I still remember playing in a band once with solid players on all instruments, but one hell of a lame vocalist. We end up with good metal songs that sounded shitty courtesy of the microphone man. Hell, it wasn't even a type of band that needed splendid clean vocals.
Ghost (Sweden)
This is definitely one of the reason why the absent of human voice is quite a delight sometimes.
Devil (Norway)
Talking about the type of metal music that simply demands clean vocal work, particularly Heavy Metal, I always have this naïve expectation about how the vocalist should be. The ideal frontman should perform something like Ronnie James Dio, Bruce Dickinson, David Byron or King Diamond, where every notes sounds like they are sung with real workmanship and character. Nothing pretentious, but nothing mediocre and half-ass either.
This is why, listening to Swedish Heavy Metal/Doom act, Ghost and Norwegian Doom/Thrasher, Devil just leaves me scratching my chin in annoyance.
On one hand, there are positive things from both acts. Ghost has good music and theatrics. There is an averagely good music for Devil. Great album cover artworks for both bands. The vocals, however, just don’t work with any of them.
But, that’s just me then. Surely there’ll be others who actually like such vocal works. Shouldn’t judge something without tasting it. I know I didn’t.
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