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Nick Holmes
Holmes performing in 2024
Holmes performing in 2024
Background information
Birth nameNicholas John Arthur Holmes[1]
Born (1971-01-07) 7 January 1971 (age 53)
OriginUnited Kingdom
GenresGothic metal, death metal, death-doom, doom metal, gothic rock
Occupation(s)Singer, songwriter
Years active1988–present
Member ofParadise Lost, Bloodbath, Host

Nicholas John Arthur Holmes (born 7 January 1971) is an English singer, best known as the lead vocalist of the gothic metal/doom metal band Paradise Lost[2] and Swedish death metal band Bloodbath.[3]

Biography

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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 (Anathema and My Dying Bride), the band began purely as death metal, with Holmes using a low, guttural death grunt on their early demos and Lost Paradise (1990), Gothic (1991), and Shades of God (1992) full-lengths (though the latter two albums were not exclusively death metal in execution, and Holmes even utilized some clean vocals as well). 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, Holmes' 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 and 2020's Obsidian.

In September 2014, it was officially announced that Holmes had replaced Mikael Åkerfeldt as the vocalist in the Swedish death metal band Bloodbath, taking the moniker Old Nick. He has thus far released three albums with the band, Grand Morbid Funeral (2014), The Arrow of Satan Is Drawn (2018) and Survival of the Sickest (2022).

Discography

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with Paradise Lost

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with Bloodbath

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with Host

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Guest appearances

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Filmography

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  • 666 - At Calling Death (1993, documentary, directed: Matt Vain)
  • Over the Madness (2007, documentary, directed: Diran Noubar)

References

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  1. ^ nuclearblastuk. "Happy Birthday! Nicholas John Arthur Holmes - Paradise Lost #NuclearBlastOnThisDay". Tumblr. Retrieved 22 October 2020.
  2. ^ Jason Ankeny. "Paradise Lost - Biography - AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
  3. ^ "Bloodbath Recruits Paradise Lost's Nick Holmes As Its New Singer - Blabbermouth.net". BLABBERMOUTH.NET. 16 September 2014. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
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