Round Five: Dark Star v BassSquared (419 views)

[Steve]

This is Dark Star v BassSquared in Round Five of the Clip-Off. You have five days to submit your clips, and until 23:00 GMT Time Sunday, July 19 to vote. July 20 is the Results Day.

For this round, you have to use all your singers!

The categories for Round Five are:
1. Best Distorted/Harsh/Heavy Singing: Singing that uses vocal distortion, a harsh tone and/or is generally heavy-sounding.
2. Most Pleasant Tone: Affecting a satisfying tone in order to sound pleasing to the ears in one way or another.

The pair are free to post their clips, voting commences as soon as they have.

Vote here.

Current Vote Count: 5

[Dark Star]

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{Best Harsh, Heavy or Distorted Singing: David Coverdale - Slip of the Tongue}
youtu.be/cDC3n2diIyY?t=139

Coverdale sings ridiculously high and fast with a gritty, raspy tone throughout. (To 3:14) Alternate in this case doesn't work

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{Most Pleasant Tone: George Michael - I Cant Make You Love Me}
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbWJO8RMg1A&start=36

George sounds so tender singing his gorgeous cover of Bonnie Raitt's classic, and that he maintains such softness in a live setting is quite a feat in my opinion. He also sings very emotionally throughout. This clip is a great example of why George was such a special singer. (To 2:03)

[BassSquared]

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{Best Distorted/Harsh/Heavy Singing: Peter Steele}

5:25 to 5:57. It was surprisingly hard to find a good harsh clip for Pete because so much of Type O's better stuff of that nature is done by Kenny Hickey, but this is a solid exception. Dude absolutely screams the hell out of these C#5s, quite impressive for someone this low placed vocally.

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{Most Pleasant Tone: Josh Ramsay}

0:09 to 1:59. Yeah I realize Rachael might perform slightly better in this category, but Josh's relative lack of lows means I don't really want to use him for the 2+ octave category over Pete next round so here we are. His voice does sound rather nice in this cute little acoustic number, with a very warm tone in the low (for him) range in the verses and some pretty bits of falsetto in the chorus.

[Steve]

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