Post by IhateMana on Sept 24, 2019 7:41:22 GMT
Associated Acts: Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble of Shadows (1989 - Present), Nenia C'Alladhan (2001)
Vocal Range: C2 - C6
{Vocal Summary}Skulking through bitter catacombs long forgotten, legend tells of the saturnine vampyre Anna-Varney Cantodea. She tells of only misery, forever seeking to expel all of her woes through the decaying sounds of antiquity. Her tales may serve as a guide for those inexperienced with traversing the spiral, though the legends also warn that extended exposure might leave you too, doomed to linger a shadow in time.
A rather marmite vocalist, Cantodea's strength lies in her lower register, comfortably resonant for someone of her placement when the listener is not being subjected to croaked lines or blended fry-growl. Her upper register is quite haphazard, effectively only used at random and rarely invoking any traditional sense of melody. Cantodea's upper register generally lacks anything in the way of timbrel weight or "power", generally not "connected" any higher than E♭4. Her upper register instead is dominated by her chaotic falsetto. In general Cantodea's voice invokes dread, misery and a general sense of emptiness that isn't recommended for the faint of heart.
A rather marmite vocalist, Cantodea's strength lies in her lower register, comfortably resonant for someone of her placement when the listener is not being subjected to croaked lines or blended fry-growl. Her upper register is quite haphazard, effectively only used at random and rarely invoking any traditional sense of melody. Cantodea's upper register generally lacks anything in the way of timbrel weight or "power", generally not "connected" any higher than E♭4. Her upper register instead is dominated by her chaotic falsetto. In general Cantodea's voice invokes dread, misery and a general sense of emptiness that isn't recommended for the faint of heart.
Significant High Notes
C6 ("Feralia Genitalia (Arrival of the Jugglers)", "Minnesang", "The Widow's Dream -fragment")
B5 ("Angel of the Golden Fountain", "Some Men are like Chocolate")
B♭5 ("The Conqueror Worm", "The Dreadful Mirror", "Eldorado", "Holding Out for a Hero")
A5 ("Beautiful Thorn", "Birth - Fiendish Figuration", "Bitter Sweet", "Carnival of Souls", "The Conqueror Worm" Poetica version, "Eldorado", "The Feast of Blood", "Holding Out for a Hero", "Penance & Pain", "Powder", "Sopor Fratrem Mortis Est", "Starlight Seen Through Veils of Tears", "The Urine Song")
G♯5 ("Dark Delight" 2003 version, "Do you know my Name? (Falling… -reprise)", "Feralia Genitalia (Arrival of the Jugglers)", "Imhotep (Schwarzer Drache mischt einen Sturm)", "Little velveteen Knight", "Penance & Pain", "Polishing Silver", "The Widow's Dream -fragment", "You Cannot Make Him Love You")
G5 ("Birth - Fiendish Figuration", "Bitter Sweet", "Do you know my Name? / What has happened while we slept?", "Helvetia Sexualis", "Minnesang", "Polishing Silver", "To a Loyal Friend", "Todeswunsch", "The Virgin Queen")
F♯5 ("Anima II", "At the Stroke of Midnight Gently", "Baptisma", "Consolatrix Has Left the Building", "freitod-Phantasien", "Résumé...", "A Strange Thing to Say")
F5 ("20,000 Leagues under the SEA (or: The History of Steampunk… -abridged)", "Angel of the Golden Fountain", "Birth - Fiendish Figuration", "Mors Ultima Ratio…", "Va(r)nitas, vanitas... (...omnia vanitas)")
E5 ("Anima II", "Die Stimme im Sturm", "Imhotep (Schwarzer Drache mischt einen Sturm)", "Leeches & Deception", "Little velveteen Knight")
E♭5 ("Die Stimme im Sturm", "The Feast of Blood", "Hades "Pluton"", "Kinder Des Teufels", "La Mort d'Arthur", "Oh, Chimney Sweep", "Synchronicity (to Saturn: Orion)", "Todeswunsch")
D5 ("Always within the Hour", "Anima II", "The broken & shattered Moon", "Consolatrix Has Left the Building", "freitod-Phantasien", "Little velveteen Knight", "Saturn-Impressionen", "Shadowsphere 1&2 (The Monologue-World and the Subconscious Symbols)", "Sopor Fratrem Mortis Est", "Soror (Sister Of Self-Destruction)", "We Have a Dog to Exercise")
C♯5 ("Always within the Hour", "Baptisma")
C5 ("20,000 Leagues under the SEA (or: The History of Steampunk… -abridged)", "Architecture II", "Beautiful Thorn", "Collision - You May Lie on Your Back, If You Want To… Even Close Your Eyes to Sleep", "Hades "Pluton"", "Hearse-shaped Basins of Darkest Matter", "A little Bar of Soap", "The Skeletal Garden", "There was a Country by the Sea", "To a Loyal Friend", "Todeswunsch", "We Have a Dog to Exercise")
B♭4 ("Consolatrix Has Left the Building", "Cornucopia d'Amour (Füllhorn der Liebe)", "Diô N'arâp (The unability within Time)", "The Dog Burial", "The Dreadful Mirror", "The Feast of Blood", "Inschrift/Epitaph", "The Simple Joys of Maidenhood", "The Sleeper" Poetica version", "Transfiguration")
A4 ("The Devil's Instrument", "Hades "Pluton"", "Polishing Silver")
G♯4 ("Do you know my Name? / What has happened while we slept?", "The Dreadful Mirror", "The Feast of Blood", "Feralia Genitalia (Arrival of the Jugglers)", "I am done with Men", "It Is Safe to Sleep Alone", "The Sleeper")
G4 ("Anima II", "Bang-Bang", "Children of the Corn", "The Conqueror Worm", "Cornucopia d'Amour (Füllhorn der Liebe)", "The Devil's Instrument", "Do you know about the Water of Life ?", "Dreamland", "The Haunted Palace", "Helvetia Sexualis", "Imhotep (Schwarzer Drache mischt einen Sturm)", "Shave, if you love me", "Some Men are like Chocolate", "Sopor Fratrem Mortis Est", "Soror (Sister of Self-Destruction)", "Über den Fluss")
F♯4 ("Backbone Practise", "Collision - You May Lie on Your Back, If You Want To… Even Close Your Eyes to Sleep", "Inschrift/Epitaph", "Saturn devouring his Children", "The Simple Joys of Maidenhood", "A Strange Thing to Say", "Where the End begins", "You Cannot Make Him Love You")
F4 ("20,000 Leagues under the SEA (or: The History of Steampunk… -abridged)", "Alone" Poetica version, "Birth - Fiendish Figuration", "Consider this: the true Meaning of Love", "Day of the Dead", "Do you know my Name? / What has happened while we slept?", "The Dog Burial", "The Encoded Cloister", "Feralia Genitalia (Arrival of the Jugglers)", "Im Garten des Nicht (a secret Light in the Garden of my Void)", "It's Just That my Sadness", "Le Fleurs Du Mal", "Penance & Pain", "Powder", "Shave, if you love me", "Some Men are like Chocolate", "Through your Eyes", "To a Loyal Friend", "The Urine Song")
Significant Low Notes
D3 ("Angel of the Golden Fountain", "Anima I", "Architecture II", "As Fire kissed the Echo Twins", "Beyond the Wall of Sleep", "Bitter Sweet", "Bis zum Hahnenschrei", "The Boy Must Die", "The broken & shattered Moon", "The City in the Sea", "Confessional", "Consider this: the true Meaning of Love", "Consolatrix Has Left the Building", "Cornflowers", "Do you know my Name? / What has happened while we slept?", "Drama der Geschechtslosigkeit, Part 2", "Hearse-shaped Basins of Darkest Matter", "Holy Water Moonlight", "I am so glad it's over", "Idleness & Consequence", "If Lonliness was all", "In an Hour Darkly", "In der Palästra", "Infant", "Interlude - The Quiet Earth", "It's Just That my Sadness", "La prima Vez", "Leeches & Deception", "Let me say it now", "Little velveteen Knight", "Mephistophilia", "No-one is there", "Only the Dead in the Mist", "Reprise", "Saturn devouring his Children", "Saturn-Impressionen", "Shadowsphere 1&2 (The Monologue-World and the Subconscious Symbols)", "Shave, if you love me", "Sieh', mein Geliebter, hier hab' ich Gift", "Some Men are like Chocolate", "Somnabulist's secret Bardo-Life (Does the Increase of Pain invite the Absence of Time?)", "Sopor Fratrem Mortis Est", "Soror (Sister of Self-Destruction)", "SpellBound", "Stake of my Soul", "Tabor C'âlan O'itanâ (My Womb is barren, but I can conceive)", "This profane Finality", "To a Loyal Friend", "To walk behind the Rows", "Totenlicht (Infant in the Face of Time)", "We Have a Dog to Exercise")
C♯3 ("Architecture II", "Baptisma", "Death Waltz", "A Dream Within a Dream", "The Goat", "In an Hour Darkly", "Introduction: Something Wicked this Way comes...")
C3 ("Abschied", "Across The Bridge", "Always within the Hour", "At the Stroke of Midnight Gently", "Backbone Practise", "Baptisma", "Beautiful", "Birth - Fiendish Figuration", "Carnival of Souls", "Charnel House", "Coffin Break", "Confessional", "The Conqueror Worm", "Dark Delight (dedicated to Victor Bertrand. Performed live without audience... - for the Dead.)", "Die Bruderschaft des Schmerzes (Die Unbegreiflichkeit des Dunklen Pfades, den die Kinder Saturns gehen...)", "The Devil's Instrument", "Do you know about the Water of Life ?", "Do you know my Name? / What has happened while we slept?", "Do you know my Name? (Falling… -reprise)", "Dreamland", "Ein freundlich' Wort einst unverhofft", "Eldorado" Poetica version, "The Feast of Blood", "Feralia Genitalia (Arrival of the Jugglers)", "Hearse-shaped Basins of Darkest Matter", "I Fell for One (who loved me not)", "If I could go back in Time", "Im Garten des Nicht (a secret Light in the Garden of my Void)", "In der Palästra", "Kinder Des Teufels", "La Mort d'Arthur", "La prima Vez", "Let me say it now", "A little Bar of Soap", "Little velveteen Knight", "May I Kiss Your Wound?", "Memalon", "Miniature", "Minnesang", "Mors Ultima Ratio...", "No-one is there", "Omen Sinistrum", "On Satur(n)days we used to sleep", "One Day My Prince Will Come", "Powder", "Reprise", "Résumé...", "The Simple Joys of Maidenhood", "The Skeletal Garden", "The Sleeper", "Somnabulist's secret Bardo-Life (Does the Increase of Pain invite the Absence of Time?)", "Sopor Fratrem Mortis Est", "Soror (Sister of Self-Destruction)", "A Strange Thing to Say", "Tales from the inverted Womb", "Tanz der Grausamkeit", "There was a Country by the Sea", "To a Loyal Friend", "Totenlicht (Infant in the Face of Time)", "Über den Fluss", "Under His Light", "The Urine Song", "Va(r)nitas, vanitas... (...omnia vanitas)", "Von der Einfalt", "Watch Your Step", "We Have a Dog to Exercise", "Where the Ancient Laurel Grows", "The Widow's Dream -fragment")
B2 ("Carnival of Souls", "Die Stimme im Sturm", "Eldorado" Poetica version, "Gebet: an die glücklichen Eroberer", "Holding Out for a Hero", "The Hours of Sadness", "Imhotep (Schwarzer Drache mischt einen Sturm)", "Les Fleurs Du Mal", "The Lion's Promise", "Schwarzer Spiegel", "The Skeletal Garden", "Starlight Seen Through Veils of Tears", "Synchronicity (to Saturn: Orion)", "Under His Light")
B♭2 ("An die Sterne", "Bang-Bang", "Baptisma" demo version, "Coffin Break", "Die Stimme im Sturm", "Feralia Genitalia (Arrival of the Jugglers)", "Helvetia Sexualis", "If Lonliness was all", "In der Palästra", "Kinder Des Teufels", "A little Bar of Soap", "May I Kiss Your Wound?", "Shadowsphere 1&2 (The Monologue-World and the Subconscious Symbols)", "The Sleeper", "Todeswunsch", "Transfiguration")
A2 ("Architecture II", "Bitter Sweet", "The Boy Must Die", "Consolatrix Has Left the Building", "Cornflowers", "Der Sees des Vergessens", "Hearse-shaped Basins of Darkest Matter", "Helvetia Sexualis", "Imhotep (Schwarzer Drache mischt einen Sturm)", "In an Hour Darkly", "The Inexperienced Spiral Traveller: *a fragment*", "Interlude - The Quiet Earth", "Les Fleurs Du Mal", "Lied der Todesfee", "The Lion's Promise", "Memalon", "Not dead but Dying", "Only the Dead in the Mist", "Polishing Silver", "Schattengesang", "Shadowsphere 1&2 (The Monologue-World and the Subconscious Symbols)", "Sieh', mein Geliebter, hier hab' ich Gift", "Some Men are like Chocolate", "Sopor Fratrem Mortis Est", "Sylla'borêal (Embracing the Dead Prior to the Service)", "Tanz der Grausamkeit", "Time stands still (...but stops for no-one)", "Todeswunsch", "We Have a Dog to Exercise")
G♯2 ("Anima I", "Backbone Practise", "Der Sees des Vergessens", "I Fell for One (who loved me not)", "Inschrift/Epitaph", "Oh, Chimney Sweep", "Sternblumennacht")
G2 ("20,000 Leagues under the SEA (or: The History of Steampunk… -abridged)", "Beyond the Wall of Sleep", "Collision - You May Lie on Your Back, If You Want To… Even Close Your Eyes to Sleep", "The Conqueror Worm" Poetica version, "Cornucopia d'Amour (Füllhorn der Liebe)", "Do you know about the Water of Life ?", "Leeches & Deception", "Not Dead, but Dying", "On Satur(n)days we used to sleep", "One Day My Prince Will Come", "Powder", "Résumé…", "Schattengesang", "The Skeletal Garden", "Stake of my Soul", "Synchronicity (to Saturn: Orion)", "There was a Country by the Sea", "To walk behind the Rows", "Vor dem Tode träumen wir", "The Widow's Dream -fragment")
F♯2 ("Cornucopia d'Amour (Füllhorn der Liebe)", "Die Stimme im Sturm", "Lied der Todesfee", "Saturn devouring his Children")
F2 ("Angel of the Golden Fountain", "Beyond the Wall of Sleep", "Carnival of Souls", "Little velveteen Knight", "Sylla'borêal (Embracing the Dead Prior to the Service)", "The Urine Song", "Where the End begins")
E2 ("At the Stroke of Midnight Gently", "The Boy Must Die", "Holding Out for a Hero", "Polishing Silver", "Powder")
E♭2 ("20,000 Leagues under the SEA (or: The History of Steampunk… -abridged)", "I am done with Men", "Tales from the inverted Womb")
D2 ("Collision - You May Lie on Your Back, If You Want To… Even Close Your Eyes to Sleep", "Consider this: the true Meaning of Love", "The Lion's Promise", "One Day My Prince Will Come", "You Cannot Make Him Love You")
C2 ("Bang-Bang", "Eldorado" Poetica version, "I am done with Men", "Mors Ultima Ratio…")
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Blue marks falsetto or whistle notes.
Underlines mark notes that are obscured in the song mix.
Italics mark non-melodic notes.
Boldface marks notes that are considered to be particularly notable examples of this person's vocal capabilities.
{Questionable Notes}
B5 ("Eldorado" [1])
G♯5 ("A Strange Thing to Say" [5]
F♯5 ("The Dog Burial" [1])
G2 ("Helvetia Sexualis" [3], "Tanz der Grausamkeit" [5])
E♭2 ("A Strange Thing to Say" [1])
D2 ("20,000 Leagues under the SEA (or: The History of Steampunk… -abridged)" [5])
B1 ("Leeches & Deception")
B♭1 ("Die Stimme im Sturm" [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.
B5 ("Eldorado" [1])
G♯5 ("A Strange Thing to Say" [5]
F♯5 ("The Dog Burial" [1])
G2 ("Helvetia Sexualis" [3], "Tanz der Grausamkeit" [5])
E♭2 ("A Strange Thing to Say" [1])
D2 ("20,000 Leagues under the SEA (or: The History of Steampunk… -abridged)" [5])
B1 ("Leeches & Deception")
B♭1 ("Die Stimme im Sturm" [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.
{Album Ranges}
Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble of Shadows
(1994) ...Ich töte mich jedesmal aufs Neue, doch ich bin unsterblich, und ich erstehe wieder auf; in einer Vision des Untergangs… - (A2 - G♯5) IhateMana
(1995) Todeswunsch - Sous le Soleil de Saturne - (G2 - G5) Platypus
(1995) Ehjeh Ascher Ehjeh - (A2 - F♯5) IhateMana
(1997) The inexperienced Spiral Traveller (aus dem Schoß der Hölle ward geboren die Totensonne) - (F2 - G5) IhateMana
(1999) Dead Lovers' Sarabande (Face One) - (G2 - E♭5) Platypus
(1999) Dead Lovers' Sarabande (Face Two) - (B♭2 - F5) IhateMana
(2001) Songs from the Inverted Womb - (E♭2 - B♭5) Platypus
(2003) Es reiten die Toten so schnell (Or: The Vampyre Sucking at His Own Vein) - (G2 - B♭5) IhateMana
(2004) La Chambre d'Echo - Where the Dead Birds Sing - (D2 - G♯5) Platypus
(2004) Flowers in Formaldehyde - (A2 - C6) Platypus
(2007) Les Fleurs du Mal – Die Blumen des Bösen - (A2 - B5) IhateMana
(2010) A Strange Thing to Say - (E♭2 - A5) IhateMana
(2011) Have You Seen This Ghost? - (D2 - B5) Platypus
(2011) Children of the Corn - (G2 - G4) Platypus
(2013) Poetica (All Beauty Sleeps) - (C2 - A5) IhateMana
(2014) Mitternacht - The Dark Night of the Soul - (C2 - A5) Platypus
(2018) The Spiral Sacrifice - (C2 - D5) IhateMana
(2019) Death & Flamingos - (C2 - F5) Platypus
(2020) Island of the Dead - IhateMana
Nenia C'Alladhan
(2002) Nenia C'Alladhan - (F♯2 - E5) IhateMana
Demos, bonus tracks, remix albums, compilations etc. IhateMana
Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble of Shadows
(1994) ...Ich töte mich jedesmal aufs Neue, doch ich bin unsterblich, und ich erstehe wieder auf; in einer Vision des Untergangs… - (A2 - G♯5) IhateMana
(1995) Todeswunsch - Sous le Soleil de Saturne - (G2 - G5) Platypus
(1995) Ehjeh Ascher Ehjeh - (A2 - F♯5) IhateMana
(1997) The inexperienced Spiral Traveller (aus dem Schoß der Hölle ward geboren die Totensonne) - (F2 - G5) IhateMana
(1999) Dead Lovers' Sarabande (Face One) - (G2 - E♭5) Platypus
(1999) Dead Lovers' Sarabande (Face Two) - (B♭2 - F5) IhateMana
(2001) Songs from the Inverted Womb - (E♭2 - B♭5) Platypus
(2003) Es reiten die Toten so schnell (Or: The Vampyre Sucking at His Own Vein) - (G2 - B♭5) IhateMana
(2004) La Chambre d'Echo - Where the Dead Birds Sing - (D2 - G♯5) Platypus
(2004) Flowers in Formaldehyde - (A2 - C6) Platypus
(2007) Les Fleurs du Mal – Die Blumen des Bösen - (A2 - B5) IhateMana
(2010) A Strange Thing to Say - (E♭2 - A5) IhateMana
(2011) Have You Seen This Ghost? - (D2 - B5) Platypus
(2011) Children of the Corn - (G2 - G4) Platypus
(2013) Poetica (All Beauty Sleeps) - (C2 - A5) IhateMana
(2014) Mitternacht - The Dark Night of the Soul - (C2 - A5) Platypus
(2018) The Spiral Sacrifice - (C2 - D5) IhateMana
(2019) Death & Flamingos - (C2 - F5) Platypus
(2020) Island of the Dead - IhateMana
Nenia C'Alladhan
(2002) Nenia C'Alladhan - (F♯2 - E5) IhateMana
Demos, bonus tracks, remix albums, compilations etc. IhateMana
