Troy Sanders (3,417 views)

[Zedd Squared]

Member Of: Social Infestation (1995-?), Mastodon (2000-present), Killer Be Killed (2012-present), Gone Is Gone (2016-present)
Voice Type: Baritone
Vocal Range: A1-D5

High Notes:

D5 ("Blasteroid", "Deathbound")
C♯5 ("Andromeda", "You Really Got Me" live w/ Metal Allegiance 2015)
C5 ("Black Tongue", "Deathbound", "High Road", "Jaguar God", "The Motherload")
B4 ("Liars & Thieves", "Word to the Wise")
B♭4 ("Ancient Kingdom", "Andromeda", "Black Tongue", "Chimes at Midnight", "Colourfade", "Curb Crusher", "Everything Is Wonderfall", "Face Down", "Feast Your Eyes", "I.E.D.", "Iron Fist", "The Motherload", "Pawns", "The Ruiner", "Show Yourself", "Stolen from Me", "Violescent")
A4 ("All the Heavy Lifting", "Ancient Kingdom", "Bedazzled Fingernails", "Black Tongue", "Blood and Thunder", "Blue Walsh", "Chimes at Midnight", "Circle of Cysquatch", "Crystal Skull", "Curb Crusher", "The Czar", "Dry Bone Valley", "Fast Awakening", "Hearts Alive", "High Road", "I.E.D.", "Iron Tusk", "Island", "Jaguar God", "Megalodon", "Once More 'Round the Sun", "Praying from the Danger", "Octopus Has No Friends", "One Divided", "Ornament", "Precious Stones", "The Ruiner", "Scorpion Breath", "Siberian Divide", "Spectrelight", "Sultan's Curse", "Toe to Toes")
G♯4 ("Blood and Thunder", "Blue Giant", "Circle of Cysquatch", "Crack of Doom", "Crystal Skull", "Hunters of the Sky", "Let Darkness Fall", "Megalodon", "Melting of My Marrow", "No One Ever Walked on Water", "Oblivion", "Quintessence", "Running with the Devil" live w/ Metal Allegiance 2015, "Siberian Divide", "Snakes of Jehovah", "Starlight", "This Chapter", "Tread Lightly", "Twelve Labors", "Violescent", "Wings of Feather and Wax", "The Wolf Is Loose", "Word to the Wise", "You Really Got Me" live w/ Metal Allegiance 2015)
G4 ("All the Heavy Lifting", "Ancient Kingdom", "Back to the Mountain", "Bedazzled Fingernails", "Blasteroid", "Clandestiny", "Colourfade", "Crack the Skye", "Curb Crusher", "The Czar", "Deathbound", "Diamond in the Witch House", "Divinations", "Dublin", "Echolocation", "Ember City", "Everything Is Wonderfall", "Face Down", "Fast Awakening", "Feast Your Eyes", "Fire to Your Flag", "Ghost of Karelia", "I Am Ahab", "I.E.D.", "Island", "Pawns", "Praying from the Danger", "Precious Stones", "Quintessence", "Roots Remain", "The Ruiner", "Save the Robots", "Scorpion Breath", "Sentient", "Snakes of Jehovah", "Spectrelight", "Sultan's Curse", "Thickening", "This Chapter", "The Last Baron", "Toe to Toes", "Tread Lightly", "Violescent", "Wings of Feather and Wax")
F♯4 ("Asleep in the Deep", "Blood and Thunder", "Circle of Cysquatch", "Colony of Birchmen", "Crack of Doom", "Crystal Skull", "Echolocation", "Fought the Line", "Hand of Stone", "Hearts Alive", "Hunters of the Sky", "Iron Fist", "Island", "Let Darkness Fall", "Liars & Thieves", "Octopus Has No Friends", "Precious Stones", "Ornament", "Running with the Devil" live w/ Metal Allegiance 2015, "Starlight", "Sultan's Curse", "This Mortal Soil", "Until Man Exists No More")
F4 ("Colourfade", "Curl of the Burl", "Dust into Darkness", "Fought the Line", "Hunters of the Sky", "I Am Ahab", "Liars & Thieves", "Megalodon", "One Divided", "Roots Remain", "Sleeping Giant", "Twelve Labors", "The Wolf Is Loose")

Low Notes:

D3 ("Colony of Birchmen" Various live versions, "Hearts Alive", "Iron Tusk", "Sentient")
C♯3 ("Blue Giant", "Crack of Doom", "Crystal Skull", "Let Darkness Fall", "Starlight", "You Really Got Me" live w/ Metal Allegiance 2015)
C3 ("All the Heavy Lifting", "Ancient Kingdom", "The Czar", "I Am Ahab", "No One Ever Walked on Water", "One Divided", "Resolve", "Resurge", "Roads", "The Hunter")
B2 ("Hunters of the Sky", "I Am Ahab", "Let Darkness Fall", "This Mortal Soil")
B♭2 ("Colourfade", "Echolocation", "Hearts Alive", "The Hunter", "The Last Baron", "Pawns", "Sentient", "Starlight")
A2 ("Bedazzled Fingernails", "Everything Is Wonderfall", "Ornament", "Sentient", "Siberian Divide", "The Sparrow")
G♯2 ("Blue Giant", "Let Darkness Fall", "This Chapter")
G2 ("Dublin", "Forbidden Fire", "I Am Ahab", "No One Ever Walked on Water", "Sleeping Giant", "Slow Awakening", "Stolen from Me", "This Chapter")
F♯2 ("Let Darkness Fall")
F2 ("Forbidden Fire", "Sleeping Giant")
E2 ("Slow Awakening")
D2 ("Crystal Skull", "Fought the Line", "Praying from the Danger", Sung in Loudwire 2017 interview)
C♯2 ("Liars & Thieves")
C2 ("Colourfade", "No One Ever Walked on Water", "Recede and Enter")
B1 ("Character")
B♭1 ("Fought the Line")
A1 ("Recede and Enter", "Slow Awakening")

Of the 3 lead singers of modern metal giants Mastodon, Troy is probably the most prolific. Generally identified as the "heavy" voice in Mastodon, he's also by far demonstrated the widest vocal range capabilities. On the band's first two albums Troy handled nearly all the lead vocals that predominately consisted of harsh shouting and (on Leviathan) gritty mid range belting. In the years since then (particularly since 2011's The Hunter album) we've seen Troy's preference for high range belting improve and expand considerably, making way for some tremendous displays of vocal power on newer albums. Despite being the lowest voice in Mastodon it is perhaps evident that his low register is only seldomly used in that band. However, his alternative rock project Gone is Gone has made extensive use of his low register, demonstrating that it can be both bassy at times (see Forbidden Fire, Slow Awakening, or the backing vocals in Colourfade as examples) as well as soothing (such as in Dublin or Starlight). Given these rather recent developments I suspect we will continue to see him expand his vocal style and capabilities in years to come.
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*Underlines mark notes in backing vocals or otherwise muffled/obscured in the song mix.
*Green marks harsh/distorted notes.
*Blue marks noticeably soft and/or disconnected sounding falsetto notes.
*Grey marks solidly pitched vocal fry notes.
*Boldface marks notes that are considered to be particularly notable examples of this person's vocal capabilities.
*Italics mark non-sung notes.

SPOILER: Click to show

{Questionable Notes}E5 ("Blue Giant" ^[2])
C5 ("Back to the Mountain" ^[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.

SPOILER: Click to show

{Album Ranges}Mastodon

Lifesblood (2001): TBD
Remission (2002): TBD
Leviathan (2004): G2-B♭2-A4
Call of the Mastodon (2006): TBD
Blood Mountain (2006): D2-F2-?-G♯4-A4
Crack the Skye (2009): B♭2-?-A4
The Hunter (2011): A2-D5
Once More 'Round the Sun (2014): ?-C5
Emperor of Sand (2017): C3-?-C5
Cold Dark Place (2017): ?-A4

Killer Be Killed

Killer Be Killer (2014): F2-B♭4

Gone Is Gone

Gone Is Gone (2016): A1-D2-B♭4
Echolocation (2017): A1-C2-E2-B♭4

[Zedd Squared]

Till 0:50 - HOLY SHIT NOW THAT'S SOME LOW SINGING! Mah boi Troy landing tons of badass notes in the Bb1-D2 range here with that Bb1 at 0:46 in particular sounding really nice. Working on updating this thread soon btw.

[Kreuger]

youtu.be/LmW5qNfID4w


Some nice lows here.

[Kreuger]

Hey man not sure if youre aware but Mastodon dropped a new double album recently.

[Zedd Squared]

Yeah I'm aware, I'd say it's their best album since Crack the Skye actually. I've been doing some casual cleanup on these threads recently in preparation to eventually notewatch it but I can't say for sure when it'll be done with the amount of stuff I'm working on atm.

[Kreuger]

No problem man. Im definitely enjoying it too. Teardrinker and The Beast were immediate favourites.