Added: Dec 3, 2011
From: zorland876
Duration: 10:9
Stu Block is the lead vocalist for prog-death metal band Into Eternity, and most recent Barlow replacement in Iced Earth. He is a rather tonally versatile low tenor, and as the singer for Into Eternity he is very comfortable in guttural techniques, both in the high and low side (in the studio at least, every voice you hear is in fact Stu). It is not strange for Stu to jump back and forth between brutal and clean, multiple tones and registers in one verse, or even one line. Speaking of which, he utilizes an odd form of head voice sometimes in the fifth octave featuring lots of overdrive. He also does a fairly good job channeling Matt Barlow. Note: The lack of non-modal does not mean I don't find them countable or impressive, just that the pitching on them is very tricky, so I lazily decided not to include them since they don't count toward full range anyway. 0:00 - Very strong and dramatic B♭2 singing from "Dante's Inferno 2011" 0:15 - A run down to a brief but warm A2 in "End of Innocence" 0:24 - Two A2s from a live version of "Iced Earth" in Amsterdam 0:38 - Strong G♯2s from "Dante's Inferno 2011" 0:53 - A few G♯s and one G2 from "Slave to the Dark" live in Baracaldo 1:15 - A couple more clips from "Dante's Inferno": First, very strong F♯2s 1:41 - And finally, a section with numerous F2s and E2s! Much lower than Barlow sang it 2:14 - High notes now: Nice soft singing up to B♭4 in "The Incurable Tragedy II" 3:18 - Building up to a sustained B♭4 in Iced Earth's "Anthem" 3:36 - Several gravelly B♭ and B4s from "Damien" live in Melkweg 4:00 - Singing up to C5 (and switching to falsetto for G♯5s) in "Suspension of Disbelief" 4:15 - Some thin C♯5s in a live performance of "Declaration Day" 4:45 - Effortless C♯5s from the chorus of "Tides of Blood" 4:59 - Singing up to C5, then B4 with a trill to D5 in "Indignation" 5:09 - Working up to a great sustained D5 in "Diagnosis Terminal" 5:23 - Emotional singing up to D5 in the back vocals with a couple short E♭5s in "The Incurable Tragedy I" 5:43 - Trilling twice to E♭5 in "Severe Emotional Distress" 6:15 - A pretty similar passage with more projected E♭s from the awesome "Dark City" by Iced Earth 6:48 - For something pretty different: using a very gruff head voice to sing up to E5, with short falsetto F♯5s and then a short line on B ♭5(!) in "Nothing" 7:06 - And on to the very plentiful falsetto register: F5s in "Equilibrium" by Iced Earth 7:22 - A line on F♯5 from "A Black Light Ending" 7:34 - A powerful sustained F♯5 from "Iced Earth" in Amsterdam 7:46 - A quick G5 followed by a sustained F♯5 in "Indignation" 7:56 - Switching from head voice to falsetto for G5 in "Paralyzed" 8:03 - Background vocals singing the melody line on G♯5 in "Surrounded by Night"; by far Into Eternity's best song 8:17 - Extremely well controlled G♯5s from the famous last verse of "Declaration Day". Messes up the words a little though 8:47 - An insane passage from "Tides of Blood" where he sings up to E♭5 in rough head voice and ends on piercing falsetto G♯5s 9:07 - Singing twice up to strong A5s in "Out" 9:21 - First a line sustaining G♯5s, then doubling the lead vocal on B♭5 in "Tides of Blood" 9:34 - Rather impressively sustained B♭5 from "Timeless Winter" 9:48 - And finally, working up to a more powerful, vibrattish B♭5 in "Eternal" Thanks to TheTarantinoManiac, Danerage, opentoedsandles, and GoodGuitarSolos.
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zorland876 Says:
Dec 4, 2011 - What talking are you referring to?
zorland876 Says:
Dec 4, 2011 - As do I, my friend.
InventorOfMetal Says:
Dec 4, 2011 - Great video! Keep 'em coming!
Spydrfish Says:
Dec 4, 2011 - Maybe I could have made it a bit more specific, the song "Dystopia" in harmony with his high singing, probably some frying involved even if it is him.
zorland876 Says:
Dec 4, 2011 - I believe that's Schaffer doing that part. He does it live as well, though it sounds less fryish.
GoodGuitarSolos Says:
Dec 4, 2011 - Fantastic vocalist, I find it impressive how well he is able to emulate between his tone. Those clips from "Dante's Inferno 2011" were SO baritonish, yet he is able to sing in a really light manner too. The highs around 4:45 were so effortless.
BassManqk Says:
Dec 5, 2011 - Make a Tim Roth vid :)
SaturnineXTS Says:
Dec 27, 2011 - Guys... I wonder why Stu calls his ultra-high notes falsetto, when quite clearly they're head voice. Falsetto is weak and airy, it's a misnomer for ultra-high male vocals. A trained vocalist won't use falsetto at all, unless intentionally as an embellishment, but that's mainly in soul music and stuff.
SaturnineXTS Says:
Dec 27, 2011 - And I'm deducing from your video description that you do count falsetto as "modal", which even further makes me think it's head voice, since what I know as falsetto is what your modal voice breaks into at your bridge if you're an untrained singer.
zorland876 Says:
Dec 29, 2011 - I don't count falsetto as modal, that's a contradiction. That's why I seperate falsetto from the rest of the notes.
SaturnineXTS Says:
Dec 29, 2011 - Oh. So Stu actually does use falsetto? I mean I know that sometimes he does, but I've always thought that most of his high notes were in modal head voice. Silly me.
AnthonyRF1996 Says:
Jan 5, 2012 - he's completely self trained.
AnthonyRF1996 Says:
Jan 7, 2012 - he's so much stronger in Iced earth.
AnthonyRF1996 Says:
Jan 7, 2012 - most was schaffer. he did a lot of that in the matt and ripper era too.
AnthonyRF1996 Says:
Jan 7, 2012 - he wasn't that good on incurable tragedy, he got much better in scattering of ashes. even better in Iced earth.
zorland876 Says:
Jan 8, 2012 - Scattering of Ashes came first.
SpawnRevenge92 Says:
Mar 10, 2012 - Amazing and a wonderful succesor to Matt.
Alguear Says:
Mar 21, 2012 - Can´t understand what is the problem with the so called falsseto in rock. Is not the same thing that somebody makes a funny voice. It needs a technique created in rock, not in a conservatory, and great singers use it: gillan, halford, coverdale, martin, hughes to say some guys of ROCK. This fucking stupid shit with 'good' singing is destroying the originality of rock influence in metal to be substitute for a music criterion from academic form of music.
zorland876 Says:
Mar 21, 2012 - Huh?
Alguear Says:
Mar 21, 2012 - Nothing against your video. Just fighting against some idea of some metalheads that I think is not ok and is in other comments (or probably against nobody). Your video is ok.
AsAboveSoBelow01 Says:
Mar 28, 2012 - I'm liking Stu's guttural type vocals. Barlow is able to pull off that deep bass dramatic voice (Dante Inferno) a lot better though.
MetalD94 Says:
Apr 2, 2012 - I agree man! haha Dude When I saw Stu perform live, His voice is beyond powerful!! Holy Shit! lmao. you ever see him live? All the Falsetto sounds full right?But it's not full which is insane to make it sound that good. I talked to Stu about it. He said he never had real vocal lesson and he said he just figured it out on his own by singing stuff like Judas Priest and all the good stuff...
Alguear Says:
Apr 2, 2012 - Yeah man, I saw he in Costa Rica jaja great dude and really great singer. He screams spectacular and make a lot of cool stuf. I´m happy to see that a great band like I.E. return to a classic acid heavy metal form of singer lml
Minos Blizzard Says:
May 21, 2012 - Very good singer but his falsettos are terrible, like cartoons'...Ripper has better.Matt has better, Deris has better.He is not the great singer Iced Earth worth...
Spydrfish Says:
Dec 3, 2011 - Was all that stuff in Dystopia not Stu talking? thought it might have been.