The vocal range of Kenny Hickey
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- Опубликовано: 15 июл 2024
- In light of the success that my vocal range video for Peter Steele has seen, here we have a video for Type O Negative's other vocalist (and guitarist)! Juxtaposing Steele's booming bass voice with his own powerful tenor belt, Kenny Hickey first started doing occasional lead vocals on Type O Negative's The Origin of the Feces album in 1992, and continued to do so on every one of the band's releases thereafter except for 1996's October Rust. In 2003, he and Type O Negative drummer Johnny Kelly founded their own band, Seventh Void, which made its debut release (with Kenny handling all vocal parts), Heaven Is Gone, in 2009. Seventh Void has continued to tour and perform since Steele's demise and the disbandment of Type O Negative, though they have yet to release a second album. On the whole, Kenny has proven to be a very capable frontman for Seventh Void, and not only demonstrates more of the powerful upper fourth/lower fifth octave singing that he was known for in Type O Negative, but also gives the occasional glimpse of his lower range, something that was largely absent from his previous vocal work. Though he lacks the booming low resonance that Steele was known for, his high range has much more agility and ease than his former bandmate's, sometimes even carrying melodies as high as E5!
1. 0:00 - A nice display of 2+ octaves from the verse of “Shadow on Me”, which starts out with some dark singing down to B2, then climaxes with a powerful C♯5 scream.
2. 0:31 - Strong G♯4s from a performance of “Some Stupid Tomorrow” where Kenny sings the first half of the ending by himself, before being joined by Peter Steele later on in the song. It seems that Type O Negative always used this vocal arrangement for live performances of the song, though as far as I can tell, Peter sings the entire passage by himself on the studio version.
3. 0:52 - The classic A4s from the pre-chorus of “Black No.1 (Little Miss Scare-All)”, one of Type O Negative's most famous tunes.
4. 1:12 - Several sustained A4s from “Closing In”. This kind of heavier belting is very typical for Kenny's work with Seventh Void, as will become apparent later in the video.
5. 1:51 - Easy B♭4s from “Halloween in Heaven”, where Kenny trades off vocals with Peter. This clip really demonstrates the weight difference between their voices, despite the fact that they are both singing in the fourth octave.
6. 2:17 - Some heavy B4 singing from the verse of “Killing You Slow”.
7. 2:42 - Now another classic Kenny passage from a Type O Negative song: the chorus of “September Sun”, with some strong singing up to B4 and a short C♯5.
8. 3:13 - Some intense belting around C5 from “Closing In”.
9. 3:44 - The finale of “An Ode to Locksmiths”, where Kenny repeatedly sings up to C♯5. You can hear him starting to get a bit screamy in this clip, but he still hits the notes as powerfully as ever!
10. 4:14 - Here we have a live performance of “Anesthesia” where Kenny fills in on vocals during the ending to hit the climactic sustained C♯5s, originally sung by Peter. These, among other high notes (such as the sustained B4 from “Black No.1 (Little Miss Scare-All)”), were difficult notes for Peter to pull off live, thus he sometimes had his tenor bandmate sing them instead.
11. 4:53 - Kenny's highest notes on a studio recording: melody lines up to D5 from “These Three Things”. Though his live vocals are quite solid most of the time, this is one passage that I've actually heard him struggle with in certain performances.
12. 5:18 - Now we have a performance of “Shadow on Me” where Kenny takes a passage that originally tops at C5, and takes it a major third higher - singing melody E5s live!
13. 5:39 - A performance of “Halloween in Heaven” where Kenny sings a series of F♯4s in unison with Peter, shouts a few B♭4s, and then screams his way up to an F♯5! Kenny would typically throw in screams up to E♭5/E5 at the end of live performances of this song, but this is by far the highest I've ever heard him take it.
14. 6:02 - Now for a taste of Kenny's seldom-heard lower range, starting with some singing down to E3 from “Drown Inside”, followed by some more of his typical belting up to B4.
15. 6:37 - The opening verse of “Death of a Junkie”, where Kenny sings down to E♭3 under a phaser effect.
16. 7:11 - Some E3s and quick C♯3s from “Drown Inside”, shortly followed by some strong G♯4s.
17. 7:36 - Some dark singing down to D3 and B2 from “Broken Sky”, followed by an octave jump up to more B4s.
18. 8:00 - Kenny's lowest notes to date - several A2s and B2s from a live performance of “Drown Inside”, as well as a sustained B4 afterward. In the studio version of this song, he only bottoms at B2!
19. 8:22 - To conclude, here we have a lengthy clip from “Slow Descent”, featuring lots of Kenny's typical belty B4 singing, followed by some strong C5s and closing off with a powerful nine second B4! 
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Truly one of the most amazing vocalists of our time. I could never get tired of his voice.
He's impressive indeed, sometimes I could almost mistake him for the early Chris Cornell (with due respect for one of the most unique and talented singers ever).
I love his voice so much.
Could you do phil anselmo he's displayed amazing range with his numerous side projects
Love him! Thank you very much for this one and ofc for Peter
can't wait for his Silvertomb album
The vocal range of Andrew Eldritch please
❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Sorry, I'm not musical so I don't understand how many octaves all these notes represent. how many octaves does Kenny have? He's really good. A bit of Chris Cornell going on for sure and he even looks a bit like him :-D
God i miss Peter.
Should have just continued Type O. Kenny cant replace Pete but he is still a damn good singer. Bonehead move for not continuing Type O legacy, Kenny.
i mean the members other bands essentially a continuation of type O like
a pale horse named death and seventh void
Oh come on how could they continue the band, Pete was their friend, he died.
Not a very good year for vocal range videos...