Nick Holmes (singer)
| Nick Holmes | |
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 Nick Holmes, 2007 | |
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Nicholas John Arthur Holmes |
| Born | 7 January 1971 |
| Origin | United Kingdom |
| Genres | Gothic metal, doom metal, death metal, death-doom, gothic rock, synthpop |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, singer |
| Years active | 1988-present |
| Labels | Century Media Records |
| Associated acts | Paradise Lost, Bloodbath |
Nicholas John Arthur Holmes (born January 7, 1971), is a musician from Halifax, West Yorkshire, best known as the frontman in the British Gothic metal/Doom metal band Paradise Lost[1] and Swedish death metal band Bloodbath.[2]
Holmes formed Paradise Lost in late 1988 when he and the other band members were barely out of secondary school. Like other contemporaries of the British Death/doom metal scene (Anathema and My Dying Bride), the band began purely as death metal, with Holmes utilising a low, guttural death grunt on the Morbid Existence demo and Lost Paradise full length. On their definitive early albums, his vocals were more inclined to a raw but decipherable bellow, with a "goth rock croon" soon accompanying the band's more recent electronic musical direction. Finnish singer of the band Amorphis, Tomi Joutsen, has been partially compared to Holmes.[3]
In September 2014, it was officially announced that Holmes had replaced Mikael Åkerfeldt as the vocalist in the Swedish death metal band Bloodbath.
Discography
- Liv Kristine - Deus Ex Machina (1998, Swanlake, guest vocals)
- Bloodbath - Grand Morbid Funeral (2014, Peaceville Records)
Filmography
- "666 - At Calling Death" (1993, documentary, directed: Matt Vain)
- "Over the Madness" (2007, documentary, directed: Diran Noubar)
References
- ↑ Jason Ankeny. "Paradise Lost - Biography - AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
- ↑ "Bloodbath Recruits Paradise Lost's Nick Holmes As Its New Singer - Blabbermouth.net". BLABBERMOUTH.NET. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
- ↑ "Artists :: Tomi Joutsen" (in French). Metalweb. Retrieved 23 July 2012.