Ryan McCombs (1,842 views)

[Steve]

Voice Type: Burleytone
Recorded Vocal Range: B1-F5

Higher Notes:

F5 ("Cross My Heart")
C♯5 ("Can You Heal Me", "Deny Me", "Enemy", "Halo", "Pride", "Rebel Yell", "Remember", "Shame")
C5 ("The Hate Song", "My Own", "Need to Feel", "The One", "Rise Up '06", "Upside Down")
B4 ("Duet", "Enemy", "Feel Like I Do", "Full Circle", "Horns Up", "Love Hate Game", "Love X2", "Need to Feel", "New Faith", "No More", "Rebel Yell", "Reborn", "Regret", "Soldiers", "Upside Down")
B♭4 ("Breaking Me Down", "Can You Heal Me", "Cross My Heart", "Deny Me", "Halo", "Love Hate Game", "My Own", "My Time", "New Faith", "No More", "The One", "Over My Head", "Pride", "Reason I'm Alive", "Redefine", "Remember", "Shame", "Shine On", "Suffering", "Two Skins", "Understanding Me", "Unreal", "Wide Open")
A4 ("37 Stitches", "All About Me", "Enemy", "Let the Sin Begin", "New Faith", "Obsession", "Rise Up '06", "Soldiers", "Upside Down")
G♯4 ("Amalgamation", "Black 7", "Can You Heal Me", "Children of the Gun", "Cross My Heart", "Deny Me", "Enemy", "Full Circle", "Halo", "The Hate Song", "Horns Up", "Inside", "Little Liar", "Loaded Gun", "Love Hate Game", "Love X2", "My Own", "My Time", "Need to Feel", "One Love", "Psychopath", "Reason I'm Alive", "Reborn", "Redefine", "Regret", "Say You Will", "Shine On", "Something Real", "Suffering", "Turn So Cold", "Two Skins", "Understanding Me", "Unreal", "Wake Up", "Why", "Wide Open")
G4 ("Cross My Heart", "Let the Sin Begin", "Reason I'm Alive")

Lower Notes:

D3 ("Obsession", "Paralyzed", "Upside Down", "Wide Open")
C♯3 ("Breaking Me Down", "Children of the Gun", "Deny Me", "Enemy", "Feel Like I Do", "Full Circle", "Inside", "Love X2", "One Love", "Over My Head", "Redefine", "Soldiers", "Way Gone")
C3 ("Reason I'm Alive")
B2 ("Alcohol Blind", "Children of the Gun", "Duet", "Enemy", "King Zero", "Love X2", "More Than Worthless", "Soldiers", "Upside Down")
B♭2 ("Amalgamation", "One Love", "Over My Head", "Redefine", "Something Real", "Suffering", "Ugly", "Understanding Me", "Upside Down", "Way Gone", "Why", "Wide Open")
A2 ("Alcohol Blind", "All About Me", "Let the Sin Begin")
G♯2 ("Little Liar", "More Than Worthless", "My Time", "Reborn", "Suffering", "Understanding Me", "Wake Up", "Why")
F♯2 ("Alcohol Blind", "All About Me", "More Than Worthless", "Soldiers")
F2 ("Black 7", "Two Skins")
E♭2 ("Two Skins", "Way Gone")
C♯2 ("Enemy", "Inside")
B1 ("Children of the Gun")

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*Underlines mark notes in backing vocals or otherwise muffled/obscured in the mix.
*Italics mark spoken notes.

SPOILER: Click to show

{Discography Checked + Album Ranges}Soil:
Scars (2001): C♯2-C♯5
Redefine (2004): G♯2-F5
Whole (2013): E♭2-C5

Drowning Pool:
Full Circle (2007): C♯2-C♯5
Drowning Pool (2010): B1-B4

Singer for groove/alt metal band Soil and former frontman for Drowning Pool. McCombs has quite a huge, burley sounding high range that is surprisingly fairly agile and powerful compared to most other singers in his genre, able to easily hit some of the hugest gritty B♭4s I've personally ever heard, and has demonstrated the ability to maintain that powerful tone even into the lower fifth octave. Early on, he often employed the infamous "yarl" style for most of his mid to lower range singing, however around the time of his joining Drowning Pool he seemed to mostly shed that in favour of a more natural baritone sound. While mostly employed for backing vocals, his low range is still fairly well utilized, especially considering he's the first Drowning Pool vocalist to consistently hit solid lead vocal second octave (and lower) notes on one of their studio albums. He is overall a fairly underrated vocalist and certainly stands out amongst many of the other "tough guy" style vocalists.

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