Sylvain Houde
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Sylvain Houde was the singer and lyricist of the Canadian
death metal
band Kataklysm
. He was the band's original singer and left after three albums to form a band of his own, which apparently never surfaced. He is known for his very deep and fast death grunt which he combined with higher pitched, shrieking grunts.
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
death metal
Death metal
Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....
band Kataklysm
Kataklysm
Kataklysm is a Canadian death metal band. They call their musical style "northern hyperblast" after an advertisement in M.E.A.T. magazine describing another band, Fear Factory, as "hyperblast". The term refers to the extremely fast blast beats that Kataklysm's drummer, Max Duhamel, fuses into the...
. He was the band's original singer and left after three albums to form a band of his own, which apparently never surfaced. He is known for his very deep and fast death grunt which he combined with higher pitched, shrieking grunts.