Post by Platypus on Aug 13, 2023 16:44:57 GMT
Jonathan Howsmon Davis (18.01.1971 - )
Associated Acts: Korn
Vocal Range: A1 - F♯5
{Vocal Summary}The infamous angsty frontman for pioneering nu metal band Korn, in addition to his solo side projects. His bizarre and esoteric vocal styles are definitely one of the main trademarks of the band, ranging from a gruff distorted sound to an odd dissonant scat as well as a lesser used soft headier sound. Earlier on, he used his more distorted tone almost exclusively for highs, however later on around the time of "See You on the Other Side" he began demonstrating an ability to use more a cleaner which he can take to the lower fifth octave. His low range is fairly melodic down to at least F2/E2, with lower notes being more in the so-called "attitude fry" style, often used for a creepier or more intimidating effect. Davis' voice is definitely a factor in what most consider to make or break Korn's music for them, however he is definitely a unique staple of the 90s and modern rock scene.
Written by Sandblasted .
Written by Sandblasted .
{Album Ranges}
with Korn:
Korn (1994): A1 - A2 - G♯4 - C5
Life Is Peachy (1996): E2 - A4 - C♯5 - D5
Follow The Leader (1998): A1 - A2 - G4 - E♭5
Issues (1999): B1 - E2 - G♯4 - C♯5
Untouchables (2002): C2 - F2 - B♭4 - C5
Take a Look in the Mirror (2003): B1 - E2 - B4 - E5
See You on the Other Side (2005): C2 - C5
Untitled Korn album (2007): C2 - F2 - C5 - C♯5
Korn III: Remember Who You Are (2010): F2 - B♭4
The Path of Totality (2011): C♯2 - E2 - G♯4
The Paradigm Shift (2013): E2 - B♭4 - B4
The Serenity of Suffering (2016): D2 - F2 - A4 - D5 - E♭5
The Nothing (2019): C2 - A4 - B4 - C♯5
Requiem (2022): C♯2 - A4 - B♭4
as Jonathan Davis:
Black Labyrinth (2018): C2 - A4 - D5
with Korn:
Korn (1994): A1 - A2 - G♯4 - C5
Life Is Peachy (1996): E2 - A4 - C♯5 - D5
Follow The Leader (1998): A1 - A2 - G4 - E♭5
Issues (1999): B1 - E2 - G♯4 - C♯5
Untouchables (2002): C2 - F2 - B♭4 - C5
Take a Look in the Mirror (2003): B1 - E2 - B4 - E5
See You on the Other Side (2005): C2 - C5
Untitled Korn album (2007): C2 - F2 - C5 - C♯5
Korn III: Remember Who You Are (2010): F2 - B♭4
The Path of Totality (2011): C♯2 - E2 - G♯4
The Paradigm Shift (2013): E2 - B♭4 - B4
The Serenity of Suffering (2016): D2 - F2 - A4 - D5 - E♭5
The Nothing (2019): C2 - A4 - B4 - C♯5
Requiem (2022): C♯2 - A4 - B♭4
as Jonathan Davis:
Black Labyrinth (2018): C2 - A4 - D5
Significant High Notes:
F♯5 ("Dead Bodies Everywhere" live Virginia 1998)
F5 ("Alive" Neidermeyer's Mind demo)
E5 ("Deep Inside", "Kidnap The Sandy Claws")
E♭5 ("All In the Family", "Blind" live Virginia 1998, "Everything Falls Apart", "Proud", "Rock You Like a Hurricane" live Virginia 1998)
D5 ("Appears", "Counting on Me", "Insane", "Mr Rogers", "Shout At The Devil" live Virginia 1998, "Walk On By")
C♯5 ("Can You Hear Me", "Chi" Demo version, "Ever Be", "Good God", "Killing", "Let's Get This Party Started", "Play Me")
C5 ("Another Brick in the Wall", "Baby", "Careless" Sirius Radio Session, "Cut Throat", "Everything Falls Apart", "Evolution", "Here to Stay", "Innocent Bystander", "Kashmir" Rehearsal Mayhem Festival 2014, "Kill You", "Lies", "My Gift to You", "Politics", "Sean Olson", "Take Me", "Twisted Transistor")
B4 ("10 or a 2-Way", "Chi", "Eaten Up Inside", "H@rd3r", "The Hating", "Hey Daddy", "Hushabye", "Inside", "Just For Now", "K@#Ø%!", "Last Legal Drug (Le Petit Mort)", "Love My Way", "Love Song", "Lullaby for a Sadist", "Need To", "Next In Line", "Prey for Me", "Wake Up" The Notorious B.I.G., "When Will This End", "Wicked")
B♭4 ("Blind", "Children of the Korn", "Cut Throat", "Embrace", "Final Days", "Forgotten", "Insane", "Killing", "No One's There", "Paranoid and Aroused", "Pop a Pill", "Shout At The Devil" live Virginia 1998, "This Town", "Throw Me Away", "Twisted Transistor")
A4 ("Another Brick in the Wall", "Ass Itch", "Beat It Upright", "Chi", "Coming Undone", "Creep" Live at MTV Studio 2006, "The Devil Went Down to Georgia", "Did My Time", "Die Yet Another Night", "Dirty", "Engine No. 9" live 1996, "Ever Be", "Everything Falls Apart", "Evilution", "Evolution", "Falling Away From Me", "Finally Free", "For No One", "The Game Is Over", "Gary Heidnik", "Gender", "Getting Off", "Got Money", "Hater", "Hating", "The Hating", "Haze", "Here to Stay", "Hold On", "Hollow Life", "Hushabye", "Hypocrites", "Innocent Bystander", "Intro" Untitled Korn Album, "Justin", "Let the Dark Do the Rest", "Lost in the Grandeur"", "Love and Luxury", "Love Song", "Lullaby for a Sadist", "Mass Hysteria", "Never Around", "Never Never", "No One's There", "No Way", "Overture or Obituary", "Penance to Sorrow", "Please Come For Me", "Politics", "Prey for Me", "The Ringmaster", "Rock You Like a Hurricane" live Virginia 1998, "Seen It All", "Seventy Thorns", "Silent So Long", "Sing Sorrow", "Souvenir", "Take Me", "This Loss", "Thoughtless", "Trapped Underneath the Stairs", "We're Not Gonna Take It" live Virginia 1998, "What Is It", "What We Do", "Whatever Goes Up", "When Will This End", "Would?" MoPOP Founders Award 2020, "Y'all Want a Single")
G♯4 ("10 or a 2-Way", "1stp Klosr", "Alive" Neidermeyer's Mind demo, "Appears", "Basic Needs", "Bitch We Got a Problem", "Blame", "Careless" Sirius Radio Session, "Coming Undone", "Counting on Me", "Daddy", "The End Begins", "Feel Alive", "Final Days", "Fuels the Comedy", "Get Up!", "Happiness", "I Will Protect You", "Idiosyncrasy", "Illuminati", "Insane", "It's Gonna Go Away", "Killing", "Layla" Neidermeyer's Mind demo, "Lead the Parade", "Let The Guilt Go", "Liar", "Love and Luxury", "Medicate", "Move On", "Oildale (Leave Me Alone)", "One Step Closer" live Hollywood Bowl 2017, "People Pleaser", "Redeemer", "Rock 'n' Roll Fella" live with Marilyn Manson, "Roots Bloody Roots" live Monsters of Rock 2013, "Souvenir", "Start the Healing", "Wake Up" The Notorious B.I.G., "Wake Up Hate", "Walk" live Sacramento 2018, "Your God")
G4 ("4U", "A.D.I.D.A.S.", "All In the Family", "Are You Ready to Live?", "Baby", "Ball Tongue", "B.B.K.", "Black Is the Soul", "Blame", "Bleeding Out", "Bottled Up Inside", "Break Some Off", "Cameltosis", "Can You Hear Me", "Careless", "Chaos Lives In Everything", "The Chauffeur" live 2007, "Chi", "Children of the Korn", "Cold", "Come With Me", "Cut Throat", "The Darkness Is Revealing", "Deep Inside", "The Devil Went Down to Georgia", "Did My Time", "Die Another Day", "Die Yet Another Night", "Dirty", "Disconnect", "Do What They Say", "Eaten Up Inside", "Embrace", "End Of Time", "Engine No. 9" live 1996, "Ever Be", "Everything I've Known", "Evilution", "Faget", "Fake", "Falling Away From Me", "Fear Is a Place to Live", "Finally Free", "Forgotten", "Forsaken", "Got The Life", "Gravity of Discomfort", "Hating", "Here to Stay", "Holding All These Lies", "Hollow Life", "Hopeless and Beaten", "I Will Protect You", "I'm Done", "I'm Hiding", "I'm The Fucking Shit" demo version, "Insane", "Inside", "Inside Out", "It's A Sin", "It's All Wrong", "It's Me Again", "It's On!", "It's Time To Get Weird", "Justin", "Kick the P.A.", "Kidnap The Sandy Claws", "Kill Mercy Within", "Kill You", "Killing", "Kiss", "K@#Ø%!", "Lead the Parade", "Let The Guilt Go", "Let's Get This Party Started", "Let's Go", "Liar", "Lost in the Grandeur", "Love & Meth", "Make Believe", "Make Me Bad", "Mr Rogers", "My Confession", "My Gift to You", "Need To", "Never Around", "Never Never", "No One's There", "No Way", "Not Meant For Me", "Oildale (Leave Me Alone)", "One More Time", "Paranoid and Aroused", "The Past", "Penance to Sorrow", "People Pleaser", "Please Come For Me", "Please Tell Me", "Pop a Pill", "Predictable", "Pretty", "Punishment Time", "Reclaim My Place", "Right Now", "The Ringmaster", "Sabotage" live London 2015, "Sanctuary", "Seen It All", "The Seduction Of Indulgence", "Shoots and Ladders", "Shout At The Devil" live Virginia 1998, "Silent Hill", "Silent So Long", "Smashing the Opponent", "So Unfair", "Somebody Someone", "Starting Over", "Swallow", "System", "Tearjerker", "This Loss", "Thoughtless", "Throw Me Away", "Too Late I'm Dead", "Trapped Underneath the Stairs", "Trash", "Trinity", "Twisted Transistor", "Ty Jonatha Down", "Victimized", "Wake Up", "Way Too Far", "We're Not Gonna Take It" live Virginia 1998, "What We Do", "What You Believe", "Wish I Wasn't Born Today", "Worst Is on Its Way", "Would?" MoPOP Founders Award 2020, "You Oughta Know" live 1995, "You'll Never Find Me")
F♯4 ("Alive", "Alone I Break", "Ass Itch", "Beat It Upright", "Beg for Me", "Bitch We Got a Problem", "Blind", "The Camel Song", "The Chauffeur" live 2007, "Children of the Korn", "Clown", "Come With Me", "Counting", "Daddy", "The Darkness Is Revealing", "The Devil Went Down to Georgia", "The Enabler", "Father Hood", "Finally Free", "Freak on a Leash", "The Game Is Over", "Good God", "Got Money", "H@rd3r", "The Hating", "Here It Comes", "Hey Daddy", "Hypocrites", "Let the Dark Do the Rest", "Let's Do This Now", "Lost", "Love On The Rocks", "Lullaby for a Sadist", "Make Believe", "Move On", "My Gift to You", "Narcissistic Cannibal", "One" live Sparta 2000, "Open Up", "Prey for Me", "Sean Olson", "Sleepy Hollow", "Slept So Long", "Spike in My Veins", "Tension", "This is Halloween" live Mexico City 2017, "Too Late I'm Dead", "Underneath My Skin", "Victimized", "We Care a Lot", "What We Do", "What You Believe")
Significant Low Notes:
D3 ("4U", "Another Brick in the Wall", "Appears", "Blind", "Blue Monday", "Cameltosis", "Counting on Me", "Daddy", "Did My Time", "Do What They Say", "Eaten Up Inside", "Evilution", "Freak on a Leash", "Gary Heidnik", "Hater", "Haze", "Hypocrites", "Illuminati", "In My Heart", "Inside", "Just For Now", "Last Legal Drug (Le Petit Mort)", "Let's Get This Party Started", "Love My Way", "Love On The Rocks", "Make Me Bad", "Mass Hysteria", "Necessary Evil", "The Past", "Pop a Pill", "Reclaim My Place", "The Ringmaster", "Spike in My Veins", "Wicked", "Would?" MoPOP Founders Award 2020, "You Oughta Know" live 1995, "You'll Never Find Me")
C♯3 ("1stp Klosr", "A.D.I.D.A.S.", "Are You Ready to Live?", "Ass Itch", "Ball Tongue", "B.B.K.", "Beat It Upright", "Bitch We Got a Problem", "Blame", "Bottled Up Inside", "Can You Hear Me", "Chi", "The Darkness Is Revealing", "Dead Bodies Everywhere", "Die Yet Another Night", "Everything Falls Apart", "Fake", "Father Hood", "Fuels the Comedy", "Good God", "Gravity of Discomfort", "H@rd3r", "Happiness", "Helmet in the Bush", "Here to Stay", "Hold On", "Hopeless and Beaten", "I'm Done", "Insane", "K@#Ø%!", "Lost in the Grandeur", "My Confession", "No Place to Hide", "No Way", "Nobody Like You", "Not Meant For Me", "Out of You", "Please Come For Me", "Pretty", "Rotting in Vain", "Starting Over", "This Broken Soul" Neidermeyer's Mind demo, "This is Halloween" live Mexico City 2017, "Trapped Underneath the Stairs", "Trash", "Underneath My Skin", "Wake Up", "What Have I Done", "When You're Not There", "Worst Is on Its Way")
C3 ("Blue Monday", "Break Some Off", "Can't Wait", "Chepleeri Dream", "Chi", "Children of the Korn", "Clown", "Come With Me", "Coming Undone", "Creep" Live at MTV Studio 2006, "The Darkness Is Revealing", "Die Yet Another Night", "Do What They Say", "The Enabler", "Everyone", "Everything I've Known", "Getting Off", "Got The Life", "Hating", "Here It Comes", "Hollow Life", "Hungry Like The Wolf" live Alternative Press Music Awards 2014, "I Can't Feel", "I'm Done", "I'm Hiding", "I'm The Fucking Shit" demo version, "Inside Out", "It's Me Again", "Kick the P.A.", "Kidnap The Sandy Claws", "Kill You", "Lies", "Make Believe", "Mass Hysteria", "No Place to Hide", "One" live MTV Icon: Metallica 2003, "One More Time", "Penance to Sorrow", "Predictable", "Proud", "Reclaim My Place", "The Ringmaster", "The Seduction Of Indulgence", "Shoots and Ladders", "Silent Hill", "Smashing the Opponent", "Souvenir", "Surrender To Failure", "Swallow", "Throw Me Away", "Twisted Transistor", "When You're Not There", "Y'all Want a Single", "Worst Is on Its Way")
B2 ("All In the Family", "Alone I Break", "Break Some Off", "The Camel Song", "The Chauffeur" live 2007, "Dead", "Deep Inside", "Die Another Day", "Eaten Up Inside", "Elex", "Gender", "Forgotten", "Helmet in the Bush", "Hushabye", "I Can't Feel", "It's A Sin", "Kidnap The Sandy Claws", "Kill You", "Last Legal Drug (Le Petit Mort)", "Let the Dark Do the Rest", "Love and Luxury", "Love & Meth", "Love Song", "Lullaby for a Sadist", "Mr Rogers", "Open Up", "Play Me", "Revival", "Slept So Long", "Smashing the Opponent", "Start the Healing", "Tell Me What You Want", "This Loss", "Underneath My Skin", "What We Do", "You Oughta Know" live 1995, "You'll Never Find Me")
B♭2 ("A.D.I.D.A.S.", "Alive" Neidermeyer's Mind demo, "Bleeding Out", "Cut Throat", "Embrace", "The End Begins", "Everyone", "Feel Alive", "Get Up!", "H@rd3r", "The Hating", "It's Time To Get Weird", "Kiss", "Layla" Neidermeyer's Mind demo, "Lies", "Lost", "Medicate", "Please Tell Me", "Punishment Time", "Sanctuary", "See the Light" Demo version, "Starting To Turn", "Ty Jonatha Down", "Wake Up Hate", "Walk On By", "What Have I Done")
A2 ("4U", "All In the Family", "Another Brick in the Wall", "Are You Ready to Live?", "Baby", "Ball Tongue", "Bitch We Got a Problem", "Black Is the Soul", "Calling Me Too Soon", "Careless", "Cold", "Daddy", "The Devil Went Down to Georgia", "A Different World", "Disconnect", "Divine", "Elex", "The Enabler", "Ever Be", "Everything Falls Apart", "Faget", "Fake", "Falling Away From Me", "Finally Free", "For No One", "Forgotten", "Forsaken", "The Game Is Over", "Helmet in the Bush", "Here It Comes", "Hey Daddy", "Holding All These Lies", "Hopeless and Beaten", "Hungry Like The Wolf" live Alternative Press Music Awards 2014, "Hushabye", "Idiosyncrasy", "Inside Out", "Innocent Bystander", "It's All Wrong", "It's Gonna Go Away", "Justin", "Kick the P.A.", "Lookaway" & "Lookaway" Master Vibe mix, "Lost", "Lost in the Grandeur", "Lullaby for a Sadist", "Medicate", "Move On", "Mr Rogers", "My Gift to You", "Narcissistic Cannibal", "Never Never", "No One's There", "No Way", "Out of You", "The Past", "Penance to Sorrow", "Play Me", "Prey for Me", "Proud", "Right Now", "See the Light" Demo version, "Seed", "Seventy Thorns", "Sing Sorrow", "So Unfair", "Souvenir", "System", "Tearjerker", "This Loss", "Too Late I'm Dead", "What Is It", "What You Believe", "When Will This End", "Worst Is on Its Way", "Would?" MoPOP Founders Award 2020)
G♯2 ("Alone I Break", "Basic Needs", "Blind" Neidermeyer's Mind demo, "Counting on Me", "Illuminati", "It's Me Again", "Layla" Neidermeyer's Mind demo, "Love and Luxury", "Please Tell Me", "Spike in My Veins", "Wake Up Hate")
G2 ("10 or a 2-Way", "Bleeding Out", "Burn The Obedient", "Calling Me Too Soon", "The Darkness Is Revealing", "A Different World", "End Of Time", "Ever Be", "Evolution", "Falling Away From Me", "Finally Free", "The Game Is Over", "Getting Off", "Gravity of Discomfort", "Hater", "Hushabye", "Kill Mercy Within", "Kiss", "Last Legal Drug (Le Petit Mort)", "Lead the Parade", "Lost", "Love My Way", "Love Song", "Mr Rogers", "My Confession", "Not Meant For Me", "Overture or Obituary", "Sean Olson", "Take Me", "Twisted Transistor", "What Is It", "Wish You Could Be Me")
F♯2 ("Baby", "Gender", "I Will Protect You", "Lullaby for a Sadist", "Make Me Bad", "Open Up", "This Loss", "Victimized", "Way Too Far")
F2 ("Evolution", "Gender", "It's Time To Get Weird", "Kill Mercy Within", "Let The Guilt Go", "Make Believe", "Punishment Time", "Sing Sorrow", "Twisted Transistor", "When You're Not There")
E2 ("For No One", "Illuminati", "Kill You", "Let's Go", "Never Never", "Play Me", "Sanctuary", "Spike in My Veins", "Swallow", "Wake Up")
E♭2 ("Blind" Neidermeyer's Mind demo, "Got The Life", "Redeemer", "Take It Back")
D2 ("Another Brick in the Wall", "Ball Tongue", "Die Yet Another Night", "Falling Away From Me", "Hater", "Love My Way", "Overture or Obituary", "Sing Sorrow")
C♯2 ("B.B.K.", "Beat It Upright", "Burn The Obedient", "Daddy", "I'm Done", "Start the Healing")
C2 ("Beg for Me", "Break Some Off", "Chepleeri Dream", "Coming Undone", "Evolution", "Final Days", "I Can't Feel", "I'm Hiding", "I'm The Fucking Shit" demo version, "Kiss", "The Ringmaster", "The Seduction Of Indulgence", "Y'all Want a Single")
B1 ("Alive", "It's Gonna Go Away")
A1 ("Dead Bodies Everywhere", "Divine")
{Questionable Notes}
G5 ("Dead Bodies Everywhere" [1], "We're Not Gonna Take It" live Virginia 1998 [1])
F♯5 ("Daddy" [5])
E5 ("Love & Meth" [2])
B♭4 ("Faget" [2])
A4 ("Ball Tongue" [2])
G2 ("Cold" [4])
C♯2 ("Predictable" Neidermeyer's Mind demo [5])
C2 ("Are You Ready to Live?" [5], "Shoots and Ladders" [5])
G1 ("The Past" [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.
listening to a man having mental breakdown on record
hmm, I think I will spoiler that under [5]
G5 ("Dead Bodies Everywhere" [1], "We're Not Gonna Take It" live Virginia 1998 [1])
F♯5 ("Daddy" [5])
E5 ("Love & Meth" [2])
B♭4 ("Faget" [2])
A4 ("Ball Tongue" [2])
G2 ("Cold" [4])
C♯2 ("Predictable" Neidermeyer's Mind demo [5])
C2 ("Are You Ready to Live?" [5], "Shoots and Ladders" [5])
G1 ("The Past" [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.
listening to a man having mental breakdown on record
hmm, I think I will spoiler that under [5]
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Blue marks falsetto or whistle notes.
Green marks harsh, distorted 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.
Special thanks to TheCMRecluse for ensuring that this thread is as well-researched and comprehensive as possible.
Old thread by Sandblasted.
