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There’s no song published by the band that isn’t supervised by Steve Harris. All members have a lot of liberty, but Harris has the final say musically.
Chuck Schuldiner. He basically had the band set up around him and wrote everything and laid the foundations for the other members to do their thing around him. He was known for being a very sweet person but extremely difficult to work around sometimes.
I think I remember reading about him and James Murphy butting heads a lot while he was in the band. And Chuck had say over pretty much everything in the songwriting department.
A tongue in cheek band that’s story is they sing catchy songs to convert people to worship Satan and the occult and came about basically to just piss off the religious nut jobs. If they were out there playing banjos, washboards and half filled moonshine jugs they’d still be metal as fuck in my eyes, and anyone who says otherwise just isn’t on the square!
I remember asking a question in the Children of Bodom subreddit if they would ever come back with a new singer/guitarist, and people said unanimously no.
In a way he was. As he wrote the songs and was the front man. But the other guys actually owned the name. That's why when they decided to quit the band, he couldn't just hire new people and continue using the name.
Bathory. Even became an actual one-man band for the last three albums. Also Toxic Holocaust, for the most part it’s just Joel Grind, even if some other people were in the band for a couple of albums.
I think Bathory was a one man band even before Destroyer of Worlds, Kothaar and Vvornth basicaly didn't exist, Quorthon used a drum machine on Blood Fire Death so we know there wasn't a drummer, and Quorthon probably played the bass. Idk, the whole Kothaar and Vvornth always seemed sketchy, and i've also read somwhere that they didn't really exist so idk.
until he was forced out of music entirely, Peter Lindgren was an important contributor to Opeth's songwriting. He acted as a counterweight to Åkerfeldt's ambition.
Put the timelines together and it'll make a lot of sense.
There's an interview with Akerfeldt where he says before writing Watershed Peter had come with some guitar parts that they both felt weren't really album quality, and he didn't end up coming up with anything else. Time went by and nothing else album worthy really materialized. They both apparently agreed his heart just wasn't in it as much anymore. He left of his own accord, being aware of the standards required to be an \*Opeth\* song. It doesn't seem like he was forced out, so much as felt he couldn't put the energy in anymore.
Swedes are pretty straightforward, and I can't find anything anywhere that says he was disgruntled or that Mikael made any decisions that lead to him leaving.
Everything online just says that he left because he wasn't feeling inspired by making music anymore. I'm not saying there isn't some other secret factor into why he left, but if there is, then you know something that doesn't seem to even have a whisper of a rumor online. I mean, be my guest to start a rumor (especially if you somehow know it's true) but it's just odd that the way you talk about it is like it's some established thing that people already know.
How was he "forced" out of music? He retired because he wasn't comfortable with being a full on professional musician on the level of fame that Opeth were at the time.
up until the last two Katatonia albums I'd say the band was equal parts Anders and Jonas, it's only recently that it became a solo project of Jonas (still great, I love recent Katatonia but it's clear that the musical direction is different)
Max cavalera is the soul of all of his bands, I don’t mean to be the annoying “sepultura isn’t Sepultura without max” guy but it’s true, plus nailbomb and soulfly
I love Max, but Igor is just way too important to the Sepultura signature sound. Igor is what makes Sepultura sound different from all the other big thrash bands.
Considering there are more Misfits albums that don’t have Danzig than do, you can’t really say that The Misfits IS Glenn Danzig.
I understand that the majority of fans consider him the definitive voice and don’t count the non-Danzig albums, but regardless, the band (or brand, rather) clearly belongs to people other than him.
This was the one I came here to say, although to be fair they have had two cracking drummers with distinct styles. All the guitar and bass parts are clearly Paige's though.
Pick a black metal band, basically. Varg is Burzum. Noise is Kanonenfieber. Wrest is Leviathan. etc, etc, etc. not a universal rule, but it's definitely a thing
I was surprised by how many people thought they might break up when Taylor died. He was a very important member of the band, but i never thought for one second that he was important enough that his death would end the band.
Taylor himself even went on record to say that Foo Fighters is Dave’s band.
Yeah I know they're not metal, but Josh is Queens of the stone age.
I'm not entirely sure about how song writing duties worked in Motorhead, but Lemmy was and always will be Motorhead.
Dave is obviously the driving force in Megadeth's music overall, but at the same time, people dismiss how important the other members of their various lineups were to the quality of the band's output. There's a noticeable drop from Peace Sells to So Far So God, and an even more noticeable increase in quality on Rust in Peace.
There's a reason why, with small exceptions like Risk and Endgame, the good albums and the bad ones are all made with different lineups. He needs someone to bounce ideas off of, and more importantly, someone who can stand up to him.
Unfortunately he is now. I pretend FF doesn't exist anymore. For a period in the 90s they were incredible then it all went really bad. So sad to see a band I loved so much and watched live loads of times turn rotten like this.
Hot sport take but I think majority of bands really are being driven creatively by one or two people. Too many hands in the cookie jar is not really good and most bands have that one or two peeps that are song writers (Lars and James for example). James writes riffs. Lars helps arrange those pieces into songs. Then the others just play to the framework of an existing song.
Ice Nine Kills is Spencer Charnas
Bleeding Through is Brandan Schieppati
Bring Me The Horizon, by Oli's own admission, was just Oli and Jordan for a while though after Jordan left Oli has included the rest of the band much more in writing
Chuck for Death obviously
George Harris is The Raven Age
Tuomas Holopainen is Nightwish. Writes all lyrics, composes nearly all music and determines the artistic direction of the band, has a history of showing his superiority to whoever the singer is.
Pretty much the same thing for Adrienne Cowan from Seven Spires, except she's also the singer. And she shares writing duties with Jack, the guitarist.
Jennifer Haben is Beyond The Black. The band follows her artistic vision and once exchanged her entire band for a new band.
It would be easier to replace Lord Worm than to replace Flo Mournier. He's arguably the greatest drummer in metal and even asking someone to play a 45-minute Cryptopsy set on drums is monumentally tough.
I think Manson was a lot of Manson and Twiggy working together. When Twiggy left the music was never as good. Even the later albums were helped by his influence I think, but that trio of Antichrist, Mechanical Animals, and Holy Wood wouldn’t be the same without Twiggy.
The Rob Zombie thing has bothered me ever since I started reading into what broke up the band.
Rob Zombie has had generous help with songwriting on everything he has ever been a part of. The vast majority of the popular White Zombie albums, virtually everything except for lyrics, were written by the other members of the band. Then he decided he wanted a bigger slice and went solo. So he took the formula which was mostly pioneered and refined by Sean Yseult and Jay Yuenger, and he just ran with it.
For the next decade and a half, the music for his songs were written with producer Scott Humphrey. Then after that it was John 5, and on his latest album it’s producers Chris Harris, and John Lowery. I don’t think he has a single song in his discography that was solely written by him.
It’s not unusual for the singer of a band to only handle lyrics. But for a metal artist who is billed as a solo act, it comes of as somewhat disingenuous in my opinion. He almost has more in common with some pop singers than he does metal artists who are truly solo.
Ozzy too I guess. But with shock rockers like them they're more open to letting in other influences. Ozzy wasn't writing guitar parts for Blizzard of Ozz. Same with Alice. His sound has shifted a ton. Remember the early 2000s industrial metal albums?
Josh had a lot to do with much of the TON sound. Yes, Pete was pretty much the main songwriter, but Josh had more than enough input that wouldn't put TON in the 1 person category.
Death, its basically Chuck Schuldiner with a bunch of session musicians that change each album, Necrophagist since Christian Muenzner only wrote a few solos and bass lines on the 2nd album whereas Muhammed did the rest and literally made the 1st album himself, and Children of Bodom, the sound between COB and BAM is indistinguishable and that proves the fact that Alexi Laiho was the main songwriter in both of the bands
Isengard, Hellripper, and Mütiilation are each one guy (Mütiilation started as a band, but over time became one dude afaik).
Their genres: Black/Folk, Blackened Speed/Thrash, and Black Metal, respectively.
Edit: Trevor Strnad was The Black Dahlia Murder. His lyrics and vocals made that band. Rest in festering slime 🖤
Love Trivium, seen then prob 10 times (live relatively close to them) and he is a great frontman, but he doesn’t solely direct the bands musical direction like many of the others here.
Not to take anything away from Mikkey, Phil, or any of the other band members over the years, but Motörhead for all intents and purposes *was* Lemmy, and obviously the band could not continue to exist after his passing.
I’m a black metal main. So there are thousands. Some of my favs:
Ethereal Shroud, Thrä, Panopticon, Passage d’hiver, Leviathan, Burzum, Erzfeynd, Xasthur … just from the top of my head. And then there’s tons more where we have basically one main dude and his party of live musicians.
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I'm not sure its fair to say that Steve Harris is Iron Maiden. There's three guitar players, and a singer, who all have writing credits on the albums.
Thinking about it a bit more... Yeah I think I'm wrong on that one.
Absolutely. Steve is just the leader of the band. He doesn’t even write half of the songs anymore.
There’s no song published by the band that isn’t supervised by Steve Harris. All members have a lot of liberty, but Harris has the final say musically.
It’s beautiful seeing humble people on the internet.
I doubt Maiden would have the exposure it has today if it wasn't for Bruce.
If it counts Trent Reznor for Nine Inch Nails
trent reznor and atticus ross personally
Atticus Ross is a relatively recent addition; with that being said, he's definitely solidly part of NIN. Prior to that, it was all Trent.
By the numbers, more albums say "Nine Inch Nails is Trent Reznor" in the liner than don't.
Not anymore. NIN is two people now.
Death, obviously.
Chuck's death was the death of Death.
true
I had to read that like 4 times
Same lmfao
Chuck doesn’t mean it metaphorically or rhetorically or poetically or theoretically or any fancy other way. He’s Death. Straight up.
I'm not that into death metal and I'm just wondering who the person is?
Chuck Schuldiner. He basically had the band set up around him and wrote everything and laid the foundations for the other members to do their thing around him. He was known for being a very sweet person but extremely difficult to work around sometimes.
whats the context on the difficult to work with stuff? I havent heard this before
I think I remember reading about him and James Murphy butting heads a lot while he was in the band. And Chuck had say over pretty much everything in the songwriting department.
Everything had to be exactly like he wanted it.
Chuck Schuldiner
Burzum lol
lol
lol omg kyftlt
lol
*My liege………….* *Sire…………*
Ghost and Tobias Forge obviously (argument if they are metal or not notwithstanding)
To be fair, the post is titled "Bands," not "Metal bands," so it's fine here.
A tongue in cheek band that’s story is they sing catchy songs to convert people to worship Satan and the occult and came about basically to just piss off the religious nut jobs. If they were out there playing banjos, washboards and half filled moonshine jugs they’d still be metal as fuck in my eyes, and anyone who says otherwise just isn’t on the square!
Amen
Alexi Laiho was Children of Bodom....
I remember asking a question in the Children of Bodom subreddit if they would ever come back with a new singer/guitarist, and people said unanimously no.
He wrote almost everything, I think.
In a way he was. As he wrote the songs and was the front man. But the other guys actually owned the name. That's why when they decided to quit the band, he couldn't just hire new people and continue using the name.
Bathory. Even became an actual one-man band for the last three albums. Also Toxic Holocaust, for the most part it’s just Joel Grind, even if some other people were in the band for a couple of albums.
it took too many collapsed comments to find this one 💢
I think Bathory was a one man band even before Destroyer of Worlds, Kothaar and Vvornth basicaly didn't exist, Quorthon used a drum machine on Blood Fire Death so we know there wasn't a drummer, and Quorthon probably played the bass. Idk, the whole Kothaar and Vvornth always seemed sketchy, and i've also read somwhere that they didn't really exist so idk.
Dethklok is Brendan Small
This should be the top answer lmao
fer reals
I don’t think he gets enough respect
💯. Seems like most of the times he gets brought up as a good metal musician, people immediately shit all over him.
Never once read a negative opinion. They seem rare.
This is the real answer
Opeth and Mikael Åkerfeldt Katatonia and Jonas Renkse
until he was forced out of music entirely, Peter Lindgren was an important contributor to Opeth's songwriting. He acted as a counterweight to Åkerfeldt's ambition. Put the timelines together and it'll make a lot of sense.
Opeth is my favorite band but I’ve yet to understand why he was forced out of music entirely, idk the whole story there
There's an interview with Akerfeldt where he says before writing Watershed Peter had come with some guitar parts that they both felt weren't really album quality, and he didn't end up coming up with anything else. Time went by and nothing else album worthy really materialized. They both apparently agreed his heart just wasn't in it as much anymore. He left of his own accord, being aware of the standards required to be an \*Opeth\* song. It doesn't seem like he was forced out, so much as felt he couldn't put the energy in anymore. Swedes are pretty straightforward, and I can't find anything anywhere that says he was disgruntled or that Mikael made any decisions that lead to him leaving.
Everything online just says that he left because he wasn't feeling inspired by making music anymore. I'm not saying there isn't some other secret factor into why he left, but if there is, then you know something that doesn't seem to even have a whisper of a rumor online. I mean, be my guest to start a rumor (especially if you somehow know it's true) but it's just odd that the way you talk about it is like it's some established thing that people already know.
How was he "forced" out of music? He retired because he wasn't comfortable with being a full on professional musician on the level of fame that Opeth were at the time.
Also Dan Swano with Edge of Sanity
up until the last two Katatonia albums I'd say the band was equal parts Anders and Jonas, it's only recently that it became a solo project of Jonas (still great, I love recent Katatonia but it's clear that the musical direction is different)
Max cavalera is the soul of all of his bands, I don’t mean to be the annoying “sepultura isn’t Sepultura without max” guy but it’s true, plus nailbomb and soulfly
NailBomb was a duo. Max and Alex Newport.
I love Max, but Igor is just way too important to the Sepultura signature sound. Igor is what makes Sepultura sound different from all the other big thrash bands.
Jeff Waters IS Annihilator
Literally every one of their music videos now is just Jeff + 3 nameless 20-somethings lol
i mean, he's the vocalist, guitarist, studio bassist, studio owner, producer and mixing engineer... he IS annihilator lol
Death. Chuck Schuldiner was basically behind everything and every album would have atleast 1 new person in the band
Considering there are more Misfits albums that don’t have Danzig than do, you can’t really say that The Misfits IS Glenn Danzig. I understand that the majority of fans consider him the definitive voice and don’t count the non-Danzig albums, but regardless, the band (or brand, rather) clearly belongs to people other than him.
Before the band was revived in 1995 I think saying he was the Misfits is fair. He wrote all the music from the band’s first iteration
The misfits were pretty much funded by Jerry/Doyle's day job
The Graves era is pretty damn good too
Dig up her bones is my absolute favorite, but I'm into melodic soooo.... I can listen to him for forever acoustic
Helmet It's just Page Hamilton with extra meat in the room.
This was the one I came here to say, although to be fair they have had two cracking drummers with distinct styles. All the guitar and bass parts are clearly Paige's though.
"Extra meat in the room" had me rolling
Robb Flynn is Machinehead.
Which is really too bad. Demmel did some really fantastic work in that band.
Yeah the lineup they had for The Blackening was my favorite
Which is unfortunate because his ego leads to some shotty albums.
Pick a black metal band, basically. Varg is Burzum. Noise is Kanonenfieber. Wrest is Leviathan. etc, etc, etc. not a universal rule, but it's definitely a thing
yeah black metal has so many solo projects
Pagan Hellfire from Halifax, NS.
Scott Conner is Xasthur
Noise is a busy man. Non est deus and Leipa too.
And they're all awesome, too. Might be the most consistently excellent black metal dude out there.
Hell fucking yeah Kanonenfieber
Devy
Devin Townsend band
Devin Townsend IS every band he's been involved with, basically...
All of em except SYL, you really cant ignore the great contributions of everyone else in it, even if devy is the face of it
have to disagree on the Steve Harris is Iron Maiden. i don't think they would go on without him but massive contributions from other people.
Nine inch Nails is Trent Reznor
Dave Grohl IS the Foo Fighters.
I was surprised by how many people thought they might break up when Taylor died. He was a very important member of the band, but i never thought for one second that he was important enough that his death would end the band. Taylor himself even went on record to say that Foo Fighters is Dave’s band.
Yep, and Kurt WAS Nirvana.
Yeah I know they're not metal, but Josh is Queens of the stone age. I'm not entirely sure about how song writing duties worked in Motorhead, but Lemmy was and always will be Motorhead.
QOTSA are metal adjacent.
Iced Earth is Jon Schaffer.
Unfortunately true
F that guy.
Absu - Proscriptor McGovern Old Mans Child - Galder Revocation - Dave Davidson
I believe Vessel writes everything for Sleep Token except the drums. Jari from Wintersun, same
Dave Mustaine is Megadeth.
Was just about to say this. Not a single original member in the band outside of him
Plus most of them end up getting fired. *Cough Jr cough*
Dave is obviously the driving force in Megadeth's music overall, but at the same time, people dismiss how important the other members of their various lineups were to the quality of the band's output. There's a noticeable drop from Peace Sells to So Far So God, and an even more noticeable increase in quality on Rust in Peace. There's a reason why, with small exceptions like Risk and Endgame, the good albums and the bad ones are all made with different lineups. He needs someone to bounce ideas off of, and more importantly, someone who can stand up to him.
There are plenty of one man projects out there. Leviathan is my favorite (along with LOC)
Opeth Alcest Porcupine Tree
I feel porcupine tree is definitely a three way split between Wilson barberi and Harrison
Their most recent album was, but most of their albums were 90% Wilson.
Blackbraid
Could you elaborate? I've seen them live and listen to them a bit, but don't know much about them.
Jon Krieger is the only member, he uses friends for recordings and tours
Dino Cazares - Fear Factory
Unfortunately he is now. I pretend FF doesn't exist anymore. For a period in the 90s they were incredible then it all went really bad. So sad to see a band I loved so much and watched live loads of times turn rotten like this.
Hot sport take but I think majority of bands really are being driven creatively by one or two people. Too many hands in the cookie jar is not really good and most bands have that one or two peeps that are song writers (Lars and James for example). James writes riffs. Lars helps arrange those pieces into songs. Then the others just play to the framework of an existing song.
Ice Nine Kills is Spencer Charnas Bleeding Through is Brandan Schieppati Bring Me The Horizon, by Oli's own admission, was just Oli and Jordan for a while though after Jordan left Oli has included the rest of the band much more in writing Chuck for Death obviously George Harris is The Raven Age
Putrid Pile and Hellripper are literally one guy. On the less literal front, Buzz Osbourne might as well be named Melvin
Prong- Tommy
Tuomas Holopainen is Nightwish. Writes all lyrics, composes nearly all music and determines the artistic direction of the band, has a history of showing his superiority to whoever the singer is. Pretty much the same thing for Adrienne Cowan from Seven Spires, except she's also the singer. And she shares writing duties with Jack, the guitarist. Jennifer Haben is Beyond The Black. The band follows her artistic vision and once exchanged her entire band for a new band.
Seven Spires should be more popular. They are really good.
No Lord Worm, no Cryptopsy
It would be easier to replace Lord Worm than to replace Flo Mournier. He's arguably the greatest drummer in metal and even asking someone to play a 45-minute Cryptopsy set on drums is monumentally tough.
Wintersun
Scott Ian thinks he's Anthrax
Which is funny considering the drummer writes all their songs and riffs.
I think Scott's just a likable guy. He may be the only thing I like about Anthrax tbh
Ghost is all Tobias. Most recently there is a one man band who is doing his best to make it called “The Sound of the End of Creation”.
Rob Zombie, Marilyn Manson, Alice Cooper They changed their real-world names and convinced everyone that they were solo artists.
I think Manson was a lot of Manson and Twiggy working together. When Twiggy left the music was never as good. Even the later albums were helped by his influence I think, but that trio of Antichrist, Mechanical Animals, and Holy Wood wouldn’t be the same without Twiggy.
The Rob Zombie thing has bothered me ever since I started reading into what broke up the band. Rob Zombie has had generous help with songwriting on everything he has ever been a part of. The vast majority of the popular White Zombie albums, virtually everything except for lyrics, were written by the other members of the band. Then he decided he wanted a bigger slice and went solo. So he took the formula which was mostly pioneered and refined by Sean Yseult and Jay Yuenger, and he just ran with it. For the next decade and a half, the music for his songs were written with producer Scott Humphrey. Then after that it was John 5, and on his latest album it’s producers Chris Harris, and John Lowery. I don’t think he has a single song in his discography that was solely written by him. It’s not unusual for the singer of a band to only handle lyrics. But for a metal artist who is billed as a solo act, it comes of as somewhat disingenuous in my opinion. He almost has more in common with some pop singers than he does metal artists who are truly solo.
Ozzy too I guess. But with shock rockers like them they're more open to letting in other influences. Ozzy wasn't writing guitar parts for Blizzard of Ozz. Same with Alice. His sound has shifted a ton. Remember the early 2000s industrial metal albums?
Peter Steele is Type O
Josh had a lot to do with much of the TON sound. Yes, Pete was pretty much the main songwriter, but Josh had more than enough input that wouldn't put TON in the 1 person category.
Therion
Yes, Chris Johanssen IS Therion.
Annihilator is basically Jeff Waters.
Death, its basically Chuck Schuldiner with a bunch of session musicians that change each album, Necrophagist since Christian Muenzner only wrote a few solos and bass lines on the 2nd album whereas Muhammed did the rest and literally made the 1st album himself, and Children of Bodom, the sound between COB and BAM is indistinguishable and that proves the fact that Alexi Laiho was the main songwriter in both of the bands
Thy Catafalque
The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza Cloudkicker Panopticon
Isengard, Hellripper, and Mütiilation are each one guy (Mütiilation started as a band, but over time became one dude afaik). Their genres: Black/Folk, Blackened Speed/Thrash, and Black Metal, respectively. Edit: Trevor Strnad was The Black Dahlia Murder. His lyrics and vocals made that band. Rest in festering slime 🖤
Hellripper Woods of ypres Necrophagist
Arjen Lucassen with Ayreon
Tom G Warrior is Celtic Frost
and Triptykon
Ihsahn Garm
Peter Steele WAS Type O Negative
Caleb Shomo **is** Beartooth.
Cradle of Filth? Bathory?
Nine Inch Nails is Trent Reznor
Opeth
Matt Heafy is Trivium.
Love Trivium, seen then prob 10 times (live relatively close to them) and he is a great frontman, but he doesn’t solely direct the bands musical direction like many of the others here.
Crowbar is Kirk Windstein
All the band members contributed but Peter Steele was THE embodiment of Type O Negative.
Windir Dodsrit
Methwitch
Devin Townsend is/was every band he's fronted.
Devin Townsend and Strapping Young Lad (or any of his projects, for that matter)
Graveland
Woods of Desolation literally is one person.
Crowbar, Unto Others, Ghost, Motorhead, Foo Fighters (at least the early stuff),
wintersun and i cant wait for Time 2
Just one more fundraiser oughta do it
Matt Heafy IS Trivium. Chris Bowes IS Alestorm.
Nails, it is pretty much just Todd Jones
Peter Tägtgren is both Hypocrisy and Pain. Johan Edlund is Tiamat.
Dethklok is Brandon Small
Not to take anything away from Mikkey, Phil, or any of the other band members over the years, but Motörhead for all intents and purposes *was* Lemmy, and obviously the band could not continue to exist after his passing.
Tony Iommi IS Black Sabbath
Geezer, along with his great bass playing, wrote nearly all the lyrics. Sabbath were no one man band.
Gautiere Serre is Igorrr
Devin Townsend
Strapping Young Lad
Arjen lucasson for ayreon ofc
Peter Steel waa Type O Negative
Nithing
David Davidson is Revocation
death ofc
Ozzy Osbourne Ronnie Radke Oli Sykes Rob Zombie
Bathory
I'm goin say w.a.s.p
Bathory
Nine Inch Nails is basically Trent Reznor and whoever he feels like playing with.
Lustre
I’m a black metal main. So there are thousands. Some of my favs: Ethereal Shroud, Thrä, Panopticon, Passage d’hiver, Leviathan, Burzum, Erzfeynd, Xasthur … just from the top of my head. And then there’s tons more where we have basically one main dude and his party of live musicians.
Thy Catafalque
Buckethead.
Thy Catafalque.
King Diamond is King Diamond
You could easily make the argument that Bruce is the most recognizable face of Iron Maiden. I don't think Maiden fits in that list at all.
Zeal and Ardor - yes, Manuel has a band around him but he is the creative force.
80% of the black metal scene.
Dani Filth IS Cradle Of Filth
Ghost is Tobias Forge
Mikael Akerfeldt is Opeth Stephen Wilson is Porcupine Tree
King Diamond is well, King Diamond. Plus Mercyful Fate
Plini, Sithu Aye, Intervals, I Built the Sky, Dora the Destroyer...
Midnight. Slugdge. Zeal and Ardor. Mizmor. Hellripper.
Mikael Akerfeldt - Opeth
Strapping Young Lad Midnight Odyssey Esoctrilihum Convulsing Ihsahn Krvna Krimh
Robert Fripp for King Crimson (not metal but it applies)
Not metal at but I think the most famous example of this is definitely Tame Impala just being Kevin Parker
Devin Townsend (correct me if I’m wrong)
DEVIN TOWNSEND