Post by Steve on Jul 20, 2020 12:33:33 GMT
Voice Type: Shades of a Gothic Baritone
Recorded Vocal Range: D2-E♭5
{Questionable Notes}B♭1 ("Silent" [5])
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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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[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.
Higher Notes:
E♭5 ("Beyond Cremation")
D5 ("Anne", "Blood & Chaos","Dead Emotion" live in Nottingham 1989, "Gods of Ancient", "Our Saviour", "True Belief" live at the Bizarre Festival 1995, "Unite in Pain")
C5 ("The Longest Winter", "No Passage For the Dead", "Until the Grave")
B4 ("Crying For Eternity", "Dying Freedom", "Grey", "Hallowed Land")
B♭4 ("Accept The Pain", "Fear of Impending Hell", "The Glorious End", "Jaded", "Living With Scars", "Pity the Sadness" live 1994, "Prelude to Descent", "Shades of God", "Shine", "Spirit", "Universal Dream", "Year of Summer", "Yearn for Change")
A4 ("Beneath Black Skies", "Channel for the Pain", "Fear", "Forever Failure", "Hallowed Land", "Honesty in Death", "I Remain", "Last Desire", "The Last Time", "Once Solemn", "Pity The Sadness", "Remembrance", "Requiem", "Shades of God", "Shadowkings", "Shallow Season", "Shine", "The Sufferer", "Sun Fading", "Suzie", "Sweetness", "To the Darkness", "Tragic Idol", "Universal Dream")
G♯4 ("Enchantment", "Forever After", "Grey", "In This We Dwell", "Laws of Cause", "Living With Scars", "Redshift", "Wake Up the Coma", "World Pretending", "Year of Summer")
G4 ("All You Leave Behind", "Another Desire", "As Horizons End", "As I Die" live 1999, "Colossal Rains", "Crucify", "Cry Out", "Crying For Eternity", "Dying For Freedom", "Embers Fire", "Embraced", "The Enemy", "Enchantment", "Ending Through Changes", "Frailty", "Forever Failure", "Hands of Reason", "I Remain", "I See Your Face", "In Truth", "Jaded", "Made the Same", "Missing", "Never for the Damned", "Once Solemn", "Poison", "Primal", "Punishment Through Time", "The Rise of Denial", "Say Just Words", "Shadowkings", "Silent in Heart", "Solitary One", "The Sufferer", "Sun Fading", "To the Darkness", "True Belief", "Universal Dream", "Unreachable", "Weeping Words", "Worth Fighting For", "Yearn for Change", "Your Hand in Mine")
F♯4 ("Another Day", "Behind the Grey", "Close Your Eyes", "Colossal Rains", "Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us", "Fearless Sky", "Hands of Reason", "In All Honesty", "Laws of Cause", "Mercy", "No Celebration", "Pray Nightfall", "Redshift", "Requiem", "Sedative God", "Shallow Seasons", "Sweetness", "Symbol of Life", "Universal Dream", "Wake Up the Coma", "Worth Fighting For", "Xavier", "Your Own Reality")
F4 ("All You Leave Behind", "An Eternity of Lies", "As Horizons End", "Ash & Debris", "Cardinal Zero", "Close Your Eyes", "Colossal Rains", "Crying For Eternity", "Don't Belong", "Dying Freedom", "Elusive Cure", "Embraced", "Enchantment", "Erased", "Fader", "Forging Sympathy", "Frailty", "Illumination", "In This We Dwell", "Joys of the Emptiness", "Lydia", "Mortals Watch the Day", "Never for the Damned", "No Forgiveness", "Over The Madness", "Permanent Solution", "Poison", "Praise Lamented Shade", "Prelude to Descent", "Sane", "Say Just Words", "Something Real", "Symbol of Life", "Theories from Another World", "Unreachable", "Weeping Words", "Widow", "World Pretending", "Your Hand in Mine")
Lower Notes:
C♯3 ("Forever Failure", "Grey", "Laws of Cause", "Living With Scars", "No Reason", "Pray Nightfall", "Redshift", "Sway", "Sweetness", "Symbol of Life", "Victim of the Past", "Weeping Words", "Year of Summer")
C3 ("3am", "Accept The Pain", "As Horizons End", "Blood of Another", "Enchantment", "The Enemy", "Fallen Children", "First Light", "Forever After", "Host", "Last Desire", "The Longest Winter", "Look At Me Now", "Lydia", "Made the Same", "Medusa", "Missing", "Never Again", "Nothing Sacred", "Perfect Mask", "Return to the Sun", "Say Just Words", "Shades of God", "Small Town Boy", "Something Real", "The Sufferer", "Tragic Idol", "True Belief", "Unreachable", "World Pretending", "Yearn for Change")
B2 ("Blood & Chaos", "Control", "Fearless Sky", "Grey", "Hands of Reason", "Hallowed Land", "It's Too Late", "Lydia", "Mercy", "No Celebration", "Nothing Sacred", "Pray Nightfall", "Shallow Seasons", "Shrines", "Symbolic Virtue", "Your Own Reality")
B♭2 ("Another Day", "Fader", "How Soon Is Now?", "Laws of Cause", "Made the Same", "Nothing Sacred", "Something Real", "World Pretending", "Wreck", "Year of Summer")
A2 ("Another Day", "Behind the Grey", "Beneath Black Skies", "Blood & Chaos", "Cry Out", "Enchantment", "Erased", "Forever Failure" live in Germany 1995, "I Remain", "In Truth", "It's Too Late", "The Last Time", "Missing", "Never for the Damned", "One Second", "Sell It to the World", "Shallow Season", "So Much Is Lost", "Soul Courageous", "Sweetness", "Symbolic Virtue", "Tragic Idol", "True Belief", "Walk Away")
G♯2 ("As Horizons End", "Ash & Debris", "Spirit", "Sweetness", "Weeping Words", "Year of Summer", "Your Hand in Mine")
G2 ("Albino Flogged in Black", "As I Die" live in London 2007, "Christendom", "Disappear", "Embers Fire", "Erased", "Isolate", "Never for the Damned", "Soul Courageous", "Walk Away")
F♯2 ("Another Day", "Christendom", "Mercy")
F2 ("Albino Flogged in Black", "Embers Fire", "Gallows Bird", "Say Just Words", "Shattered", "Wake Up the Coma")
E2 ("Christendom", "Hands of Reason", "Shadowkings", "Worth Fighting For")
E♭2 ("For a Voice Like Thunder")
D2 ("Colossal Rains", "Tragic Idol")
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*Underlines marks notes in backing vocals or otherwise obscured in the song mix.
*Green marks notably distorted and/or screamed notes.
*Grey marks heavily fryish yet solidly pitched notes.
*Italics marks spoken notes.
Vocalist for pioneering gothic metal band Paradise Lost. As the band notoriously experimented with different styles throughout their career, Holmes' vocal stylings have likewise changed along with it. Starting originally as a pure harsh vocalist in the early 90s when the band debuted in the more death/doom vein for their first two albums, which generally allowed him to only exclusively switch between demonic growls and distorted screaming; he began to transition to a more melodic, yet still grimey and gritty tone on Shades of God which he later perfected on arguably the band's best release Draconian Times. In the late 90s and early 2000s (One Second up to Symbol of Life), the band diversified their style to a more somber post punk/synthpop sound with more classic gothic rock tendencies, likewise Holmes began utilizing a purely clean, Dave Gahan-esque tone which also saw an increased presence of his dramatic lower range. Nowadays, from the band's 2005 self titled release onwards, he has opted to use something of mix between all these different tones together, including his long under used harsh vocals (likely inspired by his recent stint with Bloodbath) which have made a re-appearance on the band's latest release The Plague Within. Overall, a fairly diverse singer in the metal world and one to always look forward to to experiment when a new release comes along.
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