Post by Platypus on Oct 3, 2019 19:20:42 GMT
Ville Hermanni Valo:
Associated Acts: HIM, The Agents
Vocal Range: F♯1 - B5
Significant High Notes:
B5 ("Don't Shake Me Lucifer" live Berlin 2000)
B♭5 ("Wicked Game" live Paris 2000)
A5 ("Lose You Tonight" Thulsa Doom Extended Dub, "Right Here In My Arms" live Download Festival 2010)
G♯5 ("It's All Tears (Drown In This Love)" live Ilosaarirock 1998)
G5 ("Disarm Me (With Your Loneliness)" live Sonisphere 2010, "Killing Loneliness" live Helldone 28/12/2009, "Razorblade Kiss" live Lumnezia 2008, "The Kiss of Dawn" live Helldone 31/12/2014)
F♯5 ("The Funeral of Hearts" live Rock am Ring 2010, "Lose You Tonight" live Tavastia 2003, "Poison Girl" live Hulstfred 2009, "Pretending" live Helldone December 29 2009, "Rebel Yell" live House of Blues 2010, "Shatter Me With Hope", "Your Sweet Six Six Six" live Helldone 28/12/2009)
F5 ("Bleed Well", "Dying Song", "Hearts At War", "It's All Tears (Drown in This Love)" live, "Love In Cold Blood", "Ode To Solitude", "Season of the Witch", "Sigillum Diaboli", "Sleepwalking Past Hope")
E5 ("Again", "The Beginning of The End" Sad Damn version, "Buried Alive by Love" live Makasineilla 2003, "Fade Into You" live Emsdetten 2017, "Killing Loneliness" live Rock am Ring 2008, "Love, the Hardest Way" live Helldone 2009, "No Love", "Shatter Me With Hope", "The Kiss of Dawn" live Maxidrom 2013)
E♭5 ("Acoustic Funeral (For Love in Limbo)", "Disarm Me (With Your Loneliness)", "In Venere Veritas", "The Kiss Of Dawn" live Lowlands 2008, "Right Here in My Arms" live Digital Versatile Doom, "Soul on Fire" live Digital Versatile Doom, "Season of the Witch", "W.L.S.T.D.")
D5 ("Bleed Well", "Buried Alive By Love", "Frozen" live Sydney 2006, "Heartful of Ghosts", "In The Arms of Rain", "It's All Tears (Drown In This Love)" And Love Said No Version, "Katherine Wheel", "Like St. Valentine", "The Prostitute", "Rendezvous With Anus", "Resurrection", "Wicked Game" Razorblade Romance version, "Xmas Song")
C♯5 ("Dead Lovers' Lane", "Dying Song", "The Foreverlost", "Kiss of Dawn" live Projekt Revolution 2007, "Love, The Hardest Way", "Passion's Killing Floor", "Run Away from the Sun", "Sailin' On" live Turku 2002, "Scared To Death", "Shatter Me With Hope", "Sigillum Diaboli")
C5 ("Again", "Behind the Crimson Door" live Thessaloniki 2006, "Disarm Me (With Your Loneliness)", "For You" live Jyrki 1997, "Heartkiller", "In The Nightside of Eden", "In Venere Veritas", "Into The Night", "Like St. Valentine", "Love In Cold Blood", "Ode to Solitude", "Passion's Killing Floor" live Digital Versatile Doom, "Sleepwalking Past Hope", "W.L.S.T.D.", "Your Sweet Six Six Six" live Digital Versatile Doom)
B4 ("Acoustic Funeral (For Love in Limbo)", "The Beginning of The End" Sad Damn version, "Black No. 1 (Little Miss Scare-All)" live Roadrunner United show, "Bleed Well", "Buried Alive By Love", "Dead Lover's Lane", "Drawn & Quartered", "Endless Dark", "The Face of God", "Fade Into You" live Emsdetten 2017, "For You", "The Heartless", "In The Arms of Rain", "It's All Tears (Drown In This Love)", "Love In Cold Blood", "No Love", "The Sacrament", "Sailin' On" live Turku 2002, "Shatter Me With Hope", "Soul On Fire", "Under the Rose" live Pukkelpop 2006, "Your Sweet 666" & "Your Sweet 666" Razorblade Romance version)
B♭4 ("Baby Lacrimarium", "Beautiful", "Echolocate Your Love", "Hand of Doom" live Turku 2002, "Hearts At War", "Join Me In Death" Live Digital Versatile Doom, "Katherine Wheel", "Killing Loneliness", "Like St. Valentine", "Season of the Witch", "Wings of a Butterfly" live Milano 2013)
A4 ("Behind The Crimson Door", "Buried Alive By Love" 616 version, "Circle of Fear", "Don't Close Your Heart", "The Beginning of the End" & "The Beginning of The End" Sad Damn version, "For You", "Fortress of Tears", "The Funeral of Hearts", "Hand of Doom" live Turku 2002, "Heartful of Ghosts", "In Joy And Sorrow", "In The Nightside of Eden", "In Trenodia", "Love, The Hardest Way", "The Path", "Play Dead", "Poison Girl" 1998 demo, "The Prostitute", "Scared To Death", "Sweet Pandemonium", "Under The Rose", "Vampire Heart", "Venus Doom", "Vertigo Eyes", "Your Sweet 666")
G♯4 ("Acoustic Funeral (For Love in Limbo)", "Beautiful", "Cyanide Sun", "Drawn & Quartered", "Dying Song", "For You", "The Foreverlost", "The Funeral of Hearts", "Heartkiller", "In Venere Veritas", "Join Me In Death", "Love Without Tears", "Loveletting", "Pretending", "Saturnine Saturnalia", "Sigillum Diaboli", "Venus (In Our Blood)")
G4 ("The 9th Circle (OLT)", "Buried Alive By Love", "The Byronic Man", "Circle of Fear", "Don't Close Your Heart", "Endless Dark", "Fade Into You" live Emsdetten 2017, "The First Cut Is The Deepest" live Magdeburg 2017, "In Joy And Sorrow", "In Trenodia", "Into The Night", "Katherine Wheel", "No Love", "Please Don't Let It Go", "Poison Heart", "The Prostitute", "Sailin' On" live Turku 2002, "Salute the Sanguine", "Soul On Fire", "Sweet Pandemonium", "Venus Doom", "When Love and Death Embrace")
F♯4 ("All Lips Go Blue", "Bury Me Deep Inside Your Heart", "Dark Light", "Death Is In Love With Us", "Drunk on Shadows", "The Foreboding Sense of Impending Happiness", "The Foreverlost", "Gone With The Sin", "Heartful of Ghosts", "I Love You", "Join Me In Death", "Love, The Hardest Way", "Love Without Tears", "Lusifer", "Run Away from the Sun", "Saturnine Saturnalia", "Trapped In Autumn", "Under The Rose", "Venus (In Our Blood)", "Vertigo Eyes", "Wicked Game")
Significant Low Notes:
B2 ("Behind The Crimson Door", "Buried Alive By Love", "Bury Me Deep Inside Your Heart", "The Cage", "Don't Close Your Heart", "Don't Fear The Reaper", "Drawn & Quartered", "Drunk on Shadows", "Endless Dark", "The Face of God", "For You", "The Heartless", "Join Me In Death", "Jykevää On Rakkaus", "Knowing Me Knowing You", "Kun Minä Kotoani Läksin", "No Love", "The Sacrament", "Venus (In Our Blood)", "Vertigo Eyes", "When Love and Death Embrace", "Wicked Game", "Your Sweet 666")
B♭2 ("Ikkunaprinsessa", "Our Diabolikal Rapture", "Poison Heart", "Saturnine Saturnalia", "Tears on Tape", "Whisper In The Chaos", "Wings of a Butterfly")
A2 ("The Beginning of the End", "The Cage", "Close To The Flame", "Dark Light", "Don't Close Your Heart", "Don't Fear The Reaper", "Fortress of Tears", "Heartful of Ghosts", "Heaven Tonight", "In Joy And Sorrow", "Jykevää On Rakkaus", "Love In Cold Blood", "Neon Noir", "No Love", "Paratiisi", "The Path", "Play Dead", "Poison Girl", "Rendezvous With Anus", "Right Here In My Arms", "Salt In Our Wounds", "Scared To Death", "Summer Wine", "Vertigo Eyes", "When Love and Death Embrace", "Your Sweet 666" Razorblade Romance version)
G♯2 ("Acoustic Funeral (For Love in Limbo)", "The Cage", "Cyanide Sun", "Disarm Me (With Your Loneliness)", "Dying Song", "The Foreverlost", "Heartkiller", "Hearts At War", "In The Nightside of Eden", "Join Me In Death" 1998 demo, "Loveletting", "Ode to Solitude", "Sigillum Diaboli", "Wicked Game" Razorblade Romance version)
G2 ("Behind The Crimson Door", "Buried Alive By Love", "The Byronic Man", "Circle of Fear", "The First Cut Is The Deepest" live Magdeburg 2017, "For You", "Heaven Tonight", "I Love You", "Ikkunaprinsessa", "In The Arms of Rain", "In Joy And Sorrow", "Just For Tonight", "Katherine Wheel", "Knowing Me Knowing You", "Like St. Valentine", "Love You Like I Do", "Love's Requiem", "Play Dead", "Please Don't Let It Go", "Rendezvous With Anus", "Resurrection", "Right Here In My Arms", "The Sacrament", "Summer Wine", "Sweet Pandemonium", "Täällä Pohjantähden Alla", "Vampire Heart", "Xmas Song")
F♯2 ("The 9th Circle (OLT)", "Acoustic Funeral (For Love in Limbo)" Acoustic version, "For You" live Jyrki 1997, "The Foreboding Sense of Impending Happiness", "The Funeral of Hearts", "In Joy And Sorrow" Acoustic version, "Join Me In Death", "Lusifer", "Passion's Killing Floor", "Poison Girl", "Pretending" Acoustic version, "Salt In Our Wounds" Acoustic version, "Salute the Sanguine", "Saturnine Saturnalia", "Scared To Death", "Shatter Me With Hope", "Trapped In Autumn", "Vampire Heart", "Venus Doom", "Your Sweet 666" Razorblade Romance version)
F2 ("Baby Lacrimarium", "Bittersweet", "The Foreverlost", "I Will Be The End Of You", "In Trenodia", "In Venere Veritas", "Lose You Tonight", "Vampire Heart" Live at Projekt Revolution 2007)
E2 ("The Byronic Man", "Death Is In Love With Us", "Disarm Me (With Your Loneliness)" Acoustic version, "The Face of God", "Gone With The Sin", "I Love You" Uneasy Listening version, "Kiss of Dawn", "Like St. Valentine", "Love In Cold Blood", "Love, The Hardest Way", "Love Without Tears", "Love's Requiem", "Neon Noir", "Passion's Killing Floor", "Please Don't Let It Go", "Salt In Our Wounds", "Venus Doom", "Venus (In Our Blood)")
E♭2 ("Beyond Redemption", "Dead Lovers' Lane" Live at The Docks 2007, "Disarm Me (With Your Loneliness)", "Heartkiller", "In Venere Veritas", "It's All Tears (Drown In This Love)", "The Kiss Of Dawn" live Digital Versatile Doom, "Vampire Heart" live Digital Versatile Doom, "W.L.S.T.D.")
D2 ("Bleed Well", "Knowing Me Knowing You", "No Love", "Like St. Valentine" Acoustic version, "Poison Girl" live Download Festival 2005, "The Sacrament" live London 06/12/2014, "Sleepwalking Past Hope", "Song or Suicide", "Wings of a Butterfly" live poolbar Festival 2014, "Xmas Song")
C♯2 ("Cyanide Sun", "Dead Lovers' Lane" Live at The Docks 2007, "The Kiss Of Dawn" live Digital Versatile Doom, "Pretending" live Helldone 28/12/2012, "Razorblade Kiss")
C2 ("All Lips Go Blue", "Behind The Crimson Door", "Beyond Redemption", "It's All Tears (Drown in This Love)" live Milano 2013, "Just For Tonight", "Killing Loneliness" live Sasquatch Festival 2006, "Love In Cold Blood", "Sleepwalking Past Hope")
B1 ("The Funeral of Hearts" Live Rock Am Ring 2010, "Gone With the Sin" live Webster Hall Dec 09 2014, "Killing Loneliness" live Modena 2007-2008, "Neon Noir", "Razorblade Romance" live, "Rebel Yell" live Utah 2010, "Soul on Fire" live Digital Versatile Doom, "Venus Doom", "Wicked Game/Christian Woman" Live House of Blues 2010, "Your Sweet Six Six Six" live Pukkelpop 2006)
B♭1 ("It's All Tears (Drown in this Love)" live Milano 2013, "Ode to Solitude", "Sleepwalking Past Hope", Tears on Tape: Tracks 10 to 13 interview)
A1 ("Gone With The Sin" live Moscow 2017, "In the Nighstide of Eden", "Passion's Killing Floor", "Poison Girl" live Orpheum Graz 2014)
G♯1 ("The Funeral of Hearts" live Karkle 2014)
G1 ("Like St. Valentine" Acoustic version, "Rebel Yell" live Utah 2010)
F♯1 ("Big and Chunky" Madagascar 2 Finnish dub, "Wicked Game" live Rock am Ring 2010)
........................................................
Blue marks falsetto or whistle notes.
Underlines mark notes that are obscured in the song mix.
Italics mark non-melodic notes.
Green marks harsh, distorted notes
Boldface marks notes that are considered to be particularly notable examples of this person's vocal capabilities.
{Questionable Notes}C♯6 ("Rendezvous With Anus" [1])
G5 ("Love In Cold Blood" [1])
F♯5 ("Like St. Valentine" [5], "Season of the Witch" [5])
E5 ("The 9th Circle (OLT)" [5])
F♯1 ("The Funeral of Hearts" live Karkle 2014 4)
D1: ("Gone With the Sin" live Helldone Dec 28th 2012 4)
.......................................................
[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.
G5 ("Love In Cold Blood" [1])
F♯5 ("Like St. Valentine" [5], "Season of the Witch" [5])
E5 ("The 9th Circle (OLT)" [5])
F♯1 ("The Funeral of Hearts" live Karkle 2014 4)
D1: ("Gone With the Sin" live Helldone Dec 28th 2012 4)
.......................................................
[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.
{Album Ranges}
with HIM:
Greatest Love Songs Vol. 666 (1997): E♭2 - B4
Razorblade Romance (1999): C♯2 - D5
Deep Shadows And Brilliant Highlights (2001): E2 - E5
Love Metal (2003): C2 - D5
Dark Light (2005): A1 - C5
Venus Doom (2007): A1 - F5
Screamworks: Love In Theory And Practice (2010): B♭1 - F♯5
Tears on Tape (2013): C2 - F5
solo
Neon Noir (2023): B1 - D5 SailorBlue
Additional research credits: Pepe Forever, @rebsedd and @baronbedspread .
with HIM:
Greatest Love Songs Vol. 666 (1997): E♭2 - B4
Razorblade Romance (1999): C♯2 - D5
Deep Shadows And Brilliant Highlights (2001): E2 - E5
Love Metal (2003): C2 - D5
Dark Light (2005): A1 - C5
Venus Doom (2007): A1 - F5
Screamworks: Love In Theory And Practice (2010): B♭1 - F♯5
Tears on Tape (2013): C2 - F5
solo
Neon Noir (2023): B1 - D5 SailorBlue
Additional research credits: Pepe Forever, @rebsedd and @baronbedspread .
