Will Ramos | |
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 Ramos performing in 2022 with Lorna Shore | |
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| Birth name | William Ramos |
| Born | 1993or1994(age 30–31) New Jersey, U.S. |
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| Years active | 2014–present |
| Member of | Lorna Shore |
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William Ramos (born 1994) [6] is an American singer who is the lead vocalist of the deathcore band Lorna Shore.
Will Ramos grew up in a small town in New Jersey near New York City, and has continued to live there into adulthood. [7] He is of Puerto Rican descent. [7] [8] He has three half sisters, all of whom are separated in age from him by fifteen years or more. [8]
Ramos grew up playing music, and says he learned screaming and harsh vocals starting at around fourteen years old by imitating the heavy metal music he enjoyed. [9] [8] He credits his early interest in heavier music to friends who introduced him to bands including Bullet for My Valentine, Lamb of God, and Whitechapel. [8] Ramos has cited as influences the bands Infant Annihilator [10] and All Shall Perish, [7] and credits his attempts to mimic the vocalists Dan Watson from Enterprise Earth and Mitch Lucker of Suicide Silence with helping him to learn to perform high vocals. [7] [8]
In around 2014 or 2015, Will Ramos began performing with his first band, the metalcore group Secrets Don't Sleep. [8] He later joined the deathcore band A Wake In Providence, [11] which went on tour with Lorna Shore prior to Ramos joining the band. [11] [8] He also worked in the film industry as a freelancer. [10] When he joined Lorna Shore in 2020, Ramos was the vocalist for both the metalcore band A Monument of a Memory and the death metal band Euclid. [10]
Ramos first performed with Lorna Shore in March 2020 as a stand-in replacing CJ McCreery on the band's European tour with Decapitated, Beyond Creation, Ingested, and Viscera. [12] The tour was ultimately cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [13] Shortly after Ramos joined the group on a touring basis in March, the band decided to record an EP with him. [10] Lorna Shore guitarist Adam De Micco later explained that the band decided to do a three-song EP with Ramos "to see how the fit would be", which led to ...And I Return to Nothingness . [14]
In June 2021, the band announced that Ramos would be joining as the group's permanent vocalist, and released the first single and music video from the EP, "To The Hellfire". [14] "To the Hellfire" became a viral success for the band, peaking at number 4 on the Spotify Viral Chart's Top 10. It was later voted "2021 Song of the Year" by Loudwire , who described "Will Ramos' downright absurd vocal performance loaded with nightmarish high shrieks and one spotlight pig squeal that set the internet on fire". [7]
Lorna Shore released Pain Remains on October 14, 2022. It is the band's fourth studio album, and the first to feature Ramos as vocalist. Ramos was the lyricist for both ...And I Return to Nothingness and Pain Remains. [6]
In November 2021, Ramos performed guest vocals for a revised version of Brand of Sacrifice's track "Lifeblood". [7] [15] In February 2023, Ramos performed guest vocals on "Heritage" by Dutch deathcore band Distant. [16] In March 2023, Ramos was a guest vocalist on the song "Trag3dy" from nothing,nowhere.'s album Void Eternal . [17] Ramos performed a song called "Leviathan", released in March 2023 as downloadable content for the 2022 Metal: Hellsinger rhythmic first-person shooter video game. [18]
In April 2024, August Burns Red re-released a single titled "The Cleansing" from the band's prior year album, Death Below, featuring a new guest performance by Ramos to celebrate the album's one-year release anniversary. [19]
Ramos has joined Elizabeth Zharoff for several videos on her YouTube channel, "The Charismatic Voice". In one, Ramos performs harsh vocals while undergoing a laryngoscopy to provide insight into the anatomical movements that produce the various growling, screaming, and squealing sounds he uses in his music. [20]
Ramos periodically posts one-take performances of Lorna Shore songs on YouTube, [21] as well as vocal covers of songs by musicians including Sleep Token, Chelsea Grin, and Spiritbox. Ramos has also collaborated with musician and YouTuber Nik Nocturnal. [22] [23]
Ramos joined a group of other deathcore vocalists on a supergroup project originally entitled The Big Six, and later renamed to Project: Vengeance. The group, consisting of Ramos, Left to Suffer's Taylor Barber, Infant Annihilator's Dickie Allen, Spite's Darius Tehrani, and Traitors' Tyler Shelton, released their debut single "Cut. Bleed. Repeat." in March 2023, [24] and the follow-up "Vessel" in July 2023.
Project: Vengeance
Euclid
Guest appearances
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