Post by Zedd Squared on Oct 4, 2019 1:04:06 GMT
Simen Hestnæs
Associated Acts: Lamented Souls (1991-present), Borknagar (1997-2000, 2010-present), Dimmu Borgir (1999-2009), Arcturus (2005-2007, 2011-present), God of Atheists (2008-present)
Voice Type: Tenor
Vocal Range: F2-B♭5
High Notes:
B♭5 ("Angst")
A5 ("Skoal!")
G♯5 ("The Black Token", "Deamonpainter", "Nightmare Heaven" live Oslo 2005)
G5 ("Aces", "Genesis Torn", "Storm Seeker")
F♯5 ("Angst", "The Chaos Path", "Crashland", "Demon", "The Fire That Burns", "Frostrite" live Wacken 2016, "Mount Rapture", "Oil in Water", "White Noise Monster" live Oslo 2005)
F5 ("Ad Absurdum" live Oslo 2005, "The Black Token", "Game Over", "Nightmare Heaven" live Oslo 2005, "Oceans Rise", "Painting My Horror", "Radical Cut" live Athens 2012, "Thunderous", "Warp")
E5 ("Ad Absurdum" live Oslo 2005, "The Arcturian Sign", "The Blackmobile", "The Chaos Path", "Collapse Generation" live Santiago 2018, "Deamonpainter", "Demon Baby", "Don't Tread on Me", "Frostrite", "Genesis Torn", "Into the White", "Invincible", "It's All About Time", "Lights", "Master of Disguise" live Oslo 2005, "Mount Rapture", "Oil in Water", "The Presence Is Ominous", "Rivalry of Phantoms", "The Ruins of Future", "Shipwrecked Frontier Pioneer", "Tidal", "Traces of You")
E♭5 ("Bane", "The Bodkin & the Quietus (...to Reach the Stars)" live Milan 2019, "Evacuation Code Deciphered", "The Invaluable Darkness", "Master of Disguise", "Moonshine Delirium", "Painting My Horror", "Pantheon of the Nightside Gods", "Radical Cut" live Athens 2012, "Reflections")
D5 ("Angst", "The Beauty of Dead Cities", "The Blackmobile", "Colossus", "Eternal Existence", "Flaskeskipper", "Frostrite", "Hybris", "Icon Dreams", "The Invaluable Darkness", "Mount Rapture", "My Domain", "Nocturnal Vision", "Painting My Horror" live Oslo 2005, "Pale", "The Presence Is Ominous", "Progenies of the Great Apocalypse", "Raudt og svart" live Oslo 2005, "Revolt", "Rivalry of Phantoms", "The Ruins of Future", "The Serpentine Offering", "Sprukken maske", "Skoal!", "Storm Seeker", "A Tale of Pagan Tongue" live Worcester 1999, "Thunderous", "Traces of You", "The Witching Hour")
C♯5 ("Aces", "Ad Absurdum" live Oslo 2005, "Ad Noctum", "Allehelgens Død i Helveds Rike", "The Arcturian Sign", "Collapse Generation" live Santiago 2018, "Demon", "Dogsmacked", "Evacuation Code Deciphered", "Frostrite", "Game Over", "In a Deeper World", "Kings of the Carnival Creation", "The Maelstrom Manifesto", "Master of Disguise" live Oslo 2005, "Morax" live Lyon 2015, "Odin's Tree", "Of Nails and Sinners" live Milan 2019, "Pale", "Progenies of the Great Apocalypse" Studio + live Ozzfest 2004, "Reflections", "Shipwrecked Frontier Pioneer")
C5 ("Burn in Hell", "The Chaos Path", "Crashland", "Dogsmacked", "Epochalypse", "Eternal Existence", "Evacuation Code Deciphered", "Hybris", "In a Deeper World", "The Insight and the Catharsis", "Invincible", "Master of Disguise", "Painting My Horror", "Roots", "The Sacrilegious Scorn", "The Serpentine Offering", "Sprukken maske", "Suffer Salvation", "Sympozium", "Thunderous", "To Thou Who Dwellest in the Night" live Cali 2018, "Traces of You", "Universal", "Up North", "Warp", "White Noise Monster", "Winter Millennium", "Winter Thrice" Studio + live Wacken 2016)
B4 ("Aces", "The Arcturian Sign", "The Beauty of Dead Cities", "The Black Token", "Burn in Hell", "Crashland", "Deamonpainter", "Deception Genesis" live Oslo 2005, "Demon Baby", "Dogsmacked", "Don't Tread on Me", "Essence of Wounds", "The Fire That Burns", "Icon Dreams", "The Insight and the Catharsis", "Into the White", "It's All About Time", "Kinetic" live Argentina 2018, "Kings of the Carnival Creation", "Mount Rapture", "Mount Regency", "Nocturnal Vision", "Oil in Water", "Radical Cut" live Athens 2012, "Raudt og svart" live Oslo 2005, "Reptile", "Revolt", "The Rhymes of the Mountain", "A Tale of Pagan Tongue" live Worcester 1999, "Thunderous", "Tidal", "To Thou Who Dwellest in the Night" live Cali 2018, "Up North", "White Noise Monster", "Winter Thrice")
B♭4 ("Archer", "Bane", "The Black Token", "Epochalypse", "Evacuation Code Deciphered", "Flaskeskipper", "Hibernation Sickness Complete", "Sympozium", "The Witching Hour")
A4 ("Allehelgens Død i Helveds Rike", "The Beauty of Dead Cities", "The Chaos Path", "Colossus", "Deamonpainter", "Dogsmacked", "Epochalypse", "Erodent", "Essence of Wounds", "Fjøsnissens fjaseri", "Hibernation Sickness Complete", "Hybrid Stigmata - The Apostasy", "Hybris", "Icon Dreams", "The Insight and the Catharsis", "Kinetic" live Argentina 2018, "Moonshine Delirium", "My Domain", "Nightmare Heaven" live Oslo 2005, "Nocturnal Vision Revisited", "Oceans Rise" live Wacken 2016, "Odin's Tree", "Reflections", "The Rhymes of the Mountain", "Roots", "The Ruins of Future", "Shipwrecked Frontier Pioneer", "Storm Seeker", "Suffer Salvation", "Universal", "Up North", "Warp", "When Shuffled Off", "White Noise Monster", "Wild Father's Heart", "Windward", "The Winter Eclipse", "Winter Millennium", "Winter Thrice" Studio + live Wacken 2016)
G♯4 ("Aces", "Alone" live Oslo 2005, "Dreamside Dominions", "Du Nordavind" live Lyon 2015, "Game Over", "In a Deeper World", "The Maelstrom Manifesto", "Sprukken maske", "The White Guy (Suicide)")
G4 ("Ad Absurdum" live Oslo 2005, "Colossus", "Dauden" live Santiago 2017, "The Dawn of the Age" live Rockstadt 2016, "Demon Baby", "Eternal Existence", "The Fire That Burns", "Flaskeskipper", "Hufsa", "It's All About Time", "Moonshine Delirium", "My Domain", "Of Nails and Sinners" live Milan 2019, "Reptile", "To Thou Who Dwellest in the Night" live Cali 2018, "Universal", "Warp", "The Witching Hour")
Low Notes:
E3 ("Ad Absurdum" live Oslo 2005, "Allehelgens Død i Helveds Rike", "Burn in Hell", "The Chaos Path", "Deception Genesis" live Oslo 2005, "Demon", "Dogsmacked", "Essence of Wounds", "Eternal Existence" 1996 Demo, "Hufsa", "Hybris" 1995 Demo, "In a Deeper World", "Nocturnal Vision", "Oceans Rise", "Odin's Tree", "Oil in Water", "Raudt og svart" live Oslo 2005, "Reptile", "Revolt", "The Sacrilegious Scorn", "Storm Seeker", "Universal", "Var", "The Witching Hour")
E♭3 ("The Insight and the Catharsis", "The Invaluable Darkness", "Of Nails and Sinners" live Milan 2019)
D3 ("Archer", "The Chaos Path" live Oslo 2005, "Flaskeskipper", "Moonshine Delirium", "Painting My Horror" live Oslo 2005)
C♯3 ("Allehelgens Død i Helveds Rike", "Alone" live Oslo 2005, "Evacuation Code Deciphered", "Frostrite", "Hufsa", "Wintry Grey" live Lyon 2015)
C3 ("Of Nails and Sinners" live Milan 2019, "Painting My Horror" live Oslo 2005, "When Shuffled Off", "Windward", "The Winter Eclipse")
B2 ("Alone" live Oslo 2005, "The Arcturian Sign", "Burn in Hell", "Oil in Water", "Shipwrecked Frontier Pioneer")
A2 ("Pale", "When Shuffled Off")
G♯2 ("Pale", "Shipwrecked Frontier Pioneer")
G2 ("Universal", "When Shuffled Off")
F2 ("Storm Seeker")
A rare example of a skilled clean singer in the black metal genre, ICS Vortex is a bonafide extreme metal renaissance man. Though best known for his bass and harmony laden clean vocal work in Dimmu Borgir, his resume includes explorations into doom, prog, folk, and viking metal across a multitude of instruments, but the one constant across his 25 year long career is his powerful tenor voice. In Arcturus, he is able to channel the iconic contrasts between his crystalline falsetto/head voice and resonant mid range into a more unorthodox and avant garde environment, featuring many challenging vocal lines that would be unheard of in a more conventional band. In contrast, his work in Borknagar features a great deal of harsh vocals as well as a more dramatic, theatrical emphasis to his delivery, something that likely got him the Dimmu job in the first place. Between these worlds is Vortex's core vocal attributes: always distinctive but adjusted to fit the musical scenario. Because of these reasons and more, Vortex remains one of the most inimitable voices in metal.
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*Underlined notes are found in backing vocals or otherwise obscured in the song mix.
*Blue marks soft and/or disconnected sounding falsetto notes.
*Green marks harsh vocal notes.
*Boldface indicates notes that are notable examples of this singer's capabilities.
*Italics mark non-sung notes.
{Questionable Notes}F5 ("Sprukken maske" [3])
E5 ("Evacuation Code Deciphered" [3])
C♯5 ("When Chaos Calls" [2])
B4 ("Panorama" [2])
B♭4 ("Panorama" [2])
E3 ("Erodent" [2])
B2 ("Deception Genesis" live Oslo 2005 [4], "The Journey" [2])
A2 ("Eternal Existence" [2], "Oil in Water" [1])
G♯2 ("The Chaos Path" [3])
F♯2 ("Rivalry of Phantoms" [2])
E2 ("Deception Genesis" live Oslo 2005 [4], "The Ruins of Future" [2])
D2 ("Deamonpainter" [2])
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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.
E5 ("Evacuation Code Deciphered" [3])
C♯5 ("When Chaos Calls" [2])
B4 ("Panorama" [2])
B♭4 ("Panorama" [2])
E3 ("Erodent" [2])
B2 ("Deception Genesis" live Oslo 2005 [4], "The Journey" [2])
A2 ("Eternal Existence" [2], "Oil in Water" [1])
G♯2 ("The Chaos Path" [3])
F♯2 ("Rivalry of Phantoms" [2])
E2 ("Deception Genesis" live Oslo 2005 [4], "The Ruins of Future" [2])
D2 ("Deamonpainter" [2])
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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.
{Album Ranges}Borknagar
The Archaic Course (1998): G2-E3-D5-G♯5
Quintessence (2000): E3-D5-G5
Urd (2012): C3-C♯3-D5-E5
Winter Thrice (2016): D4-B4-C♯5*
True North (2019): F♯3-D5-F♯5
Dimmu Borgir
Spiritual Black Dimensions (1999): E♭3-E3-C5*
Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia (2001): G3-C4-C♯5*
Death Cult Armageddon (2003): C♯3-E3-D5*
In Sorte Diaboli (2007): E♭3-C4-E♭5*
Lamented Souls
The Origins of Misery (2004, recorded 1993-1997): E3-E5
Arcturus
Sideshow Symphonies (2005): G♯2-C♯5-G♯5
Shipwrecked in Oslo (2006): G♯2-E5-G♯5
Arcturian (2015): G♯2-E♭5-F♯5-B♭5
ICS Vortex
Storm Seeker (2011): F2-G2-F♯5-G5-A5
*Marks albums where Vortex only appears as minimal role on 2-4 tracks and therefore the range listings should not be considered to be a representation of his full range capabilities at the time.
The Archaic Course (1998): G2-E3-D5-G♯5
Quintessence (2000): E3-D5-G5
Urd (2012): C3-C♯3-D5-E5
Winter Thrice (2016): D4-B4-C♯5*
True North (2019): F♯3-D5-F♯5
Dimmu Borgir
Spiritual Black Dimensions (1999): E♭3-E3-C5*
Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia (2001): G3-C4-C♯5*
Death Cult Armageddon (2003): C♯3-E3-D5*
In Sorte Diaboli (2007): E♭3-C4-E♭5*
Lamented Souls
The Origins of Misery (2004, recorded 1993-1997): E3-E5
Arcturus
Sideshow Symphonies (2005): G♯2-C♯5-G♯5
Shipwrecked in Oslo (2006): G♯2-E5-G♯5
Arcturian (2015): G♯2-E♭5-F♯5-B♭5
ICS Vortex
Storm Seeker (2011): F2-G2-F♯5-G5-A5
*Marks albums where Vortex only appears as minimal role on 2-4 tracks and therefore the range listings should not be considered to be a representation of his full range capabilities at the time.