Post by Platypus on Nov 7, 2019 18:40:51 GMT
Udo Dirkschneider (06.04.1952 - )
Associated Acts: Accept, U.D.O., Lordi
Years Active: 1968 - present
Vocal Range: C2 - B♭5
{Questionable Notes}D7 ("Burning" [5], "Mad for Crazy" [5])
B6 ("Fight it Back" [5], "Wrong Is Right" [5])
G♯6 ("Flash Rockin' Man" [5])
G5 ("Warrior" [4])
E3 ("I'm a Rebel" No Limits [2], "Manhunt" [2])
C3 ("Lovemachine" [2])
B2 ("Hot Tonight" [3])
G2 ("Paint It Black" [2])
E2 ("Balls to the Wall" [3], "Under Your Skin" [2], "With a Vengeance" [2])
D2 ("The Stroke" [2])
C2 ("Living on a Frontline" [3])
B1 ("Faith Healer" [2], "Kein Zurück" [2])
G♯1 ("Untouchable" [3])
G1 ("Faith Healer")
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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.
B6 ("Fight it Back" [5], "Wrong Is Right" [5])
G♯6 ("Flash Rockin' Man" [5])
G5 ("Warrior" [4])
E3 ("I'm a Rebel" No Limits [2], "Manhunt" [2])
C3 ("Lovemachine" [2])
B2 ("Hot Tonight" [3])
G2 ("Paint It Black" [2])
E2 ("Balls to the Wall" [3], "Under Your Skin" [2], "With a Vengeance" [2])
D2 ("The Stroke" [2])
C2 ("Living on a Frontline" [3])
B1 ("Faith Healer" [2], "Kein Zurück" [2])
G♯1 ("Untouchable" [3])
G1 ("Faith Healer")
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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.
Significant High Notes:
B♭5 ("That's Rock 'N Roll")
G5 ("Born to be Wild", "Fast as a Shark", "Go Back to Hell", "Helldriver", "Lay Down the Law", "Russian Roulette", "Soldiers of Darkness", "Terrorvision")
F♯5 ("Ahead Of The Pack", "Amamos La Vida", "Animal House", "Balls to the Wall", "Black Widow", "Bound to Fail", "Burning", "China Lady", "Demon's Night", "Don't Go Stealing My Soul Away", "Fight it Back", "Get Ready", "Head Over Heels", "I'm a Rebel", "Inquisitor", "Lay Down the Law", "Living for Tonite", "London Leatherboys", "Metal Heart", "Shake Your Heads", "Son of a Bitch", "Sounds Of War", "Starlight", "Too High to Get It Right", "Turn Me On", "Way of Life", "We Want it Loud", "Wrong Is Right")
F5 ("Breaker", "Can't Get Enough", "Down and Out", "Dr. Death", "Fairy Tales of Victory", "Feelings", "Fight it Back", "Fire", "Flash Rockin' Man", "Helldriver", "I Wanna Be No Hero", "Infected", "Love Child", "Metal Damnation", "Metal Eater", "Monsterman", "Save Us", "Shake Your Heads", "Sounds Of War", "Streets on Fire", "Take Him in My Heart", "Teach Us to Survive", "That's Rock 'N Roll")
E5 ("Ahead Of The Pack", "Aiming High", "Amamos La Vida", "Animal House", "Backstreet Loner", "Balls to the Wall", "Black Widow", "Born to be Wild", "Born to Run", "Bound to Fail", "Braindead Hero", "Bulletproof", "Burning Heat", "Can't Stand the Night", "China Lady", "Demon's Night", "Diggin' In The Dirt", "Do It", "Dogs on Leads", "Don't Look Back", "Faceless World", "Flash Rockin' Man", "Freelance Man", "Generation Clash II", "Get Ready", "Go Back to Hell", "Guns 'R' Us", "Hard Attack", "Heart of Gold", "Heaven Is Hell", "Hell Bites Back", "Holy", "I Don't Wanna Be Like You", "I'm a Rebel", "Independence Day", "Inquisitor", "London Leatherboys", "Losers and Winners", "Losing More Than You've Ever Had", "Mad for Crazy", "Man Enough To Cry", "Manhunt", "Mean Machine", "Metal Law", "Midnight Mover", "Neon Nights", "Objection Overruled", "Paint It Black", "Painted Love", "Powersquad", "Pray for the Hunted", "Protectors of Terror", "The Punisher", "Rated X", "Restless and Wild", "Run If You Can", "Russian Roulette", "Screaming for a Love-Bite", "Shout It Out", "Sick, Dirty and Mean", "Slaves To Metal", "Soldiers of Darkness", "Son of a Bitch", "Starlight", "State Run Operation", "Street Fighter", "Streets on Fire", "System of Life", "Teach Us to Survive", "They Only Come Out at Night", "Thunder and Lightning", "Thunder in the Tower", "They Want War", "This One's For You", "Timebomb", "Tired of Me", "Too High to Get It Right", "Tough Luck II", "Turn Me On", "Under Your Skin", "Up to the Limit", "Walking In The Shadow", "Warrior", "Way of Life", "We Do - For You", "We're History", "What Else", "Wrong Is Right")
E♭5 ("Back in Pain", "Basta Ya", "The Bogeyman", "Born to Run", "Donation", "Down and Out", "Feelings", "Hell Raiser", "Holy Invaders", "Keeper of My Soul", "Living on a Frontline", "Lost Passion", "Love Child", "Man a King Ruler", "Mastercutor", "Metal Damnation", "Metal Heart", "Metal Machine", "Metal Maniac Master Mind", "Pleasure In The Darkroom", "Run Through The Night", "Save Us", "Secrets in Paradise", "Shout It Out", "Speed Demon", "Speeder", "Stranger", "Terrorvision", "Thunderball", "Trip to Nowhere", "T.V. War", "Underworld", "We Strike Back")
D5 ("24/7", "Aiming High", "All or Nothing", "Back in Pain", "Back Off", "Bad Luck", "Bad Religion", "The Battle Understood", "The Beast Inside", "Black and White", "Black Heart", "Bleeding Heart", "Blitz of Lightning", "Blood on Fire", "Bodyworld", "The Bogeyman", "Braindead Hero", "Breaker", "Breaking Down the Borders", "Breaking the Law", "Breathless", "The Bullet and the Bomb", "Bulletproof", "Burning", "Burning Heat", "Can't Get Enough", "China Lady", "Coming Home", "Crash Bang Crash", "Crossroads", "Crucified", "A Cry of a Nation", "Cut Me Out", "Danger", "The Dawn of the Gods", "Days of Hope and Glory", "Dead On!", "Death Ride", "Death Row", "Desperate Balls", "The Devil in a Picture", "The Devil Is an Angel", "The Devil Walks Alone", "Devil's Dice", "Dirty Boys", "Dominator", "Don't Give a Damned", "Don't Go Stealing My Soul Away", "The Double Dealer's Club", "Dr. Death", "Empty Eyes", "Eraser", "Eye of the Eagle", "Faceless World", "Fairy Tales of Victory", "Fast as a Shark", "Fight For The Right", "Fight it Back", "Fire", "Flash Rockin' Man", "The Flood", "Forever Free", "Freelance Man", "Friends Will Be Friends", "Future Is the Reason Why", "Glad To Be Alone", "Go Back to Hell", "Guns 'R' Us", "Hard to Be Honest", "Hate Stinger", "The Healer", "Heart of Gold", "Heaven Is Hell", "Hell Bent For Leather", "Heroes of Freedom", "He's a Woman, She's a Man", "Holy", "Holy Invaders", "Hot Tonight", "House of Fake", "Hungry and Angry", "I Don't Wanna Be Like You", "I Give as Good as I Get", "I See Red", "I Wanna Be No Hero", "In the Heat of the Night", "Independence Day", "Infected", "It's Hard To Find a Way", "Jealousy", "Keeper of My Soul", "Kick in the Face", "Like a Beast", "Like a Loaded Gun", "Living for Tonite", "Living Hell", "Losing More Than You've Ever Had", "Love and Sin", "Mad Dogs and Loaded Guns", "Mad for Crazy", "Making Me Scream", "Man a King Ruler", "Man Enough To Cry", "Man On The Silver Mountain", "Manhunt", "Mean Machine", "Meaning of Life", "Metal Damnation", "Metal Eater", "Metal Gods", "Metal Law", "Metal Maniac Master Mind", "Midnight Highway", "Midnight Stranger", "Mission No. X", "Monsterman", "Mother Earth", "No Limits", "Number for a Number", "One Step to Fate", "Pain Man", "Painted Love", "Pandemonium", "Pray for the Hunted", "Preachers of the Night", "Prejudice", "Private Eye", "Prophecy", "Protectors of Terror", "Pull the Trigger", "The Punisher", "Raiders of Beyond", "Raise the Crown", "Raise the Game", "Rated X", "Rebel Town", "Rebellion", "Rebels of the Night", "Renegade", "Restricted Area", "Rev-Raptor", "Ride the Storm", "Rising High", "Rock and Roll", "Sad Man's Show", "Scream Killers", "Screaming Eagles", "Screaming for a Love-Bite", "Shadow Maker", "Shake Your Heads", "Sick, Dirty and Mean", "Silent Cry", "Slaves To Metal", "Sodom & Gomorra", "Speed Seeker", "Speeder", "Stay True", "Steelhammer", "Stone Evil", "Stone Hard", "Stormbreaker", "Streets of Sin", "Sympathy", "System of Life", "Systematic Madness", "Take Out The Crime", "Tears of a Clown", "Terror In Paradise", "Terrorvision", "That's Rock 'N Roll", "They Call It Nutbush", "Thunderforce", "Timebomb", "Timekeeper", "Tongue Reaper", "Too High to Get It Right", "True Born Winners", "Two Faced Woman", "Under Your Skin", "Underworld", "Unknown Traveller", "Unspoken Words", "Walking In The Shadow", "Way of Life", "We Do - For You", "We Strike Back", "We Will Rock You", "When Love Becomes a Lie", "Whispers In the Dark", "Words in Flame", "Wrong Is Right")
C♯5 ("Animal House", "Animal Instinct", "Azrael", "Bad Luck", "The Battle Understood", "The Betrayer", "Better Start To Run", "Black Heart", "Black Sunrise / War Of The Gods", "Blitz of Lightning", "Blood on Fire", "Borderline", "Braindead Hero", "Break The Rules", "Burning Heat", "Catch My Fall", "Diggin' In The Dirt", "Don't Look Back", "Fear Detector", "Fistful of Anger", "Gate Patrol", "Generation Clash II", "Head Over Heels", "Hell Bites Back", "Here We Go Again", "Holy", "I Want Out", "The Instigator", "Isolation Man", "The Key", "Kids and Guns", "Lady Lou", "Lay Down the Law", "Like a Loaded Gun", "London Leatherboys", "Lovemachine", "Manhunt", "Marching Tank", "Master of Disaster", "Mastercutor", "Metal Eater", "Metal Never Dies", "Mission No. X", "Network Nightmare", "No Class", "One Heart One Soul", "Pandemonium", "Powersquad", "Primecrime on Primetime", "Raise the Crown", "Raise the Game", "Rated X", "Restricted Area", "Rock and Roll", "Run Through The Night", "Russian Roulette", "Secrets in Paradise", "Shell Shock Fever", "Shout It Out", "Sodom & Gomorra", "Stand Tight", "State Run Operation", "Take My Medicine", "This One's For You", "Thunder Roads", "Thunderball", "Touchdown", "Tough Luck", "T.V. War", "Warchild", "The Way", "Way of Life", "We Are One", "What Else", "The Wrong Side of Midnight")
C5 ("24/7", "Ahead Of The Pack", "Back Off", "Bad Habits Die Hard", "The Beast Inside", "The Betrayer", "A Bite of Evil", "Bleeding Heart", "Blind Eyes", "Bodyworld", "Book of Faith", "Born to Run", "Breaking the Law", "The Bullet and the Bomb", "Can't Get Enough", "Can't Stand the Night", "Children of the World", "Coming Home", "Crash Bang Crash", "Crossroads", "A Cry of a Nation", "Dancing With an Angel", "Danger", "Dead Man's Eyes", "Death Ride", "Desperate Balls", "Devil's Bite", "Dirty Boys", "Do It", "Dominator", "Doom Ride", "The Double Dealer's Club", "Down and Out", "Eye of the Eagle", "Faith Healer", "Fear Detector", "Free Me Now", "Friends Will Be Friends", "Future Is the Reason Why", "Future Land", "Heavy Metal Heaven", "Hell Bent For Leather", "Heroes of Freedom", "House of Fake", "In the Darkness", "Infected", "The Instigator", "Kick in the Face", "Leatherhead", "Living on a Frontline", "Lost Passion", "Mad Dogs and Loaded Guns", "Mad for Crazy", "The Magic Mirror", "Man and Machine", "Man On The Silver Mountain", "Mean Machine", "Meaning of Life", "Metal Machine", "Metal Maniac Master Mind", "Midnight Stranger", "Motor-Borg", "Neon Diamond", "No Limits", "Objection Overruled", "Pleasure In The Darkroom", "Pray for the Hunted", "Princess Of The Dawn", "Private Eye", "Prophecy", "Pull the Trigger", "Punchline", "Raiders of Beyond", "Rebels of the Night", "Recall the Sin", "Rev-Raptor", "Ride the Storm", "Rose in the Desert", "Run For Cover", "Screaming Eagles", "Son of a Bitch", "Speed Demon", "Speed Seeker", "Stranger", "Streets of Sin", "Sympathy", "Terror In Paradise", "Terrorvision", "They Only Come Out at Night", "They Want War", "Thunder and Lightning", "Time Control", "Trip to Nowhere, "Unbroken", "Untouchable", "Vendetta", "Walker of the Dark", "We Strike Back", "We're History", "Wilder Life", "With a Vengeance")
B4 ("Animal Instinct", "Another Second To Be", "The Arbiter", "Azrael", "Back in Pain", "Back Off", "Backstreet Loner", "Bad Religion", "Balls to the Wall", "Basta Ya", "A Bite of Evil", "Black and White", "Black Widow", "Blind Eyes", "Blood on Fire", "The Bogeyman", "Borderline", "Break The Rules", "Breaker", "Breaking Down the Borders", "Breathless", "Bulletproof", "Children of the World", "Crucified", "The Dawn of the Gods", "Days of Hope and Glory", "Dead On!", "Death Row", "The Devil in a Picture", "The Devil Is an Angel", "The Devil Walks Alone", "Devil's Dice", "Dogs on Leads", "Faceless World", "Faith Healer", "Fire", "The Flood", "Freelance Man", "Future Land", "Gate Patrol", "Guardian of the Night", "Hard Attack", "Hard to Be Honest", "Hate Stinger", "Hell Raiser", "Here We Go Again", "Hungry and Angry", "I Don't Wanna Be Like You", "I See Red", "In the Heat of the Night", "Independence Day", "Isolation Man", "The Key", "The Land of the Midnight Sun", "Like a Beast", "Like a Lion", "London Leatherboys", "Losers and Winners", "Love and Sin", "Love Child", "Mad Dogs and Loaded Guns", "Make the Move", "Man and Machine", "Marching Tank", "Mastercutor", "Mean Streets", "Metal Eater", "Metal Gods", "Midnight Mover", "Mother Earth", "Mystery", "Neon Nights", "No Class", "No Limits", "No Time to Lose", "Number for a Number", "One Lone Voice", "One Step to Fate", "Pain Man", "Painted Love", "Pictures in My Dreams", "Preachers of the Night", "Predator", "Prejudice", "Primecrime on Primetime", "Protectors of Terror", "The Punisher", "Raise the Game", "Rebellion", "Recall the Sin", "Restricted Area", "Rock 'n' Roll Soldiers", "Run If You Can", "Sad Man's Show", "Sick, Dirty and Mean", "Stand Tight", "State Run Operation", "Steelhammer", "Stone Hard", "Streets on Fire", "Sympathy", "System of Life", "Take Out The Crime", "They Call It Nutbush", "Thunder in the Tower", "Thunderball", "Thunderforce", "Timekeeper", "T.N.T.", "Trip to Nowhere", "True Born Winners", "Turn Me On", "Under Your Skin", "Unspoken Words", "Vendetta", "Walker of the Dark", "Walking In The Shadow", "We Want it Loud", "We Will Rock You", "We're History", "When Love Becomes a Lie", "With a Vengeance", "The Wrong Side of Midnight")
Significant Low Notes:
E3 ("Back in Pain", "Bad Luck", "Balls to the Wall", "Black and White", "Break The Rules", "Bulletproof", "Cut Me Out", "Dead Man's Eyes", "Devil's Dice", "Go Back to Hell", "The Healer", "Heaven Is Hell", "Hell Bent For Leather", "I Don't Wanna Be Like You", "It's Hard To Find a Way", "London Leatherboys", "Make the Move", "Making Me Scream", "Mother Earth", "One Lone Voice", "Rock 'n' Roll Soldiers", "Russian Roulette", "Tears of a Clown", "Terror In Paradise", "They Call It Nutbush", "Under Your Skin", "Walker of the Dark", "Way of Life", "Writing On The Wall", "The Longer You Can Wait")
E♭3 ("Donation", "Mean Streets", "Neon Diamond", "Paint It Black", "Secrets in Paradise", "Warchild")
D3 ("A Bite of Evil", "Bleeding Heart", "Can't Get Enough", "Devils Rendezvous", "Don't Wanna Say Goodbye", "Empty Eyes", "Faceless World", "I Give as Good as I Get", "In the Darkness", "Motor-Borg", "My Way", "Mystery", "One Lone Voice", "Pictures in My Dreams", "Prophecy", "Shadow Maker", "Stormbreaker", "Sympathy", "Tears of a Clown", "Terrorvision", "They Want War", "Underworld", "The Way", "We Do - For You", "Whispers In the Dark", "Writing On The Wall")
C♯3 ("Azrael", "Don't Wanna Say Goodbye", "Future Land", "Generation Clash II", "Holy", "Mean Streets", "Metal Gods", "Metal Never Dies", "My Way", "Terror In Paradise", "Tough Luck", "Way of Life")
C3 ("Blind Eyes", "Fairy Tales of Victory", "Faith Healer", "Lost Passion", "Rose in the Desert", "Sweet Little Child", "Time Control", "True Born Winners", "Unbroken", "Whispers In the Dark", "Words in Flame")
B2 ("Azrael", "Backstreet Loner", "Days of Hope and Glory", "Generation Clash II", "In the Heat of the Night", "Living for Tonite", "Metal Never Dies", "Rebellion", "Timekeeper", "Trip to Nowhere", "The Longer You Can Wait")
B♭2 ("Pain", "Time Control", "Warchild")
A2 ("Basta Ya", "Blind Eyes", "Breathless", "The Land of the Midnight Sun", "Lay Down the Law", "Living on a Frontline", "Mad Dogs and Loaded Guns", "Metal Never Dies", "They Call It Nutbush", "When Love Becomes a Lie")
G2 ("Bleeding Heart", "Born to Run", "Danger", "Faith Healer", "Heaven Is Hell", "Neon Diamond")
F♯2 ("Hungry and Angry")
F2 ("Pain", "Underworld")
E2 ("A Bite of Evil", "Decadent", "Secrets in Paradise", "Whispers In the Dark")
D2 ("Book of Faith", "Protectors of Terror")
C2 ("Breathless")
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Blue marks falsetto or whistle 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.
{Album Ranges}
with Accept:
Accept (1979): G3 - B♭5 Platypus
I'm a Rebel (1980): A3 - F♯5 Platypus
Breaker (1981): G3 - F♯5 Platypus
Restless and Wild (1982): A3 - G5 Platypus
Balls to the Wall (1983): E3 - F♯5 SailorBlue & Platypus
Metal Heart (1985): B2 - F♯5 Platypus
Russian Roulette (1986): G2 - E3 - G5 Platypus
Objection Overruled (1993): D2 - E♭3 - F♯5 Platypus
Death Row (1994): B2 - E5 Platypus
Predator (1996): E3 - E5 Platypus
with U.D.O.:
Animal House (1987): A2 - G5 SailorBlue
Mean Machine (1989): C3 - F5 Platypus
Faceless World (1990): G2 - F5 Platypus
Timebomb (1991): E3 - G5 Platypus
Solid (1997): E3 - E5 Platypus
No Limits (1998): B2 - F♯5 Platypus
Holy (1999): G2 - C♯3 - E5 Platypus
Man and Machine (2002): G3 - D5 Platypus
Thunderball (2004): A2 - E5 Platypus
Mission No. X (2005): C♯3 - E5 Platypus
Mastercutor (2007): D3 - E5 Platypus
Dominator (2009): E2 - F5 Platypus
Rev-Raptor (2011): F2 - G5 Platypus
Steelhammer (2013): D2 - E♭5 Platypus
Decadent (2015): C2 - A2 - E5 Platypus
Steelfactory (2018): E2 - E♭5 Platypus
We Are One (2020): G2 - E♭5 Platypus
Game Over (2021): A2 - F5 Platypus
as Udo Dirkschneider:
My Way (2022): G2 - F5 Platypus
with Accept:
Accept (1979): G3 - B♭5 Platypus
I'm a Rebel (1980): A3 - F♯5 Platypus
Breaker (1981): G3 - F♯5 Platypus
Restless and Wild (1982): A3 - G5 Platypus
Balls to the Wall (1983): E3 - F♯5 SailorBlue & Platypus
Metal Heart (1985): B2 - F♯5 Platypus
Russian Roulette (1986): G2 - E3 - G5 Platypus
Objection Overruled (1993): D2 - E♭3 - F♯5 Platypus
Death Row (1994): B2 - E5 Platypus
Predator (1996): E3 - E5 Platypus
with U.D.O.:
Animal House (1987): A2 - G5 SailorBlue
Mean Machine (1989): C3 - F5 Platypus
Faceless World (1990): G2 - F5 Platypus
Timebomb (1991): E3 - G5 Platypus
Solid (1997): E3 - E5 Platypus
No Limits (1998): B2 - F♯5 Platypus
Holy (1999): G2 - C♯3 - E5 Platypus
Man and Machine (2002): G3 - D5 Platypus
Thunderball (2004): A2 - E5 Platypus
Mission No. X (2005): C♯3 - E5 Platypus
Mastercutor (2007): D3 - E5 Platypus
Dominator (2009): E2 - F5 Platypus
Rev-Raptor (2011): F2 - G5 Platypus
Steelhammer (2013): D2 - E♭5 Platypus
Decadent (2015): C2 - A2 - E5 Platypus
Steelfactory (2018): E2 - E♭5 Platypus
We Are One (2020): G2 - E♭5 Platypus
Game Over (2021): A2 - F5 Platypus
as Udo Dirkschneider:
My Way (2022): G2 - F5 Platypus
