What makes a good deathmetal vocalist?

Question:volume? harder it is to understand? speed? etc..................

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: volume? harder it is to understand? speed? etc..................

Vocal chord damage--ha ha ha.

ALL good vocalists use proper breath support and tone production and placement. Those who do not are, indeed, risking vocal damage--but that's true for singers of country, folk, rock, opera, and broadway show tunes. In the same sense, a singer can generate the tone and style appropriate to any genre while protecting vocal health through proper technique.

After that, the more important aspect of the voice for death metal would be tone. Volume is absolutely meaningless so long as you have enough for the microphone to pick up, the sound board will do the rest. I haven't noticed any consistent trend in death metal vocalists toward or away from mumbling...and speed/diction/patter doesn't seem to be a big deal. What you want most is that tone, that spooky nasal baritone or that nails-on-the-chalkboard falsetto.

Beyond that, good microphone technique, exceptionally charismatic stage presence, and in most cases the ability to pen solid lyrics and melodies.

An inability to enunciate, and a flagrant disregard for vocal cord damage.

the ability to sing a very hard type of music, and the inability to listen to fools like the one above me saying negative things about it lol if u can sing like that good for u i love it!