Your fave Metal Language for singing?

[ION BRITTON]

I meant what if they had no other choice than singing in their native languange? Maybe some of them wanted to sing in English but their lack of knowledge prevented them, i can't be 100% sure that they all chose to sing in their own language because they found it suitable.
Anyway, the important thing is what sounds better to the listener's ear. There can't be one or two languages that are universally accepted as ''the best''. Each one has his own preferences for various reasons. It's what sounds better to your ear.

[Astaroth]

You raise a vailid point. In regards to your comment about bands wanting to sing in English but not being able to, most SA bands opted for the English option. In my opinion the "power and heavy feeling" they created shadowed their lyrical capabilties. If it were sung in English or Portuguese or Spanish that would have not mattered. That's just one example however. Againt this can be argued also.

I'm not a musician so I'll clearly state this here but my last line in Russian is roughly translated to "every man to his (own) taste". We can go back and forwards debating whether this would sound better if it were sung in this language and so on. The thread is called "your fave Metal Language for singing?" too.

[ION BRITTON]

I generally agree with what you say, my comments were made more on this:

If English is best suited then it would sound ridiculous to sing in another language.

It gave me the impression that you thought we have all agreed that English must be the most suitable for everyone (something which didn't happen), i personally thought it would have been better if they were excluded from the options, since it's the most common one and far too many people, in and out of this forum, have grown up listening to their favorite bands who usually sung in this language, so a small (sentimental) ''connection'' is inevitable (i include myself too in this category). I first heard bands singing in another language 4-5 years after i got into metal and almost 10 years since my evolvement with music generally, and although i discovered some outstanding cases of non-English singing, it's still pretty hard for me to outgrow the fact that many of my favourites tunes were sung in English, it feels like English have always been there if you know what i mean. That doesn't mean that all the others should think this way, i just believe it's the most ordinary of cases whatever this means.

How the language itself sounds to your ears is one topic and the supposed ''quality'' of the lyrics is another. This discussion could go on forever...

[steelangel]

Apart from english, I would say spanish. I have tons of bands singing in Spanish and I like them very much. I listen to every language as far as music pleases me. Hungarian , russian and languages from east-Europe in general suits metal music very well to my ears. maybe tha asiatic languages are a bit too high pitched sometimes.

[necronomicon]

I believe that english is the better,probably because i am used
in this.But i like and the french.

[Abyss]

English is always my preferred choice especially with descriptive lyrics as I would like to now whats going on in the song, other languages seem to rhyme more than English and a lot of them sound good but I will never fully connect with it so to speak if its not in English,a lot of people told me they use English because its easier to describe what they are talking about plus its common use as an international language will naturally help them gain more fans mainstream or not.

[Helm]

As long as lyrical translations to english are available somewhere I'll happily sing along in any language, really. So it's not a matter of being understood as long as translations exist. A band should feel comfortable to sing in their own language in my opinion. Heavy Metal is not populist anymore, especially obscure types, so as to need to seel records with english singing.

[Abyss]

If you are actually "singing" in English your accent will not be very noticeable this is proven by some of the best bands, some bands just don't flow well in their native languages and thats more to do with their riffs or lack of innovativeness of the vocalist to fit the music, I will not lie I am more likely to pass up a band if their lyrics are not in English, In my opinion the best bands have chosen to sing in English and most will continue to do so, you said yourself 99% of obscure metal is not unique and thus avoiding many bands that don't sing in English will most likely not make me miss much, unless you want to make some kind of outrageous claim about all non English singing bands are more "unique" then I would have to laugh at that, do not misunderstand me I do listen to some bands who do not sing in English but its not something I prefer and Its certainly not the best thing for all of these bands soundwise.

[Helm]

If you're searching for reasons to avoid more metal I'm sure you'll find many that involve non-english singing. It's alright, you don't have to like a lot of metal, Abyss.

And yeah, a band that sings in their native tongue is more unique than one that doesn't. Let' think of Master's Hammer for a second here. There simply aren't enough bands that sing in their native tongues in HM, and that makes the ones that are doing it more unique.

[Abyss]

99% of metal uses English good try though and the best metal bands ever use English anyone who disputes this is lying to themselves. In fact the most praised bands in metal of all genres mainstream and obscure use english lyrics.

I think it would be best we end the argument here.

[Helm]

There is no argument, you're arguing with yourself. I don't see what connection there is between language and what the best HM bands are as far as my taste goes.

[Noisenik]

Forgot to add lsat time: Czech (due to Master's Hammer) and according to some more prog folk releases: Basque. Yep, Euskera seems to go on well with music. Have to check Su Ta Gar at last.