Since I have a hard time listening to the music from 80s made by nice pacifist, anti-nuclear-weapon, antifascist soviet girls and boys who are now either apologists for war (by being silent), or worse -- whose public statements can be considered fascist, I need to find a tenor singer with non-cringe lyrics... It's a hard mission. But on that mission I finally listened to #dio. And he's pretty damn good when not sexist.
A band whose singer comes close is #dreamevil. Dream Evil's #dragonslayer is just marginally cringe power metal album with good story telling and a concept.
https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/clean-singing-metal-list this post with a bit cringe name lists some interesting contemporary bands. #Messa, for instance, is more of "the next Black Sabbath" than "the next #Dio", but perhaps both.
Good blog post, the bands there aren't singing about dragons, demons and other fantasy characters like Jesus. Up my alley.