Post by IhateMana on Nov 11, 2019 1:39:45 GMT
西村 亨 (Nishimura Tooru) (16 February 1976)
京 (Stage Name in Japanese)
Member Of: La:Sadie's (1995 - 1997), Dir En Grey (1997 - Present), sukekiyo (2013 - Present), Petit Brabancon (2021 - Present)
Vocal Range: A1 - E6
{Vocal Summary}
Rot, filth, abrasion, decay, loathing, fury, a select few of the words that come to mind when trying to establish to the uninitiated exactly what it is that Kyo channels. The frontman for one of the few bands hailing from Japan who have just as stable a fanbase abroad as at home, alternative metal quintet Dir En Grey started life in the 2nd wave of visual-kei. Having always stood out as more morose than their peers, it wasn't until they made a habit of interpolating the sounds that were taking off in the alt-metal scenes of the west that they got their big break, eventually evolving into something all their own with their watershed album Uroboros (pretty much every metal-leaning vk outfit post 2010 rips off this in some way, as are their vocalists often linked directly back to Kyo himself).
As the band tirelessly forged their sound, Tooru "Kyo" Nishimura was engaging in experiments of his own with his voice. His placement reasonably middling, though nonetheless firmly on the higher side of the spectrum, Kyo possesses a warm lower register which he engages with extrodinary wealth for a singer of his style. Though he doesn't seem to bring an awful lot of chest into his mix (and with how high he writes his melody lines, I can't say I blame him), his upper register has fantastic weight and colour. A many faceted beast, Kyo's upper register, easily his defining characteristic, is made up of soaring belts, pinging falsetto and some of the most ferocious harsh vocals you'll find this side of a tiger enclosure. Now, quite a bit of Kyo's more extended techniques are not suitable for inclusion in this profile. His use of fry whistle carries unimpressive tone from a technical perspective, despite suiting the atmosphere of his music, his forays into actual pure whistle (that is, not the overtones produced by his screaming technique) leave a whole lot to be desired and I shouldn't need to explain the forum's stance on the inclusion of inhales any more than it already have been. In any case, they are a vital segment of his repetoire and warrent mention and praise all the same.
*Please note those visiting the forum: a lot of the time the highest countable scream in a given song coincides with the highest clean note. Clean notes supercede harsh/distorted notes in the thread body, particularly if it's a "black" note, or a very impressive falsetto note. Occasionally I have also omitted harsh/distorted notes if they would create clusters of notes in the thread body very close together, e.g., three notes, semitones apart.
Rot, filth, abrasion, decay, loathing, fury, a select few of the words that come to mind when trying to establish to the uninitiated exactly what it is that Kyo channels. The frontman for one of the few bands hailing from Japan who have just as stable a fanbase abroad as at home, alternative metal quintet Dir En Grey started life in the 2nd wave of visual-kei. Having always stood out as more morose than their peers, it wasn't until they made a habit of interpolating the sounds that were taking off in the alt-metal scenes of the west that they got their big break, eventually evolving into something all their own with their watershed album Uroboros (pretty much every metal-leaning vk outfit post 2010 rips off this in some way, as are their vocalists often linked directly back to Kyo himself).
As the band tirelessly forged their sound, Tooru "Kyo" Nishimura was engaging in experiments of his own with his voice. His placement reasonably middling, though nonetheless firmly on the higher side of the spectrum, Kyo possesses a warm lower register which he engages with extrodinary wealth for a singer of his style. Though he doesn't seem to bring an awful lot of chest into his mix (and with how high he writes his melody lines, I can't say I blame him), his upper register has fantastic weight and colour. A many faceted beast, Kyo's upper register, easily his defining characteristic, is made up of soaring belts, pinging falsetto and some of the most ferocious harsh vocals you'll find this side of a tiger enclosure. Now, quite a bit of Kyo's more extended techniques are not suitable for inclusion in this profile. His use of fry whistle carries unimpressive tone from a technical perspective, despite suiting the atmosphere of his music, his forays into actual pure whistle (that is, not the overtones produced by his screaming technique) leave a whole lot to be desired and I shouldn't need to explain the forum's stance on the inclusion of inhales any more than it already have been. In any case, they are a vital segment of his repetoire and warrent mention and praise all the same.
*Please note those visiting the forum: a lot of the time the highest countable scream in a given song coincides with the highest clean note. Clean notes supercede harsh/distorted notes in the thread body, particularly if it's a "black" note, or a very impressive falsetto note. Occasionally I have also omitted harsh/distorted notes if they would create clusters of notes in the thread body very close together, e.g., three notes, semitones apart.
Significant High Notes
E6 ("Shitataru Mourou")
D6 ("Obscure" Lotus version)
C♯6 ("Juuyoku")
C6 ("the daemon's cutlery", "Decayed Crow", "Diabolos", "Dozing Green" Live at Wacken Open Air Festival 06/08/2011, "dunes" Live at Chofu Green Hall 2015, "focus", "Gaika, Chinmoku ga Nemuru Koro" Live in Boston 26/08/2010, "Hageshisa to, Kono Mune no Naka de Karamitsuita Shakunetsu no Yami", "Reiketsu Nariseba")
B5 ("Amon", "Bugaboo" Live at the Nippon Budokan 2010 (Day Two), "the daemon's cutlery", "Devote My Life", "Different Sense", "Juuyoku", "Madara Ningen", "Ochita Koto no Aru Sora", "Rasetsukoku" Dum Spiro Spero version, "Tsumi to Kisei")
B♭5 ("304 Goushitsu, Shita to Yoru" Live at Chofu Green Hall 2016, "Bugaboo", "Chain repulsion", "Hageshisa to, Kono Mune no Naka de Karamitsuita Shakunetsu no Yami", "Karma" The Unraveling version, "Keigaku no Yoku", "maniera", "mazohyst of decadence" Live at Shinkiba Studio Coast 30/08/2014, "Rasetsukoku" Dum Spiro Spero version, "Red Soil", "Ruten no Tou", "Shokubeni", "Stuck Man", "Tsumi to Batsu" Live at Wacken Open Air Festival 26/08/2011, "Uyuu no Sora" Live at Chofu Green Hall 2015)
A5 ("The Blossoming Beelzebub", "Bottom of the death valley" The Unraveling version, "Bring Them to Light" Live at Club Nokia 2010, "Celebrate Empty Howls", "Devote My Life", "Disabled Complexes", "Dozing Green", "dunes", "focus", "Gaika, Chinmoku ga Nemuru Koro", "hidden one", "Hydra -666-", "Kasumi" The Unraveling version, "latour", "Macabre" The Unraveling version, "Magayasou", "Merciless Cult" Live at Wacken Open Air Festival 06/08/2011, "Midwife", "Obscure", "Shitataru Mourou", "Sousou", "Unraveling", "Uroko", "vandal", "Warsaw no Gensou", "｢Yokosou ni Dreambox｣ Arui wa Seijuku no Rinen to Tsumetai Ame", "Zan")
G♯5 ("aftermath", "Akatsuki", "Cause of fickleness", "Downfall", "Dozing Green", "Eddie", "Furan Yue ni…", "hemimetabolism", "Hydra", "Kaishun", "Karasu" The Unraveling version, "Karma" The Unraveling version, "Keibetsu to Hajimari", "kisses", "Magayasou", "maniera", "mazohyst of decadence" Phalaris version, "Reiketsu Nariseba", "Schadenfreude", "Soshaku", "Stuck Man", "Sustain the untruth", "Tefu Tefu" Live at the Nippon Budokan 2016, "Unknown.Despair.Lost" The Unraveling version, "Utsutsu, Bouga wo Kurau", "Vanitas", "Vinushka", "Ware, Yami Tote…", "The World of Mercy")
G5 ("The Blossoming Beelzebub", "celeste", "Different Sense", "Decayed Crow", "The Deeper Vileness" The Insulated World version, "Downfall", "elizabeth addict" Live on Countdown Japan 30/12/2013, "The Fatal Believer", "Followers", "Furesaseru", "Grief", "Gunya Ketsuron. Soshite Chimanako.", "Hibiki", "hidden one", "in all weathers", "The inferno", "Karasu" The Unraveling version, "Kawaki", "Kigan" The Insulated World version"Kiri to Mayu" Rinkaku version, "Koku", "Kugui", "latour", "Macabre" The Unraveling version, "maniera", "Marmalade Chainsaw", "mazohyst of decadence", "Midwife", "Mouai ni Shosu", "Naburi", "nine melted fiction", "Ningen wo Kaburu", "Obey", "Otogi", "Revelation of mankind", "Rinkaku", "Saredo Michizure", "scars like velvet", "Schadenfreude", "Shokubeni" Live at the Nippon Budokan 2010, "Sustain the untruth", "Unraveling", "Utafumi", "vandal", "Zakuro" Live at Divan du Monde Paris 2011, "Zan", "zephyr", "Zetsuenai")
F♯5 ("13", "Agitated Screams of Maggots", "Ain't Afraid to Die" Live at Koko London 08/12/2011, "Akatsuki", "Beautiful Dirt", "Berry Live at Nakano Sun Plaza 26/07/2017, "The Blossoming Beelzebub", "Bugaboo", "Chain repulsion", "Clever Sleazoid", "Conceived Sorrow", "dead tree", "the daemon's cutlery", "Diabolos", "Different Sense", "Doukoku to Sarinu", "dunes", "Easy Make, Easy Mark", "Followers", "Gaika, Chinmoku ga Nemuru Koro", "Glass Skin", "Hakudaku", hemimetabolism", "Hydra -666-", "Inconvenient Ideal", "Inward Scream" Live at the Nippon Budokan 08/03/2014, "Kaishun", "Kasumi" The Unraveling version, "Kuukoku no Kyouon", "Lotus", "Machiavellism", "Madara Ningen", "Magayasou", "mazohyst of decadence", "Oboro", "Ochita Koto no Aru Sora", "The Perfume of Sins", "The Pledge", "Rasetsukoku" Dum Spiro Spero version, "Red Soil", "Reiketsu Nariseba", "Revelation of mankind", "Ryoujoku no Ame", "Saku", "Sharara", "Sousou", "Spilled Milk", "T.D.F.F." Oboro version, "Toguro", "Tousei", "Unraveling", "Values of Madness", "Vanitas", "Vinushka", "Waizatsu", "Wake" The Insulated World version, "Ware, Yami Tote…")
F5 ("Agitated Screams of Maggots" Unplugged, "Akatsuki", "Amon", "Ash" Ningen wo Kaburu version, "Bugaboo", "Cause of fickleness", "Chain repulsion", "Diabolos", "Disabled Complexes", "egnirys cimredopyh +) an injection", "elizabeth addict", "The Fatal Believer", "The Final" The Unraveling version, "Garbage", "Gauze -mode of adam-", "Hades", "Hageshisa to, Kono Mune no Naka de Karamitsuita Shakunetsu no Yami", "Hidauta", "Hydra", "The IIID Empire" The Insulated World version, "in all weathers", "The inferno", "Kakuu to Genjitsu", "Keibetsu to Hajimari", "Kiri to Mayu" Rinkaku version, "Koumo Chigau Mono Na no ka, Yousuru ni", "leather field", "Mama" Furan Shinema Teikoku Gakudan version, "Namamekashiki Ansoku, Tamerai ni Hohoemi", "National Media Boys", "New Age Culture", "nine melted fiction", "Ningen wo Kaburu", "Obscure", "Rotting Root", "Rubbish Heap", "Ruten no Tou", "Saredo Michizure", "Seimei no Tsumi", "Shokubeni", "Sustain the untruth", "T.D.F.F." Oboro version, "Uroko", "Utafumi", "Waizatsu", "Warsaw no Gensou", "The World of Mercy", "Zessai")
E5 ("12-ji 20-pun Konrinzai", "13", "aftermath", "Ameagari no Yuushi", "Ash", "audience Killer Loop", "Behind a vacant image", "Berry", "The Blossoming Beelzebub", "Candis", "Celebrate Empty Howls", "celeste", "children" six Ugly version, "Clever Sleazoid", "The Deeper Vileness" The Insulated World version, "Dozing Green", "dunes", "En", "Followers", "foster mother", "Furan Yue ni…", "Furesaseru", "Gaika, Chinmoku ga Nemuru Koro", "Genkaku no Hana", "Gerbera", "Gyakujou Tannou Keloid Milk", "Hakudaku", "Hibiki", "Honnou Okotowari", "Itoshisa wa Fuhai ni Tsuki" Live at Namba Hatch 2007, "Jesus Christ R'n R", "Junboku, Muku de Arou ga", "Juuyoku" Unplugged, "Kamuy", "Karasu" The Unraveling version, "Karma" The Unraveling version, "Kawaki", "kisses", "Kodoku ni Shisu, Yue ni Kodoku", "Kubitsuri Yuugu", "Kuukoku no Kyouon", "latour", "Lotus", "Madara Ningen", "mama" Sukekiyo version, "Mannerism na Tsumetai Souretsuya", "Mimi Zozo", "Mouai ni Shosu", "Myaku", "National Media Boys", "Obey", "Otogi", "Ranunculus", "Repetition of Hatred", "Rinkaku", "Rongai na Ikimono Toshite" Demo version, "Ryoujoku no Ame", "Saku", "Schadenfreude", "Schwein no Isu", "Shokubeni" Live at the Nippon Budokan 2010, "Tsumi to Batsu", "Un deux", "Uroko", "Utafumi", "Uyuu no Sora" Live at Chofu Green Hall 2015, "Values of Madness", "｢Yokosou ni Dreambox｣ Arui wa Seijuku no Rinen to Tsumetai Ame", "Zakuro" Live at Divan du Monde Paris 2011, "Zan", "zephyr", "Zetsuenai")
E♭5 ("Amon", "Berry", "Bring Them to Light" Live at Club Nokia 2010, "C", "Conceived Sorrow", "dead tree", "Diabolos", "Disabled Complexes", "Doukei Hatan Sekai", "Easy Make, Easy Mark", "Eddie", "The Fatal Believer", "The Final", "Garbage", "Gunya Ketsuron. Soshite Chimanako.", "Inward Scream" Live at Hide Memorial Summit 2008, "Karasu", "Kodou", "Koku", "Machiavellism", "Myaku", "Namamekashiki Ansoku, Tamerai ni Hohoemi", "New Age Culture", "Phenomenon", "Pink Killer", "The Pledge", "Saku", "Saredo Michizure", "Shiryou no Ariana", "Toguro", "Uyuu no Sora", "vandal", "Ware, Yami Tote…", "Zomboid")
D5 ("Aka", "anima", "Aoguroi Hysteria", "Ash" Ningen wo Kaburu version, "Asunaki Koufuku, Koenaki Asu", "Behind a vacant image", "Bring Them to Light" Live at Club Nokia 2010, "Candis", "Cause of fickleness", "Celebrate Empty Howls", "Chain repulsion", "Creeper", "The Deeper Vileness", "focus", "Fukai" The Insulated World version, "Getsushin ～Artemis～", "Hibiki", "hidden one", "Honnou Okotowari", "The IIID Empire" The Insulated World version, "Increase Blue", "Jessica", "Junboku, Muku de Arou ga", "Juuyoku", "Kamuy", "Karma", "Kigan", "Kugui", "Madara Ningen", "Marmalade Chainsaw", "Obscure", "The Perfume of Sins", "Phenomenon", "Я to the Core", "Ranunculus", "Rasetsukoku", "Red... (em)", "Revelation of mankind", "Rubbish Heap", "｢S｣", "Shitataru Mourou", "Tada, Mada, Watashi.", "umbrella", "Unraveling", "Uso", "vandal", "Values of Madness", "The World of Mercy", "Zakuro", "Zessai")
C♯5 ("13", "304 Goushitsu, Shita to Yoru" sukekiyo version, "Agitated Screams of Maggots", "Ain't Afraid to Die", "Akatsuki", "Beautiful Dirt", "Bottom of the death valley", "Child Prey", "Clever Sleazoid", "The Deeper Vileness", "The Domestic Fucker Family", "Doukoku to Sarinu", "Gaika, Chinmoku ga Nemuru Koro" Brief D5, "Garbage", "Giji Necromancer", "Glass Skin", "Gyakujou Tannou Keloid Milk", "Hageshisa to, Kono Mune no Naka de Karamitsuita Shakunetsu no Yami", "The IIID Empire", "Itoshi wa Fukai ni Tsuki", "Jesus Christ R'n R", "Kaishun", "Kasumi", "Keigaku no Yoku", "Kodou", "Kuukoku no Kyouon", "Lie Buried With a Vengeance", "Machiavellism", "mama" Sukekiyo version, "Merciless Cult", "Miscast" Live at Hide Memorial Summit 04/05/2008, "National Media Boys", "Nurebairo", "Oboro", "The Pledge", "Repetition of Hatred", "Sharara", "Soshaku", "Spilled Milk", "Tefu Tefu", "Unknown...Despair...a Lost", "Vanitas", "Zomboid")
C5 ("12-ji 20-pun Konrinzai", "Asunaki Koufuku, Koenaki Asu", "Byou「」Shin", "children", "Creeper", "Dokusatsu", "Drain Away", "elizabeth addict", "Filth", "focus", "Fukai", "Furan Yue ni…", "Genkaku no Hana", "Gesshoku", "Grief", "in all weathers", "Jessica", "Keibetsu to Hajimari", "Kimi wa Mukidashi", "Kubitsuri Yuugu", "Maimu", "Midwife", "Mimi Zozo", "Namamekashiki Ansoku, Tamerai ni Hohoemi", "Obscure", "Ranshishoku" Live 1998, "Rasetsukoku", "Revelation of mankind", "Rotting Root", "Rubbish Heap", "Sajou no Uta", "Seimei no Tsumi", "Shitataru Mourou", "Shokubeni", "Sousou", "Un deux", "Uroko", "The World of Mercy", "Zessai", "Zetsuenai")
B4 ("Ain't Afraid to Die", "Amber", "Anata Yori Ue", "Ash" Ningen wo Kaburu version, "audience Killer Loop", "Behind a vacant image", "Berry", "celeste", "Child Prey", "Conceived Sorrow", "Downfall", "dunes", "egnirys cimredopyh +) an injection", "En", "foster mother", "Gerbera", "Giji Necromancer", "Hades", "Hyouhaku Flavour", "Increase Blue", "Junboku, Muku de Arou ga", "Kaishun", "kisses", "Kodoku ni Shisu, Yue ni Kodoku", "latour", "leather field", "Macabre -Sanagi no Yume wa Ageha no Hane-", "Madara Ningen", "Marmalade Chainsaw", "Mask", "Merciless Cult", "Naburi", "Ochita Koto no Aru Sora", "Pink Killer", "Repetition of Hatred", "Rongai na Ikimono Toshite" Demo version, "Ryoujoku no Ame", "Taiyou no Ao", "Tsumi to Batsu", "Ugly", "undecided" Glass Skin version, "Unknown.Despair.Lost" The Unraveling version, "Yokan", "Zakuro", "zephyr")
B♭4 ("C", "Cage", "children", "Diabolos", "The Domestic Fucker Family", "Doukoku to Sarinu", "embryo", "elizabeth addict", "The Final", "Glass Skin", "hidden one", "Hotarubi", "Jintai Mokei 12 Inch National Terebi", "Kigan", "Kimi wa Mukidashi", "Koku", "【KR】 cube", "maniera", "Miscast" Live at Hide Memorial Summit 04/05/2008, "Mr. Newsman", "Obje×××", "raison detre", "Rasetsukoku", "Red Soil", "scars like velvet", "Sukaporutoruno ｢Kiyomizudera Porno Type｣", "Toriko", "Unknown… Despair… a Lost", "Zomboid")
A4 ("304 Goushitsu, Shita to Yoru" sukekiyo version, "Ain't Afraid to Die", "Akuro no Oka", "Aoi Tsuki", "audrey", "Bottom of the death valley", "Cage", "dead tree", "The Deeper Vileness", "dorothy", "Downfall", "egnirys cimredopyh +) an injection", "focus", "Furan Yue ni…", "Garden", "Getsushin ～Artemis～", "Guuzou Moratorium", "Gyakujou Tannou Keloid Milk", "Hades", "Honnou Okotowari", "The IIID Empire", "Juuyoku", "Kako no Nai Watashi e...", "Karasu", "Karma", "Kasumi", "Kodoku ni Shisu, Yue ni Kodoku", "Lu Ciel", "Mask", "mazohyst of decadence" Phalaris version, "Mr. Newsman", "New Age Culture", "Otogi", "Pink Killer", "Red... (em)", "Setsudan", "Setsuna" Live at Namba Rockets 31/05/1997, "Shokubeni", "Sousou", "Ugly", "umbrella", "Unraveling", "Vinushka", "Wake", "Warsaw no Gensou", "Yokan", "｢Yokosou ni Dreambox｣ Arui wa Seijuku no Rinen to Tsumetai Ame", "Yurameki", "Zakuro", "Zessai")
Significant Low Notes
D3 ("304 Goushitsu, Haha to Sakura", "304 Goushitsu, Hakushi no Sakura", "304 Goushitsu, Shita to Yoru", "Akuro no Oka", "Amber", "Ash", "Asunaki Koufuku, Koenaki Asu", "audrey", "Berry", "Bottom of the death valley", "Cage", "Cause of fickleness", "Erode", "Followers", "Furesaseru", "Grief", "Hades", "Hibiki", "Jessica", "Karma", "Kiri to Mayu", "Macabre -Sanagi no Yume wa Ageha no Hane-", "Madara Ningen", "mama" Sukekiyo version, "maniera", "Moment", "Otogi", "Я to the Core", "Red... (em)", "Revelation of mankind", "Rongai na Ikimono Toshite" Demo version, "scars like velvet", "Shokubeni", "Utafumi", "vandal", "Wake")
C♯3 ("Aoi Tsuki", "Conceived Sorrow", "Disabled Complexes", "Doukoku to Sarinu", "Gaika, Chinmoku ga Nemuru Koro", "Gyakujou Tannou Keloid Milk", "Hageshisa to, Kono Mune no Naka de Karamitsuita Shakunetsu no Yami", "Increase Blue", "Itoshi wa Fukai ni Tsuki", "Jealous", "Jesus Christ R'n R", "Juuyoku", "Kasumi", "Mask", "National Media Boys", "Spilled Milk", "Vinushka")
C3 ("304 Goushitsu, Hakushi no Sakura", "Bottom of the death valley" The Unraveling version, "Cage", "children", "Deity", "dorothy", "embryo", "En", "The Final", "Hydra", "-I'll-", "Kawaki", "Kigan", "Kubitsuri Yuugu", "Maimu", "Naburi", "Obje×××", "Red... (em)", "Saredo Michizure", "Soshaku", "Uyuu no Sora" Live at Chofu Green Hall 2015, "Zessai", "Zetsuenai")
B2 ("Ain't Afraid to Die", "Aka", "Amber", "anima", "audrey", "Byou「」Shin", "celeste", "Clever Sleazoid", "The Deeper Vileness", "focus", "foster mother", "Grief", "Guuzou Moratorium", "Hakudaku", "Hidauta", "Hotarubi", "in all weathers", "Itoshi wa Fukai ni Tsuki", "Kaerarezu Kioku...", "Kaishun", "Keigaku no Yoku", "Kiri to Mayu" Rinkaku version, "【KR】 cube", "Kuroi Namida", "latour", "Lotus", "Lu Ciel", "Mannerism na Tsumetai Souretsuya", "Oboro", "Obscure", "Reiketsu Nariseba", "Saku", "Schadenfreude", "Tada, Mada, Watashi.", "Tefu Tefu", "Tsumi to Batsu", "undecided", "Unknown… Despair… a Lost", "Wake", "Ware, Yami Tote…", "｢Yokosou ni Dreambox｣ Arui wa Seijuku no Rinen to Tsumetai Ame", "Zakuro", "zephyr")
B♭2 ("Amon", "Devote My Life", "Easy Make, Easy Mark", "Gunya Ketsuron. Soshite Chimanako.", "Kakuu to Genjitsu", "Karasu", "Kodou", "Koumo Chigau Mono Na no ka, Yousuru ni", "Magayasou", "Myaku", "Naburi", "Namamekashiki Ansoku, Tamerai ni Hohoemi", "Red Soil", "Sharara", "Stuck Man", "Sukaporutoruno ｢Kiyomizudera Porno Type｣", "Toguro", "Tousei", "Warsaw no Gensou", "Zomboid")
A2 ("24-ko Cylinders", "Ameagari no Yuushi", "Aoguroi Hysteria", "The Blossoming Beelzebub", "Bottom of the death valley" The Unraveling version, "Bugaboo", "Candis", "Cause of fickleness", "Chain repulsion", "Creeper", "Decayed Crow", "Different Sense", "Dokusatsu Terrorist", "elizabeth addict", "Fukai", "Furan Yue ni…" Norowareta Rakuen no Kage version, "Furesaseru", "Hotarubi", "Hydra", "The IIID Empire", "in all weathers", "Junboku, Muku de Arou ga", "Kaerarezu Kioku..." Juujika ni Sasageru Yume version, "Keibetsu to Hajimari", "Karma" The Unraveling version, "latour", "leather field", "Macabre -Sanagi no Yume wa Ageha no Hane-", "Madara Ningen", "Marmalade Chainsaw", "Mask", "mazohyst of decadence", "Midwife", "Mimi Zozo", "Mouai ni Shosu", "Obey", "Obscure" Lotus version, "Pink Killer", "The Perfume of Sins", "Reiketsu Nariseba", "Rinkaku", "Rotting Root", "scars like velvet", "Seimi no Tsumi" Norowareta Rakuen no Kage version, "Setsudan", "Shitataru Mourou", "Shokubeni", "Sustain the untruth", "umbrella", "Un deux", "undecided", "Unknown.Despair.Lost" The Unraveling version, "Uso", "Utsutsu, Bouga wo Kurau", "vandal", "Vanitas", "The World of Mercy", "Yurameki", "Zakuro", "Zessai")
G♯2 ("24-ko Cylinders", "aftermath", "Akatsuki", "Amon", "Conceived Sorrow", "Diabolos", "Dozing Green", "The Fatal Believer", "Glass Skin", "Hydra -666-", "Inconvenient Ideal", "Kimi wa Mukidashi", "kisses", "Kodoku ni Shisu, Yue ni Kodoku", "Kuukoku no Kyouon", "Machiavellism", "mama" Sukekiyo version, "Merciless Cult", "Mimi Zozo", "Mr. Newsman", "Namamekashiki Ansoku, Tamerai ni Hohoemi", "Phenomenon", "The Pledge", "Rotting Root", "Ruten no Tou", "Ryoujoku no Ame", "Sharara", "Tefu Tefu", "Toguro", "Tousei", "Vinushka", "Ware, Yami Tote…", "Zetsuenai")
G2 ("Ain't Afraid to Die" Phalaris version, "Ameagari no Yuushi", "embryo", "foster mother" Live at Chofu Green Hall 2015, "Gerbera", "Gunya Ketsuron. Soshite Chimanako.", "Guuzou Moratorium", "hidden one", "Higeki wa Mabuta wo Oroshita Yasashiki Utsu", "Inward Scream" Live at Hide Memorial Summit 2008, "Junboku, Muku de Arou ga", "Juuyoku", "Kamuy", "Kigan", "Mama" Furan Shinema Teikoku Gakudan version, "nine melted fiction", "Otogi", "Ranunculus", "Rasetsukoku" Dum Spiro Spero version, "Rinkaku", "Saredo Michizure", "Shiryou no Ariana", "Spilled Milk", "Uyuu no Sora", "Vanitas")
F♯2 ("304 Goushitsu, Shita to Yoru" sukekiyo version, "anima", "dead tree", "Diabolos", "Doukoku to Sarinu", "dunes", "Gerbera", "Giji Necromancer", "hemimetabolism", "Honnou Okotowari", "Hyouhaku Flavour", "Kasumi", "Kugui", "Lotus", "Macabre" The Unraveling version, "Machiavellism", "Nurebairo", "Oboro", "raison detre", "Rongai na Ikimono Toshite" Demo version, "Schwein no Isu", "Ugly", "Uso", "Zan")
F2 ("12-ji 20-pun Konrinzai", "Bugaboo", "Creeper", "leather field" Acoustic version, "Mushi", "Ruten no Tou")
E2 ("Anata Yori Ue", "Behind a vacant image", "Furesaseru", "Hidauta", "Kimi wa Mukidashi", "Mannerism na Tsumetai Souretsuya", "Saredo Michizure", "Utsutsu, Bouga wo Kurau", "｢Yokosou ni Dreambox｣ Arui wa Seijuku no Rinen to Tsumetai Ame")
E♭2 ("Amon" Crossover version, "Disabled Complexes", "Phenomenon")
D2 ("Midwife")
C♯2 ("Jesus Christ R'n R")
C2 ("Bugaboo", "Utsutsu, Bouga wo Kurau")
B1 ("leather field")
B♭1 ("Bugaboo" Live at Shibuya AX 2012)
A1 ("dunes", "Midwife")
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Blue marks falsetto or whistle notes.
Green marks harsh/distorted vocals.
Grey marks fry notes that maintain a strong amount of tone.
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.
{Questionable Notes}
G♯7 ("Rotting Root" [3b])
C♯7 ("Macabre -Sanagi no Yume wa Ageha no Hane-" Live In Weal or Woe 19/12/2007 [5c])
C7 ("Hydra -666-" Live at the Nippon Budokan 2010 (Day One) [5c])
B6 ("Dozing Green" [3b], "Hidauta" [5e], "Kodoku ni Shisu, Yue ni Kodoku" Live at Namba Hatch 2007 [5e], "Lie Buried With a Vengeance" [3b], "Rotting Root" [3b])
B♭6 ("304 Goushitsu, Haha to Sakura" [3b], "304 Goushitsu, Shita to Yoru" sukekiyo version [5b], "Itoshisa wa Fuhai ni Tsuki" Live at Namba Hatch 2007 [3b], "Saredo Michizure" [3a])
G♯6 ("Diabolos" [3b], "Kaerarezu Kioku..." [5b], "Uyuu no Sora" [3a])
F♯6 ("Macabre -Sanagi no Yume wa Ageha no Hane-" [3b], "Stuck Man" [3a])
F6 ("Amon" [3b], "Hidauta" [3b])
E6 ("The Inferno" Live in Minsk 17/05/2015 [3a], "Utsutsu, Bouga wo Kurau" [5])
E♭6 ("dunes" [5e])
D6 ("The Blossoming Beelzebub" [5c], "dunes" Live at Chofu Green Hall 2015 [5e], "Revelation of mankind" [3a], "Zan")
C♯6 ("Grief" [5c], "mazohyst of decadence" Phalaris version [3a], "Sangeki no Yoru" [3], "Tsumi to Batsu" [3])
C6 ("24-ko Cylinders" [1], "The Deeper Vileness" The Insulated World version [3a], "hemimetabolism" [3a], "The inferno" [3a][4], "Macabre -Sanagi no Yume wa Ageha no Hane-" [3], "Ruten no Tou" [3b], "Sa Bir" [3b], "Sustain the untruth" [3a], "Tsumi to Kisei" [3a], "Utafumi" [3a], "｢Yokosou ni Dreambox｣ Arui wa Seijuku no Rinen to Tsumetai Ame" [3a])
B5 ("Fukai" [3a], "Gaika, Chinmoku ga Nemuru Koro" [3a], "Hydra -666-" [3a], "latour" [2], "mazohyst of decadence" [3], "Naburi" [3a], "raison detre" [3], "Rasetsukoku" [3a], "Schwein no Isu" [3])
B♭5 ("Grief" [5c], "Kyoukotsu no Nari" [3b], "Mask" [3], "Shiryou no Ariana" [4])
A5 ("Berry Live at Nakano Sun Plaza 26/07/2017 [3a], "Diabolos" [5e], "egnirys cimredopyh +) an injection" [3], "The inferno" [3a], "Kigan" The Insulated World version [3], "mazohyst of decadence" [1], "Schadenfreude" [3a])
G♯5 ("Inconvenient Ideal" [3a], "Mask" [1], "Repetition of Hatred" [3b])
G5 ("Bottom of the death valley" [3a], "Kiri to Mayu" [1], "Sa Bir" [2])
F♯5 ("The Deeper Vileness" [3b], "Guuzou Moratorium" [3a], "Repetition of Hatred" [3a])
F5 ("12-ji 20-pun Konrinzai" [3a], "Anata Yori Ue" [3a])
E5 ("Doukei Hatan Sekai" [1], "Karma" [1], "Naburi" [3a], "Setsudan [1])
D5 ("Kiri to Mayu" [1])
C3 ("Doukei Hatan Sekai" [5a])
B♭2 ("The Domestic Fucker Family" [5a], "New Age Culture" [5a])
G2 ("Air #2" [4], "C" [5a], "Filth" [5], "Gauze -mode of eve-" [5a], "Macabre -Sanagi no Yume wa Ageha no Hane-" [5a], "mazohyst of decadence" [5a], "Rasetsukoku" [5a])
F♯2 ("aftermath" [5a], "Jealous" [3], "Kakuu to Genjitsu" [5a], "Karasu" [1], "kisses" [5a], "Pink Killer" [5a], "Yokan" [5a])
F2 ("Air #2" [4], "The Final" [5a], "Fukai" [5a], "Hageshisa to, Kono Mune no Naka de Karamitsuita Shakunetsu no Yami" [1], "Kuroshiro" [5a][5d], "Lu Ciel" [5a], "Myaku" [5a])
E2 ("The Deeper Vileness" [5d], "foster mother" [5e], "Furan Yue ni…" [5a], "Mama" Furan Shinema Teikoku Gakudan version [5a] + [5d], "Setsudan" [5a], "Gauze -mode of adam-" [1], "Stuck Man" [5d], "Uyuu no Sora" [5a])
E♭2 ("Dokusatsu" [5d], "Glass Skin" [5d], "Kodou" [5d])
D2 ("24-ko Cylinders" [5d], "Byou「」Shin" [5d], "Giji Necromancer" [5a], "Hydra" [5d], "Kigan" [1])
C♯2 ("dead tree" [5d], "Doukoku to Sarinu" [5d], "Gaika, Chinmoku ga Nemuru Koro" [5d], "Garbage" [5d], "Mr. Newsman" [5d], "Ryoujoku no Ame" [5d], "Tefu Tefu" [5d], "Unknown...Despair...a Lost" [3])
C2 ("Akuro no Oka" [5a], "embryo" [5a], "foster mother" [5a], "Grief" [5d], "Kodoku ni Shisu, Yue ni Kodoku" [5d], "Shitataru Mourou" [2], "Shokubeni" [5d], "Waizatsu" [5d])
B1 ("304 Goushitsu, Shita to Yoru" sukekiyo version [5d], "focus" [5d], "Hyouhaku Flavour" [5d], "Reiketsu Nariseba" [5d], "Saku [5d], "Vinushka" [5d])
B♭1 ("Amon" [5d], "Diabolos", "Giji Necromancer" this is actually pretty much unpitchable [5d], "Red Soil" [5d], "Ruten no Tou" [5d], "Shiryou no Ariana" [5d], "Uyuu no Sora" [5d])
A1 ("The Blossoming Beelzebub" [5d], "Bugaboo" [5d], "Decayed Crow" [5d], "elizabeth addict" [5d], "Juuyoku" Unplugged, "nine melted fiction" [5d], "Shitataru Mourou" [5d], "Unraveling" [5d], "Warsaw no Gensou" [5d], "｢Yokosou ni Dreambox｣ Arui wa Seijuku no Rinen to Tsumetai Ame" [5d])
F♯1 ("the daemon's cutlery" [5d], "Madara Ningen" [5d])
F1 ("leather field" [5d])
E1 ("Junboku, Muku de Arou ga" [5d], "Sousou" [5d])
D1 ("Giji Necromancer" this is actually pretty much unpitchable [5d], "Uyuu no Sora" [5d], "Warsaw no Gensou" [5d])
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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.
- (a) scream or fry-whistle with very little tone or erratic pitch
- (b) are inhaled anyway lol
[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.
- (a) non-melodic spoken word
- (b) poor quality whistle
- (c) notes produced via inverse phonation (inhales)
- (d) fry without enough added tone (to differentiate from non-melodic fry with indeterminate pitch)
- (e) otherwise unspecified questionable technique (usual culprit is that weird fry-whistle thing)
G♯7 ("Rotting Root" [3b])
C♯7 ("Macabre -Sanagi no Yume wa Ageha no Hane-" Live In Weal or Woe 19/12/2007 [5c])
C7 ("Hydra -666-" Live at the Nippon Budokan 2010 (Day One) [5c])
B6 ("Dozing Green" [3b], "Hidauta" [5e], "Kodoku ni Shisu, Yue ni Kodoku" Live at Namba Hatch 2007 [5e], "Lie Buried With a Vengeance" [3b], "Rotting Root" [3b])
B♭6 ("304 Goushitsu, Haha to Sakura" [3b], "304 Goushitsu, Shita to Yoru" sukekiyo version [5b], "Itoshisa wa Fuhai ni Tsuki" Live at Namba Hatch 2007 [3b], "Saredo Michizure" [3a])
G♯6 ("Diabolos" [3b], "Kaerarezu Kioku..." [5b], "Uyuu no Sora" [3a])
F♯6 ("Macabre -Sanagi no Yume wa Ageha no Hane-" [3b], "Stuck Man" [3a])
F6 ("Amon" [3b], "Hidauta" [3b])
E6 ("The Inferno" Live in Minsk 17/05/2015 [3a], "Utsutsu, Bouga wo Kurau" [5])
E♭6 ("dunes" [5e])
D6 ("The Blossoming Beelzebub" [5c], "dunes" Live at Chofu Green Hall 2015 [5e], "Revelation of mankind" [3a], "Zan")
C♯6 ("Grief" [5c], "mazohyst of decadence" Phalaris version [3a], "Sangeki no Yoru" [3], "Tsumi to Batsu" [3])
C6 ("24-ko Cylinders" [1], "The Deeper Vileness" The Insulated World version [3a], "hemimetabolism" [3a], "The inferno" [3a][4], "Macabre -Sanagi no Yume wa Ageha no Hane-" [3], "Ruten no Tou" [3b], "Sa Bir" [3b], "Sustain the untruth" [3a], "Tsumi to Kisei" [3a], "Utafumi" [3a], "｢Yokosou ni Dreambox｣ Arui wa Seijuku no Rinen to Tsumetai Ame" [3a])
B5 ("Fukai" [3a], "Gaika, Chinmoku ga Nemuru Koro" [3a], "Hydra -666-" [3a], "latour" [2], "mazohyst of decadence" [3], "Naburi" [3a], "raison detre" [3], "Rasetsukoku" [3a], "Schwein no Isu" [3])
B♭5 ("Grief" [5c], "Kyoukotsu no Nari" [3b], "Mask" [3], "Shiryou no Ariana" [4])
A5 ("Berry Live at Nakano Sun Plaza 26/07/2017 [3a], "Diabolos" [5e], "egnirys cimredopyh +) an injection" [3], "The inferno" [3a], "Kigan" The Insulated World version [3], "mazohyst of decadence" [1], "Schadenfreude" [3a])
G♯5 ("Inconvenient Ideal" [3a], "Mask" [1], "Repetition of Hatred" [3b])
G5 ("Bottom of the death valley" [3a], "Kiri to Mayu" [1], "Sa Bir" [2])
F♯5 ("The Deeper Vileness" [3b], "Guuzou Moratorium" [3a], "Repetition of Hatred" [3a])
F5 ("12-ji 20-pun Konrinzai" [3a], "Anata Yori Ue" [3a])
E5 ("Doukei Hatan Sekai" [1], "Karma" [1], "Naburi" [3a], "Setsudan [1])
D5 ("Kiri to Mayu" [1])
C3 ("Doukei Hatan Sekai" [5a])
B♭2 ("The Domestic Fucker Family" [5a], "New Age Culture" [5a])
G2 ("Air #2" [4], "C" [5a], "Filth" [5], "Gauze -mode of eve-" [5a], "Macabre -Sanagi no Yume wa Ageha no Hane-" [5a], "mazohyst of decadence" [5a], "Rasetsukoku" [5a])
F♯2 ("aftermath" [5a], "Jealous" [3], "Kakuu to Genjitsu" [5a], "Karasu" [1], "kisses" [5a], "Pink Killer" [5a], "Yokan" [5a])
F2 ("Air #2" [4], "The Final" [5a], "Fukai" [5a], "Hageshisa to, Kono Mune no Naka de Karamitsuita Shakunetsu no Yami" [1], "Kuroshiro" [5a][5d], "Lu Ciel" [5a], "Myaku" [5a])
E2 ("The Deeper Vileness" [5d], "foster mother" [5e], "Furan Yue ni…" [5a], "Mama" Furan Shinema Teikoku Gakudan version [5a] + [5d], "Setsudan" [5a], "Gauze -mode of adam-" [1], "Stuck Man" [5d], "Uyuu no Sora" [5a])
E♭2 ("Dokusatsu" [5d], "Glass Skin" [5d], "Kodou" [5d])
D2 ("24-ko Cylinders" [5d], "Byou「」Shin" [5d], "Giji Necromancer" [5a], "Hydra" [5d], "Kigan" [1])
C♯2 ("dead tree" [5d], "Doukoku to Sarinu" [5d], "Gaika, Chinmoku ga Nemuru Koro" [5d], "Garbage" [5d], "Mr. Newsman" [5d], "Ryoujoku no Ame" [5d], "Tefu Tefu" [5d], "Unknown...Despair...a Lost" [3])
C2 ("Akuro no Oka" [5a], "embryo" [5a], "foster mother" [5a], "Grief" [5d], "Kodoku ni Shisu, Yue ni Kodoku" [5d], "Shitataru Mourou" [2], "Shokubeni" [5d], "Waizatsu" [5d])
B1 ("304 Goushitsu, Shita to Yoru" sukekiyo version [5d], "focus" [5d], "Hyouhaku Flavour" [5d], "Reiketsu Nariseba" [5d], "Saku [5d], "Vinushka" [5d])
B♭1 ("Amon" [5d], "Diabolos", "Giji Necromancer" this is actually pretty much unpitchable [5d], "Red Soil" [5d], "Ruten no Tou" [5d], "Shiryou no Ariana" [5d], "Uyuu no Sora" [5d])
A1 ("The Blossoming Beelzebub" [5d], "Bugaboo" [5d], "Decayed Crow" [5d], "elizabeth addict" [5d], "Juuyoku" Unplugged, "nine melted fiction" [5d], "Shitataru Mourou" [5d], "Unraveling" [5d], "Warsaw no Gensou" [5d], "｢Yokosou ni Dreambox｣ Arui wa Seijuku no Rinen to Tsumetai Ame" [5d])
F♯1 ("the daemon's cutlery" [5d], "Madara Ningen" [5d])
F1 ("leather field" [5d])
E1 ("Junboku, Muku de Arou ga" [5d], "Sousou" [5d])
D1 ("Giji Necromancer" this is actually pretty much unpitchable [5d], "Uyuu no Sora" [5d], "Warsaw no Gensou" [5d])
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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.
- (a) scream or fry-whistle with very little tone or erratic pitch
- (b) are inhaled anyway lol
[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.
- (a) non-melodic spoken word
- (b) poor quality whistle
- (c) notes produced via inverse phonation (inhales)
- (d) fry without enough added tone (to differentiate from non-melodic fry with indeterminate pitch)
- (e) otherwise unspecified questionable technique (usual culprit is that weird fry-whistle thing)
{Album Ranges}
Dir En Grey
Studio Albums
(1999) Gauze: F♯2 - F♯2 - A2 - E5 - A5
(2000) Macabre: A2 - C5 - E♭5 - E5 - F5 - G♯5
(2002) Kisou: F2 - D5 - E5
(2003) Vulgar: F♯2 - A2 - E5 - G5 - B♭5
(2006) Withering to Death: F♯2 - E♭5 - F♯5
(2007) The Marrow of a Bone: E♭2 - G5 - A5
(2008) Uroboros: C2 - F2 - G♯5 - A5 - C6
(2011) Dum Spiro Spero: E2 - F2 - G♯5 - C♯6 - E6
(2014) Arche: A1 - G5 - G♯5 - B♭5
(2018) The Insulated World: G2 - G♯5 - A5 - B5
(2022) Phalaris: C2 - F♯2 - G♯5 - B5
EPs
(1997) Missa: B2 - A4 - D5
(2002) six Ugly: G♯2 - A2 - C3 - B4 - D5 - E5 - F5
(2013) The Unraveling: F♯2 - A2 - G5 - A5 - B♭5
sukekiyo
Studio Albums
(2014) Immortalis: F♯2 - G5 - A5 - C6
(2017) Adoratio: E2 - G5
(2019) Infinitum: E2 - F♯2 - F5 - G♯5
EPs
(2015) Vitium: A1 - B1 - G2 - G5 - C6
(2016) Anima: F2 - D5 - F5*
Solo
(2001) Daisan Teikoku Gakudan: B♭2 - B♭4
*in "leather field" Acoustic version
Dir En Grey
Studio Albums
(1999) Gauze: F♯2 - F♯2 - A2 - E5 - A5
(2000) Macabre: A2 - C5 - E♭5 - E5 - F5 - G♯5
(2002) Kisou: F2 - D5 - E5
(2003) Vulgar: F♯2 - A2 - E5 - G5 - B♭5
(2006) Withering to Death: F♯2 - E♭5 - F♯5
(2007) The Marrow of a Bone: E♭2 - G5 - A5
(2008) Uroboros: C2 - F2 - G♯5 - A5 - C6
(2011) Dum Spiro Spero: E2 - F2 - G♯5 - C♯6 - E6
(2014) Arche: A1 - G5 - G♯5 - B♭5
(2018) The Insulated World: G2 - G♯5 - A5 - B5
(2022) Phalaris: C2 - F♯2 - G♯5 - B5
EPs
(1997) Missa: B2 - A4 - D5
(2002) six Ugly: G♯2 - A2 - C3 - B4 - D5 - E5 - F5
(2013) The Unraveling: F♯2 - A2 - G5 - A5 - B♭5
sukekiyo
Studio Albums
(2014) Immortalis: F♯2 - G5 - A5 - C6
(2017) Adoratio: E2 - G5
(2019) Infinitum: E2 - F♯2 - F5 - G♯5
EPs
(2015) Vitium: A1 - B1 - G2 - G5 - C6
(2016) Anima: F2 - D5 - F5*
Solo
(2001) Daisan Teikoku Gakudan: B♭2 - B♭4
*in "leather field" Acoustic version
