Blaze Bayley

Voice type: Baritone
Vocal range:(D2-)E2-D5(-B♭5)
Widest display of range: "Sign Of The Cross" (E2-A4)

Significant high notes (Non-modal):

• B♭5 ("Smashed And Blind")
  
• A5 ("Manhunt")
  
• G♯5 ("Born To Run")
  
• G5 ("Fell Out Of Heaven")
  

Significant high notes (Full voice):

• D5 ("The Trooper" live)
  
• C♯5 ("Judgement Of Heaven")
  
• C5 ("My Generation", "Manhunt", "Broken Doll")
  
• B4 ("Lightning Strikes Twice", "Virus", "The Unbeliever", "Born To Run", "The Loveless")
  
• B♭4 ("The Loveless", "Smashed And Blind")
  
• A4 ("Watching The Night Sky", "Sign Of The Cross", "Ghost In The Machine", "When Two Worlds Collide", "Blood On The World's Hands", "Surrounded By Sadness", "Madness And Sorrow", "Meant To Be")
  
• G♯4 ("Soundtrack Of My Life", "Lord Of The Flies", "Born To Run", "Moonlight", "Dazed And Confused")
  
  

Low notes:

Fry D2 ("Ghost In The Machine")


• E2 ("Sign Of The Cross")
  
• F♯2 ("Ghost In The Machine")
  
• G♯2 ("Madness And Sorrow", "Waiting For My Life To Begin")
  
• A2 ("The Tenth Dimension", "Stranger To The Light", "The Clansman")
  
• B2 ("Fortunes Of War", "Afraid To Shoot Strangers" live, "Judgement Of Heaven", "The Edge Of Darkness")
  

fgt1995 wrote:
Voice type: High baritone?
Vocal range: E2? - D5 (-A5)

Significant high notes:

• D5 ("The Trooper" live)
  
• B4 ("Lightning Strikes Twice")
  
• A4 ("Watching The Night Sky", "Sign Of The Cross", "Ghost In The Machine")
  
  
• Falsetto A5 ("Manhunt")
  

Low notes:

• E2 ("Sign Of The Cross")
  
• D2? ("Ghost In The Machine")
  

Feel free to correct me

I'm pretty sure he is much lower than a high baritone. His voice is very dense and deep. I'd go for a standard baritone

Standard baritone is a possibility, but aren't his lows too weak to be one? He sounds much more comfortable in the lower 4th octave.

Better singer than Bruce.

fgt1995 wrote:Standard baritone is a possibility, but aren't his lows too weak to be one? He sounds much more comfortable in the lower 4th octave.

I wouldn't say too comfortable, at least when he goes higher in the fourth octave. It's just that in heavy metal you are bound to sing in your higher register most of the time But I haven't checked his whole discography, he must have lower notes in his solo albums!

Curiosity wrote:Better singer than Bruce.

I sincerely hope that was a troll

Curiosity wrote:Better singer than Bruce.

400 years ago you'd be burned for such heretic sentence. However I'll forgive you What do you think bout his voice type?
Goblonaut: I don't have his entire discography either, but it seems to me that he avoids 2nd octave stuff most of the times. Yeah he gets screamy around A4 but I said lower 4th octave.

I'm actually serious. I prefer Bayley's voice over Dickinson's. Obviously he doesn't have Dickinson's range or power, but as for tone, Bayley comes ahead for me, no contest.

I say he's a good fashioned standard baritone.

Curiosity wrote:I'm actually serious. I prefer Bayley's voice over Dickinson's. Obviously he doesn't have Dickinson's range or power, but as for tone, Bayley comes ahead for me, no contest.

I say he's a good fashioned standard baritone.

Okay, we rejoice in difference of opinion. But as for you calling him a baritone, I agree.

SB, then. There MUST be lower notes from him, though.

fgt1995 wrote:SB, then. There MUST be lower notes from him, though.

Maybbe, almost certainly. But even a baritone might not have lower notes than a D2, every voice is different. After all, the range is just one part of the voice classification, and with the singers we frequently discuss about with an extended range, it's not really reliable way of classifying the voice

At least do you agree with the idea of a baritone bottoming out at E2 being extremely rare?

He may not have displayed anything lower than E2, but I bet he can get lower.

C5s in "My Generation". I also recall one live version of "Sanctuary" where he hit some pretty high notes, I should check the pitches at some point.

I was siding with the idea of Blaze being a high baritone before, but that was mainly judging based on his timbre in his high register...and, well, a lot of lower voice types can sound like high baritones in the upper ranges. Warrel Dane, for one. So judging by the amount that he actually strains up there, I'd say standard baritone is a possibility...however, I'd have to hear more lows by him before I could say so for sure.