Post by sylvia!! on May 20, 2023 22:11:02 GMT
Ogiishi Akira (born December 5th, 1975)
Associated Acts: ikd-sj (2004 - Present), Vivarium (Unknown period)
Vocal Range: F♯1 - C♯6
Vocal Type: Breaking News: Man Spends 10 Years Listening to Mike Patton's Side Projects and Auditions For Joker Using Only Trailcam Footage Of Himself At Midnight In Liminal Carparks Predicting How Death Grips Entire Discography Will Sound
{Vocal Summary}
Sounding more like a demon desperately trying to free itself from its mortal prison than a singer, Akira Ogiishi is the frontman of the metal band ikd-sj. A band with so many subgenres that the band ended up dubbing themselves "ambient grunge metal" - even though elsewhere they're touted as one of the most flexible and respectable nu-metal bands out there that aren't deftones.
The band's genre labels that are never consistently pinned down speak for themselves - and part of this is due to the chameleon of a singer that Akira is. One second you're hearing this guy laying down bars in a chill, sinister manner akin to a movie villain whose gone so insane he's started to rap - and the next second he's doing ear piercing screeches that do not remotely sound like they should be coming from a normal throat. This guy incorporates choking, laughing, growling, frog noises and all sorts of other strange techniques to give this bands already versatile sound an extra pinch of madness that makes you make that face you can only make when you've heard the most disgusting thing ever but KNOW that it's great.
Technically, Ogiishi has a LOT more to him than just Mike Patton/Kyo-isms on steroids. He's fairly low placed and seems to have the natural vocal range similar to that of a crooner - and while this guy's highs start at D4 that does not stop him from randomly deciding to hit mixed 5th octave notes without warning in the middle of songs filled with low screams and pitchy moans. His lower register is generally used more for rapping and isn't the most stable below G2 but GOD does it sound evil and smooth when he decides to use it. If you want a good taste of everything he's capable of check out "BLACK APARTMENT" - it's a horrifying trip and a half that you won't regret.
So yeah, I'm very glad I discovered ikd-sj and their cult following on the nu-metal charts of rym - they're a one of a kind band with a one of a kind vocalist who sounds WAY to good to be pushing 50. This band's got so many genres mastered that pretty much anything they do from this point is gonna be interesting and I have faith that Akira Ogiishi will be enjoying every last second of it
Sounding more like a demon desperately trying to free itself from its mortal prison than a singer, Akira Ogiishi is the frontman of the metal band ikd-sj. A band with so many subgenres that the band ended up dubbing themselves "ambient grunge metal" - even though elsewhere they're touted as one of the most flexible and respectable nu-metal bands out there that aren't deftones.
The band's genre labels that are never consistently pinned down speak for themselves - and part of this is due to the chameleon of a singer that Akira is. One second you're hearing this guy laying down bars in a chill, sinister manner akin to a movie villain whose gone so insane he's started to rap - and the next second he's doing ear piercing screeches that do not remotely sound like they should be coming from a normal throat. This guy incorporates choking, laughing, growling, frog noises and all sorts of other strange techniques to give this bands already versatile sound an extra pinch of madness that makes you make that face you can only make when you've heard the most disgusting thing ever but KNOW that it's great.
Technically, Ogiishi has a LOT more to him than just Mike Patton/Kyo-isms on steroids. He's fairly low placed and seems to have the natural vocal range similar to that of a crooner - and while this guy's highs start at D4 that does not stop him from randomly deciding to hit mixed 5th octave notes without warning in the middle of songs filled with low screams and pitchy moans. His lower register is generally used more for rapping and isn't the most stable below G2 but GOD does it sound evil and smooth when he decides to use it. If you want a good taste of everything he's capable of check out "BLACK APARTMENT" - it's a horrifying trip and a half that you won't regret.
So yeah, I'm very glad I discovered ikd-sj and their cult following on the nu-metal charts of rym - they're a one of a kind band with a one of a kind vocalist who sounds WAY to good to be pushing 50. This band's got so many genres mastered that pretty much anything they do from this point is gonna be interesting and I have faith that Akira Ogiishi will be enjoying every last second of it
Significant High Notes (362):
C♯6 ("Hadashi no Yoru")
C6 ("A～ha～", "Composit" RUM RAISIN version, "egg", "whiz")
B5 ("Hadashi no Yoru", "Ichigo-Philia")
B♭5 ("Annaka")
A5 ("egg", "Fantasista", "Kurosuguri no Uta", "Man-Gro")
G♯5 ("L’absinthe", "ave maria", "black apartment", "Chapter Ka", "Flowers of the Folds", "Hadashi no Yoru", "kill the dictator", "Kurosuguri no Uta", "Man-Gro", "Margarine", "Rum Raisin" live at EARTHDOM 2019, "Safari Park In The Rain", "Seventh Slave", "Tokyo Massacre")
G5 ("L’absinthe", "Annaka", "Chapter Kiku", "Doll", "Flowers of the Folds", "FULLMETAL GUNSLINGER", "Ichigo-Philia", "kunny", "Man-Gro", "snakelust", "suttee", "Toluene", "Visual Pigs")
F♯5 ("A～ha～", "Arigato", "balanus club", "CELEB HUNTER", "gala", "Hadashi no Yoru", "Help Me", "Kiyoshiko no Yoru", "Margarine", "Μůżė"/"Μůżė", "Иine Inch kNife", "Perpétuel", "T.R.A.P", "Tsubomi", "Watch Thief", "Vale Tudo")
F5 ("Akagami", "ᗺ⨕ᗷ", "bivouac", "black apartment", "Fruit Basket", "Genocide", "Kanikousen", "Karma Coma Monkey", "мost мoron тheory", "Иine Inch kNife", "Pre Cure Five", "A Sphere Consists of 24 Components", "Suicide Jesus", "Sweet Fish", "Teacher")
E5 ("A～ha～", "Arigato", "B.I.T.C.H", "Composite", "Copygod", "Eat My Shit", "kunny", "Mandarage", "Mate", "Requiem", "Safari Park In The Rain", "snakelust", "suttee" 3:55, "T.R.A.P")
E♭5 ("⅗11", "Arigato", "A Clairvoyant", "Deathrattle of Those Who Sold Their Souls to the Devil", "egg", "Filial 1", "Last/Exodus", "Kanikousen", "Kimi Yoshi", "Margarine", "Perpétuel", "Safari Park In The Rain", "Shiki Tora", "World's End")
D5 ("Akagami", "Bad Buddha", "balanus club", "B.I.T.C.H", "CELEB HUNTER", "Chapter Kiku", "Composit" RUM RAISIN version, "Copygod", "Doll", "dr.meniere", "Fruit Basket", "Ichigo-Philia", "Impotent Kids", "Karma Coma Monkey", "Kurosuguri no Uta", "Lynch Dance", "Mandarage", "Mishel", "Moment", "Park Life", "Sange", "Shinjuku Central Park", "Toi Kuy", "Toluene", "Tsubomi", "whiz", "Zero")
C♯5 ("albino", "ave maria", "black apartment", "A Clairvoyant", "Céline", "Chapter Sui", "Composite", "Fake Blood", "Ichigo-Philia", "intelligent fresh pig", "Kanikousen", "kill the dictator", "LEMON LUMPEN", "Lynch Dance", "Man-Gro", "Margarine", "Μůżė", "Perpétuel", "Platonic Rape", "Pucci Angel", "Rum Raisin", "snakelust", "A Sphere Consists of 24 Components", "Teacher", "Teleportation", "Toi Kuy")
C5 ("3D Anus", "Beach Boys", "beautiful slaughter", "bivouac", "Brother", "Doublegod", "Freaks", "Genocide", "Last/Exodus", "мost мoron тheory", "Nemu", "oDdEyヨ", "One Seater", "The Peanut", "Safari Park In The Rain", "Teleportation", "Tokyo Massacre")
B4 ("Akai Melon", "albino", "Anier", "Composite", "Filial 1", "Girl of Duty", "In Cocoon", "Kanikousen", "Kiyoshiko no Yoru", "LEMON LUMPEN", "Moment", "Μůżė", "Иine Inch kNife", "Perpétuel", "Rum Raisin", "Sange", "Seventh Slave", "Suicide Jesus", "Toluene", "T.R.A.P", "vegetable garden" live 2019)
B♭4 ("Beautiful Time", "Bomber", "Chapter Sui", "Eat My Shit", "Guardian Angel", "Japanese Terrorist", "kill the dictator", "Pucci Angel", "Teleportation", "Vale Tudo", "Walk")
A4 ("⅗11", "Anier", "Fantasista", "gala", "Imp7otent Kids", "Mishel", "suttee", "Tsubomi")
G♯4 ("Akai Melon", "Annaka", "ave maria", "Céline", "Fruit Basket", "FULLMETAL GUNSLINGER", "Hadachi no Yoru", "Help Me", "мost мoron тheory", "Nemu", "Иine Inch kNife", "Seventh Slave", "Shinjuku Central Park", "snakelust", "A Sphere Consists of 24 Components", "Teleportation", "Toluene", "T.R.A.P")
G4 ("Doublegod", "Freaks", "Happy X'mas", "Hero", "Mate", "The Peanut")
F♯4 ("A～ha～", "Anier", "L’absinthe", "albino", "Annaka", "Arigato", "ᗺ⨕ᗷ", "balanus club", "Beautiful Time", "Bird Man", "Brother", "Chapter Kiku", "Chapter Sui", "Deathrattle of Those Who Sold Their Souls to the Devil", "Doll", "Filial 1", "Girl of Duty", "Hadachi no Yoru", "intelligent fresh pig", "Japanese Guerilla Fundamentalism Blues" live at EARTHDOM 2019, "kill the dictator", "Kimi Yoshi", "King Is Back", "Pucci Angel", "Red Shoes", "Toi Kuy", "Toluene", "vegetable garden", "Walk", "Watch Thief")
F4 ("36 Thousand Km Above the Equator", "Annaka", "Bad Buddha", "beautiful slaughter", "bivouac", "Brother", "Girl of Duty", "Guardian Angel", "Impotent Kids", "Ne-Mu", "oDdEyヨ", "One Seater", "Park Life", "penisless", "Platonic Rape", "Shiki Tora", "(skit 2)", "Teacher", "Tsubomi", "Underhairless", "Visual Pigs", "Watch Thief", "whiz", "Zero")
E4 ("70", "L’absinthe", "Aenema Blues", "Arigato", "ave maria", "ᗺ⨕ᗷ", "balanus club", "Beautiful Time", "Bread, Guns, Butter and "Midnight" Circuses", "dr.meniere", "Fake Blood", "Flowers of the Folds", "Freaks", "Hero", "intelligent fresh pig", "Japanese Guerilla Fundamentalism Blues", "Karma Coma Monkey", "King Is Back", "Kiyoshiko no Yoru", "kunny", "LEMON LUMPEN", "Lux Hill Beast", "Man-Gro", "Mate", "Requiem", "suttee", "Seventh Slave", "Sold Out", "Suicide Jesus", "Sweet Fish", "vegetable garden", "Walk", "Zero")
E♭4 ("3D Anus", "L’absinthe", "Beach Boys", "Bird Man", "Bomber", "Brother", "CELEB HUNTER", "Chapter Sui", "Deathrattle of Those Who Sold Their Souls to the Devil", "FULLMETAL GUNSLINGER", "Girl of Duty", "In Cocoon", "Help Me", "Mandarage", "Pucci Angel", "Safari Park In The Rain", "Seventh Slave", "Topaz", "Tsubomi", "Walk", "World's End")
D4 ("36 Thousand Km Above the Equator", "70", "albino", "Aenema Blues", "Bad Buddha", "Beach Boys", "beautiful slaughter", "B.I.T.C.H", "Bomber", "Borrachero", "Chapter Kiku", "Clean Blood", "Copygod", "Doll", "Eternal Vacation", "Fantasista", "Fruit Basket", "Genocide", "Happy X'mas", "Impotent Kids", "Japanese Guerrilla Fundamentalism Blues", "Kurosuguri no Uta", "Last/Exodus", "Lynch Dance", "Mandarage", "Moment", "oDdEyヨ", "One Seater", "The Peanut", "penisless", "Requiem", "Rum Raisin", "semen flow", "Shiki Tora", "Shinjuku Central Park", "Sold Out", "Supervagina", "Sweet Fish", "Underhairless")
Significant Low Notes (182):
C♯3 ("⅗11", "Annaka", "ᗺ⨕ᗷ", "Big Show", "Bird Man", "B.I.T.C.H", "Borrachero", "A Clairvoyant", "dr.meniere", "Eternal Vacation", "FULLMETAL GUNSLINGER", "Help Me", "Ichigo-Philia", "Man-Gro", "Perpétuel", "Pre Cure Five", "Safari Park In The Rain", "Seventh Slave", "Shinjuku Central Park", "A Sphere Consists of 24 Components", "Suicide Jesus", "Toluene", "Walk")
C3 ("70", "A～ha～", "L’absinthe", "Aenema Blues", "Akagami", "Annaka", "beautiful slaughter", "Brother", "bivouac", "CELEB HUNTER", "Céline", "Copied Amnions", "Copygod", "Eternal Vacation", "Flowers of the Folds", "Fruit", "Fruit Basket", "Genocide", "Girl of Duty", "Impotent Kids", "Japanese Guerrilla Fundamentalism Blues", "Japanese Terrorist" 0:08, "Kimi Yoshi", "Kurosuguri no Uta", "Last/Exodus", "мost мoron тheory", "Μůżė", "Park Life", "penisless", "Shiki Tora", "(skit 2)", "Safari Park In The Rain", "Seventh Slave", "Shinjuku Central Park", "Sold Out", "Supervagina", "suttee", "Sweet Fish", "Teleportation", "Tokyo Massacre", "Toluene", "Tsubomi", "Underhairless")
B2 ("Akai Melon", "Anier", "Annaka", "albino", "Beach Boys", "Bird Man", "Brigade I.K.D.", "Chapter Kiku", "Copied Amnions", "Fake Blood", "Filial 1", "Help Me", "Ichigo-Philia", "Karma Coma Monkey", "Happy X'mas", "intelligent fresh pig", "LEMON LUMPEN", "LSD (Prototype)", "Lux Hill Beast", "Mate", "Moment", "Иine Inch kNife", "One Seater", "The Peanut", "Perpétuel", "Rum Raisin", "semen flow", "snakelust", "Teacher", "Tokyo Massacre", "Tsubomi", "Walk", "World's End")
B♭2 ("L’absinthe", "Arigato", "balanus club", "Big Show", "bivouac", "black apartment", "Chapter Zan", "Composit" RUM RAISIN version, "egg", "Fruit", "gala", "Ghost", "intelligent fresh pig", "мost мoron тheory", "Μůżė", "Nemu", "Parsifal", "snakelust", "Toi Kuy", "Vale Tudo", "vegetable garden", "whiz", "Zero")
A2 ("36 Thousand Km Above the Equator", "Arigato", "Automatic", "Beautiful Time", "Big Show", "Bomber", "Borrachero", "Bread, Guns, Butter and "Midnight" Circuses", "Chapter Ka", "A Clairvoyant", "Copygod", "Eat My Shit", "Fantasista", "Freaks", "Genocide", "I'm Kissin' Dead Snow Junkies", "Japanese Guerrilla Fundamentalism Blues", "Japanese Terrorist", "Kanikousen", "Lynch Dance", "Mate", "Μůżė", "oDdEyヨ", "Platonic Rape", "Requiem", "Sange", "Supervagina", "suttee", "Sweet Fish", "vegetable garden", "Visual Pigs")
G♯2 ("36 Thousand Km Above the Equator", "A Sphere Consists of 24 Components", "black apartment", "Chapter Zan", "gala", "Japanese Guerrilla Fundamentalism Blues" live at EARTHDOM 2019, "Tsubomi")
G2 ("Akagami", "Bread, Guns, Butter and "Midnight" Circuses", "Brother", "Chapter Ka", "dr.meniere", "Happy X'mas", "Japanese Terrorist", "Mate", "Mishel", "Park Life", "Shining Star")
F♯2 ("Chapter Kiku", "Flowers of the Folds", "kill the dictator", "(skit)")
F2 ("Teacher")
D2 ("3D Anus", "Flowers of the Folds", "gala", "Japanese Terrorist", "kunny", "Иine Inch kNife", "One Seater", "The Peanut")
C♯2 ("black apartment")
C2 ("Kimi Yoshi")
A1 ("A～ha～")
F♯1 ("Kimi Yoshi")
{Questionable Notes (35)}A7 ("ᗺ⨕ᗷ" [6])
B6 ("Borrachero" [6])
B♭6 ("Иine Inch kNife" [6])
G6 ("Kurosuguri no Uta" [6], "Tsubomi" [6])
F♯6 ("egg" [6])
F6 ("whiz" [6])
E6 ("black apartment" [4], "Man-Gro" [2] [4])
E♭6 ("CELEB HUNTER" [6], "T.R.A.P" [4])
B5 ("Fantasista" [5], "kill the dictator" [1], "Lux Hill Beast" [6])
A5 ("Filial 1" [1])
G♯5 ("ᗺ⨕ᗷ" [1], "Fake Blood" [1], "мost мoron тheory" [5], "Pre Cure Five" [1], "Safari Park In The Rain" [1])
G5 ("Toluene" [1])
F♯5 ("Teleportation" [1])
F5 ("Mandarage" [3])
E5 ("Bread, Guns, Butter, Circuses" [2])
C5 ("Bread, Guns, Butter, Circuses" [2])
G♯2 ("Walk" [3])
G2 ("Automatic" [5], "Bird Man" [1])
F2 ("A Sphere Consists of 24 Components" [5], "Doll" [3])
E2 ("Chapter Zan" [4], "мost мoron тheory" [5])
E♭2 ("Μůżė" [3])
D2 ("LEMON LUMPEN" [3], "Sweet Fish" [5])
C♯2 ("Teacher" [3])
G1 ("Tsubomi" [5])
F♯1 ("Bird Man" [3])
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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.
[6] marks noises of pain that I cannot count
B6 ("Borrachero" [6])
B♭6 ("Иine Inch kNife" [6])
G6 ("Kurosuguri no Uta" [6], "Tsubomi" [6])
F♯6 ("egg" [6])
F6 ("whiz" [6])
E6 ("black apartment" [4], "Man-Gro" [2] [4])
E♭6 ("CELEB HUNTER" [6], "T.R.A.P" [4])
B5 ("Fantasista" [5], "kill the dictator" [1], "Lux Hill Beast" [6])
A5 ("Filial 1" [1])
G♯5 ("ᗺ⨕ᗷ" [1], "Fake Blood" [1], "мost мoron тheory" [5], "Pre Cure Five" [1], "Safari Park In The Rain" [1])
G5 ("Toluene" [1])
F♯5 ("Teleportation" [1])
F5 ("Mandarage" [3])
E5 ("Bread, Guns, Butter, Circuses" [2])
C5 ("Bread, Guns, Butter, Circuses" [2])
G♯2 ("Walk" [3])
G2 ("Automatic" [5], "Bird Man" [1])
F2 ("A Sphere Consists of 24 Components" [5], "Doll" [3])
E2 ("Chapter Zan" [4], "мost мoron тheory" [5])
E♭2 ("Μůżė" [3])
D2 ("LEMON LUMPEN" [3], "Sweet Fish" [5])
C♯2 ("Teacher" [3])
G1 ("Tsubomi" [5])
F♯1 ("Bird Man" [3])
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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.
[6] marks noises of pain that I cannot count
{Discography + Credits}ikd-sj
the mortuary (2006): D2 - F♯2 - F♯4 - C6 (sylvia!! )
WoяLd’s Εnd Fяuiτ ВasкeT (2009): F♯1 - G♯2 - G♯5 - B5 (sylvia!! )
A Copygod (2010): D2 - G2 - D5 - G5 (sylvia!! )
Kikuzankajou Section I (2011): F♯2 - F♯5 - A5 (sylvia!! / Electric Mami )
Kikuzankajou Section II (2012): G♯2 - D4 - G♯5 (sylvia!! / Electric Mami )
Kikuzankajou Section III (2013): D2 - F♯2 - G♯4 - G♯5 (sylvia!! )
Kikuzankajou Section IV (2014): C3 - D5 - E5 (Electric Mami )
Kikuzankajou CE (2014): TBA
Psychic Dope Generation (2014): F2 - G5 - A5 (sylvia!! )
Eternal Vacation (2016): A2 - D5 - G♯5 (Electric Mami )
RUM RAISIN (2017): D2 - F♯2 - C♯5 - C6 (sylvia!! )
Yvideo (2018): G♯2 - F♯5 - C♯6 (Electric Mami )
Shinda Seppaku Chuudokusha ni Kisu wo (2023): F♯2 - G♯5 (sylvia!! )
Vivarium
Vivarium (2008): A2 - F4 - D5 (Electric Mami who will never listen to this thing again)
A.Ogiishi
Konbu731* (2020):
-* (2020):
Italics Mark EPs
Grey Marks Compilations
*marks albums I am too poor to buy and thus cannot notewatch
..................................................the mortuary (2006): D2 - F♯2 - F♯4 - C6 (sylvia!! )
WoяLd’s Εnd Fяuiτ ВasкeT (2009): F♯1 - G♯2 - G♯5 - B5 (sylvia!! )
A Copygod (2010): D2 - G2 - D5 - G5 (sylvia!! )
Kikuzankajou Section I (2011): F♯2 - F♯5 - A5 (sylvia!! / Electric Mami )
Kikuzankajou Section II (2012): G♯2 - D4 - G♯5 (sylvia!! / Electric Mami )
Kikuzankajou Section III (2013): D2 - F♯2 - G♯4 - G♯5 (sylvia!! )
Kikuzankajou Section IV (2014): C3 - D5 - E5 (Electric Mami )
Kikuzankajou CE (2014): TBA
Psychic Dope Generation (2014): F2 - G5 - A5 (sylvia!! )
Eternal Vacation (2016): A2 - D5 - G♯5 (Electric Mami )
RUM RAISIN (2017): D2 - F♯2 - C♯5 - C6 (sylvia!! )
Yvideo (2018): G♯2 - F♯5 - C♯6 (Electric Mami )
Shinda Seppaku Chuudokusha ni Kisu wo (2023): F♯2 - G♯5 (sylvia!! )
Vivarium
Vivarium (2008): A2 - F4 - D5 (Electric Mami who will never listen to this thing again)
A.Ogiishi
Konbu731* (2020):
-* (2020):
Italics Mark EPs
Grey Marks Compilations
*marks albums I am too poor to buy and thus cannot notewatch
• Blue denotes falsetto and whistle passages.
• Green denotes harshly distorted passages.
• Boldface denotes outstanding passages.
• Italics denote non-melodic and spoken passages.
• Underlines denote obscured and background passages.
