Post by sylvia!! on May 7, 2024 7:50:08 GMT
William Brent Hinds (born January the 16th, 1974)
Associated Acts: West End Motel (1993 - Present), Four Hour Fogger (1993 - 1999), Fiend Without A Face (2001 - Present), Mastodon (2000 - Present), Giraffe Tongue Orchestra (2011), Legend of the Seagullmen (2015)
Vocal Range: F♯2 - F♯5
Vocal Type: THE LAST BAR(IT)ON(E)
Runner-Up Vocal Type: Schnozzy Schnozborne
{Vocal Summary}The runner-up vocal type was NOT kidding. This dude is Ozzy Osbourne filtered entirely through the nasality of Alabama country-boy madman Brent Hinds.
Brent was one of the first singers in Mastodon to pick up cleaner vocals (even though he did his fair share of manic screaming) and, as already mentioned, is very distinguishable by how nasal and pointy his voice sounds. Because of that, it's a little polarising and many Mastodon listeners frequently rank him as the worst of the three singers. Personally, I think that they're missing how important Brent's voice is to the band.
Despite some people not getting past the nasality, Brent tends to carry the band's more emotionally potent moments with his sharp nasal belts and dramatic croons. Songs like The Last Baron wouldn't work half as well without Brent working damn hard to earn the song's reputation as Mastodon's magnum opus. The Cold Dark Place EP is also a great example of just how much soulful weight Brent carries with him. It's a great contrast with his insane guitar playing.
That being said, one of my favourite parts of Brent Hinds' voice that is seldom utilised, especially as he gets older, is that weird erratic screechy side. His screams are notable among the band for being the highest and the most wild and in the band formed before Mastodon, Four Hour Fogger, he frequently would peak the microphone with how much wild 5th-octave screeching he was doing. It's probably better remaining uncommon though, if the 2007 Download Festival performances are anything to note.
Overall, people should stop hating Brent's voice!!! Let him be the weirdo that the band and we as people need.
Brent was one of the first singers in Mastodon to pick up cleaner vocals (even though he did his fair share of manic screaming) and, as already mentioned, is very distinguishable by how nasal and pointy his voice sounds. Because of that, it's a little polarising and many Mastodon listeners frequently rank him as the worst of the three singers. Personally, I think that they're missing how important Brent's voice is to the band.
Despite some people not getting past the nasality, Brent tends to carry the band's more emotionally potent moments with his sharp nasal belts and dramatic croons. Songs like The Last Baron wouldn't work half as well without Brent working damn hard to earn the song's reputation as Mastodon's magnum opus. The Cold Dark Place EP is also a great example of just how much soulful weight Brent carries with him. It's a great contrast with his insane guitar playing.
That being said, one of my favourite parts of Brent Hinds' voice that is seldom utilised, especially as he gets older, is that weird erratic screechy side. His screams are notable among the band for being the highest and the most wild and in the band formed before Mastodon, Four Hour Fogger, he frequently would peak the microphone with how much wild 5th-octave screeching he was doing. It's probably better remaining uncommon though, if the 2007 Download Festival performances are anything to note.
Overall, people should stop hating Brent's voice!!! Let him be the weirdo that the band and we as people need.
Significant High Notes:
F♯5 ("Calypso", "Green Smile")
F5 ("Asteroid", "Calypso")
E5 ("Asteroid", "Bertolt's Bath", "Blasteroid", "Cha-Cha", "Don't Like", "Green Smile", "New York")
E♭5 ("Magnum", "Sold Out", "Triracial Isolates", "Welcoming War")
D5 ("Atlanta", "Battle at Sea", "Cha-Cha", "The Crux", "Get Straight", "Impossible", "Never In My Life", "Sold Out", "Stupido", "Triracial Isolates")
C♯5 ("Don't Like", "March of the Fire Ants", live at Roskilde Festival 2011, "Mean Steve", "Pita Bread", "Plus Side", "Truck Roll")
C5 ("Hearts Alive", "Jaguar God", "The Last Baron", "Not Messing Around", "Savage Lands", "Shadows That Move", "Siberian Divide", "Thickening", "Truck Roll", "We Built This Come Death", "Welcoming War")
B4 ("At Arms Length", "Blood and Thunder", "Bringing on the Heartbreak", "Divinations", "Don't Like", "Green Smile", "Hitch Hiker", "Hop a Train", "Hot Rod", "Island", "Mean Steve", "Never In My Life", "North Side Star", "Only Time Can Tell", "Test of Toast", "Toe to Toes", "We Built This Come Death")
B♭4 ("Bertolt's Bath", "Capillarian Crest", "Crystal Skull", "Divinations", "Horse Hunter" live at FYF Festival 2009, "The Last Baron", "Jaguar God", "Just Got Paid", "March of the Fire Ants", live versions, "Megalodon", "Never In My Life", "North Side Star", "Not Messing Around", "Once More 'Round the Sun", "Trainwreck", "Where Strides the Behemoth", "Workhorse")
A4 ("15 Grand", "Again" live MoPOP Founders Award 2020, "Aqua Dementia", "Atl Feelings", "Aunt Lisa", "The Beast", "Blue Walsh", "Bringing on the Heartbreak", "Burn It Down", "Chimes at Midnight", "Circle of Cysquatch", "Clandestiny", "Crusher Destroyer", "Don't Like", "Get Straight", "Halloween", "Hearts Alive", "Hop a Train", "Jaguar God", "Just Got Paid", "The Last Baron", "Magnum", "Mother Puncher", "Naked Burn", "North Side Star", "Peace and Tranquility", "Precious Stones", "This Mortal Soil", "Oblivion", "Scars", "Sea Breeze", "Siberian Divide", "Stargasm", "Tiny Man", "Toe to Toes", "Trainwreck", "We Ain't No Fun", "The Wolf Is Loose")
G♯4 ("15 Grand", "At Arms Length", "Capillarian Crest", "The Czar", "I Like It Alot", "Kid, You'll Move Mountains", "Mean Steve", "Megalodon", "Steambreather", "Test of Toast", "Workhorse")
G4 ("Ancient Kingdom", "Another Day", "Bank Robbin' Bandits", "Battle at Sea", "Bite", "Bite the Hand", "Burn It Down", "Cha-Cha", "Clown Song", "Cold Dark Place", "Curl of the Burl", "Dusgusting", "El Myr", "Ghost of Karelia", "Green Smile", "Halloween", "Hop a Train", "The Hunter", "If I Only Had Tomorrow", "Jaguar God", "Just Got Paid", "Kid, You'll Move Mountains", "The Last Baron", "Last Caress", "Morder para Sangrar", "Naked Burn", "New York", "Oblivion", "Once More 'Round the Sun", "Quintessence", "Scars", "Sleeping Giant", "Sorry I'm Late", "Stupido", "Sultan's Curse", "Tiny Man", "Toe to Toes", "Up in Smoke", "Valentine", "We Built This Come Death", "Welcoming War", "What Time Is Check In")
F♯4 ("Asleep in the Deep", "Atl Feelings", "Bringing on the Heartbreak", "Clown Song", "Colony of Birchmen", "The Czar", "Divinations", "If I Only Had Tomorrow", "New York", "Only Time Can Tell", "Siberian Divide", "Sorry I'm Late")
F4 ("Aunt Lisa", "Bank Robbin' Bandits", "The Beast", "Bertolt's Bath", "Calypso", "Capillarian Crest", "Cold Dark Place", "The Devil Called Me Tommy", "Had Your Fun", "Hitch Hiker", "I Like It Alot", "Last Caress", "Naked Burn", "Pendulous Skin", "Seabeast", "Silly Old Song", "Sold Out", "Sultan's Curse", "Witch Is Dead")
Significant Low Notes:
E3 ("15 Grand", "Bertolt's Bath", "Had Your Fun", "Just Got Paid", "Naked Burn", "North Side Star", "Oh, I'm on My Way", "There's Gotta Be More to This Life", "Thickening", "Valentine")
E♭3 ("Bertolt's Bath", "The Last Baron", "We Built This Come Death")
D3 ("The Beast", "Blue Walsh", "Capillarian Crest", "Colony of Birchmen", "Jaguar God", "Morder para Sangrar", "Naked Burn", "This Mortal Soil", "Sorry I'm Late", "Stargasm", "Tiny Man", "The Wolf Is Loose", "Women Come and Go")
C♯3 ("Hand of Stone")
C3 ("Aunt Lisa", "Colony of Birchmen", "The Czar", "Hitch Hiker", "The Hunter", "Jaguar God", "Last Caress", "Oblivion", "Seabeast", "Thickening")
B2 ("Only Time Can Tell", "Women Come and Go")
B♭2 ("Cold Dark Place", "North Side Star", "Seabeast", "The Sparrow")
A2 ("Kid, You'll Move Mountains", "Siberian Divide")
G2 ("Cold Dark Place", "Hand of Stone")
F♯2 ("We Ain't No Fun")
{Questionable Notes}E5 ("Crucifixion" [2], "Get Straight" [1])
E♭5 ("Megalodon" live at Download Festival 2007 [6])
D5 ("New York" [1])
C♯5 ("Crucifixion" [1], "Siberian Divide" live at Download Festival 2007 [6])
A4 ("Hunters of the Sky" [2], "The Sparrow" [2])
G2 ("Bite the Hand" [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.
[6] marks the infamous Pteradactyl noise
E♭5 ("Megalodon" live at Download Festival 2007 [6])
D5 ("New York" [1])
C♯5 ("Crucifixion" [1], "Siberian Divide" live at Download Festival 2007 [6])
A4 ("Hunters of the Sky" [2], "The Sparrow" [2])
G2 ("Bite the Hand" [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.
[6] marks the infamous Pteradactyl noise
{Discography}Four Hour Fogger
Dollars For Red Books (1999): E♭3 - F5
Fiend Without A Face
Fiend Without a Face! (2000): F3 - F♯5
Fiend Without a Face (2017): F♯2 - E♭5
Mastodon
Lifesblood (2001): E♭3 - C5 - E♭5
Remission (2002): F4 - A4 - B♭4
Leviathan (2004): B♭2 - A4 - C5
Blood Mountain (2006): G2 - A4 - C5
Crack the Skye (2009): C3 - C5
The Hunter (2011): B♭2 - A4 - E5
Once More 'Round the Sun (2014): C3 - B♭4
Emperor of Sand (2017): C3 - B♭4 - C5
Cold Dark Place (2017): G2 - B4
Hushed and Grim (2021): D3 - A4 - D5
West End Motel
Don't Shiver, You're a Winner (2010): C3 - G♯4
Only Time Can Tell (2012): B2 - B4
Bad Names, With Good Faces (2018): A2 - B♭4 - C5
Brent Hinds and Tom Cheshire in West End Motel (2019): B2 - G4
Italics mark EPs
Grey marks compilations
..................................................Dollars For Red Books (1999): E♭3 - F5
Fiend Without A Face
Fiend Without a Face! (2000): F3 - F♯5
Fiend Without a Face (2017): F♯2 - E♭5
Mastodon
Lifesblood (2001): E♭3 - C5 - E♭5
Remission (2002): F4 - A4 - B♭4
Leviathan (2004): B♭2 - A4 - C5
Blood Mountain (2006): G2 - A4 - C5
Crack the Skye (2009): C3 - C5
The Hunter (2011): B♭2 - A4 - E5
Once More 'Round the Sun (2014): C3 - B♭4
Emperor of Sand (2017): C3 - B♭4 - C5
Cold Dark Place (2017): G2 - B4
Hushed and Grim (2021): D3 - A4 - D5
West End Motel
Don't Shiver, You're a Winner (2010): C3 - G♯4
Only Time Can Tell (2012): B2 - B4
Bad Names, With Good Faces (2018): A2 - B♭4 - C5
Brent Hinds and Tom Cheshire in West End Motel (2019): B2 - G4
Italics mark EPs
Grey marks compilations
• Blue denotes falsetto and whistle passages.
• Green denotes harshly distorted passages.
• Grey denotes fried/growled/other low note technique passages.
• Boldface denotes outstanding passages.
• Italics denote non-melodic and spoken passages.
• Underlines denote obscured and background passages.
