10 Hard Rock Bands Who Had TWO Great Singers

The singer is always the defining member of any hard rock act. While the guitarist tends to get a lot of praise in the world of rock, the one person that every music fan latches onto is the one who is actually belting out the tunes. If you hit the jackpot with the right lead singer, you're on your way to becoming a massive success in the world of rock and roll.

It's practically a miracle to get a good vocalist for your band once, but these bands beat the odds by getting a good vocalist twice. Whether it be through a falling out with one vocalist or the combination of two leads, these bands have had voices that went beyond just one traditional frontman. Even if each of these singers don't sound necessarily alike, they both bring a certain character to the band's music that becomes an integral part of their sound.

One might be a screamer and one might be a crooner, but the actual talent that both of these singers display is its own separate act of greatness. These are the acts that threw caution to the wind and carved out their own unique path with multiple frontmen spitting vocal fury.

Any prospective metal fan who discovers Iron Maiden for the first time is normally sold on Bruce Dickinson's voice. From his high notes to his intense vibrato, they don't call him the Air Raid Siren to be cheeky. He was and still is a legend in metal history.

Then again, there was also another equally strong singer who could've taken the band in an even heavier direction (and no, it's not Blaze Bayley.) Back in Maiden's early years, Paul Di'Anno was the band's original frontman whose voice gave the band its own distinct character. Being from a more punk rock background, Di'Anno's vocal quality in his lower register gave the band a great barker up front.

This was actually a very unusual move for this time in metal. When most bands were trying to out-do each other in terms of who could hit the highest note, Maiden's early work set them apart from the pack with Di'Anno's more gutteral vocal delivery. As the years went on though, the music wasn't suited to Di'Anno's style, leading Maiden to trade him in for one of the greatest metal vocalists to touch a microphone. Regardless of who was taking center stage, the early days of Maiden laid the blueprint for all of modern metal going forward.