10 Greatest Metal Singers Of All Time
1. Rob Halford
At the start of the 70's when metal was being birthed, Judas Priest were one of the first bands to reach for the crown and identify themselves as a heavy metal band. With their harsh guitar assault and booming rhythm section, Priest was the perfect example of rock straying away from blues traditions and becoming something much darker. But the spotlight was always on Priest's true virtuoso, Rob Halford.
Across Priest's body of work, Halford refined his voice into something otherworldly as his screams took the listener straight down to Hell before sending them screaming back to Earth. Whether it was the swagger of "Breaking the Law" or the high-pitched shrieks of "Painkiller," Halford is one of the few metal frontmen who can literally do it all from a vocal standpoint.
Halford even put detractors to shame as he came roaring to life on the band's latest release Firepower. After almost half a century behind the mic, Halford has nothing to prove as the true model for any heavy metal vocalist. Sure, Elvis may be considered the King of Rock and Roll, but Rob Halford is the vocalist who will forever be known as the Metal God.