Once Great Vocalists who arent able or just couldn't be bothered anymore

[Cernunnos]

Whether its due to growing old , self abuse or just lazy, what once great vocalists just sound unrecognizable ?

i know Nattefrost has battled heroin addiction and he is no spring chicken but his live performances last year where
embarrassing,  compare the below vid to the mid 2000's it sounds like a different vocalist completely   

Click to 2.26 and youll get my point

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftz3UgJ0Rbk

An easy target is Max Cavalera, i think his voice back in the day was perfect for what the seps where doing now seems age & health caught up.

[Cryptic Stench]

Max is beyond awful these days.

Phil Anselmo, shockingly bad now. Check out any recent footage, the physical abuse has taken its toll on his body too, literally lumbers around the stage these days.

[Hambeast]

That Carpathian Forest video is crazy. Doesn't sound anything like the older stuff. Nattefrost always had great screams too

Chris Barnes has been getting pretty bad. He sounds like he's destroyed his throat. The mixing doesn't help much either.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=546BI9k_s-8

[Weltenfeind]

Poor Nattefrost, never should of stopped the madness.

[Rockmeister]

Ozzy.............

[Cernunnos]

it actually sounds painful for Chris Barnes to sing like that now, and as for ozzy as i was too wasted at the last black sabbath gig to notice his voice,
im hoping he wont sound too bad for this months gig. 

Halford still has it saw Priest few months back and his voice sounds great for his age, so he will make up for it if Ozzy sounds sh1te.

on a side note im surprised Danny filth can still sing/scream like he does after all these years

[hellfire]

Mille Petrozza. Kreator shows are still good but decades of screaming have taken their toll.

[Juggz]

Halford still has it saw Priest few months back and his voice sounds great for his age, so he will make up for it if Ozzy sounds sh1te.

I don't think Rob has had it since the mid 90's. The first Fight album was the last thing he really nailed it on. Everything since, well sorry, it'd sound better with Ripper on it and that's the fucking truth 

Hetfield. Just fucking woeful since the mid 90's but he has actually regained a little of his old bark recently, alas the band are worse than ever so... yeay-ah.

Mustaine. The remixed remix of KIMB has These Boots... with a new vocal track. Disgracefully, it has been digitally detuned so he can get somewhere close to pitch on it. I cannot believe they released it, it's fucking shockingly bad.

John Tardy. He still has it, I suppose, but that dementedness which epitomised SWR and coursed through COD just hasn't been there since. He whas transformed himself into a fairly average death metal vocalist phoning it in when he is still capable of so much more.

Ozzy. As mentioned, he couldn't hit a note with a cricket bat these days, but he has also - and he is the only singer I can think of who has accomplished this - managed to lose the ability to sing in time. I picked up The End DVD and just couldn't sit through it. He's so far out of time he might as well not be in the same venue as the band. I congratulate anyone who spent money on a ticket on the gig in the Point.

[Trev]

Halford still has it saw Priest few months back and his voice sounds great for his age, so he will make up for it if Ozzy sounds sh1te.

I don't think Rob has had it since the mid 90's. The first Fight album was the last thing he really nailed it on. Everything since, well sorry, it'd sound better with Ripper on it and that's the fucking truth 

Ripper hasn't lost any of his power and can still hit the notes he could 20 years ago, so impressive to hear live

[Juggz]

Yeah, saw him in Fibbers a few years ago and he made it look easy. Whatever his technique is, it's fucking flawless.

[Cernunnos]

Halford still has it saw Priest few months back and his voice sounds great for his age, so he will make up for it if Ozzy sounds sh1te.

I don't think Rob has had it since the mid 90's. The first Fight album was the last thing he really nailed it on. Everything since, well sorry, it'd sound better with Ripper on it and that's the fucking truth 

ok maybe i was drunk for Priest too, well in my fuzzy head he was great    well if ozzy & rob are both sh1te might as well get wasted for the gig 

agree on Hetfield what his vocals morphed into i dont know but its been terrible since the 90s

[John Kimble]

Yeah, Hetfield immediately springs to mind here. His vocals has descended to a strange parody of the style he initially adopted for the Black album, a kind of quasi-"yarl". I actually think he's the most unlistenable element of the band, and it's the thought of listening to his vocals that would put me off seeing them live ever again. Well that and Trujillo's stupid fucking crab walk.

[Cryptic Stench]

Hetfield is indeed dreadful. A millionaire that can't walk away from the empire he's built. The man has zero interest in it anymore. I had Hardwired On recently and only dogged persistence got me through it, at one point I was counting the amount of times Hetfield puts an "ah" at the end of a phrase to help me along. Parody is right, just can't take him seriously.

[BlackWizard]

Mikael Åkerfeldt!

In his day probably one of the finest Death Metal vocalist of all time.
Don't think he has the capacity to produce the same gurutal performances anymore.
Could be one of the reasons Opeth have gone so proggy with no Death metal vocals on the last 3 albums.

Last few times I've seen Opeth there is a definite turning down of the mic volume when it come to parts of song with Death metal vocals. He even appears to take a step back from the mic.

Compare this

https://youtu.be/2knvfqaADso

With this

https://youtu.be/azG5X5HKXWs

I actually thought there was a problem with my dvd!

[astfgyl]

Lucky for Akerfeldt he has a great singing voice to fall back on. Unlike so many others.