Best Vocalist

2025 READERS POLL RESULTS

Welcome to 2026 and another fantastic year of Audioeclectica! While 2025 was quite the interesting year for the world, musically it was a solid year of great albums from bands new and older. The amount of new music I heard, the shows I saw, I’m pretty stoked on what 2025 was for music. That being said, 2026 is already shaping up to be a great year for music. Before we start the fun of 26, here’s the results from the 2025 Readers Poll. Thank you to everyone that reposted, shared stories, told friends, and of course voted at the end of the day! Below are the results based on comments left and messages sent.

Cheers To A Wonderful 2026!!

See you all on here or at a show!
Brian

And Now The Results Of The 2025 Audioeclectica Readers Poll:

Best Bassist: Sunny Faris- Blackwater Holylight

Best Drummer: Art Quanstrom- The Owling

Best Guitarist: Kal Michael- The Owling

Best Guitar Duo: Mike Repasch-Nieves/Joel Reynolds- SOM

Best Vocalist: Sean Ingram- Idle Heirs

Best Producer: TIE: Josh Barber- Idle Heirs and James Hammontree/Sanford Parker- Black Magnet

Best Album: TIE: Idle Heirs- Life Is Violence and The Owling- You Don’t Bow, You Will Learn

NOW GO LISTEN TO THESE BANDS AND ALBUMS!!!!

2023 End Of The Year Lists: Results

Thank you all for making 2023 a great year for Audioeclectica. I hope you all found new and old bands to love and delve into. As 2024 begins, there will be new things coming to Audioeclectica including the long awaited return of The Audioeclectica Podcast as well as Radio Show, also coming are new topics, a revamp to the look of the site and many more surprises. Also don’t forget, I am putting on shows with The Cobalt Presents (aka The Cobalt Cafe), so if your band is coming through the greater Los Angeles area, reach out to me and let’s see if we can’t make a show happen!

And now… The Results Of The 2023 End Of The Year Lists (the results are based on readers votes):

01) Best Drummer: Glenn Chu- Iress & Sebastian Thomson- Baroness

02) Best Bassist: Nick Jost- Baroness & Michael Maldonado- Iress

03) Best Guitar Duo: John Baizley/Gina Gleason- Baroness & Graham Walker/Michelle Malley- Iress

04) Best Producer/Mixer: Paul Fig- Filth Is Eternal & Alex Estrada- Iress

05) Best Guitarist: Brian McClelland- Filth Is Eternal

06) Best Vocalist: Michelle Malley- Iress & Lis Di Angelo- Filth Is Eternal

07) Best Album: Iress- Solace & Filth Is Eternal- Find Out

Thank you all who voted!!!

End Of The Year 2016: Best Vocalist

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Next up on Audioeclectica.com’s 2016 End Of The Year Lists, the Top 10 Vocalists. The stipulation is that, they have to have released a new album or EP this year.

I encourage you to vote for your favorite in the comments section. At the end of the month, I will release the results of the readers poll.

This list is also in NO PARTICULAR ORDER!!!

01) Greg Puciato- The Dillinger Escape Plan/The Black Queen
02) James Hetfield- Metallica
03) Douglas Robinson- Night Verses
04) Keith Buckley- Every Time I Die
05) Caro Tanghe- Oathbreaker
06) Jason Kothmann- Interstelar
07) Jesse Leach- Killswitch Engage
08) Tanner Merritt- O’Brother
09) Dustin Kensrue- Thrice
10) Joe Duplantier- Gojira