You're mixing the extremes of your vocal styles more than ever before on Obsidian – is that a technical challenge in itself?
“It’s ok because everything you hear on the albums is within what I can do comfortably. The growling voice I find quite easy to do now, I’m comfortable with it. To go from that kind of voice to some of the things I do on Draconian Times, that’s a lot more shouty, a kind of gravelling high voice; that is really easy to knacker your voice with.
"That is way more shouty. For the last couple of albums I’m doing less and less of that voice.”
Is that what Greg calls your Hetfield voice?
“Yes, and the hand on the kettle voice – where you accidentally put your hand on the hot kettle!”
It’s kind of an angry singing – it sounds challenging
“You can control it when it’s not too high but when you go too high… we’ve got songs where they’re better for it on the albums, and the voice needed to be high. But I remember going into the studio and Simon Efemey was producing us at the time and he’d just be laughing at me at the time, trying to hit the note.
"I was going red in the face, almost crying and he was just laughing! Instead of saying, maybe we should bring it down a tone [laughs].
“This is before digital as well – we had to get it right. I remember trying to get the same note, that was clearly out of my range, for about 100 takes. Then you end up blowing your voice out and you have to have a day off.
"It’s funny now with younger bands, I wonder if they know what it used to be like prior to Pro Tools. It was a lot harder recording.”
https://www.musicradar.com/news/the...osts-nick-holmes-talks-vocals-and-songwriting
“It’s ok because everything you hear on the albums is within what I can do comfortably. The growling voice I find quite easy to do now, I’m comfortable with it. To go from that kind of voice to some of the things I do on Draconian Times, that’s a lot more shouty, a kind of gravelling high voice; that is really easy to knacker your voice with.
"That is way more shouty. For the last couple of albums I’m doing less and less of that voice.”
Is that what Greg calls your Hetfield voice?
“Yes, and the hand on the kettle voice – where you accidentally put your hand on the hot kettle!”
It’s kind of an angry singing – it sounds challenging
“You can control it when it’s not too high but when you go too high… we’ve got songs where they’re better for it on the albums, and the voice needed to be high. But I remember going into the studio and Simon Efemey was producing us at the time and he’d just be laughing at me at the time, trying to hit the note.
"I was going red in the face, almost crying and he was just laughing! Instead of saying, maybe we should bring it down a tone [laughs].
“This is before digital as well – we had to get it right. I remember trying to get the same note, that was clearly out of my range, for about 100 takes. Then you end up blowing your voice out and you have to have a day off.
"It’s funny now with younger bands, I wonder if they know what it used to be like prior to Pro Tools. It was a lot harder recording.”
https://www.musicradar.com/news/the...osts-nick-holmes-talks-vocals-and-songwriting
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