King Diamond

Voice type: Baritone
Vocal range: (C♯1-)A1-D5(G5/G♯5?)(-C6)
Best Display of Range: "The Invisible Guests" (B♭1-B♭4)

Significant High Notes:
G♯5?: ("Holy Mountain Lights")
G5?: ("Doctor Cranium")
D5: ("Road Life", "Radar Love")
C♯5: ("Road Life")
B4: ("Give Me Your Soul", "Up From the Grave")
B♭4: ("Arrival", "The Invisible Guests", "At the Graves", "I'm Not A Stranger", "Miriam")
A4: ("A Broken Spell", "Twilight Symphony", "Sleepless Nights", "Evil", "Black Hill Sanitarium")

Falsetto Notes:
C6: ("Corpse Without a Soul")
B5: ("The Portrait", "Halloween")
B♭5: ("No Presents For Christmas")
A5: ("Miriam")
G♯5: ("Charon", "The Jonah", "Holy Mountain Lights")
F♯5: ("At the Graves", "Lies")

Significant Low Notes:
E2: ("So Sad")
C♯2: ("Give Me Your Soul", "Emerencia")
C2: ("If They Only Knew")
B1: ("Bye, Bye, Missy", "If They Only Knew")
B♭1: ("The Invisible Guests", "If They Only Knew")
A1: ("Aftermath", "Black Horsemen", "Black Horsemen live Deadly Lullibies")

Fry Notes:
F1: ("Black Horsemen live Deadly Lullibies")
C♯1?: ("If They Only Knew")

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgNTFU0mAtE
1:04, how low does this get? Bb1ish? Good Bb4 at 1:41 too!

Danerage wrote:Falsetto Notes:
B5: ("The Portrait", "Halloween")
B♭5: ("No Presents For Christmas")
G♯5: ("Charon", "The Jonah")

I know he has a C6 somewhere; unfortunately, I can't retrace it at the moment...

Danerage wrote:Any guesses on what his voice classification is? Probably high baritone or standard? I can't seem to decide... Almost seems like a low tenor some of the time.

Definitely some kind of baritone...if he sounds like a low tenor some of the time, I'd say high baritone is a pretty safe bet.

Danerage wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgNTFU0mAtE
1:04, how low does this get? Bb1ish? Good Bb4 at 1:41 too, best display of range thus far.

Yeah, B♭1.

I've always thought (and heard) low tenor, but with his lows high baritone sounds resonable.

Also, there's an A5 in At the Graves and C#6 in Corpse Without a Soul

3:04 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFIuoRyC7Cc (song has a lot of highs all over)
2:40 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GyVo-wmE0U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGLKv09PF_o
1:50 and on, how low does it get? Bb1 as well?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olMOmw8Sw6E
2:50 F5? Non-modal, right? Few other high screams afterwards, probably all falsetto as well...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=783vjwi-aOs
Starting at 5:20, any chance any of these are full, mainly the ones 5:32 and on? I'm leaning towards no.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GowjHWh1P8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAa1F_JqvpU
Anything especially low in these clips? Sounds like he could get lower than A1 at some parts in that second one... Is that a quick slide down to G1 at 0:19?

Hm. He must hit a full C5 or higher somewhere.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=783vjwi-aOs
Starting at 5:20, any chance any of these are full, mainly the ones 5:32 and on? I'm leaning towards no.

The first one at 5:32 could possible be full, but all the others sound false.
That's one of my favorite KD passages by the way. He can be very creative with his vocals sometimes

Sherick wrote:That's one of my favorite KD passages by the way. He can be very creative with his vocals sometimes

Definitely!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7l6hzi1KgM
3:36ish, slide up to a non-modal... E5? Not sure of the pitch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVYlKOq-f7w
0:50ish, non-modal F5?
2:53... Full C#5?
5:30, Is that a whistle note or an instrument/overtone?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcl_zHceHjI
1:05, full A1?
1:43, how low does he get in fry? I can't pitch fry for the life of me. Bb0 or something?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIv2AmExef0
4:48, this is all fry, right?

By the way, what song are Daniel Heiman's fry D2s in again?

Danerage wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7l6hzi1KgM
3:36ish, slide up to a non-modal... E5? Not sure of the pitch.

C♯5, though I'm not actually sure of the register. Probably gritty falsetto, rather than non-modal.

Danerage wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVYlKOq-f7w
0:50ish, non-modal F5?

D5; gritty falsetto.

Danerage wrote:2:53... Full C#5?

Easily falsetto. The highest in full voice during that glissando is something like G♯4.

Danerage wrote:5:30, Is that a whistle note or an instrument/overtone?

You mean the A? I think it's an overtone, so just a falsetto A5; nothing particularly new for him.

Danerage wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcl_zHceHjI
1:05, full A1?

I think so, though it's a bit whispery. Pretty nice solid B1, though.

Danerage wrote:1:43, how low does he get in fry? I can't pitch fry for the life of me. Bb0 or something?

I'm getting F1.

Danerage wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIv2AmExef0
4:48, this is all fry, right?

The last word definitely is; I'm not completely sure about the rest. The obvious answer would be whispery fry, but it's hard to pick out the register under that whisper. Kinda reminds me of some of Peter Steele's lows, except that it's easier to figure out register with him for passages like this, cause his voice just gets a lot drier on the fry notes. I'll need some help with this one...

Danerage wrote:By the way, what song are Daniel Heiman's fry D2s in again?

It's called "Headrush"; it's some obscure joke song that he did without Lost Horizon or Heed or Crystal Eyes. Unfortunately, it's off YouTube now, but after digging through a bunch of my old e-mails, I managed to at least get the title...I was worried that I was gonna have to ask Crippan for it, since he was the one who found it!

Alright, thank you! Just a few Mercyful Fate albums to go now, then live stuff...

Sherick wrote:Also, there's an A5 in At the Graves and C#6 in Corpse Without a Soul

3:04 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFIuoRyC7Cc (song has a lot of highs all over)

I don't hear an A5 there; more G5-ish

Sherick wrote:2:40 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GyVo-wmE0U

C6.

Danerage wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGLKv09PF_o
1:50 and on, how low does it get? Bb1 as well?

I can't really pitch this one, but it sounds like some of the notes are growl. I'm not too sure of anything below D2.

Danerage wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olMOmw8Sw6E
2:50 F5? Non-modal, right? Few other high screams afterwards, probably all falsetto as well...

"Die" is an E5, then there's a short F5 after that. Probably non-modal, but not as obvious as I would expect for such a passage...

Danerage wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=783vjwi-aOs
Starting at 5:20, any chance any of these are full, mainly the ones 5:32 and on? I'm leaning towards no.

Er...no; no chance at all.

Danerage wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GowjHWh1P8

First note is a B♭1, and the last might be another A1. At least one C2 and B1 in between as well.

Danerage wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAa1F_JqvpU
Anything especially low in these clips? Sounds like he could get lower than A1 at some parts in that second one... Is that a quick slide down to G1 at 0:19?

0:19 is only a B1/B♭1, and the rest of the slides seem to bottom around that area too. The last note is pretty low, though...might be another A1 before it switches to whisper.

I don't hear an A5 there; more G5-ish

Ray said A5, so With that tone, I can't quite tell.

I lost all my notes in a computer crash, and just today got my new one set up. I had most of the clips cut out and put together, too, so that'll all need to be redone. :/