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Nick Holmes | |
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_(cropped).jpg) Holmes performing in 2024 | |
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| Birth name | Nicholas John Arthur Holmes[1] |
| Born | (1971-01-07)7 January 1971 (age 54) |
| Origin | United Kingdom |
| Genres | Gothic metal,death metal,death-doom,doom metal,gothic rock |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, songwriter |
| Years active | 1988–present |
| Member of | Paradise Lost,Bloodbath, Host |
Nicholas John Arthur Holmes (born 7 January 1971) is an English singer, best known as the lead vocalist of thegothic metal/doom metal bandParadise Lost[2] and Swedishdeath metal supergroupBloodbath.[3]
Holmes formedParadise Lost in late 1988 when he and the other band members were barely out of secondary school.
Like other contemporaries of the Britishdeath-doom scene (Anathema andMy Dying Bride), the band began purely asdeath metal, with Holmes using a low, gutturaldeath grunt on their early demos andLost Paradise (1990),Gothic (1991), andShades of God (1992) full-lengths (though the latter two albums were not exclusively death metal in execution, and Holmes even utilized some clean vocals as well). Beginning with 1993'sIcon, the death grunts were discarded entirely in favour of a raw but decipherableJames Hetfield-like bellow. When the band yet again transitioned stylistically with 1997'sOne Second, Holmes' vocals took on a moregothic rock croon, which remained his prevalent style for the next several albums that followed. However, with 2015'sThe Plague Within, the band reincorporated low growls in some songs, a style which continued with 2017'sMedusa and 2020'sObsidian.
In September 2014, it was officially announced that Holmes had replacedMikael Åkerfeldt as the vocalist in the Swedishdeath metal bandBloodbath, taking the monikerOld Nick. He has thus far released three albums with the band,Grand Morbid Funeral (2014),The Arrow of Satan Is Drawn (2018) andSurvival of the Sickest (2022).
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