Originally Posted by Trollheart

Jansz, that's totally cool. But the difference is you say "I can't stand his voice", which is an opinion, yours, and you're certainly allowed to have it. That's your right. Wisdom, though, says "Dio is a lousy singer", which while also being the wrong tense as the man is dead (but leaving that aside as semantics) is put over as a fact, not an opinion, as if there's nothing else anyone could see him as being.

I hate, as you know, death vocals, so anyone like Dimmu Borgir, Slipknot et al do nothing for me, but I wouldn't say they don't have good singers. They dont appeal to me, Dio doesnt appeal to you. No problem. It's an opinion, we all have them. It's when someone tries to force their opinion down your throat, leaving no room for differences, and also tries to back up a plainly unbackupable (I know that's not a word) fact with research, that it annoys me. No matter your choice or opinion, Dio was hailed as one of the most important voices in metal, and thats what any research will turn up. Trying to twist that to fit his arguement is where wisdom fell down.

Also, he has extended the Dio part of this to ridiculous proportions, almost moving away from the original idea of the thread. And like his arguements, it's twisting and changing as it goes. Funny really I suppose, sad in another way.