Post by sylvia!! on Feb 17, 2023 3:55:33 GMT
Jacob Bannon (born October 15th, 1976)
Associated Acts: Converge (1990-Present), Supermachiner (1994 - 2000), Wear Your Wounds/Solo (2017 - Present), Umbra Vitae (2019 - Present), Blood from the Soul (2020 - Present)
Vocal Range: C♯2 - G♯5
Vocal Type: When ForTenor Comes Crashing
{Vocal Summary}Jacob Bannon is a vocalist that even if you've only heard once, you're sure as hell never going to forget - though probably not for reasons that would usually pop up in the previously mentioned statement with positive connotations.
It's more the fact that once you hear the opening few seconds of Converge's Jane Doe, ear piercing screech riding over the top of a round of instruments that sound more like malfunctioning industrial machinery will burn a painful hole in your mind and your ear canal and stay there. Whether you're into that is up to you, but once you've heard it you cannot unhear it. And if you were unlucky enough to be tricked into listening to it on full volume you'll be lucky if you can hear at all.
Bannon's vocals are the centerpiece of the band responsible for creating the most enjoyable clusterfuck of abrasive mess since guitar amplifiers were invented: Converge. Whilst the band's sound is already chaotic to-the-max, Bannon's vocals add this extra layer of manic insanity that arguably gave the band its trademark sound. Most of the time you'll find Bannon doing his best take on what Satan's pet Velociraptor would sound like when fighting a machine gun. It's not the BEST technique for screaming and it's only gotten darker, crunchier and more throat dredge-y overtime but it's sure as hell distinct as a vocal style and even though Bannon has admitted to it literally giving him scar tissue on his throat there is no way that it's going to stop permeating every speaker of every venue Converge ever goes to in the future.
In terms of actual singing, Bannon may not also have the best idea of what a solid melody is but he sure as hell knows how to utilise his pained yelping in a way that gives off the same pained vibes as his screams without sounding like he's coughing up blood and ash in the process. He also possesses an incredibly strong lower register. No one has any idea how he's able to sit so comfortably in the low second octave and even sing entire songs within that register (even far before the great phlegmification of his vocal cords he was still busting out E2s on songs like no-one's business) but a deal with the devil himself isn't off the table.
No matter what you think of all of this and no matter his somewhere in between "what the fuck" and "how" levels of technical ability stand, Jacob Bannon definitely will not be confused for any other metalcore vocalist. If there's anything he's going to get confused between it's a stabbing victim - so if you're going to get stabbed it's probably best not do it near a Converge show.
It's more the fact that once you hear the opening few seconds of Converge's Jane Doe, ear piercing screech riding over the top of a round of instruments that sound more like malfunctioning industrial machinery will burn a painful hole in your mind and your ear canal and stay there. Whether you're into that is up to you, but once you've heard it you cannot unhear it. And if you were unlucky enough to be tricked into listening to it on full volume you'll be lucky if you can hear at all.
Bannon's vocals are the centerpiece of the band responsible for creating the most enjoyable clusterfuck of abrasive mess since guitar amplifiers were invented: Converge. Whilst the band's sound is already chaotic to-the-max, Bannon's vocals add this extra layer of manic insanity that arguably gave the band its trademark sound. Most of the time you'll find Bannon doing his best take on what Satan's pet Velociraptor would sound like when fighting a machine gun. It's not the BEST technique for screaming and it's only gotten darker, crunchier and more throat dredge-y overtime but it's sure as hell distinct as a vocal style and even though Bannon has admitted to it literally giving him scar tissue on his throat there is no way that it's going to stop permeating every speaker of every venue Converge ever goes to in the future.
In terms of actual singing, Bannon may not also have the best idea of what a solid melody is but he sure as hell knows how to utilise his pained yelping in a way that gives off the same pained vibes as his screams without sounding like he's coughing up blood and ash in the process. He also possesses an incredibly strong lower register. No one has any idea how he's able to sit so comfortably in the low second octave and even sing entire songs within that register (even far before the great phlegmification of his vocal cords he was still busting out E2s on songs like no-one's business) but a deal with the devil himself isn't off the table.
No matter what you think of all of this and no matter his somewhere in between "what the fuck" and "how" levels of technical ability stand, Jacob Bannon definitely will not be confused for any other metalcore vocalist. If there's anything he's going to get confused between it's a stabbing victim - so if you're going to get stabbed it's probably best not do it near a Converge show.
Significant High Notes:
G♯5 ("The Broken Vow", "Downpour", "Wear Your Wounds")
G5 ("Bitter and Then Some", "Bitter Cold", "Concubine", "Conduit", "Down", "Farewell Note To This City", "Fault and Fracture", "The High Cost Of Playing God"/"The High Cost Of Playing God" demo, "Letterbomb", "Phoenix In Flames", "Thaw", "This Is Mine", "Towing Jehovah")
F♯5 ("Coil" live at Rosklide Festival 2022, "Color Me Blood Red", "Conduit", "Distance and Meaning", "Flowers And Razorwire", "Heaven In Her Arms", "Homewrecker", "The Human Shield", "Love As Arson", "My Great Devastator", "Reptilian", "Thaw", "When Forever Comes Crashing", "Year of the Swine")
F5 ("Arkhipov Calm", "Below You", "Bitter Cold", "The Broken Vow", "Cannibals", "Color Me Blood Red", "Cutter", "Downpour", "The Dusk In Us", "Glacial Pace", "The High Cost Of Playing God", "In Harms Way", "Jane Doe", "Locust Reign", "My Unsaid Everything", "On My Shield", "Reap What You Sow", "Slave Driver", "Under Duress", "Wildlife", "Worms Will Feed/Rats Will Feast")
E5 ("Albatross", "Axe To Fall", "Beautiful Ruin", "Becoming A Stranger", "Blind", "I Can Tell You About Pain", "Coral Blue", "Distance and Meaning", "Divinity", "Fact Leaves Its Ghost", "Phoenix In Flames", "Farewell Note To This City", "Fault and Fracture", "Forsaken", "The High Cost Of Playing God"/"The High Cost Of Playing God" demo, "I Won't Let You Go" live at The Broadberry 2022, "Letterbomb" demo, "The Lowest Common Denominator", "Murk & Marrow", "No Heroes", "No Light Escapes", "Polluted Paradise", "Reptilian", "Runaway", "The Saddest Day", "Shame In The Way", "Shingles", "Thaw"/"Thaw" demo, "Tresspasses", "Two Day Romance", "Undo", "Vengeance")
E♭5 ("A Single Tear", "Bitter and Then Some", "Broken By Light", "The Broken Vow", "Concubine", "Conduit", "Crimson Stone", "Damages", "The Dusk In Us", "Effigy", "Eve", "Heaven In Her Arms", "Homewrecker", "The Human Shield","I Won't Let You Go", "Jane Doe", "Letterbomb", "Losing Battle", "Love As Arson", "My Great Devastator", "My Unsaid Everything", "On My Shield", "Permanent Blue", "Predatory Glow", "Shadow Of Life", "Sparrow's Fall", "Thaw", "This Is Mine", "To The Lions", "Towing Jehovah", "Thaw", "Versus", "Vicious Muse", "Wildlife", "Wishing Well")
D5 ("Albatross", "Antithesis", "Ascend the Spine", "Bare My Teeth", "Becoming A Stranger", "Below You", "Best Cry Of Your Life", "Broken By Light", "Calcified Youth", "Cannibals" , "Churches and Jails", "Coil", "Conduit", "Cutter", "Daimon", "Dead", "Dead Beat", "Death King", "Down", "Downpour", "Exhale", "Eye of the Quarrel", "Failure Forever", "Fang Tooth Claw", "Flowers And Razorwire", "Flower Moon", "Forsaken", "Glacial Pace", "Grim Heart / Black Rose", "Heartless", "The High Cost Of Playing God", "Hope Street", "Letterbomb", "Locust Reign", "Minnesota", "My Unsaid Everything", "No Heroes", "Orphaned", "Permanent Blue", "Plagues", "Reap What You Sow", "The Saddest Day", "Sacrifice", "Sadness Come Home", "Shingles", "Towing Jehovah", "Tresspasses", "Trigger", "Two Day Romance", "Under Duress", "Undo", "Wear Your Wounds", "When Forever Comes Crashing", "Year of the Swine"/"Year of the Swine" demo, "Zodiac")
C♯5 ("A Single Tear", "Aimless Arrow", "Apparatus", "Arkhipov Calm", "Ascend the Spine", "Atheist Aesthetic", "Black Cloud", "Blood Moon", "Buried But Breathing", "Crimson Stone", "Dead", "Debris of Dreams", "Drop Out", "Empty On the Inside", "Fact Leaves Its Ghost", "Fang Tooth Claw", "Fault and Fracture", "Forsaken", "Grim Heart / Black Rose", "Hanging Moon", "Heartache", "Heaven In Her Arms", "Hellbound", "Homewrecker", "Hope Street", "I Abstain", "I Am Legend", "I Can Tell You About Pain", "In Harms Way", "In Her Blood", "Last Light", "Life's Curse", "Lonewolves", "Love As Arson", "Murk & Marrow", "My Great Devastator", "No Heroes", "On My Shield", "Polluted Paradise", "Reptilian", "Slave Driver", "Tender Abuse", "Thaw" Demo, "This Is Mine", "To the Lions", "Tongues Playing Dead", "Trigger", "Trophy Scars", "Veins And Veils", "Vengeance", "Wolverine Blues")
C5 ("Antithesis", "Axe To Fall", "Bitter and Then Some", "Blind", "Coil", "Concubine", "Daimon", "Damages", "Dark Horse", "Death King", "Disintegration" live at The Electric Factory 2014, "Distance and Meaning", "Divinity", "Ethereal Emptiness", "Failure Forever", "Fault and Fracture", "Fear is a Fossil", "For You", "Glacial Pace", "Hellbound", "In Her Blood", "Intimate Inferno", "The Lowest Common Denominator", "Jane Doe", "Lord Of Liars", "Losing Battle", "Melancholia", "Minnesota", "No Light Escapes", "Orphaned", "Phoenix In Flames", "Plagues", "Predatory Glow", "Return To Zero", "Runaway", "Sacrifice", "Sadness Come Home", "Shame In The Way", "Sparrow's Fall", "Tied To My Neck", "To The Lions", "Tresspasses", "Versus", "Vicious Muse", "Wildlife", "Wishing Well", "Worms Will Feed/Rats Will Feast")
B4 ("Apparatus", "Atheist Aesthetic", "Bare My Teeth", "Beautiful Ruin", "Black Cloud", "Calcified Youth", "Cutter", "Debris of Dreams", "Down", "Eagles Become Vultures"/"Eagles Become Vultures" live at the Electric Factory 2014, "Effigy", "Exhale", "Eye of the Quarrel", "Fact Leaves Its Ghost", "Heartless", "Homesong", "I Abstain", "I Can Tell You About Pain", "I Won't Let You Go" live versions, "Intimate Inferno", "Jacob's Ladder", "Lonewolves", "Murk & Marrow", "My Unsaid Everything", "Permanent Blue", "Sky", "Tremor", "Two Day Romance", "Under Duress", "When Forever Comes Crashing")
B♭4 ("A Single Tear", "Aimless Arrow", "Arkhipov Calm", "Ascend the Spine", "Dark Horse", "Dead Beat", "Debris of Dreams", "Distance and Meaning", "Eye of the Quarrel", "Fang Tooth Claw", "Fear is a Fossil", "For You", "Hanging Moon", "The High Cost Of Playing God", "I Can Tell You About Pain", "I Won't Let You Go", "In Harms Way", "In Her Blood", "Last Light", "Letterbomb", "Mantra Of Madness", "No Heroes", "On My Shield", "Sadness Come Home", "Shame In The Way", "Slave Driver", "Tender Abuse", "Trigger", "Trophy Scars", "Veins And Veils", "Viscera Of Men", "Wishing Well", "Wolverine Blues", "Wolves At My Door", "Year of the Swine")
A4 ("Aimless Arrow", "Albatross", "Becoming A Stranger", "Best Cry Of Your Life", "Blind", "Blood Moon", "Bludgeon the Soul / Returning to the Void", "Churches and Jails", "Dark Horse", "Dead", "Fang Tooth Claw", "Farewell Note To This City", "Flowers And Razorwire", "Homesong", "Glacial Pace", "Hell To Pay", "I Am Legend", "I Can Tell You About Pain", "No Heroes", "Permanent Blue", "Plagues", "The Saddest Day")
G♯4 ("A Single Tear", "Atheist Aesthetic", "Blood Blossom", "Debris of Dreams", "Drop Out", "Ethereal Emptiness", "I Abstain", "Jane Doe", "Last Light", "Life's Curse", "Lonewolves", "Love In Peril", "The Lowest Common Denominator", "Melancholia", "Return To Zero", "Sacrifice", "Slave Driver", "Tongues Playing Dead", "When Forever Comes Crashing", "Worms Will Feed/Rats Will Feast", "Zodiac")
Significant Low Notes:
D3 ("Adrift In You", "Best Cry Of Your Life", "Flowers And Razorwire", "Fog", "Goodbye Old Friend", "In Her Shadow", "Iron Rose", "Minnesota", "Phoenix in Flight", "Rise of the Great Machine", "Shine", "Tomorrow's Sorrow", "Wear Your Wounds")
C♯3 ("Be Still My Heart", "Heavy Blood", "The Saddest Day", "The War We'll Never Win")
C3 ("Arthritic Heart", "Ascend the Spine" 3:29, "Buried But Breathing", "Coil", "Crimson Stone", "The Dusk In Us", "Eve", "Failure Forever", "Farewell Note To This City", "Glacial Pace", "Giving Up", "Lurking Shadow", "My Great Devastator", "Shingles", "Ten Cents", "They Stretch For Miles", "Truth is a Lonely Word", "Wear Your Wounds", "Worms Will Feed/Rats Will Feast")
B2 ("Clean", "Divinity", "Down", "Downpour", "Fog", "Glacial Pace", "Heavy Blood", "Iron Rose", "Shrinking Violet", "Two Day Romance", "The War We'll Never Win")
B♭2 ("Be Still My Heart", "Crimson Stone", "The Human Shield", "Love In Peril", "Paper Panther", "Phoenix in Flight", "Rainbow Fades", "Thousands of Miles Between Us", "Viscera Of Men")
A2 ("Antithesis", "Ascend the Spine", "Becoming A Stranger", "Best Cry Of Your Life", "Breaking Point", "Coral Blue", "Failure Forever", "Farewell Note To This City", "Fog", "Goodbye Old Friend", "In Harms Way", "In Her Shadow", "Rust on the Gates of Heaven", "The Saddest Day", "Shrinking Violet", "Ten Cents", "Zodiac")
G♯2 ("The Dusk In Us", "Love In Peril", "Rainbow Fades", "Shingles", "Worms Will Feed/Rats Will Feast")
G2 ("Best Cry Of Your Life", "Brittle Pillar", "But Life Goes On", "Clean", "Coral Blue", "Down", "Empty On the Inside", "Eve", "Exhale", "Failure Forever", "Flower Moon", "In Harms Way", "Jacob's Ladder", "Lurking Shadow", "Minnesota", "Paper Panther", "Rainbow Fades", "Remember My Name", "Sky", "Ten Cents", "Thousands of Miles Between Us", "Tied To My Neck", "Tomorrow's Sorrow", "Truth is a Lonely Word", "When Forever Comes Crashing" demo)
F♯2 ("Divinity", "Love As Arson", "Truth is a Lonely Word", "Viscera Of Men")
F2 ("Ascend the Spine", "Crimson Stone", "Eve", "In Harms Way", "Love In Peril", "Minnesota", "Rust on the Gates of Heaven", "Savior Salvation", "Tongues Playing Dead", "Worms Will Feed/Rats Will Feast")
E2 ("Adrift In You", "Coral Blue", "Divinity", "Down", "Exhale", "Paper Panther", "Remember My Name", "Rise of the Great Machine", "Shrinking Violet", "Tied To My Neck", "Sky", "Tomorrow's Sorrow", "Two Day Romance")
E♭2 ("The Dusk In Us", "Empty On the Inside", "Love In Peril", "Viscera Of Men")
D2 ("Adrift In You", "Blood Dawn", "Remember My Name", "Rise of the Great Machine", "When Forever Comes Crashing")
C♯2 ("Savior Salvation")
{Questionable Notes}E6 ("Exhale" [1])
D6 ("Becoming A Stranger" [5])
C♯6 ("Antithesis" [5])
C6 ("Undo" [5])
B♭5 ("Fact Leaves Its Ghost" [5])
G5 ("Broken By Light" [4], "No Heroes" [1])
F♯5 ("Heaven In Her Arms" [5])
F5 ("A Single Tear" [1], "Ethereal Emptiness" [5], "Letterbomb" [5], "Vicious Muse" [1])
E5 ("Rust on the Gates of Heaven" [2])
C5 ("Coil" [2], "They Stretch For Miles" [2])
C3 ("Daimon" [2])
B♭2 ("The Broken Vow" [2])
E2 ("Clean" [2], "Conduit" [5], "Iron Rose" [5])
E♭2 ("Brittle Pillar" [2])
D2 ("Flower Moon" [2])
C2 ("In Harms Way" [5] "The Lowest Common Denominator" [1])
B1 ("Remember My Name" [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.
D6 ("Becoming A Stranger" [5])
C♯6 ("Antithesis" [5])
C6 ("Undo" [5])
B♭5 ("Fact Leaves Its Ghost" [5])
G5 ("Broken By Light" [4], "No Heroes" [1])
F♯5 ("Heaven In Her Arms" [5])
F5 ("A Single Tear" [1], "Ethereal Emptiness" [5], "Letterbomb" [5], "Vicious Muse" [1])
E5 ("Rust on the Gates of Heaven" [2])
C5 ("Coil" [2], "They Stretch For Miles" [2])
C3 ("Daimon" [2])
B♭2 ("The Broken Vow" [2])
E2 ("Clean" [2], "Conduit" [5], "Iron Rose" [5])
E♭2 ("Brittle Pillar" [2])
D2 ("Flower Moon" [2])
C2 ("In Harms Way" [5] "The Lowest Common Denominator" [1])
B1 ("Remember My Name" [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.
{Discography}Converge
Halo in a Haystack (1994): E2 - E5 - G5
Petitioning the Empty Sky (1996): G♯2 - F5 - G5
Caring And Killing (1997): C♯2 - E5 - G5
When Forever Comes Crashing (1998): D2 - G2 - F♯5 - G5
The Poacher Diaries (1999): G2 - F5 - G♯5
Jane Doe (2001): B♭2 - E♭5 - G♯5
Unloved and Weeded Out (2003): G2 - G5
You Fail Me (2004): A2 - B♭4 - D5
No Heroes (2006): E3 - B4 - E5
Axe to Fall (2009): F2 - B♭4 - F5
All We Love We Leave Behind (2012): E♭2 - C5 - F5
The Dusk In Us (2017): E♭2 - C♯5 - F♯5
Bloodmoon Pt 1 (2021): D2 - G♯4 - E♭5
Supermachiner
Rise of the Great Machine (2001): D2 - F5 - G5
Wear Your Wounds
WYW (2017): G2 - A4 - G♯5
Rust on the Gates of Heaven (2019): E♭2 - G♯4
Umbra Vitae
Shadow Of Life (2020): C4 - E5
Blood from the Soul
DSM-5 (2020): TBA
Italics mark EPs
Grey marks compilations
..................................................Halo in a Haystack (1994): E2 - E5 - G5
Petitioning the Empty Sky (1996): G♯2 - F5 - G5
Caring And Killing (1997): C♯2 - E5 - G5
When Forever Comes Crashing (1998): D2 - G2 - F♯5 - G5
The Poacher Diaries (1999): G2 - F5 - G♯5
Jane Doe (2001): B♭2 - E♭5 - G♯5
Unloved and Weeded Out (2003): G2 - G5
You Fail Me (2004): A2 - B♭4 - D5
No Heroes (2006): E3 - B4 - E5
Axe to Fall (2009): F2 - B♭4 - F5
All We Love We Leave Behind (2012): E♭2 - C5 - F5
The Dusk In Us (2017): E♭2 - C♯5 - F♯5
Bloodmoon Pt 1 (2021): D2 - G♯4 - E♭5
Supermachiner
Rise of the Great Machine (2001): D2 - F5 - G5
Wear Your Wounds
WYW (2017): G2 - A4 - G♯5
Rust on the Gates of Heaven (2019): E♭2 - G♯4
Umbra Vitae
Shadow Of Life (2020): C4 - E5
Blood from the Soul
DSM-5 (2020): TBA
Italics mark EPs
Grey marks compilations
• Blue denotes falsetto and whistle passages.
• Green denotes harshly distorted passages probably achieved by religiously swallowing hot coal (do not attempt these at home).
• Grey denotes vocal fry passages with a solid amount of tone.
• Boldface denotes outstanding passages.
• Italics denote non-melodic and spoken passages.
• Underlines denote obscured and background passages.
