one of them would be a vast improvement in some bands.

I completely agree.

Take Michael Kiske from Helloween. He left because he didn't want to play metal anymore and his voice is the prototype for the majority of power metal bands these days.

I understand your point romeolimagolf but i think that MARTY FRIEDMAN when he was in VIXEN, HAWAI, ALOA or MEGADETH he had realy a metalheart only little by little he wanted to experimient and do other things and lost his fate in metal. But i dont think he was ever pretending to be a metal guitar player, he realy had a feeling for metal.
Also about ROSS THE BOSS, when he started with MANOWAR his heart was in it too but same with FRIEDMAN he just wanted to move on or in his case go back to his punk roots but he never fooled his metal fans.
Do you understand my point??? I respect yours.

spectrefate wrote:

romeolimagolf wrote:

I have to respectfully disagree. One does not have to have a 'metal heart' to make quality metal music. It has to do more with a person's work ethic than if their 'heart is in it'. It is about one taking pride in their work.
Many cannot hold a candle to Christina Aguilera or Kelly Clarkson on vocal abiltity alone. Adding either one of them would be a vast improvement in some bands.

I completely agree.

Take Michael Kiske from Helloween. He left because he didn't want to play metal anymore and his voice is the prototype for the majority of power metal bands these days.

MICHAEL KISKE loved what he did when he started in HELLOWEEN. He was always a big ELVIS FAN but also liked many metal bands. He got tired of doing that power metal voice and he decided to move on to something else. Still, when he did the KEEPERS his mind and soul was in metal, i dont think CHRISTINA AGUILERA have any metal in her veins

krokus wrote:

Still, when he did the KEEPERS his mind and soul was in metal, i dont think CHRISTINA AGUILERA have any metal in her veins

I agree.

But wouldn't Christina be nice in leathers?

spectrefate wrote:

krokus wrote:

Still, when he did the KEEPERS his mind and soul was in metal, i dont think CHRISTINA AGUILERA have any metal in her veins

I agree.

But wouldn't Christina be nice in leathers?

Yeahh!!!! i think so

romeolimagolf wrote:

I think that if Christina Aguilera or Kelly Clarkson recorded a gothic metal album along the lines of Within Temptation, Epica, or After Forever, and I was to give said album to fan of the aformentioned bands without telling them who the singer was, they would probably love it. If I told them who the singer was first, they would hate it.

This is truth. I've proven this theory over at metalreviews.com, fooling worthless posters into praising a singer or band they previously trashed based on who they were and nothing more. There's nothing quite like reading the reactions of those people when they're exposed as trendy trash talkers. Haha.

Another point: Didn't Tarja Turunen come from an Opera background? And the new singer Anette Olzon comes from a pop background. Neither one of them were 'metal' before joining Nightwish.

CARTMAN!!!! Billy Joel was in a metal band called "Thor" many years ago and Michael Bolton was in a metal band called "Blackjack"... I do use the term "metal" loosley as does most of the world... which is NOT typical of me. I would like to hear James Hetfield sing metal AGAIN sometime too!

romeolimagolf wrote:

Another point: Didn't Tarja Turunen come from an Opera background? And the new singer Anette Olzon comes from a pop background. Neither one of them were 'metal' before joining Nightwish.

I would not call NIGHTWISH a metal band

romeolimagolf wrote:

Another point: Didn't Tarja Turunen come from an Opera background? And the new singer Anette Olzon comes from a pop background. Neither one of them were 'metal' before joining Nightwish.

Tarja is a classically trained singer, she had no metal background before joining Nightwish. Nightwish was never supposed to be a band. She initially was supposed to just sing on a three-song demo that Tuomas recorded. It was all folky and acoustic and totally not metal at all. And then look what happened! She became one of the baddest female metal vocalists in the world.

Anette comes from a rock background, more or less. Alyson Avenue is basically an AOR band, similar to Brother Firetribe in style. Anette is far more "true" than Tarja, but look at the backlash the band has received because Anette isn't the same kind of singer as Tarja. Bottom line: it doesn't matter!

By the way, the new Nightwish is pretty outstanding!

krokus wrote:

romeolimagolf wrote:

Another point: Didn't Tarja Turunen come from an Opera background? And the new singer Anette Olzon comes from a pop background. Neither one of them were 'metal' before joining Nightwish.

I would not call NIGHTWISH a metal band

Then you're retarded. Haha. (Joking, settle down, sonny!) They're most definitely a metal band. Have you heard them?

Matthias Blad had this sort of route, didn't he?

Eyesore wrote:

romeolimagolf wrote:

Another point: Didn't Tarja Turunen come from an Opera background? And the new singer Anette Olzon comes from a pop background. Neither one of them were 'metal' before joining Nightwish.

Tarja is a classically trained singer, she had no metal background before joining Nightwish. Nightwish was never supposed to be a band. She initially was supposed to just sing on a three-song demo that Tuomas recorded. It was all folky and acoustic and totally not metal at all. And then look what happened! She became one of the baddest female metal vocalists in the world.

Anette comes from a rock background, more or less. Alyson Avenue is basically an AOR band, similar to Brother Firetribe in style. Anette is far more "true" than Tarja, but look at the backlash the band has received because Anette isn't the same kind of singer as Tarja. Bottom line: it doesn't matter!

By the way, the new Nightwish is pretty outstanding!

My point was that neither one of them, (and yes Matthias Bladate also, who according to wiki comes from a theater background), ate, slept, breathe and s**t metal before joing Nightwish. They were simply professional singers hired to sing in a metal band, and they all did a very good job. They were not laughed off stage for 'faking it'. Thus proving that Christina, Kelly, or any other singer from a non-metal bacground could perform quality metal without having to worship at the altar of the metal gods.

I agree. Sorry for going off on a tangent. Haha.

Frank Sinatra. "Hell bent, you crazy koo-koo dame, hell bent for leather, scooby-dooby-doo!"

Eyesore wrote:

krokus wrote:

romeolimagolf wrote:

Another point: Didn't Tarja Turunen come from an Opera background? And the new singer Anette Olzon comes from a pop background. Neither one of them were 'metal' before joining Nightwish.

I would not call NIGHTWISH a metal band

Then you're retarded. Haha. (Joking, settle down, sonny!) They're most definitely a metal band. Have you heard them?

yes, i heard them but no, they are not metal

Meatloaf would be my number one choice
or
How about the Three Tenors singing symphonic metal.

krokus wrote:

Eyesore wrote:

krokus wrote:

romeolimagolf wrote:

Another point: Didn't Tarja Turunen come from an Opera background? And the new singer Anette Olzon comes from a pop background. Neither one of them were 'metal' before joining Nightwish.

I would not call NIGHTWISH a metal band

Then you're retarded. Haha. (Joking, settle down, sonny!) They're most definitely a metal band. Have you heard them?

yes, i heard them but no, they are not metal

They are most certainly metal. How can you say they're not?