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[no country for old wainds]

imagine how great an atmospheric black metal album with that cover art must be

 

[Elric of Melniboné]

Nah, real men have the stones to not "watch from a distance" and they definitely don't sing in an overbearing Ozzy imitation style about this.

I'm not sure how someone could think that Patrick Walker is imitating Ozzy Osbourne if they've heard both singers.

 

[LuminousAether]

don't have to imagine, here's the whole thing. only an ep, pretty different take on the style. never been disappointed by an Israeli metal band.

I'm not sure how someone could think that Patrick Walker is trying to sound like Ozzy Osbourne.

And I'm not sure how someone could even suggest otherwise. It's a dead on imitation.

 

[CiG]

They sound pretty much nothing alike.

 

[Elric of Melniboné]

It's really not. Patrick Walker sings in a much more dramatic style and uses vibrato. They're both tenors and that's where the similarity ends.

His vocals on The Strength to Dream are more similar to Ozzy's, but his main influence at that time is probably actually Bobby Liebling. Between the two albums, he had professional training and worked as an actor in the theater.

 

[LuminousAether]

It's that same kind of nasally strained voice done by a guy that can't sing for shit.

 

[CiG]

 

[ImmenseButchery81]

DEFEATED SANITY
DISPOSAL OF THE DEAD

 

[ImmenseButchery81]

EHG
SOUTHERN FUCKING SLUDGE

 

[EspaDa]

EHG
SOUTHERN FUCKING SLUDGE

Sisterfucker duo

 

[CiG]

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

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I THINK I JUST FUCKED UP

Man, I got quite a bit of mileage out of that and the first Whore album when they first came out.

 

[CiG]

Two amazing albums, some of my favourites. Headsplit somewhat recently reissued them on tape which is fucking cool.

 

[Phylactery]

Jag Panzer - Ample Destruction

 

[Elric of Melniboné]

It's that same kind of nasally strained voice done by a guy that can't sing for shit.

Patrick Walker obviously can sing. That's the issue with your statement. They still also don't sound alike.

 

[LuminousAether]

Patrick Walker obviously can sing. That's the issue with your statement. They still also don't sound alike.

Well that's a matter of opinion. I find him to strain so hard that it sounds like he's going to give himself an aneurysm. He has almost zero range and forces out what little range he has. It's a painful, amazingly horrible sound. Warning is among the most overrated trash of the past few decades. It's just a My Dying Bride riff or two played over and over until it becomes almost a parody of songwriting combined with this creepy stalker motherfucker doing his best which still sucks.

 

[Elric of Melniboné]

He intentionally makes his voice quaver, which is probably what you're misinterpreting to be vocal strain. That's another thing that Ozzy Osbourne and him don't have in common.

I don't really have any issue with you not liking his voice or Warning in general, but he definitely doesn't sound like Ozzy Osbourne and multiple differences between them have been brought up that are pretty apparent and that anyone who knows how to listen to the way someone sings should notice immediately.

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

Two amazing albums, some of my favourites. Headsplit somewhat recently reissued them on tape which is fucking cool.

I hadn't thought of them in years until an online acquaintance brought them up randomly. I'd forgotten how catchy they were, that Fornicator one especially. Still haven't heard the second Whore album though.

 

[LuminousAether]

He intentionally makes his voice quaver, which is probably what you're misinterpreting to be vocal strain. That's another thing that Ozzy Osbourne and him don't have in common.

I don't really have any issue with you not liking his voice or Warning in general, but he definitely doesn't sound like Ozzy Osbourne and multiple differences between them have been brought up that are pretty apparent and that anyone who knows how to listen to the way someone sings should notice immediately.

I could show the album to 100 people and at least 90 of them would call him an Ozzy rip-off. You're blowing up minor differences and acting like they are huge.

 

[Elric of Melniboné]

I've never heard anyone make that comparison before and I have read probably 100 reviews of the album, both positive and negative. The only singer that I've seen Patrick Walker compared to with any frequency is Michael Stipe of REM.

Consistent use of vibrato and intentional vocal quavering on nearly every word are not really minor technical differences, by the way. Walker's tone of voice is also a lot more full. Ozzy's voice has always been pretty thin. Ozzy also has a tendency to peak his vocals by singing very forcefully, which is something that Patrick Walker doesn't really do. He sings much more gently and extends words for dramatic emphasis.

I'm not really sure what they have in common aside from both being tenors, as I said earlier.