Rob is the best heavy metal vocalist of all time, period...there are a lot of even crazier things not listed here, but it doesn't matter, he is the metal god...and nobody will ever take his crown
Ive seen Halford live several times over the past 40 years ive been a fan, but the moment that will always stand out to me was at the Ozzfest show in Alpine Valley the year Rob rejoined Priest. I remember the sun was still out, the reserved seating hadnt yet filled up so there was a fair amount of space around me and between myself and the enormous amps on the side of the stage. Rob walked to the side of the stage i was in front of and let rip with one of his patented screams. I could feel the vibration of his voice thru the ground and the air displaced by the speakers against my face. It absolutely blew my mind. There are some amazing singers out there, but none compare to the Metal God.
Lol..hahaha...with ur guitar..Yeah that's Halford, human guitar..by the way, I CAN SCREAM Halfords voice, but my tone is Not like his..I sound like a kid screaming..His are EVIL AWESOME SCREAMS FROM HELL, or Heaven ..A METALGOD NO MATTER.
I remember hearing Victim of Changes for the first time when I was 8 years old. I’m 42 now and that still has to be one of the best vocal performances I’ve ever heard, not to mention one of the greatest metal songs of all time.
Halls of Valhalla is such an incredibly awesome Voiceline, the Scream is so unique that I always need to think about this song when I think about Halford. Truly the Metal God.
It's insane how this guy is next to 70 and can still hit those high notes. Had a friend attend a JP show, he has attended a lot of metal concerts but he said the ending scream in "Victim of Changes" was the most powerful high note he's ever heard in his life.
I attended a Priest show in April and I will second this, he is still an amazing singer still hitting those incredible notes... You just feel that you're witnessing something special... His Painkiller performances may not be quite what they used to be, but the hairs on your arms will still stand up I promise.
I saw them for the third time last year, each time I’ve seen them and they’ve played Victim of Changes, his ending scream gets louder and louder. It’s incredible. My wife was completely floored, as it was her first time seeing them. I fucking love Rob and I fucking love Judas Priest.
I know this list is about his impossible vocals but I world like to mention Rob Halfords work in his solo album resurrection. Silent screams. Loved his held note halfway in
So glad someone appreciates & hears how amazing the vocals are in this song and that it was on THE LIST. Dreamer Receiver. Been one of my fave songs for decades!
The one from Halls of Valhalla is one of my favorites, but the one from the beginning of Nostradamus is pure madness. No build up no warm up just pure energy from the start.
Dude, you missed out the track Exciter from the Stained Class Album! His vocals at the end were really pushed up high! Defo should be in this list! Great Vid tho non the less! 😎
I'm pretty sure that's an F#5. I can hit that note too, but Rob's sounds higher. That always puzzled me then it hit me that, besides Rob's voice being a lot more naturally piercing than mine, there's actually a higher overtone going on at the same time. Not an overdub, but a natural harmonic overtone.
I remember when I scream one C#6 to 40 seconds, my friends, my vocal coach and I say that this is my best vocal line. what does it have to do with the video? absolutely nothing I just wanted to say hahaha
Impossible to make just one video about Rob's voice! He has (because he is still having it) a powerful voice since the beggining of his career and I believe one important vocal line have been missed on this video that is from that awesome and incredible concert from Live US on 86's or 89's (couldn't remember now), but it's on the song "Victims of changes", it always chills me up!
Rob Halford holding a note for 20 seconds set a new world record for holding the longest note beating out the existing record held by Sherriff When I'm With You at 19 seconds.
@@benitokamelo252 - Don’t get me wrong, I think Tate was incredible in the 80s, but I’ve never really seen him as a metal singer, except maybe on the E.P. Just my opinion. Having said that, and being a rock and metal singer myself since the early 80s, I can say that Tate has some of the most difficult stuff to sing, such as I Dream In Infrared, as one example. Superhuman vocals!! 🤘🏼
@@crusheverything4449 Oh I see what you mean. It is true that Geoff Tate's career has not been very "metal" but more for progressive rock. Still, you have the EP from 1983 and he also has some material with his first band "Myth" from 1982, like this: ua-cam.com/video/N9tdZZ3SY_M/v-deo.html I personally would have loved if Queensryche had released more material like the one on the EP. After so many years and years, and his performance in "Queen of the Reich" still gives me goosebumps. 🤘
@@benitokamelo252 - Same. I also wish The Warning had better production and had some balls, especially with the guitars. The songs are phenomenal, but the weak production is a real shame. Where was Martin Birch, Max Norman or Michael Wagener when you needed them?
Check the Run of the Mill by Judas Priest near the end of the track Rob gets really high notes even more than the Painkiller. It is very demanding song, that's why they never performed live.
there is a background harmony in Stars where Rob owns the universe. it's intimidating as hell a friend who is a professional singer postulated cattle may have to the force of the note by exploding...is the metal god an alien viviscectionist
did you know Andre Matos? He coved Painkiller perfectetly. And there is musics that he goes very higher like Fairy Tale (Shaman band) and Carry On (Angra), and many more.
First of all Rob halford never once in his career used falsetto. Falsetto is what Adele uses. Rob halford uses full power head voice. Second of all the raspy screams he didn't in painkiller were obviously impressive on their own scale. But what he did on the studio recording of dreamer deceiver to this day remain something that even Rob himself could not do live. I did hear a very rare and obscure recording of him from 1976 where he did do dreamer deceiver live and it gave me great relief to know that he could do this. But after that he never did it again in concert which was one of my biggest disappointments of Judas priest
True, the sound from both artists is massively different. Yet falsetto and head voice are the same laryngeal mechanism M2 that's why I don't separate them as much to reduce confusion 1. www.vocalskills.co.uk/assets/images/Quadrants.gif 2. cramdvoicelessons.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Mechanisms.png 3. vocalcraft.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/M0-M1-M2-M3-e1591137644421.png
Roger that. I just look at how falsetto, such as Paul Stanley s notes on I was made for loving you as compared to the opening note of dissident aggressor. 2 very different sounds
I putit in a simple English. He uses mixed and head voice. Listen to modern talking to get what falsetto means. And to get such a sound just give less of the air while singing. The vocal chords can't work with such a stream abd they split the sound. Try to yawn - that's the very position you should to sound while singing the high notes.
@@hemlock399 that's understandable. He sounded like squidward on a lot of tracks (namely Mr brownstone) when he tried singing without fry, but when he sang with distortion, it kinda masks out the squidwardness
I had actually forgotten that he did that on Halls of Valhalla... It's one of their few forgettable albums, so I tend to forget that it still has content like that x)
Some insane vocalists as suggestion: Daniel Heiman (full voice 6th octave notes and he's still doing them at 50yo. Lost Horizon was looking worldwide for a singer to replace him but noone could ever measure up and the band broke up for good) Sean Peck (20second D6. Enough said) Dale Thompson (over 6 octave vocal range (Bb0-Eb7), and all of it is actually sung and controlled. He routinely to this day in his late 50s hits 6th octave notes and sustains B4-E5 belts for 20 seconds+)
les voix sorties des grosses production sont retouchées , arrangées , recalées entre elles , et surtout il y a une correction de la hauteur . les chanteurs sont souvent tres bons de base mais écouter ces versions toutes retouchées pour dire "voyez comme il est fort" c'est juste phallacieux .
Thank you, super video. From my point of view, you missed two of his best parts, both from the sad wings of destiny album. 1. Dream deceiver 2. The first scream of the ripper. Advice: Mute the left channel and only listen to the right one. You will hear an extreme, ultrasonic scream in the background. Thats the highest scream I ever heard by a male humane.
The Painkiller album has the craziest vocal production I've ever heard.
Yes, but Ressurection is very close.
Rob is the best heavy metal vocalist of all time, period...there are a lot of even crazier things not listed here, but it doesn't matter, he is the metal god...and nobody will ever take his crown
Yeah like Unleashed in the east AT the END of green manalishi 🤯🤯
Agree 100%
@@ericlevesque6380TBH many of the vocals on Unleashed were done "live" in a studio.
@@Emmitt1800-cf8nh maybe but i Heard some.bootleg of this era and he was signing like That
Didn't Rob get higher at the end of "Run of the Mill"?
Ive seen Halford live several times over the past 40 years ive been a fan, but the moment that will always stand out to me was at the Ozzfest show in Alpine Valley the year Rob rejoined Priest.
I remember the sun was still out, the reserved seating hadnt yet filled up so there was a fair amount of space around me and between myself and the enormous amps on the side of the stage.
Rob walked to the side of the stage i was in front of and let rip with one of his patented screams. I could feel the vibration of his voice thru the ground and the air displaced by the speakers against my face. It absolutely blew my mind.
There are some amazing singers out there, but none compare to the Metal God.
Slayer judas and black sabbath...does it get better than that?
That one high scream on Sin After Sin's Dissident Aggressor is legendary.
Yup, surprised this wasn’t mentioned
A5 with an B5 ontop. Halfords scream on sad wings live insurrection he hits an B5 as well. A c6 on blood red skies.
For whatever reason Sin After Sin is a commonly overlooked JP's album which makes it also greatly underrated.
Same with Victim Of Changes (you know which scream I'm talking about). Easily his most iconic scream imo.
Slayer remake is musically better. But yes, his voice out of control on it.
I just nailled all of them ..with my guitar !!!
Lol..hahaha...with ur guitar..Yeah that's Halford, human guitar..by the way, I CAN SCREAM Halfords voice,
but my tone is Not like his..I sound like a kid screaming..His are EVIL AWESOME SCREAMS FROM HELL, or Heaven ..A METALGOD NO MATTER.
A tremendous list no doubt but what about his scream in Victims of Changes? I believe he jumps up an octave while screaming and it sounds so powerful
I remember hearing Victim of Changes for the first time when I was 8 years old. I’m 42 now and that still has to be one of the best vocal performances I’ve ever heard, not to mention one of the greatest metal songs of all time.
"Victim of Changes" is my favorite Rob Halford performance, those screams gives me chills!
100% agree! Devil's Child have insane vocal lines too. I mean, he can do like 20 videos only about Rob Halford.
Absolutely..Victim of Changes is insane !!!.. its driving me insane !!!!!... n then at the end of the mellow bridge .. victim of change iiiiiiiii..ooo
VoC from Unleashed in the East is probably Robs greatest performance.
Halls of Valhalla is such an incredibly awesome Voiceline, the Scream is so unique that I always need to think about this song when I think about Halford. Truly the Metal God.
The ascending vocals at the end of Exciter are also insane
Thank you soooo much for doing Rob Halford, his vocals are insanely unreal
It's insane how this guy is next to 70 and can still hit those high notes. Had a friend attend a JP show, he has attended a lot of metal concerts but he said the ending scream in "Victim of Changes" was the most powerful high note he's ever heard in his life.
I attended a Priest show in April and I will second this, he is still an amazing singer still hitting those incredible notes... You just feel that you're witnessing something special... His Painkiller performances may not be quite what they used to be, but the hairs on your arms will still stand up I promise.
No he isn't. He's a tremendous singer but he isn't anywhere close to hitting the high notes that he had done for 20 years.
lol, he hasn't been able to hit those notes for a long time. And the band has been tuning down a half step since he came back.
@@spiritspliceBut still singing higher than many
I saw them for the third time last year, each time I’ve seen them and they’ve played Victim of Changes, his ending scream gets louder and louder. It’s incredible. My wife was completely floored, as it was her first time seeing them. I fucking love Rob and I fucking love Judas Priest.
Listen to the intro to "Dissident Aggressor" on the Sin after Sin album. The high note that Rob sings is insane.
I know this list is about his impossible vocals but I world like to mention Rob Halfords work in his solo album resurrection. Silent screams. Loved his held note halfway in
His crazy screams during the improvised breakdown of desert plain on live vengeance 1982 should've been on here. "IIIIII WILL TAKE YOU HIGHER!"
Thats crazy
On Unleashed In The East, when he does Victim Of Changes, he hits notes that gives me chills
i met Rob Halford and KK at a Cardi's in Houston, back in my rockin '80's days!~
Loved them ever since!~ Thanks for the video! Peace and Rock on!
I was waiting for this one 🔥🔥
Judas Priest Love Bites live rare performance includes his one of his highest notes C#6. It should be in your spots
So glad someone appreciates & hears how amazing the vocals are in this song and that it was on THE LIST. Dreamer Receiver. Been one of my fave songs for decades!
My favorite Halford vocal has always been and always will be victim of changes. The range….the talent….the story telling. It’s just perfect
That glissando in Halls of Valhalla was flown in from Rob's home demo!
A5 in Ram it down is far better than the one in Painkiller
i wanna see another singer that can pereform such a scream as he does in painkiller at the end !
2:44 sounds like angels for a minute lol
My absolute favourite singer.
Absolute PERFECTION as always
Thnks Marc (=
The Halls Of Vallhalla scream is like a fast motorcycle shifting back into a lower gear from chugging along in a high gear🤟🤟
The one from Halls of Valhalla is one of my favorites, but the one from the beginning of Nostradamus is pure madness. No build up no warm up just pure energy from the start.
that scream at the end of "jawbreaker" is KILLER
One of the best screams in metal (maybe the best for me)
Dude, you missed out the track Exciter from the Stained Class Album! His vocals at the end were really pushed up high! Defo should be in this list!
Great Vid tho non the less! 😎
Finally, I've been waiting for this forever.
The screams during the intro of the song ''Savage'' are pretty damn high as well.
I believe he is a machine. Humans can't do that. Long live Rob and The Priest.
Dissident Aggressor opening scream.
I was waiting for this video.
Also in “stained class” his voice is amazing 👌🏻💖 i was hoping his vocals from “stained class” too but anyways thx for that video.
His opening notes on Savage have never been even challenged. Even Rob couldn't hit them live.
I love the end of Exciter. *STAAAND BY FOR EXCITAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!*
Love what you do with your video! My wife (tempo deficient singer) and myself (tone deaf drummer) were talking ranges and singers this is awesome!
May I also mention the end note of Tyrant? He holds it for so long and high it gives me chills every time I listen to the song
I'm pretty sure that's an F#5. I can hit that note too, but Rob's sounds higher. That always puzzled me then it hit me that, besides Rob's voice being a lot more naturally piercing than mine, there's actually a higher overtone going on at the same time. Not an overdub, but a natural harmonic overtone.
I agree this song is one of the best ever and the Scream AT the END is insane
I remember when I scream one C#6 to 40 seconds, my friends, my vocal coach and I say that this is my best vocal line. what does it have to do with the video? absolutely nothing I just wanted to say hahaha
Impossible to make just one video about Rob's voice! He has (because he is still having it) a powerful voice since the beggining of his career and I believe one important vocal line have been missed on this video that is from that awesome and incredible concert from Live US on 86's or 89's (couldn't remember now), but it's on the song "Victims of changes", it always chills me up!
So DOPE !!!!
Silent Scream on the live Halford Insurrection album, is insane.
You should do one of these on Chuck Schuldiner!
I can't believe you left out the most important one - the scream from The Ripper!
Rob Halford holding a note for 20 seconds set a new world record for holding the longest note beating out the existing record held by Sherriff When I'm With You at 19 seconds.
Спасибо Робу за то что он просто есть, и спасибо за его книгу. Видать наболело. Оценил, проникся еще большим уважением.
Ya you can.
There was a song in the mid-80s, Rob hit a unbelievable note during the song!
I can't remember the name of it?
The sentinel?
Halford is untouchable, I've yet to hear a cover pf Painkiller that sounds like the original, this dude is just on another level
Mindblowing beautiful!!!!!
Check out the notes Rob sings at the end of the Ram it down solo's. They sound like guitar notes, but listen closely, they're rob.
Judas Priest - Run of the Mill @ 7:20 - 7:50 - full end vocals start at 6:35
"Dreamer Deceiver" on Sad Wings of Destiny
Halford, Dio and Tate. The metal trident.
I would love if you would make a video of Dio and Tate, if you need it I have some lines that will help.
There are a lot of guys I’d pick over Tate, like Dickinson, Russell Allen, Jorn Lande and Michael Kiske, all of whom can still sing.
@@crusheverything4449 Nowadays, yeah...In the 80's, no way
@@benitokamelo252 - Don’t get me wrong, I think Tate was incredible in the 80s, but I’ve never really seen him as a metal singer, except maybe on the E.P. Just my opinion. Having said that, and being a rock and metal singer myself since the early 80s, I can say that Tate has some of the most difficult stuff to sing, such as I Dream In Infrared, as one example. Superhuman vocals!! 🤘🏼
@@crusheverything4449 Oh I see what you mean. It is true that Geoff Tate's career has not been very "metal" but more for progressive rock. Still, you have the EP from 1983 and he also has some material with his first band "Myth" from 1982, like this: ua-cam.com/video/N9tdZZ3SY_M/v-deo.html
I personally would have loved if Queensryche had released more material like the one on the EP. After so many years and years, and his performance in "Queen of the Reich" still gives me goosebumps. 🤘
@@benitokamelo252 - Same. I also wish The Warning had better production and had some balls, especially with the guitars. The songs are phenomenal, but the weak production is a real shame. Where was Martin Birch, Max Norman or Michael Wagener when you needed them?
If you like rob check out this guy on youtube his name is Stevie Mclaughlin
Wow
I'm waiting for Eric Adams and Daniel Heiman!
🐐
Check the Run of the Mill by Judas Priest near the end of the track Rob gets really high notes even more than the Painkiller.
It is very demanding song, that's why they never performed live.
Hell yeah. Finally!
Savage's intro is heavenly, or the green manalishi's ending
20 seconds is crazy, im out of breath after 14
One Shot at Glory is pretty sick as well...the screams are off the charts
I wouldn’t know were to even start. Because with Rob Halford there is so many.
Now that you've done Rob Halford, should have a look at Spencer Sotelo, particularly his live rendition of Marigold.
“ you’re possessing me” Touch of Evil
I don't even know what to say, his voice is so deep
there is a background harmony in Stars where Rob owns the universe. it's intimidating as hell a friend who is a professional singer postulated cattle may have to the force of the note by exploding...is the metal god an alien viviscectionist
Stargazer in the Bonus Tracks of Unleashed in the East has the most insane halford singing and screaming. Period!!
did you know Andre Matos? He coved Painkiller perfectetly. And there is musics that he goes very higher like Fairy Tale (Shaman band) and Carry On (Angra), and many more.
His range is definitely Lower than rob. And also his lows are much more weaker compared to him (i love andre though, he is superb)
Geoff Tate please!!
I believe the highest note ever record by Halford is the G#6 in Love Bites on the Fuel for Life tour recording, 1985 Dallas TX
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He was hitting crazy high notes all over that recording. And making it look so easy!
First of all Rob halford never once in his career used falsetto. Falsetto is what Adele uses. Rob halford uses full power head voice. Second of all the raspy screams he didn't in painkiller were obviously impressive on their own scale. But what he did on the studio recording of dreamer deceiver to this day remain something that even Rob himself could not do live. I did hear a very rare and obscure recording of him from 1976 where he did do dreamer deceiver live and it gave me great relief to know that he could do this. But after that he never did it again in concert which was one of my biggest disappointments of Judas priest
True, the sound from both artists is massively different. Yet falsetto and head voice are the same laryngeal mechanism M2 that's why I don't separate them as much to reduce confusion 1. www.vocalskills.co.uk/assets/images/Quadrants.gif
2. cramdvoicelessons.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Mechanisms.png
3. vocalcraft.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/M0-M1-M2-M3-e1591137644421.png
Roger that. I just look at how falsetto, such as Paul Stanley s notes on I was made for loving you as compared to the opening note of dissident aggressor. 2 very different sounds
I've never heard an opera singer sound like Halford's top notes. It's not full voice.
He does use falsetto when sings certain parts of songs. And what's wrong with that.
I putit in a simple English. He uses mixed and head voice. Listen to modern talking to get what falsetto means.
And to get such a sound just give less of the air while singing. The vocal chords can't work with such a stream abd they split the sound. Try to yawn - that's the very position you should to sound while singing the high notes.
One of the top 3/4 of all time
His highest note yet is on the “sin after sin “ album. Dissident Aggressor. It’s out of this world. It’s the first note by the way.
FINALLY!
Two word:METAL GOD!!!!
The Metal God!! \m/
Do King Diamond plz ;d
Rob had the best voice ever. Edit: Of course he can not hit the crazy high notes anymore, he is 72. But the RANGE he had is amazing.
Where is YOURE POSSESING ME
The Sentinel was amazing...
This is like, 1 vocal line only he could sing, and 4 that axl rose could probably have sung in his prime
Maybe, maybe not, but his voice always sounded too nasal / whiny for my taste. I can't stand his singing, even in his prime.
@@hemlock399 that's understandable. He sounded like squidward on a lot of tracks (namely Mr brownstone) when he tried singing without fry, but when he sang with distortion, it kinda masks out the squidwardness
What note does he hit at the start of dissident aggressor?
Nice, you should also analyze JP second singer, Tim Owens
Unbelievable, Rob.
I had actually forgotten that he did that on Halls of Valhalla... It's one of their few forgettable albums, so I tend to forget that it still has content like that x)
Some insane vocalists as suggestion:
Daniel Heiman (full voice 6th octave notes and he's still doing them at 50yo. Lost Horizon was looking worldwide for a singer to replace him but noone could ever measure up and the band broke up for good)
Sean Peck (20second D6. Enough said)
Dale Thompson (over 6 octave vocal range (Bb0-Eb7), and all of it is actually sung and controlled. He routinely to this day in his late 50s hits 6th octave notes and sustains B4-E5 belts for 20 seconds+)
Blood red skies contains his best performance ever
My favourite is the sad wings of destiny album. now that one has a lot of beautiful vocals.
I can . Coz I'm a Judas Priest fan . 🤘
Steve grimmet- grim reaper."see you in hell".amazing
Does anyone know who Rod is singing with in that 1992 clip? Doesn't look (or sound) like Fight.
Hoping you do one on Devin Townsend!
Video on Devin has been published!
@@CrazySinging Hell yeah!
Try The Pain Killer son in Judas Priest 98 Live Meltdown, with Ripper Owen as a singer in totally concert!
I can do that A5 squeal.... Ripper does one like that on Bullet Train as well.
one GOAT
Check out how long Rob holds the last note in Riding On The Wind.
les voix sorties des grosses production sont retouchées , arrangées , recalées entre elles , et surtout il y a une correction de la hauteur . les chanteurs sont souvent tres bons de base mais écouter ces versions toutes retouchées pour dire "voyez comme il est fort" c'est juste phallacieux .
Intro scream to Ram it Down
Thank you, super video. From my point of view, you missed two of his best parts, both from the sad wings of destiny album.
1. Dream deceiver
2. The first scream of the ripper. Advice: Mute the left channel and only listen to the right one. You will hear an extreme, ultrasonic scream in the background. Thats the highest scream I ever heard by a male humane.
What's the name of that second song, the one that was performed live in 1992?