As promised, Bloodbath just revealed today their new vocalist. It is... none other than Paradise Lost's Nick Holmes! Heh? After several months of speculation, the successor to former frontmen Peter Tägtren (Out stargazing) and Mikael Åkerfeldt (out of D. Gray's heart) is finally out in the open (like Susperia's legs ).
Nick Holmes will return to the cavernous growls on the death metallers new album Grand Morbid Funeral, set for release on November 17th via Peaceville Records.
"Ever since I got into Lost Paradise back in 1990," says Jonas Renkse, "Nick Holmes has been one of my favourite growling vocalists out there. He was always audible and articulate but still deep and definitely morbid. It is a great pleasure to work with him some 25 years later after I was introduced to his thunderous roar, YAAAY!"
Adds Anders 'Blakkheim' Nyström: "Little did I expect to be working with the voice behind the death metal classic Lost Paradise, or the genre-defining Gothic and yet here we are decades later, fulfilling another death metal dream. With his sinister and ominous vocal delivery, it's an absolute pleasure to make Old Nick the bell-ringer in Bloodbath's grand morbid funeral, YAAAAY!"