Top ten metal vocalists

Here's my list, pure and simple:

1. Warrel Dane (Sanctuary era)
   
2. Ronnie James Dio
   
3. Rob Halford
   
4. Sebastian Bach
   
5. Geoff Tate
   
6. Andi Deris
   
7. Bruce Dickinson
   
8. Udo Dirkschneider
   
9. Ralf Scheepers
   
10. Max Cavallera
    

Here is my list:
1. Ronnie James Dio
2. Bon Scott
3. Rob Halford
4. Geoff Tate
5. Steven Tyler
6. Chris Cornell
7. Alice Cooper
8. Ian Gillan
9. Freddie Mercury
10. Graham Bonnet

lists go in another section...

From the realm of metal and hard rock my favorite singers are:

1. Dave Meniketti from Y&T
2. James Christian from House of Lords
3. Paul Shortino from Rough Cutt/Quiet Riot
4. Mark/Marcie Free from King Kobra/Unruly Child/Signal
5. Lou Gramm from Foreigner, solo work
6. Ronnie James Dio
7. Kelly Hansen from Hurricane/Foreigner
8. Kevin DuBrow
9. Alice Cooper
10. Robert Halford

Outside of hard rock and metal my favorites are:

1. Phil Collins
2. Sting

vocalists or singers? some of my fave vocalists are in the death metal genre, but that wouldn't count as singing. for the sake of this thread, i'll list my favorite singers.

Rob Halford
Dawn Crosby
Robert Lowe
Kirk Windstein
Doro Pesch
King Diamond
Michael Sweet
Glenn Danzig
Anneke van Giersbergen
Ralf Scheepers

Jorn Lande
Jeff Scott Soto
Matt Barlow
Nils K. Rue
Jonny Lindkvist
Tom S. Englund
Russell Allen
Lajon Witherspoon
Chris Volz
Warrel Dane

and Daniel Heiman (thats 11)

Here is my list:
1. Ronnie James Dio
2. Sebastian Bach
3. Rob Halford
4. Jack Russell
5. Steven Tyler
6. Bruce Dickenson
7. Alice Cooper
8. Doc Neeson
9. Derrick St. Holmes
10. Paul Dianno

Dio
Ripper Owens
Michael Sweet
Bruce Dickinson
Sebastian Bach
Warrell Dane
Russ Anderson
Jeff Scott Soto
Rob Halford
Guy Ritter

For just clean vocals:

Rob Halford
James Rivera
Robert Lowe
Messiah Marcolin
Ronnie James Dio
Steve Grimmett
Henning Basse
Rick Cox
Gerrit P. Mutz
Dee Snider

Still no Ozzy mentioned, interesting...I wonder if that has more to do with his current status as walking joke, than his recorded legacy.

For me it has to do with Ozzy's clownish behaviour than his legacy, but also in fairness compared to rest of the dudes on my list, Ozzy still would not have made the list,

I'm not sure if he'll make my top 10 either...but I have a hard time coming up with lists like these, so I'm still thinking about it.

I made a video for this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsjcSWx0QNI&eurl=https://www.youtube.com/my_videos_edit2?ns=1&video_id=gsjcSWx0QNI&next=%2Fmy_videos2%3Fpi%3D0%26ps%3D20iurl=http://i4.ytimg.com/vi/gsjcSWx0QNI/hqdefault.jpg

*Metal
1.) Halford
2.) Dio
3.) Dickinson
4.) Coverdale
5.) Ray Gillen
6.) Phil Lynott
7.) Mike Howe
8.) Ian Gillan
9.) John Bush
10.) Ronny Monroe

Honorable Mention: Muastaine; Meniketti; DLR; David Wayne; Jon Oliva

*Non Metal

1.) Paul Rodgers
2.) Robert Plant
3.) Freddy Mercury
4.) Rick Springfield (I have been a fan since I was 7)
5.) Billy Squier

Michael Sweet
Eric AK
Chuck Billy
Ron Rinehart
Phil Anselmo
Mark Salomon
Max Cavalera
Ozzy (early days)
Mike Howe
Rob Rock

1. David Lee Roth
2. Freddie Mercury
3. James Hetfield
4. Bruce Dickinson
5. Rob Halford
6. Ronnie James Dio
7. Dave Mustaine
8. Ian Gillan
9. Robert Plant
10. Phil Lynott

Why does everbody seem to forget about U.D.O??? This dude might be ugly, but he's amazing and very easily recognizable.

Gilbert wrote:

Why does everbody seem to forget about U.D.O??? This dude might be ugly, but he's amazing and very easily recognizable.

No one has forgotten him. You asked for only 10.

spectrefate wrote:

Gilbert wrote:

Why does everbody seem to forget about U.D.O??? This dude might be ugly, but he's amazing and very easily recognizable.

No one has forgotten him. You asked for only 10.

And he is somewhere on the bottom.

Yeah, it's hard to narrow down your top 50 plus singers into a list a percentage of it's original size. I hate leaving UDO, Soto, or Tony Moore off my metal list.

John Cyriis!!!! What a singer. It's so hard after all to mention everybody. Some guys are equally good :bangyerhead:

Good lists!!

In no order:

Dio

Bruce

Rob Rock

Damnagoras

Jorn Lande

DC Cooper

Tobias Sammet

Dale Thompson

Hansi Kursch

Nils Patrick Johanson

1. Ronnie James Dio
2. Rob Halford
3. Rob Rock
4. Ken Tamplin
5. Warrel Dane (w/Sanctuary)
6. Michael Sweet
7. Bruce Dickinson
8. Josh Kramer
9. Dale Thompson
10. Udo Dirkschneider