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Ryan Clark
Associated Acts: Focal Point (1995–1997), Training For Utopia (1996-2000, 2023-present), Demon Hunter (2000–present), Deathbed Atheist (2000–present), Low & Behold (2010–present), NYVES (2014–present)
Vocal Range: A1-F5 (3 octaves, 8 notes)
Vocal Type: Undone Heartstring Baritone
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Sacramento native, Ryan Clark has been renowned as one of the most intelligent figures in Christian metal and hardcore even garnering respect even from the non-Christian crowd. His works has been described as profound and deep as his works in his most well-known band Demon Hunter has had a lot of success and fandom around the world as anthems to fight for a better tomorrow and to keep the faith strong. His voice has been said as a baritone with moments of vulnerability and power behind it and even been joked around as an example of showing that even Christian metal can sound “badass” and “macho”. His singing is very melodic and well-calculated, with a dark mood when singing in his low register as well singing with a lot of power in his high register being able to sing the fourth octave completely. His highs in particular, are sung with urgency and emotion behind it that he sounds as if he is making a statement in the midst of a battle. His screaming is also very well-known as one of a kind, described as being frantic in an almost rap-like flow and his unclean vocals sound similar to the caws of a crow mostly being mid-range to high shrieks, the latter being used especially when the lyrics are meant to convey the breaking point of the supposed character reflected in the song. Clark has been seen as a modern renaissance man in the Christian scene and it seems nothing seems to stop him.
Sacramento native, Ryan Clark has been renowned as one of the most intelligent figures in Christian metal and hardcore even garnering respect even from the non-Christian crowd. His works has been described as profound and deep as his works in his most well-known band Demon Hunter has had a lot of success and fandom around the world as anthems to fight for a better tomorrow and to keep the faith strong. His voice has been said as a baritone with moments of vulnerability and power behind it and even been joked around as an example of showing that even Christian metal can sound “badass” and “macho”. His singing is very melodic and well-calculated, with a dark mood when singing in his low register as well singing with a lot of power in his high register being able to sing the fourth octave completely. His highs in particular, are sung with urgency and emotion behind it that he sounds as if he is making a statement in the midst of a battle. His screaming is also very well-known as one of a kind, described as being frantic in an almost rap-like flow and his unclean vocals sound similar to the caws of a crow mostly being mid-range to high shrieks, the latter being used especially when the lyrics are meant to convey the breaking point of the supposed character reflected in the song. Clark has been seen as a modern renaissance man in the Christian scene and it seems nothing seems to stop him.
{Discography Checked}
Training For Utopia
Genre: Mathcore/experimental metal
EPs
The Falling Cycle EP (1997) G♯2-B♭4
Studio albums
Plastic Soul Impalement (1998) B2-A4-D5
Throwing A Wrench Into The American Music Machine (1999) G♯2-E♭5
Demon Hunter
Genre: Alternative metal/nu metal/groove metal/metalcore
Studio albums
Demon Hunter (2002) A2-B♭2-A4-B♭4-C5
Summer Of Darkness (2004) B2-B4
The Triptych (2005) G2-G♯2-A4-D5
Storm The Gates Of Hell (2007) D2-G♯2-C5-F5
The World Is A Thorn (2010) A1-B1-F2-B4-E♭5
True Defiance (2012) C♯2-A2-B4-D5
Extremist (2014) E♭2-G2-B4-C♯5
Outlive (2017) C2-B2-B4-C5
Peace (2019) F♯2-B4
War (2019) C♯2-B2-B4-E♭5
Exile (2022) G♯2-A4-C♯5-E♭5
Low & Behold
Genre: Post-punk/shoegaze
Studio albums
Uppers (2015) F♯2-D4-D5
NYVES
Genre: Industrial electronica
EPs
Pressure (EP) (2016) D2-A2-G4-D5
Studio albums
Anxiety (2015) F2-A2-A4-C♯5
Training For Utopia
Genre: Mathcore/experimental metal
EPs
The Falling Cycle EP (1997) G♯2-B♭4
Studio albums
Plastic Soul Impalement (1998) B2-A4-D5
Throwing A Wrench Into The American Music Machine (1999) G♯2-E♭5
Demon Hunter
Genre: Alternative metal/nu metal/groove metal/metalcore
Studio albums
Demon Hunter (2002) A2-B♭2-A4-B♭4-C5
Summer Of Darkness (2004) B2-B4
The Triptych (2005) G2-G♯2-A4-D5
Storm The Gates Of Hell (2007) D2-G♯2-C5-F5
The World Is A Thorn (2010) A1-B1-F2-B4-E♭5
True Defiance (2012) C♯2-A2-B4-D5
Extremist (2014) E♭2-G2-B4-C♯5
Outlive (2017) C2-B2-B4-C5
Peace (2019) F♯2-B4
War (2019) C♯2-B2-B4-E♭5
Exile (2022) G♯2-A4-C♯5-E♭5
Low & Behold
Genre: Post-punk/shoegaze
Studio albums
Uppers (2015) F♯2-D4-D5
NYVES
Genre: Industrial electronica
EPs
Pressure (EP) (2016) D2-A2-G4-D5
Studio albums
Anxiety (2015) F2-A2-A4-C♯5
Significant High Notes:
F5 ("Incision")
E5 ("Out On Parole")
E♭5 ("Cut To Fit", "Freedom Is Dead", "New York City Is Overrated", "Seeing-Eye Fruit Bat", "This Is The Line")
D5 ("A Thread Of Light", "Burning (Match In Hand)", "I Am A Stone", "My Destiny", "Pressure", "Some People", "Storm The Gates Of Hell", "The Soldier's Song", "The Wrath Of God", "Unbound")
C♯5 ("50,000 Screaming TFU Fans Can't Be Wrong", "A Good Feeling", "Ash", "Hell Don’t Need Me', "Love My Way" [The Psychedelic Furs cover], "Master", "Modus Operandi", "Never Take Friendship Personal" by Anberlin, "Someone To Hate", "White Boy's Burden", "Worlds Apart")
C5 ("A Broken Upper Hand", "As We Wept", "Close Enough", "Bring Me Home", "Devotion", "Godless", "Gunfight", "Human Shield", "Lead Us Home", "Leave Me Alone", "Lesser Gods", "On My Side", "One Less", "Sleeper" by Spoken, "The Negative", "Tennessee Midget", "The Sect" by HolyName, "Turn Your Back And Run", "Two Hands")
B4 ("A Gift To A Dying Friend", "A Thread Of Light", "Artificial Light", "Burt Reynolds Vs. Godzilla", "Dead Signal 2000", "Defense Mechanism", "Desire The Pain", "Fading Away", "Fiction Kingdom", "God Forsaken", "I Have Seen Where It Grows", "Incision", "Leave Me Alone", "My Destiny", "My Heartstrings Come Undone", "No Place For You Here", "On My Side", "One Zero One", "Our Faces Fall Apart", "Pretty Picture Of Lies", "Recuse Myself", "Resistance", "Savage", "Single Handed Attempt At Revolution", "Shallow Water", "Slight The Odds", "Some Of Us", "Tear You Down", "The Awakening" "The End", "The Last One Alive", "This I Know", "Time Only Takes", "Tomorrow Never Comes", "Two Ways", "We Don't Care", "Worlds Apart")
B♭4 ("Beyond Me", "Crucifix", "Devotion", "Don't Play" by Shonlock, "Infected", "Screams Of The Undead", "Silence The World", "Skin Like Winter" by Zao, "The Falling Cycle", "The Pain", "Through The Black", "Tie This Around Your Neck")
A4 ("A Broken Upper Hand", "Another Place", "Brother Hezakiah", "Burning (Match In Hand)", "Close Enough", "Cold Winter Sun", "Dead Flowers", "Descending Upon Us", "Devotion", "Fly. Fight. Crow." by Sleeping Giant, "Idle Thoughts", "Jesus Wept", "No Place For You Here", "One Step Behind", "One Thousand Apologies", "Patience", " Revolutions" , "Ribcage", "Shallow Water", "Summer Of Darkness", "Tear You Down", "The End", "The World Is A Thorn", "This I Know", "Tomorrow Never Comes", "Unbound", "Wake")
G♯4 ("Ash", "Bet My Life", "Dead Signal", "Deteriorate", " Devotion", "Everything Was White", " Exile", "Feel As Though You Could", "Gasoline", "Grand Finale", "Hanging The Giants" by Advent, "I Play Dead", "Let You In" by Kutless, "More Than Bones", "Peace", "Savage", "This Is The Line", "Thoughtless Reminders", "Weight Beneath My Sin" (Alternate version) by Five Finger Death Punch, "What I'm Not")
G4 ("Another Place", "Artificial Light", "As We Wept", "Beauty Through The Eyes Of A Predator", "Carry Me Down", "Cold Winter Sun", "Cold Blood", "Cross To Bear", "Dead Flowers", "Details", "Died In My Sleep", "Down In A Hole [Alice In Chains cover live]", "Fiction Kingdom", "Follow The Wolves", "Grey Matter", "Half As Dead", "I Am You", "I Have Seen Where It Grows", "Invisible" by Set The Sun, "Jackson 5" by Falling Up, "Just Breathe", "Lead Us Home", "Leave Me Alone", "Lesser Gods", "My Light Unseen" by Impending Doom, "Our Darkest Day" by Nine Lashes, "Parasites", "Recuse Myself", " Revolutions" , "Screams Of The Undead", "Screwtape" by Living Sacrifice, " Sleepwalker" , "Sixteen", "The Brink" "The Exit", "The Ruins" by Becoming The Archetype, "The Sect" by HolyName, "The State Of Wyoming Is Worthless", "The Tide Began to Rise", "The Wind", "Trying Times", "Two Ways")
F♯4 ("A Fear I Used To Know", "A Good Feeling", "Another Place", "Ash", " Chemicals" , "Cut To Fit", "Elegy: Deception/Lament/Triumph" by Becoming The Archetype, "Fall Behind", "Feel As Though You Could", "Have Mercy", "Heaven Don’t Cry", " I Don’t Believe You" , "Jesus Wept", "Lead Us Home", "LifeWar", "My Light Unseen", "Not Ready To Die", "One Last Song", "One Thousand Apologies", "Slight The Odds", "Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck [Prong cover]", "The Awakening", "Wake")
F4 ("Book Of The Void" by The Out Circuit, "Defense Mechanism", "Dichotomy (The Tower)" by Becoming The Archetype, " Godless", "Just Give Up", "My Throat Is An Open Grave" (Resurrected), "Something Divine", "Son Of Mine", "The Army Of The Chosen One" by Sleeping Giant, "The Gauntlet")
Significant Low Notes:
D3 ("Brother Hezakiah", "Carry Me Down", "Dead Flowers", "Driving Nails", "Fools", "Leave Me Alone", "Lesser Gods", "My Throat Is An Open Grave", " Not Ready To Die", "Raining Down", "Recuse Myself", "Return", "Shallow Water", "Sleeper" by Spoken, "Smoking Gun", "The Gauntlet", "The Tide Began to Rise", "Wake", "When The Devil Comes",)
C♯3 ("50,000 Screaming TFU Fans Can't Be Wrong", "Bet My Life", "Cut To Fit", "Deteriorate", "Hell Don’t Need Me", "God Forsaken ", "I Play Dead", "I Will Fail You", "My Heartstrings Come Undone", "My Throat Is An Open Grave" (Resurrected), "One Step Behind", "Pressure", "Savage", "Time Only Takes")
C3 ("Book Of The Void", "Infected", "Just Give Up", "Praise The Void", "Through The Black", "Weight Beneath My Sin" (Alternate version) by Five Finger Death Punch)
B2 (" Another Place", "Blood In The Tears", "Carry Me Down", "Common Ground", "Grey Matter", "Gunfight", "Half As Dead", "Loneliness", "Modus Operandi", "My Light Unseen" by Impending Doom, "Our Faces Fall Apart", "Resistance", "Shallow Water", "Sixteen", "Something Divine", "The Wind", "Time Only Takes", "Tomorrow Never Comes", "Two Hands", "Two Ways")
B♭2 ("A Broken Upper Hand", "Burt Reynolds Vs. Godzilla", "Dichotomy (The Tower)" by Becoming The Archetype, "Everything, Including The Stars, Is Falling (Baby)", "I Have Seen Where It Grows", "Parasites", "The Exit", "The Negative", "The Ruins", "The State Of Wyoming Is Worthless", "Tie This Around Your Neck", "White Boy's Burden")
A2 ("As We Wept", "Calling" by Trenches, "Carry Me Down" (Resurrected), "Church Bell", "Dead Flowers", "Details", " Devotion" , "Follow The Wolves", "I Am A Stone", "I Will Fail You, "Idle Thoughts", "Not Enough", "Not I", "Out On Parole", "Tennessee Midget", "The Heart Of A Graveyard", "Sleepwalker", "Tear You Down", "The Tide Began To Rise")
G♯2 ("Exile", "Fall Behind", "Fear Is Not My Guide", " Peace", "The Art Of Killing A Copy Machine", "The Falling Cycle", "The Last One Alive", "Thorns", "Violent Sound", "Worlds Apart")
G2 ("Beyond Me", "Blood In The Tears" (Resurrected), "Blood Red", "Dead Flowers" (Resurrected), "Fire To My Soul", "Gasoline", " Loneliness", "One Thousand Apologies", "Son Of Mine ", "The End Of The Road", "You Walk Alone")
F♯2 ("Fear Is Not My Guide", "Have Mercy", "I Will Fail You", " More Than Bones", "One Less", "The Wrath Of God")
F2 ("Feel As Though You Could", "Just Give Up", "Storm The Gates Of Hell", "The Tide Began To Rise" (Resurrected))
E2 ("Someone To Hate")
E♭2 ("A Fear I Used To Know", "I Am You", "One Last Song", "The World Is A Thorn")
D2 ("Details", "Jesus Wept", "Lead Us Home")
C♯2 ("Crucifix", "On My Side", "We Don't Care")
C2 ("Cold Blood")
B1 ("Descending Upon Us")
A1 ("Shallow Water")
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