ZP Theart (6,783 views)

[Gatr]

ZP De Villiers Theart (27 May 1975)
Years Active: 1999 - present
Associated Acts: DragonForce (1999 - 2010), Power Quest (2001 - 2002), I Am I (2012 - present), Tank (2014 - 2017), Skid Row (2016 - 2022)
Vocal Range: B♭2 - B♭5

Significant High Notes:
B♭5 ("Monkey Business" live Altoona 2022-02-26)
G5 ("The Fire Still Burns", "Heroes of Our Time", "This Is My Life")
F♯5 ("Fury of the Storm", "Heroes of Our Time", "Operation Ground And Pound", "Scars of Yesterday", "Through the Fire and Flames" live Inverness 2009)
F5 ("Above The Winter Moonlight", "Black Fire", "Cry For Eternity", "Fury of the Storm" live Twilight Dementia, "Operation Ground And Pound" live Glasgow 2009, "Revolution Deathsquad", "Soldiers of the Wastelands" live Middlesbrough 2009)
E5 ("Body Breakdown", "Cry For Eternity", "Deathfire Grasp", "E.P.M.", "Fields of Despair", "Fury of the Storm", "Heart of a Dragon", "In the Air Tonight", "Lost Souls in Endless Time", "My Spirit Will Go On", "Operation Ground And Pound", "Prepare For War", "Revelations", "Scars of Yesterday", "See You Again", "Trail Of Broken Hearts", "Valley of the Damned")
E♭5 ("Above The Winter Moonlight", "Black Winter Night", "Fields of Despair" live Middlesbrough 2009, "The Flame Of Youth", "Kiss of Judas", "Lost Souls in Endless Time", "My Spirit Will Go On" live Twilight Dementia, "Once In A Lifetime", "Operation Ground And Pound" live Glasgow 2009, "Reasons to Live", "Valley of the Damned" live Middlesbrough 2009)
D5 ("Black Fire", "Body Breakdown", "Dawn Over A New World", "Disciples of Babylon", "E.P.M.", "Evening Star", "A Flame For Freedom", "Heartbreak Armageddon", "Heart of a Dragon", "Heroes of Our Time", "Inside The Winter Storm", "In the Air Tonight", "King in Ruins", "Last Whisper", "Prepare For War", "Reasons to Live" live Hanley 2009, "Revolution Deathsquad", "Scars of Yesterday", "See You Again", "Soldiers of the Wastelands", "Starfire", "Storming The Burning Fields", "This Is My Life", "Through the Fire and Flames" live Inverness 2009, "Valley of the Damned", "Wasted Wonders", "The Warrior Inside", "You're the Voice")
C♯5 ("Black Winter Night", "Cross the Line", "Cry of the Brave", "Eye of a Hurricane", "The Flame Of Youth", "Heading for Eternity", "Heroes of Our Time" live Twilight Dementia, "The Last Journey Home", "Make a Little Time", "My Spirit Will Go On", "Once In A Lifetime", "Pentakill", "Soldiers of the Wastelands" live Middlesbrough 2009, "Starfire" live Inverness 2009, "Strike of the Ninja", "Trail Of Broken Hearts", "Valley of the Damned" live Middlesbrough 2009, "Where Dragons Rule", "World on Fire")
C5 ("Dawn Over A New World", "Deathfire Grasp", "Disciples of Babylon", "Dust 2 Dust", "Evening Star", "Eye of a Hurricane", "Fields of Despair", "A Flame For Freedom", "The Fire Still Burns", "Heartbreak Armageddon", "Inside The Winter Storm", "Kiss of Judas", "The Last Journey Home" live Twilight Dementia, "Pave the Way", "Reasons to Live" live Hanley 2009, "Revelations", "Silent Genocide", "Stay a While", "Strike of the Ninja" live Twilight Dementia, "Through the Fire and Flames", "The Warrior Inside", "Where Dragons Rule" live Twilight Dementia, "You're the Voice")
B4 ("Fields of Despair" live Middlesbrough 2009, "Heading for Eternity", "Hold On", "King in Ruins", "The Last Journey Home", "Living a Fantasy", "Make a Little Time", "Power Of The Ninja Sword", "Reasons to Live", "Soldiers of the Wastelands", "Starfire", "Stay a While", "Storming The Burning Fields", "Strike of the Ninja", "Through the Fire and Flames", "Valley of Tears", "Wasted Wonders", "The Warrior Inside", "World on Fire")

Significant Low Notes:
G3 ("Cry For Eternity", "Deathfire Grasp", "Disciples of Babylon", "Dust 2 Dust", "E.P.M.", "Evening Star", "The Fire Still Burns", "King in Ruins", "Pave the Way", "Reasons to Live" live Hanley 2009, "Starfire", "Storming the Burning Fields", "The Warrior Inside", "Where Dragons Rule")
F♯3 ("Black Winter Night", "Fields of Despair" live Middlesbrough 2009, "Heroes of Our Time", "Hold On", "Operation Ground And Pound", "Trail Of Broken Hearts", "Where Dragons Rule")
F3 ("Eye of a Hurricane", "A Flame For Freedom", "My Spirit Will Go On" live Twilight Dementia, "Pave the Way", "Silent Genocide", "This Is My Life", "Where Dragons Rule" live Twilight Dementia, "You're the Voice")
E3 ("Cry For Eternity", "Deathfire Grasp", "Disciples of Babylon", "E.P.M.", "Hold On", "Once In A Lifetime", "Operation Ground And Pound", "Valley of the Damned")
E♭3 ("Eye of a Hurricane", "Once In A Lifetime", "Stay a While", "Valley of the Damned" live Middlesbrough 2009, "War Dance", "You're the Voice")
D3 ("See You Again", "Starfire")
C♯3 ("My Spirit Will Go On", "Starfire" live Inverness 2009, "Where Dragons Rule" live Twilight Dementia, "Valley of the Damned" live Middlesbrough 2009)
C3 ("My Spirit Will Go On" live Twilight Dementia, "See You Again", "Starfire")
B2 ("Once in a Lifetime")
B♭2 ("Starfire" live Inverness 2009)

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Italics mark non-melodic notes.
Underlines mark obscured notes.
Boldface marks particular examples of this vocalist's capabilities.

SPOILER: Click to show

{Questionable Note}
E5 ("Fury of the Storm" live Twilight Dementia^[4])
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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.

SPOILER: Click to show

{Album Ranges}
DragonForce:
Valley of the Damned (2003): C3 - F5
Sonic Firestorm (2004): B2 - F♯5
Inhuman Rampage (2006): E3 - F♯5
Ultra Beatdown (2008): F3 - G5
Twilight Dementia (2010): B2 - F♯5

I Am I:
Event Horizon (2012): E♭3 - G5

Tank:
Valley of Tears (2015): E♭3 - C♯5

[elizabeth]

I know its been well over a year, but i'd argue that e5 you have in the questionable notes section is an e6 and is pretty well substantial.

[Henny Macc]

What happened to the alleged B♭2 that was listed in his TRP2 thread from a 2010 performance of "Starfire"? Has anyone been able to retrace that, or has it already been debunked as something else?

[Gatr]

Mar 31, 2021 0:32:10 GMT elizabeth said:

I know its been well over a year, but i'd argue that e5 you have in the questionable notes section is an e6 and is pretty well substantial.

I remember getting completely dunked on in a voice chat or something when I suggested that was an E6 originally. I was told it was an E5 with overtones, but if there's more to debate about it then I'm fine with that.

Mar 31, 2021 2:49:52 GMT Henny Macc said:

What happened to the alleged B♭2 that was listed in his TRP2 thread from a 2010 performance of "Starfire"? Has anyone been able to retrace that, or has it already been debunked as something else?

I don't remember running into any live B♭2s from "Starfire". Lowest I've heard was the B2 in the thread, but I also wasn't very thorough with live performances for this one, so maybe it's still out there :shrug:

[Henny Macc]

Rodney Blazershorts, apparently you owned this guy's thread on TRP2 - any chance you remember the whereabouts of the alleged B♭2? The thread just says "live 2010", so that doesn't narrow it down a whole lot unfortunately.

[Rodney Blazershorts]

I’d start with January 2010 and move forward chronologically but it’s up to you.

[Henny Macc]

I mean yeah, if anyone's desperate enough to check EVERY performance of it from that year to find a note that may or may not exist lol. I was just wondering if you would know anything else about this alleged note since you owned the thread it was listed in, but I'll take that as a no.

[elizabeth]

yeah imo its a strong e6, especially considering in this performance
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUxMicLmYy0
he hits what sounds like either a sharp e6 or an f6, bit hard to tell at that range.

[elizabeth]

also @henrymack (not sure how to respond to individuals sorry) there are no live performances of zp with df in 2010.

[Henny Macc]

Actually against all odds, I did manage to retrace the B♭2! Turns out it's actually in the performance off Twilight Dementia, which was released in 2010 but recorded in 2009.

It's a pretty short anacrusis note, which is probably why it got excluded from his TRP3 range thread, but listening back it sounds solid and audible enough to me to be worth acknowledging. He also hits it again at 1:25.

[Gatr]

That’s the B2 that’s already in the thread.

[Henny Macc]

I'm definitely hearing it get down to B♭2 on "AND the". :scratch: "THE" is a B2, and the "AND" is audibly lower than that.

[Gatr]

I’m not hearing that there at all, but let’s see what the consensus ends up being there, I guess.

[Henny Macc]

Cool. In the meantime...

Mar 31, 2021 15:18:47 GMT elizabeth said:

yeah imo its a strong e6, especially considering in this performance
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUxMicLmYy0
he hits what sounds like either a sharp e6 or an f6, bit hard to tell at that range.

Were you talking about the scream at the very beginning of the video? You didn't give a timestamp, so I can only assume that's what you were talking about.

If so, I hear that pretty clearly as an E5, and not even one of the more confusing cases of overtones that I've come across.

[Gatr]

That's what everyone told me, so that's what I went with.

Fwiw, that performance definitely sounds more obviously like E5 than I remember the original one, the one off of Twilight Dementia, being. That said, I don't think I've heard that clip in literal years, so maybe I'm remembering it wrong. I've always sucked at hearing overtones, and I definitely did more back then, so I've always tended to defer to the majority consensus in cases like that.

Not sure why I have it labelled as [5] though, [4] would probably be more appropriate since it's the pitch that's being debated. It's a fine enough note I guess, so I'll go ahead and change that.

[elizabeth]

Mar 31, 2021 18:55:00 GMT Henny Macc said:

Cool. In the meantime...

Mar 31, 2021 15:18:47 GMT elizabeth said:

yeah imo its a strong e6, especially considering in this performance
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUxMicLmYy0
he hits what sounds like either a sharp e6 or an f6, bit hard to tell at that range.

Were you talking about the scream at the very beginning of the video? You didn't give a timestamp, so I can only assume that's what you were talking about.

If so, I hear that pretty clearly as an E5, and not even one of the more confusing cases of overtones that I've come across.

Shit im prolly wrong then, i hear it as the higher octave but i listen to too much high shit so my ears are probably just biased.

[Gatr]

Mar 31, 2021 19:05:36 GMT elizabeth said:

Shit im prolly wrong then, i hear it as the higher octave but i listen to too much high shit so my ears are probably just biased.

Happens to the best of us, don't worry about it. The audio quality in that clip probably isn't doing you any favors either.

[tungsten]

That's A5?

That was his last show with Skid Row. He's got replaced by Erik Gronwall.

[elizabeth]

Apr 1, 2022 10:09:53 GMT tungsten said:

That's A5?

That was his last show with Skid Row. He's got replaced by Erik Gronwall.

That's a great high note but what do you think about the rest of the performance? It's always been difficult for me to gauge zps ability now since I really don't like skid row.

[Henny Macc]

Apr 1, 2022 10:09:53 GMT tungsten said:

That's A5?

That was his last show with Skid Row. He's got replaced by Erik Gronwall.

I'm hearing a B♭5s actually!

Btw Gatr, I know you didn't agree with me about the pitch of the live B♭2, but can we put that in the spoiler since there was at least one other person besides me who heard it getting that low?

[Steingrim]

Mar 31, 2021 18:39:14 GMT Henny Macc said:

I'm definitely hearing it get down to B♭2 on "AND the". "THE" is a B2, and the "AND" is audibly lower than that.

If I slow the clip down to 0.25x speed then it's clearly a Bb2 that ends on a B2 on "AND", at around 0:48. It's an extremely brief semitone roll-up, though.
The one at 1:25 is just a B2

[Gatr]

If I don’t forget I’ll add it in the morning. I hear it now for some reason

[Henny Macc]

Apr 5, 2022 3:44:05 GMT Gatr said:

If I don’t forget I’ll add it in the morning. I hear it now for some reason

Well it looks like you didn't forget to add it, but you did forget to add the B♭5 lol

[Gatr]

i forgor

Look at that wholesome three octave range