Vocalists who sound different from when they started

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On 5/23/2019 at 6:13 PM, YuyoDrift said:

On the female side, FUKI from Unlucky Morpheus has changed the tone of her voice purposely over the years.

Compare her singing in Jealousy to the re-release 10 years later and you can see her vocals have entered a more mature tone.

 

Nice one! There's definitely a very distinct change in approach for Fuki's vocals which happened around 2010. On her earlier stuff, her vocal tone was very squeaky high and j-pop idolesque but from 2010 onwards she started putting on a much deeper and more dramatic "power metal" kind of tone - I'm not sure which album was released first between Light Bringer's Midnight Circus, Unlucky Morpheus' Byougin Kishou and Dragon Guardian's Shinjitsu no Sekihi but UM's BK album you can hear her already transitioning between the two approaches. She's still able to put a lighter, "j-pop" inspired voice after that so it's not that she lost that voice, only she decided to change her approach to fit the whole power metal thing her bands went for.

 

Yeah, as people already mentioned, Kamijo and Ruki are very classic examples of drastic vocal changes. I'm not that familiar with Kamijo to be honest but Ruki has gone through a very interesting vocal evolution through the years: he started out with that "whiny" high-pitched approach which lasted until Disorder more or less, but he was already able to pull off some very aggressive screams and a gothic low crooning style. Between the NIL-DIM years he was kinda back and forth between a lighter, ringing tenor sound and a more robust "goth vk" kind of sound (he oddly sounds much lighter on stuff from DIM than on stuff from NIL, so that was definitely a stylistic choice). Then from Toxic onwards he started singing exclusively in that darker baritone tone (even though he's technically singing the same pitches as he was before, his tone got really heavier).

 

Maybe he doesn't qualify but IX from IX-NINE went through a very interesting change as well since his days on EATHERLY as Mamoru. He started out more or less imitating both the "whiny slurry punk" and the "deep goth low" kind of voices in line with vk but as he went on IX-NINE he started singing in a much more "straight" way, a very clean and ringing head voice based tone.

 

While his tone didn't change that significantly, I think Sho from DIMLIM went through a very drastic change when it comes to singing hability. He sounded fairly generic and awkward on stuff from Various but from Chedoara onwards he simply started singing some really difficult stuff (pls don't wreck your voice overdoing those inhales though)

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Corey Taylor is the one that gets me most, nothing wrong with his vocals now but he definitely doesn't have that same aggression and gruffness to his voice he did in the Iowa days, RIP voice of the Iowa era... Apparently it was a result of too much drinking more than anything, but damn he sounded good back then. haha.