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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 and Swedish death metal band Bloodbath. Biography 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 with Paradise Lost with Bloodbath Grand Morbid Funeral (2014, Peaceville Records) The Arrow of Satan is Drawn (2018, Peaceville Records) Survival of the Sickest (2022, Napalm Records) with Host IX (2023, Nuclear Blast) Guest appearances 3 AM - "Deus Ex Machina" - Liv Kristine (1998, Swanlake) For a Voice Like Thunder - "Rituals" - Rotting Christ (2016, Season of Mist) Gallows Bird - "Hour of the Nightingale" - Trees of Eternity - (2016, Svart Records) Wake Up the Coma - "Wake Up the Coma" - Front Line Assembly (2019, Metropolis Records) ... and a Cross Now Marks His Place - Where Fear and Weapons Meet - 1914 (2021, Napalm Records) Filmography 666 - At Calling Death (1993, documentary, directed: Matt Vain) Over the Madness (2007, documentary, directed: Diran Noubar) References External links Media related to Nick Holmes at Wikimedia Commons. Discover the Nick Holmes popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Nick Holmes books.
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Writings on Irish Folklore, Legend and Myth
William YeatsThis collection brings together all of W. B. Yeats’s published prose writings on Irish folklore, legend and myth, with pieces on subjects including ghosts, kidnappers, fairies, anc...
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The Return of the Pharaoh
Nicholas MeyerIn Nicholas Meyer's The Return of the Pharaoh, Sherlock Holmes returns in an adventure that takes him to Egypt in search of a missing nobleman, a previously undiscovered pharaoh's ...
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Death Wears a Mask
Ashley WeaverEdgar Awardshortlisted author Ashley Weaver returns with Death Wears a Mask, the witty and stylish next installment in the delightful 1930s Amory Ames mystery series“Amory Ames and...
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The Vinland Sagas
Hermann Palsson & Magnus MagnussonOne of the most arresting stories in the history of exploration, these two Icelandic sagas tell of the discovery of America by Norsemen five centuries before Christopher Columbus. ...
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An Intimate Study of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan DoyleAn Intimate Study of Sherlock Holmes was written by Conan Doyle for the January 15, 1918 issue of Detective Story Magazine. It is an interesting insight into Conan Doyle's thin...
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Never Can Say Goodbye
Sari BottonFrom the editor of the celebrated anthology Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York, comes a new collection of original essays on what keeps writers tethered to...