Top Bass Vocalists?

[OrbWeaver]

Mathias Blad

Though he's really a Baritone, and not a Bass.

 

[Sym1]

Michelle Darkness from End of Green, Bury Me Deep and a solo effort called....Michelle Darkness of course!

 

[Osiris' Eyes]

Andreas Hedlund aka Vintersorg. Love the Otyg stuff!

I know it's not metal, but anything that Mark Lanegan does is a little slice of heaven to me.

 

[Cheiron]

Sorry Swano is no bass, neither is Garm.

I don't know of any natural bass metal singers.

 

[Sumeet]

Is there a difference between bass and baritone? If so, how does one tell the difference?

 

[Cheiron]

There is. Bass is lowest, then baritone, then tenor. You'd have to know the ranges to know the difference. But usually when people think a singer is a bass, the singer is actually a baritone. Johnny Cash, was in-between the two .

 

[batmura]

Sorry Swano is no bass, neither is Garm.

They may not be bass, but their singing is the amongst the deepest and BEST in metal.

 

[OrbWeaver]

Andreas Hedlund aka Vintersorg. Love the Otyg stuff!

I can't listen to Otyg. I keep expecting to hear "børk, børk, børk!" at the end of each verse.

 

[ApolloFC]

Is there a difference between bass and baritone? If so, how does one tell the difference?

Its just the range. Bass is lower than baritone. I forget by how much. Usually its not that much i believe.

 

[OrbWeaver]

Basses are the lowest singing range. It can be from C2 (lowest) to the A above middle C (highest extreme.) Most basses sing between E2 and E4. Baritone singers generally range between F2-F4, so ApolloFC is correct, the difference is, technically, within two notes. However, you'll find Bass singers usually have a different tonal quality to their vocals than Baritones.

Bass singer:

Boris Christoff as Mephistopheles

Baritone singer:

Simon Keenlyside as Papageno

Obviously, these are opera singers, but I think each singer demonstrates well the difference between the two.

 

[The Invisible Guest]

My favorite, definitely.

But he was in Sentenced, not Charon. Juha-Pekka Leppaluoto is Charon's vocalist (and the singer on the first Poisonblack album). Like him quite a bit, too...

I think I got my singer mixed up ... I was thinking of Juha-Pekka Leppäluoto.


Britt

 

[AeonicSlumber]

I mean even though OP said not to mention Peter Steele, the thread really should've just ended with him. The most mournfully powerful and deep voice in metal. "Everything Dies" makes me tear up now when I listen to it.

 

[AeonicSlumber]

Well I mean Glen Danzig too actually now that I think about it.

 

[BenMech]

I mean even though OP said not to mention Peter Steele, the thread really should've just ended with him. The most mournfully powerful and deep voice in metal. "Everything Dies" makes me tear up now when I listen to it.

I didn't say NOT to mention him, just that he shouldn't be the ONLY answer.

That he played bass guitar (not counting when he played what looked like a cello in the B#1 video) is coincidental.

 

[Pellaz]

I mean even though OP said not to mention Peter Steele, the thread really should've just ended with him. The most mournfully powerful and deep voice in metal. "Everything Dies" makes me tear up now when I listen to it.

This.

 

[Magius]

When I think bass, I think of that dude in The Oak Ridge Boys. I can't think of anyone in metal that sings that low as their normal voice.

 

[OrbWeaver]

When I think bass, I think of that dude in The Oak Ridge Boys. I can't think of anyone in metal that sings that low as their normal voice.

Unless you want to count some of the featured backing singers in Therion. But I believe those are displaced opera singers.

 

[zedowns]

No <3 for my main man Eric Clayton?

 

[OrbWeaver]

Eric Clayton is a wonderful vocalist, but I believe he's actually a baritone.