Metal is not noise

The common perception of Metal as musical genre is of people screaming and making noise. Since I had to explain multiple times that there are Metal subgenres with clean vocals that can be appealing to a wider audience I thought it was worth a blog post.

The following are examples of metal songs with clean voice that you might be surprised to enjoy

Metal Ballads

“Opera Metal” / Nightwish

Note that Tarja was the former lead vocalist of Nightwish. She is a soprano with a three and a half octave range.

Folk Metal

Electronic

Covers