Nick Holmes (singer)


Nicholas John Arthur Holmes is an English musician from Halifax, West Yorkshire, best known as the lead vocalist of British gothic metal/doom metal band Paradise Lost and Swedish death metal band Bloodbath.

History and style

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 scene, the band began purely as death metal, with Holmes using a low, guttural death grunt on their early demos and Lost Paradise, Gothic, and Shades of God full-lengths. Beginning with 1993's Icon, the death grunts were discarded entirely in favour of a raw but decipherable James Hetfield-like bellow. When the band yet again transitioned stylistically with 1997's One Second, Nick's vocals took on a more gothic rock croon, which remained his prevalent style for the next several albums that followed. However, with 2015's The Plague Within, the band reincorporated low growls in some songs, a style which continued with 2017's Medusa.
In September 2014, it was officially announced that Holmes had replaced Mikael Åkerfeldt as the vocalist in the Swedish death metal band Bloodbath. He has thus far released two albums with band, Grand Morbid Funeral and The Arrow of Satan Is Drawn.

Discography

with Paradise Lost

with Bloodbath