@@WSlopeAggie That's why he couldn't sing bass songs when he was given ones hah All those tenor ones are easy peasy for him but when it comes to some really low stuff, there's not much he can do if he ain't a bass.
The fact that Alice In Chains and Soundgarden/Audioslave didn’t make it on here is insane. Some of the most unique and profound sounds I haven’t heard truly replicated to this day.
Here is my top 10 male vocals that are hard to sing. 10. Chester Bennington - Crawling 9. Jon Bon Jovi - Always 8. Michael Bolton - Go the Distance 7. Serj Tankian - Chop Suey 6. Steve Tyler - Crazy 5. Kurt Cobain - Smells like Teen Spirit 4. Andrew Wood - Chloe Dancer 3. Eddie Vedder - Invincible 2. Chris Cornell - Say Hello 2 Heaven 1. Layne Staley - Man in a Box Edit: Replaced a few Band names with lead singers from those bands.
@@mattwatson7510 I think it was just a bit out of sync for what he was listing. Bon Jovi, Aerosmith, and Mother Love Bone are band names, but are all just examples of the artist they like.
I feel they could have added on someone from the metal world. Geoff Tate, Dickinson, Kiske, Halford, King Diamond, and there’s more where that came from. Especially if you want high notes that goes on forever. That said, I bet there are a bunch of mostly unknown singers out there they would absolutely blow our minds and be very hard to replicate.
Running Alone by Angra has a 22 second "woah" in the end that ends on an pretty high note that is actually pretty hard to sustain in the right notes all throughout without running out of breath, this should at least be an honorable mention, even though is the only hard part of the song to sing.
I think Ronnie James Dio is hard to imitate. Especially that power in the upper mid-section. The man hits D5's and E5's so heavily, round and with the rasp, I've never seen someone do that.
YES! People joke about Dio a lot, but he's has such a great voice. You don't have a decades long career with multiple metal bands if you can't hit those notes.
Dimash Kudaibergen is imo the most talented vocalist in the world (SOS/Sinful Passion), Chris cornell (Slaves & Bulldozers/Birth Ritual/Smokestack Lightning/Beyond the Wheel to name a few) and I think the Rev's bridge vocals on Afterlife are very difficult to recreate.
J'ai été très déçu de ses versions des chansons de Daniel Balavoine, plus de technique que d'émotions I was very disappointed with his versions of Daniel Balavoine's songs, more technical than emotional
Out of all the things you've listed Rev's Afterlife bridge is for sure the easiest one, at least for me. And Beyond the Wheel is for sure difficult af, but not as difficult as people tend to think. Birth Ritual and S&B are much, much harder to sing than Beyond the Wheel
I'm in my 50's and can only hit it about 10% of the time now, but I could usually hit Ah-a's note when it came on the radio in the 80's. I'd never heard anyone say that Living on a Prayer was that hard. The part in Runaway where it sounds like he pulled his zipper up too fast; that's hard!.
The end of Runaway is my favorite part when I sing it at karaoke bars. Suddenly, people pay attention. ;) I'm 42 now and it took almost a decade to hit Take on Me's run cleanly every time. Now it's just a habit, but I have to get warmed up.
My top 10 as a singer. Most of these arent well known so i hope its new for you too: #10: Luca Turilli's Rhapsody-Ascending to Infinity (especially choruses and ending) #9: Shaman-Fairy Tale (climax part) #8: Steelheart - She's Gone (the whole damn thing) #7: Anything with Mike Patton's whistle screeches in it #6: Skid Row - Quicksand Jesus #5: Bride-Same Ol' Sinner/Heroes/Live To Die (Dale Thompson has a Bb0-Eb7 vocal range and he has so many insanely difficult songs. There is a vocal range video on his yt, check out all the crazy stuff he does) #4: Dimash-Diva Dance (dont personally like his style but man that's hard af) #3: Twilight Force-Twilight Horizon (chorus is...damn) #2: Cage-Ancient Evil (freaking 20second D6 man...who tf can do that) or Death Dealer-Gunslinger (Sean Peck is just an animal, cant decide whats hardest with him) #1: Lost Horizon-Highlander (The One). (Absolutely hardest song in the world imo and Daniel is 1% of the 1% of singers)
I came here just to comment about Quicksand Jesus and Highlander the One, and then I saw your comment. I'd love to see Anthony singing the WOAH-OH-OH-AH-AH-AH-AAAA-HA-AH-AH-AH part
The hardest part in the Lost Horizon's song is definetely at 7:15 in the official video of the band. The guy hits a D#6 in what I'm pretty sure is mixed voice!
@@thomasdussault1132 it's a D6 with upwards vibrato, insanely hard to do. But the whole song is a nightmare to sing, especially if you want to perfectly control distortion like Daniel does. Maybe you can hit the notes (and some people on yt have tried) but nobody comes even close to the power and control he has. And the best part is, Daniel has actually sung HIGHER than Highlander in some recent releases. Man's unstoppable
Number 7 is really varies person to person. Some people can just do that, some people could naturally do it and then lost it adulthood, some people lost it but are learning how to do it again (me), and some people never could. For me, Take This Bottle is a far harder song than...Malpractice or When Good Dogs Do Bad Things
Love Hate Love by Alice in Chains. The mid section when Layne just belts his vocals like a madman has to take a lot out of anyone who tries to attempt it.
Absolute truth. I used to sing a number of songs from the Facelift album as practice when I sang regularly. Love, Hate, Love is such a great and insane song. The best way I could hit that belting was to just relax, let myself go and really be in the moment. It was all about the feeling. Which in retrospect says a lot about the artist Layne was. His deep pain and agony went into his performance.
If we're talking strictly high notes 1. Rainbow - Stargazer (The Ending in particular) 2. Yngwie Malmsteen - Leonardo (Reinventing machineeees part, ending of vocal lines) 3. Riot - Thundersteel 4. Gamma Ray - As Time Goes By (The ending) 5. Helloween - Victims of Fate Kiske Version (You will burn in hell part) 6. Impellitterri - United We Stand There are also more difficult transitions in other songs that I don't know of the top of my head.
Ugh Stargazer, you can hit the notes, but the stamina required for this song make it so hard that is impossible to enjoy unless you are really trained. Same goes for Gates of Babylon.
I dont think anything is harder than trying to get the right tone on Journey songs Any decent singer can simply sing the song on pitch but Steve's tone is just unbelievable.
@@nicolasgralewicz4727 Thanks brother, Love you too. And yeah, I practice Claudio style vowels a lot. They're all like various blends of O, A, and U with like a more closed mouth shape. At least thats how I do them. Like when he says "youve been such a liar" its like super wide and bright on the i in "Lie" and then he goes into like a closed mouth/relaxed jaw on O with a little bit of "Ou" before ending with the consonant R.
@@Oh_its_Mike Oh, I don't mean like...his style. Because I don't have issues with a lot of other Coheed songs. The lyrics themselves are just inherently hard to sing in that song, I've even noticed he struggles with it live a lot compared to other higher songs like A Favor House Atlantic (which if you can hit the notes is mind numbingly easy even though it's higher)
Chris Cornell missed this list? Bro... Beyond the Wheel he could do in 1990 as good as he could do before he died. Saw them in concert and his ability to belt was just amazing.
At least one Muse song could make the list. Many would probably mention "Supremacy" or "Micro Cuts". Especially the latter has the crazy Hullabaloo live version where Matt does a mix between a falsetto and a scream in the chorus. However, my choice would be either the ending of "Showbiz" or the bridge of "Shrinking Universe". Then I have Cradle of Filth, and I'm not talking about any random scream that Dani Filth does. The 1994 song "The Principle of Evil Made Flesh" from the album with the same title that has a crazy part. The song was remade in 2001 for the album "Bitter Suits to Succubi", so I suggest to use this version. The part starts at 2.50 and goes on for nearly 35 seconds. The last 70 seconds of Edguy's cover of Ultravox's song "Hymn". Other than sounding incredible, it's also beautiful. Gorgoroth's "Crushing the Scepter" when the song speeds up at 1.18. It's overly funny as it sounds like Donald Duck decided to from a black metal band. Anyway, I'd be curious to hear you try that part. This one is probably a cup of tea for you, but I'd like to see you perform the ending of Jeff Buckley's "Grace". The chorus of Marilyn Manson's "Running Through the Edge of the World" with the same emotion he puts. Mercyful Fate's "Evil". The first falsetto that comes out of nowhere at the beginning of the song and all the switches from falsetto to a growlish voice that King Diamond does like it's nothing. The ending of Stratovarius' "Black Diamond". X JAPAN's "Jade", the part from 2.18 to 3.35. This style of voice sounds even harder when made by Japanese given their peculiar voice. This song gives, in my opinion, a perfect example. The last one is a classic. I don't remember if you performed this in one of your videos. You probably did. The crescendo from Deep Purple's "Child in Time" though deserves to be mentioned.
Chop suey - system of a down is a very difficult song to sing in terms of breath control. And hitting that high c at the end consistently is impressive
@@randomperson6433 i have been suggesting this for long time but seems he still hasnt noticed my comments 😀 im really interested if he can do something like that
Dimash- stranger. final f sharp note.... Think he holds it for around 20 seconds. Obviously he's done more astonishing things but I think you'd get a crack out of attempting this one 😅 But If you're you're feeling really brave look up unforgettable day live performance and look for the d8 note 😅
I always think Peter Steele from Type O Negative is hard because he sings such low notes. Mike Patton from Faith No More too because he has such a vast vocal range.
Number of the Beast - the Dickinson scream.. u know the one.. Run to the Hills - that same scream near the bridge.. Maria Brink NAILS it! Cemetery Gates - the end part.. (even the squeals by Dime are the hardest to even play for a guitar god like Zakk Wylde) Painkiller - why not? Burn in Hell - Tim Ripper Owens baybayy
These lists never clarify if the songs are hard to sing for people who can sing or just overall. Also its always about how high you can go, never how low.
Some songs by Paul McCartney For example, his scream in "Live And Let Die", live version of "Call Me Back Again", "So Glad To See You Here", also live version of "Wild Life", and the cool thing is "Monkberry Moon Delight". Maybe some songs from Beatles period ("Oh, Darling") McCartney, I think, is most underrated singer. He has so many wonderful songs where his voice is on the top of the vocal's opportunities. Next second after singing the romantic part of song he could scream and shout like he's recording his vocals from the mental hospital. Also people say he had 4 octave range
Watch/MsMojo always just go to Wikipedia to do any song list. Literally 60% of this list has been covered very well by a lot of performers. (Hell, NSP did a fantastic cover of “Take On Me.”) They neglect the male vocalists with *actual* wide ranges like Geddy Lee (Rush), Brian Johnson (AC/DC), Axl Rose, Corey Taylor, Jon Anderson (Yes), and Rik Emmett (Triumph). There’s a reason their vocals don’t get covered as often as these others: They’re really fucking hard!
Rise Against is damn difficult to imitate. The notes aren't too bad, but the consistent rasp and the varying intensity in his delivery absolutely shreds my voice.
That 17-seconds long scream by Chester Bennington in Given Up is a big challenge for basically any vocalist. And there's plenty of examples from Freddie Mercury too.
Hardest vocal line for rock, pop and metal, perhaps. Real hardest vocal line ever might be Ah mes amís! from La fille du regiment, by Gaetano Donizetti, 9 C4s all along a non falsetto pitch, but all of these in forte with the latter one in fortissimo. Best examples for Alfredo Kraus, Juan Diego Flórez and Lawrence Brownlee. Anyway, your tessitura and your vibrato are amazing, spot on all of these! great to hear you Anthony!
I have some ideas from the most difficult vocal lines for some men: Red - Already Over (Chorus) Ellie Goulding - Love me like you do Carly Rae Jepsen - Curiosity Eminem Mitch Lucker screams Dimash - Your Love
Greetings from Sri Lanka Anthony 🔥🇱🇰🤘🏻 Colour me a colossal fan of your work. I know some of this will be a breeze for you, but regardless, it's a fun list of ball busting tunes 🫡. Leonardo - Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force (sung by Mark Boals) Child in Time - Deep Purple Dracula - Iced Earth Battle Angels - Sanctuary Aces High - Iron Maiden Gethsamane (Jesus Christ Superstar) Keeper of the Seven Keys - Halloween Precious Jerusalem - Blind Gaurdian Headless Cross - Black Sabbath Painkiller - Judas Priest 🤘🏻
Hahaha, I would love to see Anthony come close to pulling that off. I loved Will Ramos's cover of Sleep Token - Hypnosis. I had no clue he could sing like that. 🤘🏼
"Grace" by Jeff Buckley should absolutely be on a hardest to sing list. Jeff had incredible control, such a unique tone, and he holds a 45 minute high note at the end.
Just my own list of male singers off the top of my head: Kurt Kobain-high notes hit and vocal rasp is iconic i.e. Territorial pissings/aneurysm/etc. Freddie Mercury- vocal range that is exampled in all of Bohemian Rhapsody Jeff Buckley- Lover, You should have come over/Hallejullah (mood/tone of the singing) Eminem- Rap God (rapping fast) David Dramian/Serj Tankian - Metal vocalist with classical training. Using elements from one style into their own. Down with the sickness/ Chop Suey both have these used. Also you could make hot takes vids of which singer you think is better
How about anything sung by Freddie Mercury? Something like 'Excercises in free love', 'The Show Must Go On', 'Princes of the Universe' or 'Gimme the Prize'?
Linkin Park - The Messenger (in the original key on the studio recording, not the ways they always played it live with a capo) also I'm not sure off the top of my head what the hardest to sing Robert Plant line would be, but he's gotta be one of them on the list
I've also always commented The Messenger (studio version) on his hardest vocal lines videos. Not only does it require a lot of energy and range, it also requires so much emotion.
My Last Attack by Holy Grail - 36 seconds in. Also a really cool vocal run after the solo at 3 min 53. Awake by Mutiny Within - 1 min 50 (1 min 18 to 2 for the full range), or 3 min 38.
Lots of going high here - but what about good sounding lows? Kinda 'hard' if you lack the anatomy :) Georg Stern with Das Orchester Rheingold - Im tiefen keller sitz' ich hier J.D Sumner & the stamps - Wayfaring stranger Geoff Castellucci - Way Down - or pretty much any other of his songs because of the lows. Günter Wewel - O, wie will ich triumphieren - This piece has one of the lowest notes in opera, which makes it even harder because no amplification is to be used. Tim Foust - Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow / Stay
Try nailing those switches between screams and clear vocals in the final minute of Vennart's "Super Sleuth" Or "Donkey Kong", especially part where he screams "sonic honesty" around 3:10.
Dziwny Jest Ten Świat by Czesław Nieman, man had one hell of a voice. Also Ronnie Van Zant from Lynyrd Skynyrd singing the outro vocals for “That Smell” comes to mind, not hard but memorable.
Steelheart, Skidrow, Journey (Steve Perry has harder songs), Dimash, Michael Kiske's Helloween era songs, Queensryche (with Geoff Tate), Christian Castro, Michael Jackson, Andre Matos, just to name a few.
interesting that go the distance was there in the honourable mentions. I transpose down to suit my vocal range and even then, it's still challenging towards the end
Agree with Aerosmith - Crazy. According to my training, highest note that a head voice can hit is F6, which is just a half step up from the highest note in this song. I've ever hit it, but barely, and that's after a proper warm up. Eb6 is the best I can do these days. To go higher, I must go whistle, but my whistle isn't stable. So yeah, better let that part be sung by a guitar instead. Even Tyler can't do it anymore in recent years, age has caught him up.
I was tickled to see The Darkness on there -- and then a bit disappointed when you didn't even try to sing the fast bit. Might I request that you try a set of the fastest sung lyrics, ones where articulation really comes into play? I don't have any specifically in mind for this challenge, although I've been working on some Japanese songs with fast vocals ("Run All the Way" by Megumi Hayashibara and "Childish War"). Hope you can find some good options in English!
Freddie Mercury - gimme the prize Freddie Mercury - In my defence Freddie Mercury - dont try so Hard Freddie Murcury - love is the hero Freddie Mercury - guide med home Freddie Mercury - exercises in free love Dio - The last in line
Kyo deserves some love for sure, I would go with Inconvenient Ideal for a single vocal line, but his talent comes to fruition in songs that explore his crazy range like Vinushka, Karazu, and Uroko to name a few
Emperor’s New Clothes by Panic at the Disco has got to be up there. I’d say it goes higher than most of these, and it jumps massively from the note before it. Not fucking easy!
For as long as it's up, give me a like for HARD men.
You and that mustache are awesome and hilarious 🤣
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You either have it or you don't... BDE 😉
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Anthony knows we've come for hard men, he knows us too well so hopefully we didn't came early
I defo came for hard men
Ffs Anthony, stop tricking us like that.
@@cyneelyte kinda sus bro
I like hard men 😏
Anthony changed the video title.
I agree that these songs are actually incredibly easy to sing if you're Anthony Vincent.
He's just got that perfect range for this. But put me, a bass, on any of these songs? Not happening.
@@WSlopeAggie That's why he couldn't sing bass songs when he was given ones hah All those tenor ones are easy peasy for him but when it comes to some really low stuff, there's not much he can do if he ain't a bass.
The ten second man comes in at number 1.
I wanted to like this, but it has 69 likes right now, so...
good you did not say "the ten second man comes first"
@@ulrichkalber9039Underrated!
The fact that Alice In Chains and Soundgarden/Audioslave didn’t make it on here is insane. Some of the most unique and profound sounds I haven’t heard truly replicated to this day.
Chris Cornell is untouchable, no one sings like him anymore.
100%!
Well they’re obviously impossible when they were sung by gods
specially in "love hate love"
THATS WHAT I WAS ABOUT TO WRITE (also temple of the dog songs, since its by Chris aswell)
Here is my top 10 male vocals that are hard to sing.
10. Chester Bennington - Crawling
9. Jon Bon Jovi - Always
8. Michael Bolton - Go the Distance
7. Serj Tankian - Chop Suey
6. Steve Tyler - Crazy
5. Kurt Cobain - Smells like Teen Spirit
4. Andrew Wood - Chloe Dancer
3. Eddie Vedder - Invincible
2. Chris Cornell - Say Hello 2 Heaven
1. Layne Staley - Man in a Box
Edit: Replaced a few Band names with lead singers from those bands.
You misspelled System of a Down for Chop Suey.
@@isaacgleeth3609 I'm referring to the lead Singer of System of a Down, named Serj Tankian.
@@isaacgleeth3609 Why are you singling out SOAD when he writes the names of the singers from all bands??
@@mattwatson7510 I think it was just a bit out of sync for what he was listing. Bon Jovi, Aerosmith, and Mother Love Bone are band names, but are all just examples of the artist they like.
Given Up?
I feel they could have added on someone from the metal world. Geoff Tate, Dickinson, Kiske, Halford, King Diamond, and there’s more where that came from. Especially if you want high notes that goes on forever.
That said, I bet there are a bunch of mostly unknown singers out there they would absolutely blow our minds and be very hard to replicate.
that would be too predictable
@@RollingDutchmann better predictable and acceptable than unpredictable and shitty. And mojo are infamous for the latter.
Watch Mojo definitely knows about Dickinson and metal singers, but they always prioritise the mainstream over what ACTUALLY fits their titles.
You expect actual thought out of a mojo video?
Running Alone by Angra has a 22 second "woah" in the end that ends on an pretty high note that is actually pretty hard to sustain in the right notes all throughout without running out of breath, this should at least be an honorable mention, even though is the only hard part of the song to sing.
I think Ronnie James Dio is hard to imitate. Especially that power in the upper mid-section. The man hits D5's and E5's so heavily, round and with the rasp, I've never seen someone do that.
YES! People joke about Dio a lot, but he's has such a great voice. You don't have a decades long career with multiple metal bands if you can't hit those notes.
Nothing beats hard men.
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@@cochase Delete your account. easy.
Or as Mae West said: “ A hard man is good to find.”
Apart from their hands
Dimash Kudaibergen is imo the most talented vocalist in the world (SOS/Sinful Passion), Chris cornell (Slaves & Bulldozers/Birth Ritual/Smokestack Lightning/Beyond the Wheel to name a few) and I think the Rev's bridge vocals on Afterlife are very difficult to recreate.
J'ai été très déçu de ses versions des chansons de Daniel Balavoine, plus de technique que d'émotions
I was very disappointed with his versions of Daniel Balavoine's songs, more technical than emotional
100% agree with this
Out of all the things you've listed Rev's Afterlife bridge is for sure the easiest one, at least for me. And Beyond the Wheel is for sure difficult af, but not as difficult as people tend to think. Birth Ritual and S&B are much, much harder to sing than Beyond the Wheel
@@alexandremasset3511 emotional is depend on listener
I love hard men!
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Same
I'm in my 50's and can only hit it about 10% of the time now, but I could usually hit Ah-a's note when it came on the radio in the 80's. I'd never heard anyone say that Living on a Prayer was that hard. The part in Runaway where it sounds like he pulled his zipper up too fast; that's hard!.
The end of Runaway is my favorite part when I sing it at karaoke bars. Suddenly, people pay attention. ;) I'm 42 now and it took almost a decade to hit Take on Me's run cleanly every time. Now it's just a habit, but I have to get warmed up.
My top 10 as a singer. Most of these arent well known so i hope its new for you too:
#10: Luca Turilli's Rhapsody-Ascending to Infinity (especially choruses and ending)
#9: Shaman-Fairy Tale (climax part)
#8: Steelheart - She's Gone (the whole damn thing)
#7: Anything with Mike Patton's whistle screeches in it
#6: Skid Row - Quicksand Jesus
#5: Bride-Same Ol' Sinner/Heroes/Live To Die (Dale Thompson has a Bb0-Eb7 vocal range and he has so many insanely difficult songs. There is a vocal range video on his yt, check out all the crazy stuff he does)
#4: Dimash-Diva Dance (dont personally like his style but man that's hard af)
#3: Twilight Force-Twilight Horizon (chorus is...damn)
#2: Cage-Ancient Evil (freaking 20second D6 man...who tf can do that) or Death Dealer-Gunslinger (Sean Peck is just an animal, cant decide whats hardest with him)
#1: Lost Horizon-Highlander (The One). (Absolutely hardest song in the world imo and Daniel is 1% of the 1% of singers)
Damn, quite nice to find people having similar music tastes! Fucking top tier list
I came here just to comment about Quicksand Jesus and Highlander the One, and then I saw your comment. I'd love to see Anthony singing the WOAH-OH-OH-AH-AH-AH-AAAA-HA-AH-AH-AH part
The hardest part in the Lost Horizon's song is definetely at 7:15 in the official video of the band. The guy hits a D#6 in what I'm pretty sure is mixed voice!
@@thomasdussault1132 it's a D6 with upwards vibrato, insanely hard to do. But the whole song is a nightmare to sing, especially if you want to perfectly control distortion like Daniel does. Maybe you can hit the notes (and some people on yt have tried) but nobody comes even close to the power and control he has.
And the best part is, Daniel has actually sung HIGHER than Highlander in some recent releases. Man's unstoppable
Number 7 is really varies person to person. Some people can just do that, some people could naturally do it and then lost it adulthood, some people lost it but are learning how to do it again (me), and some people never could. For me, Take This Bottle is a far harder song than...Malpractice or When Good Dogs Do Bad Things
Love Hate Love by Alice in Chains. The mid section when Layne just belts his vocals like a madman has to take a lot out of anyone who tries to attempt it.
Absolute truth. I used to sing a number of songs from the Facelift album as practice when I sang regularly. Love, Hate, Love is such a great and insane song. The best way I could hit that belting was to just relax, let myself go and really be in the moment. It was all about the feeling. Which in retrospect says a lot about the artist Layne was. His deep pain and agony went into his performance.
The scream in Given up by linkin park, it's just breath control, but can be difficult
If we're talking strictly high notes
1. Rainbow - Stargazer (The Ending in particular)
2. Yngwie Malmsteen - Leonardo (Reinventing machineeees part, ending of vocal lines)
3. Riot - Thundersteel
4. Gamma Ray - As Time Goes By (The ending)
5. Helloween - Victims of Fate Kiske Version (You will burn in hell part)
6. Impellitterri - United We Stand
There are also more difficult transitions in other songs that I don't know of the top of my head.
Definite second for stargazer; what a tune
Ugh Stargazer, you can hit the notes, but the stamina required for this song make it so hard that is impossible to enjoy unless you are really trained. Same goes for Gates of Babylon.
Ralph sleepers on as time goes buy is probably the most underrated vocalist on all of metal history
@@AngelArms1911 Yup. One of the best ones.
Periphery's "Satellites" deserves a mention too. Spencer Sotelo hits two G5s in the middle section
I dont think anything is harder than trying to get the right tone on Journey songs Any decent singer can simply sing the song on pitch but Steve's tone is just unbelievable.
He truly is one of a kind. Most people don't even realize the high note during the guitar solo of Wheel in the Sky is Steve's voice.
Unrelated but I love the Coheed profile pic! On the topic of hard songs though, Feathers is deceptively difficult for me cause the vowels
@@nicolasgralewicz4727 Thanks brother, Love you too. And yeah, I practice Claudio style vowels a lot. They're all like various blends of O, A, and U with like a more closed mouth shape. At least thats how I do them. Like when he says "youve been such a liar" its like super wide and bright on the i in "Lie" and then he goes into like a closed mouth/relaxed jaw on O with a little bit of "Ou" before ending with the consonant R.
@@Oh_its_Mike Oh, I don't mean like...his style. Because I don't have issues with a lot of other Coheed songs. The lyrics themselves are just inherently hard to sing in that song, I've even noticed he struggles with it live a lot compared to other higher songs like A Favor House Atlantic (which if you can hit the notes is mind numbingly easy even though it's higher)
“Beyond The Wheel” by Chris Cornell of Soundgarden is definitely a hard male vocal performance to sing.
Chris Cornell missed this list? Bro... Beyond the Wheel he could do in 1990 as good as he could do before he died. Saw them in concert and his ability to belt was just amazing.
He makes his ability to do this even at an older age look ALMOST effortless.
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Indeed...
Layne Staley too
Yeah, before he died, he had one of the widest vocal ranges among active singers. Dude was a vocal icon.
I know he’s soundgarden, but I just Love me some audioslave more… preferably the 2002 album audioslave! Straight through no skips
Great impression of Jack Black singing Don't Want to Miss a Thing
At least one Muse song could make the list. Many would probably mention "Supremacy" or "Micro Cuts". Especially the latter has the crazy Hullabaloo live version where Matt does a mix between a falsetto and a scream in the chorus. However, my choice would be either the ending of "Showbiz" or the bridge of "Shrinking Universe".
Then I have Cradle of Filth, and I'm not talking about any random scream that Dani Filth does. The 1994 song "The Principle of Evil Made Flesh" from the album with the same title that has a crazy part. The song was remade in 2001 for the album "Bitter Suits to Succubi", so I suggest to use this version. The part starts at 2.50 and goes on for nearly 35 seconds.
The last 70 seconds of Edguy's cover of Ultravox's song "Hymn". Other than sounding incredible, it's also beautiful.
Gorgoroth's "Crushing the Scepter" when the song speeds up at 1.18. It's overly funny as it sounds like Donald Duck decided to from a black metal band. Anyway, I'd be curious to hear you try that part.
This one is probably a cup of tea for you, but I'd like to see you perform the ending of Jeff Buckley's "Grace".
The chorus of Marilyn Manson's "Running Through the Edge of the World" with the same emotion he puts.
Mercyful Fate's "Evil". The first falsetto that comes out of nowhere at the beginning of the song and all the switches from falsetto to a growlish voice that King Diamond does like it's nothing.
The ending of Stratovarius' "Black Diamond".
X JAPAN's "Jade", the part from 2.18 to 3.35. This style of voice sounds even harder when made by Japanese given their peculiar voice. This song gives, in my opinion, a perfect example.
The last one is a classic. I don't remember if you performed this in one of your videos. You probably did. The crescendo from Deep Purple's "Child in Time" though deserves to be mentioned.
Child in Time is absolutely mind-blowing. Ian Gillan deserved a spot in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for those high notes alone.
Chop suey - system of a down is a very difficult song to sing in terms of breath control. And hitting that high c at the end consistently is impressive
Micro cuts by muse. Even matt bellamy himself cannot sing it anymore. But if you check out 2001 live he goes even higher and crazier
One of my favorites of theirs for sure. The operatic falsetto is haunting ❤
@@randomperson6433 i have been suggesting this for long time but seems he still hasnt noticed my comments 😀 im really interested if he can do something like that
Anthony did Micro Cuts already about three years ago: ua-cam.com/video/0ljaoxQlC7A/v-deo.html
@@mia1326 i didnt know that. Thanks mate
Hallowed be thy name, not only for the hard notes, but breathing control and pitch is a major chore.
Dimash- stranger. final f sharp note.... Think he holds it for around 20 seconds.
Obviously he's done more astonishing things but I think you'd get a crack out of attempting this one 😅
But If you're you're feeling really brave look up unforgettable day live performance and look for the d8 note 😅
The second half of Highlander (the one) by Lost Horizon has some of the most crazy vocal lines ever.
I always think Peter Steele from Type O Negative is hard because he sings such low notes. Mike Patton from Faith No More too because he has such a vast vocal range.
like only because of "Type O Negative"
Yeah, especially Abraxas song where Patton hits Eb7. No chance Anthony would sing it.
Number of the Beast - the Dickinson scream.. u know the one..
Run to the Hills - that same scream near the bridge.. Maria Brink NAILS it!
Cemetery Gates - the end part.. (even the squeals by Dime are the hardest to even play for a guitar god like Zakk Wylde)
Painkiller - why not?
Burn in Hell - Tim Ripper Owens baybayy
These lists never clarify if the songs are hard to sing for people who can sing or just overall. Also its always about how high you can go, never how low.
Some songs by Paul McCartney
For example, his scream in "Live And Let Die", live version of "Call Me Back Again", "So Glad To See You Here", also live version of "Wild Life", and the cool thing is "Monkberry Moon Delight". Maybe some songs from Beatles period ("Oh, Darling")
McCartney, I think, is most underrated singer. He has so many wonderful songs where his voice is on the top of the vocal's opportunities. Next second after singing the romantic part of song he could scream and shout like he's recording his vocals from the mental hospital.
Also people say he had 4 octave range
Watch/MsMojo always just go to Wikipedia to do any song list. Literally 60% of this list has been covered very well by a lot of performers. (Hell, NSP did a fantastic cover of “Take On Me.”) They neglect the male vocalists with *actual* wide ranges like Geddy Lee (Rush), Brian Johnson (AC/DC), Axl Rose, Corey Taylor, Jon Anderson (Yes), and Rik Emmett (Triumph). There’s a reason their vocals don’t get covered as often as these others: They’re really fucking hard!
Holy shit, I always thought that high note in crazy was just the guitar. That's mind-blowing how high he can reach.
Gethsemane is hard to do, not entirely from a technical standpoint, but also in terms of emotional dynamics
Rise Against is damn difficult to imitate. The notes aren't too bad, but the consistent rasp and the varying intensity in his delivery absolutely shreds my voice.
That 17-seconds long scream by Chester Bennington in Given Up is a big challenge for basically any vocalist. And there's plenty of examples from Freddie Mercury too.
Hardest vocal line for rock, pop and metal, perhaps. Real hardest vocal line ever might be Ah mes amís! from La fille du regiment, by Gaetano Donizetti, 9 C4s all along a non falsetto pitch, but all of these in forte with the latter one in fortissimo. Best examples for Alfredo Kraus, Juan Diego Flórez and Lawrence Brownlee. Anyway, your tessitura and your vibrato are amazing, spot on all of these! great to hear you Anthony!
u mean C5?
@@muslimmetalman yes, sorry, realized i clicked wrong number, c5 yes, dunno why i just didn't realized i put c4, thanks!!
man your facial hair is SO fire. definitely a style i wanna work towards now xDD
I’ve always found man in the box by Alice In Chains difficult to sing, but I’m more of a guitarist than a singer.
Same idea as with Crawling from this list, I think. It's a pretty high register to belt in the chorus.
Axl rose sang like siren in the intro of welcome to the jungle is also one of the hardest vocal as well as i.r.s song from Chinese democracy
I have some ideas from the most difficult vocal lines for some men:
Red - Already Over (Chorus)
Ellie Goulding - Love me like you do
Carly Rae Jepsen - Curiosity
Eminem
Mitch Lucker screams
Dimash - Your Love
I'm impressed by how much you were forced to cut before you could post this video. Content ID is a plague.
And coming in at #1
Johnny Sins
The Hallelujah cover by Pentatonix, specifically Mitch's part. Man what a voice
Born Again - last chorus... Power, feeling and technique in absurdum.
Chester will be missed and never forgotten.
Hybrid Theory was the soundtrack to my life when it came out.
Somebody to Love - Glee Cast, high note near the end! wow!
Most of the screaming vocals by Corey Taylor on Vol 3 subliminal verses and his live scream vocals in that era
Alter Bridge - Blackbird
Tillian Pearson - Favor the Gods
Saosin - Voices
Broadway (the band not the genre) - Same Thing We Do Everyday Pinky
Greetings from Sri Lanka Anthony 🔥🇱🇰🤘🏻 Colour me a colossal fan of your work. I know some of this will be a breeze for you, but regardless, it's a fun list of ball busting tunes 🫡.
Leonardo - Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force (sung by Mark Boals)
Child in Time - Deep Purple
Dracula - Iced Earth
Battle Angels - Sanctuary
Aces High - Iron Maiden
Gethsamane (Jesus Christ Superstar)
Keeper of the Seven Keys - Halloween
Precious Jerusalem - Blind Gaurdian
Headless Cross - Black Sabbath
Painkiller - Judas Priest
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Heck yes Iced Earth 🤟
Have you heard of the songs Greenface by Iced Earth? Or Red Baron/Blue Max? Those would be really hard to sing too!
Finally, what I've been asking for.
One of the most impressive vocal performances I’ve ever seen was Jeff Buckley doing Grace live!
Jeff Buckley doing anything!
She's gone - Steelheart. Always blows my mind how he hits THAT note
It was really nice of you to make this video!
Blow up the outside world - Soundgarden
From Yesterday - 30 Seconds to Mars
Knife Prty - Deftones
An Ordinary Extinction - Architects
I think highway star from deep purple is pretty crazy that octave jumps from really low to really high seems hard
Nice title
This is hands down my favorite video you've done recently. I laughed, I cried, I tried to sing some of these songs.
I'd absolutely love to see you try to the hellfire - Lorna Shore, actually anything by Lorna shore would be amazing to see
Ayo bro u tryna kill him?
Hahaha, I would love to see Anthony come close to pulling that off. I loved Will Ramos's cover of Sleep Token - Hypnosis. I had no clue he could sing like that. 🤘🏼
"Grace" by Jeff Buckley should absolutely be on a hardest to sing list. Jeff had incredible control, such a unique tone, and he holds a 45 minute high note at the end.
YES!!! What Jeff could do was otherworldly!!! Grace is my all time favorite song and vocal performance! What a talented, gifted human being
Eagle Fly Free by Helloween (the whole song is amazing but the last chorus till the end is what people cannot replicate) ❤️
i'm surprised nobody in the comments mentioned "The Sound Of Silence" - Disturbed
Just my own list of male singers off the top of my head:
Kurt Kobain-high notes hit and vocal rasp is iconic i.e. Territorial pissings/aneurysm/etc.
Freddie Mercury- vocal range that is exampled in all of Bohemian Rhapsody
Jeff Buckley- Lover, You should have come over/Hallejullah (mood/tone of the singing)
Eminem- Rap God (rapping fast)
David Dramian/Serj Tankian - Metal vocalist with classical training. Using elements from one style into their own. Down with the sickness/ Chop Suey both have these used.
Also you could make hot takes vids of which singer you think is better
How about anything sung by Freddie Mercury? Something like 'Excercises in free love', 'The Show Must Go On', 'Princes of the Universe' or 'Gimme the Prize'?
Lovin' You -- Minnie Riperton
Great Gig In The Sky -- Clare Torrey
Two off the top of my head 😉
The Armageddon breakdown at 7:25 is amazing
:-D Your 'ro-BUSST' just made me spill my coffee over my screen. Thanks!
Linkin Park - The Messenger (in the original key on the studio recording, not the ways they always played it live with a capo)
also I'm not sure off the top of my head what the hardest to sing Robert Plant line would be, but he's gotta be one of them on the list
I've also always commented The Messenger (studio version) on his hardest vocal lines videos. Not only does it require a lot of energy and range, it also requires so much emotion.
My Last Attack by Holy Grail - 36 seconds in. Also a really cool vocal run after the solo at 3 min 53.
Awake by Mutiny Within - 1 min 50 (1 min 18 to 2 for the full range), or 3 min 38.
The scream in system of a down - question before the breakdown
Try Deadhead by Devin Townsend. The Royal Albert Hall version, please.
“She’s Gone” by Steelheart! the climax is awesome
I vote for Anthony to do a Rock/Metal cover of I'll Make Love To You. That tiny segment that you did gave me chills!
Agreed !
Dimash - SOS - great feels, and some strong low and high stuff
This is made for people who aren't practiced musicians ofc the hardest man of all time can do it
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Queensrÿche - Take Hold of the Flame
Lots of going high here - but what about good sounding lows? Kinda 'hard' if you lack the anatomy :)
Georg Stern with Das Orchester Rheingold - Im tiefen keller sitz' ich hier
J.D Sumner & the stamps - Wayfaring stranger
Geoff Castellucci - Way Down - or pretty much any other of his songs because of the lows.
Günter Wewel - O, wie will ich triumphieren - This piece has one of the lowest notes in opera, which makes it even harder because no amplification is to be used.
Tim Foust - Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow / Stay
Screams from M shadows from A7X and Corey Taylor from Slipknot are just insane. That's what I guess is hard to duplicate
They can’t even scream like they used to because they were hurting themselves in the process lol
I'm glad we can all appreciate hard men
Try nailing those switches between screams and clear vocals in the final minute of Vennart's "Super Sleuth"
Or "Donkey Kong", especially part where he screams "sonic honesty" around 3:10.
Tommy Johansson did "You Raise Me Up" an octave higher. HOLY SHIT! Does it sound cool.
Dziwny Jest Ten Świat by Czesław Nieman, man had one hell of a voice. Also Ronnie Van Zant from Lynyrd Skynyrd singing the outro vocals for “That Smell” comes to mind, not hard but memorable.
Or Jednego Serca. Czesław goes up to G6 there which is crazy high. It's higher than the highest note in the Queen Of The Night aria 😁
Steelheart, Skidrow, Journey (Steve Perry has harder songs), Dimash, Michael Kiske's Helloween era songs, Queensryche (with Geoff Tate), Christian Castro, Michael Jackson, Andre Matos, just to name a few.
interesting that go the distance was there in the honourable mentions. I transpose down to suit my vocal range and even then, it's still challenging towards the end
Agree with Aerosmith - Crazy. According to my training, highest note that a head voice can hit is F6, which is just a half step up from the highest note in this song. I've ever hit it, but barely, and that's after a proper warm up. Eb6 is the best I can do these days. To go higher, I must go whistle, but my whistle isn't stable. So yeah, better let that part be sung by a guitar instead. Even Tyler can't do it anymore in recent years, age has caught him up.
I would suggest child in time by deep purple. that's maybe one of the hardest vocal lines in my opinion
try this -> Alliance - Na Zare. Альянс - На Заре
Love your reactions 🤣 while appreciating your talent. 😊🤩
I was tickled to see The Darkness on there -- and then a bit disappointed when you didn't even try to sing the fast bit. Might I request that you try a set of the fastest sung lyrics, ones where articulation really comes into play?
I don't have any specifically in mind for this challenge, although I've been working on some Japanese songs with fast vocals ("Run All the Way" by Megumi Hayashibara and "Childish War"). Hope you can find some good options in English!
The coolest sound i've heard 👉🏻 6:25
Freddie Mercury - gimme the prize
Freddie Mercury - In my defence
Freddie Mercury - dont try so Hard
Freddie Murcury - love is the hero
Freddie Mercury - guide med home
Freddie Mercury - exercises in free love
Dio - The last in line
Stay Away - Nirvana
Territorial Pissings - Nirvana
In the Closet - Michael Jackson
Purple Rain - Prince
The Ones Rob Halford~King Diamond & Ray Alder Sings...
Stache looking funky fresh yo
Kyo deserves some love for sure, I would go with Inconvenient Ideal for a single vocal line, but his talent comes to fruition in songs that explore his crazy range like Vinushka, Karazu, and Uroko to name a few
Different Sense is another great one that shows off his deep growls and high screams.
Ashes To Ashes by Faith No More, not so much for the range but the sheer power.
I'm very impressed by The Mars Volta's singer, no song in particular. (Ok, "Cygnus... Vismund Cygnus" is a great song though and blew me away.)
Deadhead by Devin Townsend is definitely a challenging one at the end of the song
Emperor’s New Clothes by Panic at the Disco has got to be up there. I’d say it goes higher than most of these, and it jumps massively from the note before it. Not fucking easy!
The bridge of "No One's There" of Korn is so high and hard! Greetings from Portugal 🇵🇹
2:29 from Periphery's Blood Eagle. Or Jetpacks Was Yes! By Periphery or Satellites by Periphery
The "No Grace From Heaven" part