Rich0775

Sup everybody,

I'm new to the site but I've been listening to metal ever since my buddy introduced me to metal when I first met him in Wisconsin and he had nothing but metal CDs. Started off with Forever Sets the Sun, and Amity Affliction and it's since branched out quite a bit. However, I'm not a fan of most screaming in metal songs and lately I've been turning away from the screaming altogether even if songs have clean vocals.

So, basically, I'm looking for groups or bands that do most songs as clean vocals or maybe the better way to put it is soft vocals?

To give you guys an idea of what I listen to, here's a list:

Amity Affliction, Issues (Tyler Carter), Hands like Houses, I the Mighty, Emarosa, Crown the Empire, Too Close To Touch, Aaron Gillespie, Landon Tewers/Before Their Eyes/TPIY, The Word Alive (Tyler Smith). Some of the following; Dream on Dreamer, The Color Morale.

Almost all of them have clean vocals that are higher pitched, or vocalists that hit the higher notes. If anybody has recommendations I'd love to hear them.

P.S. I realize that some groups I mentioned do have screaming (like Amity Affliction) but I think I've started to pull away from them because I've been finding bands that are predominantly clean, soft vocals and that sounds so much better to me. Again, I'd love to hear suggestions!

MicShazam

I don't know... I like metal bands without screaming too, but it's harder when I'm considering your particular preferences. You could easily find more yourself if you just want more that sounds just like those emo bands you mentioned (or whatever genre it is), so I'm not sure if that's what you're asking for. I assume it isn't. Here's a few suggestions - all picked to be a bit different from eachother and the bands you mentioned (variety is good):

Leprous

Voyager

Sukekiyo (not really 100% metal, but there's a clear influence. A scream might sneak in here or there, but only because they're so stylistically varied.)

Kobra and the Lotus

King Diamond (you must have heard him already, but here it is)

The Batlord

There are better kinds of metal with clean singing than what you're listening to.

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MicShazam

I don't know if you were dissing me or the guy above, but I'd like to point out that I don't listen to Leprous and Voyager myself. I can still recommend them though, since I know them and think they've got talent and style.

Also, Type O Negative rules!!

The Batlord

You ninja'd me.

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MicShazam

Blan

Recently decided to give metal a try, having never really looked to deep into it, because of a friend of mine. I get the impression that a lot of the metal he listens to would be classified as melodic metal core, which i gather is kind of looked down on by some. Examples would be bands like Five Finger Death Punch.

I do find it pretty easy to listen to most of that music though, and if that's the gate to some deeper cuts and more interesting stuff, then I'm fine with it. I will say that some of the technical musicianship and unique sounds that are in metal are what are getting me to try it.

As a starting point I just bought Periphery's Juggernaut Alpha Album. I'm kind of addicted to the track MK Ultra.

Blank.

Five Finger Death Punch isn't melodic metalcore.

Check out Bring Me The Horizon, Asking Alexandria, Suicide Silence, and Zao.

The Batlord

Do you wanna listen to more metalcore? I've got way many bands who are not the kind of bull**** melodic metalcore your friend probably listens to (metalcore is a varied genre with more sounds than 95% of people are aware of).

I could also give you plenty of thrash, death, black, power, doom, stoner, sludge, etc metal. Just tell me if you want to continue on the path your friend has set you or if you want to explore... everything.

Haven't given FFDP that much of a listen past the radio singles, but I understand their first two albums are indeed melodic metalcore, but then their vocalist had to have surgery and lost the ability to scream, and so they had to switch to what you hear on the radio.

Ignore all of this but Zao, cause Zao are amazing. Suicide Silence are ass, Bring Me the Horizon are not for people with taste (though I do like some of their ****), and I don't know about Asking Alexandria but I haven't heard anything about them that made me think they were worth listening to. But Zao are gods.

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Blank.

Nah. I'd say they're groove metal with alternative metal sound. And the new stuff is more hard rock with alt metal. Though he still does the "scream". He just doesn't do it as often.