Reply #76: I call bullshit.

[Jamastiene]

Punk singers can sing circles around metal singers any day. All metal singers do is scream. And yes, I am a musician too. I have played in both metal bands and punk bands and I can tell you that metal singers have a 1 to 2 year window of time to do their screaming before they get polyps and a whole host of other problems with their voices.

From the experiences of many many musicians that I know personally, I can say that the worst problem the punk singers have had is acid reflux disease which wasn't related to the type of singing that they do. Punk singers are not the worst singers. There is no melody whatsoever in metal singing, yet punk singing actually has a melody. Why else do most people remember guitar solos when thinking of metal bands and most people remember singing melodies when thinking of punk bands? Metal is all about the guitar and punk is about the singing and the beat. Period.

Maybe you are just one of those metal snobs and I am just one of those punk snobs and we will just have to agree to disagree. I honestly do not know what to make of your post either. We couldn't possibly disagree more on our takes of the two styles of music.