Post by TheCMRecluse on Feb 11, 2024 1:02:30 GMT
Jason Wisdom
Associated Acts: The Remnant (2003-2004), Becoming The Archetype (2004-2013, 2022-present), Pneuma (2011–2012), Solamors (2012–2015), Death Therapy (2015–present), The Reversalist (2020–present)
Vocal Range: G1-G5 (4 octaves)
Vocal Type: Celestial Baritone Of The Terminated Damnation/Extinction
{Vocal Summary}
Technical death metal is a chaotic genre therefore the vocals themselves will match the overall mood of it. However, some vocalists can go a different route while still staying in the genre's tropes. Georgia native, Jason Wisdom of the celestial metal band, Becoming The Archetype is one of death metal’s most ambitious vocalists. Known for his lion-like growls and roars, his vocal presence is one that does warrant a listener’s attention. As a whole, Wisdom is a baritone who never delved into anything but growling in most of his early career however around their fourth album in the band he began to slightly use his melodic vocals a lot more and then fully explored them in his guitar-absent industrial project, Death Therapy. His voice can sometimes vary from sounding like a Gregorian chant to the typical moody vocals usually found in like industrial or even nu metal. His high register at first was a bit irregular at first mostly singing in bizarre time signatures but got better at it with the advancing of his career being able to belt all the way to the beginning of the fifth octave. His lower register is also very well-adjusted which is rare for a death metal vocalist as again has moments of sounding like an angst-filled alternative metal singer to a church choir bass. He also has moments of using the “attitude” fry when the tone of the song gets more peculiar or menacing. Wisdom to many would sound like a monster singing worship songs for first-listeners but that only adds to the uniqueness of his voice and talents.
Technical death metal is a chaotic genre therefore the vocals themselves will match the overall mood of it. However, some vocalists can go a different route while still staying in the genre's tropes. Georgia native, Jason Wisdom of the celestial metal band, Becoming The Archetype is one of death metal’s most ambitious vocalists. Known for his lion-like growls and roars, his vocal presence is one that does warrant a listener’s attention. As a whole, Wisdom is a baritone who never delved into anything but growling in most of his early career however around their fourth album in the band he began to slightly use his melodic vocals a lot more and then fully explored them in his guitar-absent industrial project, Death Therapy. His voice can sometimes vary from sounding like a Gregorian chant to the typical moody vocals usually found in like industrial or even nu metal. His high register at first was a bit irregular at first mostly singing in bizarre time signatures but got better at it with the advancing of his career being able to belt all the way to the beginning of the fifth octave. His lower register is also very well-adjusted which is rare for a death metal vocalist as again has moments of sounding like an angst-filled alternative metal singer to a church choir bass. He also has moments of using the “attitude” fry when the tone of the song gets more peculiar or menacing. Wisdom to many would sound like a monster singing worship songs for first-listeners but that only adds to the uniqueness of his voice and talents.
{Discography Checked}
The Remnant
Genre: Melodic deathcore
Studio albums
The Remnant (2004) N/A-E5
Becoming The Archetype
Genre: Technical death metal/deathcore/progressive metal
Studio albums
Terminate Damnation (2005) N/A-G5
The Physics Of Fire (2007) E2-E5
Dichotomy (2008) E2-F3-G4-F5
Celestial Completion (2011) D2-G2-A4-E♭5
Children Of The Great Extinction (2022) B♭2-B4-E5
Solamors
Genre: Progressive melodic death metal
Studio albums
Depravity's Demise (2013) A1-E♭2-B♭4-E5
Death Therapy
Genre: Industrial metal-rock/progressive metal-rock
Studio albums
The Storm Before The Calm (2017) B♭1-C♯2-B2-C5-E5
Voices (2019) G1-E♭2-A4-C5
Melancholy Machines (2021) A1-D2-A4-B4-F5-G5
The Remnant
Genre: Melodic deathcore
Studio albums
The Remnant (2004) N/A-E5
Becoming The Archetype
Genre: Technical death metal/deathcore/progressive metal
Studio albums
Terminate Damnation (2005) N/A-G5
The Physics Of Fire (2007) E2-E5
Dichotomy (2008) E2-F3-G4-F5
Celestial Completion (2011) D2-G2-A4-E♭5
Children Of The Great Extinction (2022) B♭2-B4-E5
Solamors
Genre: Progressive melodic death metal
Studio albums
Depravity's Demise (2013) A1-E♭2-B♭4-E5
Death Therapy
Genre: Industrial metal-rock/progressive metal-rock
Studio albums
The Storm Before The Calm (2017) B♭1-C♯2-B2-C5-E5
Voices (2019) G1-E♭2-A4-C5
Melancholy Machines (2021) A1-D2-A4-B4-F5-G5
Significant High Notes:
G5 ("Ex Nihilo", "One Man Parade", "Tension")
F♯5 ("Beyond Adaption", "Into Oblivion", "No Fall Too Far")
F5 ("Dichotomy (The Tower)", "Elegy: Deception/Lament/Triumph", "Flammable Animals", "Necrotizing Fasciitis", "The Trivial Paroxysm")
E5 ("Black Hole" by TheLeadBassist, "Calling Down The Sky", "End Of The Age (The Lion)", "For The Sake Of Moving On", "Lose Control" by SFINX, "Prodigal", "The Balance Of Eternity", "The Epigone", "The Hollow", "The Lost Colony")
E♭5 ("Breathing Light", "Fire Made Flesh (The Physics Of Fire Pt. 2)", "Following The Light", "How Great Thou Art (The Hymn)", "Internal Illumination", "Path Of The Beam", "Permeating Reality", "Reflect/Refract", "Shouting In A Vacuum", "The Calling", "The Curse", "The Dead World", "The Regular Battle", "The Ruins", "The Sacrament")
D5 ("Deep Heaven (The Awakening)", "Dispelling Illusions", "Elemental Wrath: Requiem Aeternam Pt. 2", "Epoch Of War", "Evil Unseen (The Root)", "Ransom (The Serpent)", "Self Existent (The Tomb)", "The Anchor", "The Awakening", "The Lie", "The Longest Instant", "The Magnetic Sky", "The Remnant", "Ticket To The Next Apocalypse" by Teramaze, "Two")
C♯5 ("A Deep State Of Awake" by Teramaze, "Artificial Immortality (The Beast)", "Endure", "Married To The Minus", "Possessed")
C5 ("Broken Crown", "Bad Day To Die", "Bullet Holes", "Darkening Counsel Part II: Inquisition", "Dispelling Illusions", "Mountain Of Souls (The Ghost)", "My Defiance", "Tension", "The Great Fall (The Physics Of Fire Pt. 1)", "Wake Me (When I'm Dead)")
B4 ("Cardiac Rebellion", "Dispelling Illusions", "Everything Burns", "Falling Embers", "Feels Like Fiction", "PLS SND HLP", "Plotting In Vain", "Reject" [Living Sacrifice cover], "Self Mind Dead", "Standing In Air", "Tension", "The Knife" by MARILLA, "The Lie", "The Lost Colony", "The Reckoning", "Until Then")
B♭4 ("54 Is 44", "Autopsy", "Becoming What You Are", "Burden" by Dire, "Calling Down The Sky", "Oath To Order", "Possessed", "Resist The Eclipse", "Self Destructing", "Shouting In A Vacuum", "Slow Dance (With Death)", "The Lie", "The Remnant", "The Vice Of Voices", "Worry Of Wages" by Poetic Descent, "Xenosynthesis: Requiem Aeternam Pt. 3")
A4 ("Bad Day To Die", "Bullet Holes", "Cardiac Rebellion", "Construct And Collapse", "Darkening Counsel Part II: Inquisition", "Immolation", "Flammable Animals", "Second Death", "The Hollow")
G♯4 ("Dispelling Illusions", "In Loving Memory", "Internal Illumination", "Permeating Reality", "Self Destructing", "The Dead World")
G4 ("Becoming What You Are", "Bullet Holes", "Crazy" [Gnarls Barkley cover], "End Of The Age (The Lion)", "Feels Like Fiction", "Standing In Air", "The Monolith")
Significant Low Notes:
D3 ("Bad Day To Die", "O Holy Night", "Tension" "The Hollow")
C♯3 ("The Lost Colony")
C3 ("Bad Day To Die", "It's Okay", "The Calling", "Plotting In Vain", "Slow Dance (With Death)")
B2 ("Path Of The Beam", "PLS SND HLP", "Until Then")
B♭2 ("Lose Control" by SFINX, "The Sacrament")
A2 ("Bullet Holes", "Resist The Eclipse", "The Anchor")
G♯2 ("The Resonant Frequency Of Flesh")
G2 ("Feels Like Fiction", "Reflect/Refract")
F2 ("Crazy" [Gnarls Barkley cover], "Familiar Shadows", "Prodigal", "The Silence Of God" [Andrew Peterson Cover])
E2 ("Artificial Immortality (The Beast)", "Self Mind Dead", "The Great Fall (The Physics Of Fire Pt. 1)")
E♭2 ("Following The Light", "The Magnetic Sky", "The Reckoning")
D2 ("Elemental Wrath: Requiem Aeternam Pt. 2", "Flammable Animals", "Possessed")
C♯2 ("Broken Crown", "Familiar Shadows", "Resist The Eclipse", "The Lie")
B1 ("The Lie")
B♭1 ("Falling Embers", "Necrotizing Fasciitis", "Prodigal")
A1 ("Following The Light", "Reject" [Living Sacrifice cover], "Tension")
G1 ("Darkening Counsel Part II: Inquisition")
{Questionable Notes}
C2 ("Invisible Creature"[4])
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[2] marks notes of questionable identity that cannot be confirmed to be the singer in question.
[3] marks non-melodic notes that don't have a significant enough pitch to warrant inclusion.
[4] marks notes that possess uncertain pitch or have been pitch-shifted.
[5] marks notes that do not fit the previous criteria but are not of a substantial enough quality to warrant counting towards the singer's range.
C2 ("Invisible Creature"[4])
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[1] marks yelps and short trills in high range or anacrusis and short dips in low range.
[2] marks notes of questionable identity that cannot be confirmed to be the singer in question.
[3] marks non-melodic notes that don't have a significant enough pitch to warrant inclusion.
[4] marks notes that possess uncertain pitch or have been pitch-shifted.
[5] marks notes that do not fit the previous criteria but are not of a substantial enough quality to warrant counting towards the singer's range.
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Blue marks falsetto or whistle notes.
Green marks harsh, distorted notes.
Underlines mark notes that are obscured in the song mix.
Italics mark non-melodic notes.
Boldface marks notes that are considered to be particularly notable examples of this person's vocal capabilities.