Will Ramos

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Will Ramos
Will Ramos standing onstage, singing into a microphone and raising his other hand, with a red backlight
Ramos performing in 2022
Background information
Birth nameWilliam Ramos
Born1993 or 1994 (age 29–30)
New Jersey, U.S.
Genres
Occupation(s)
  • Singer
  • songwriter
Years active2014–present
Member ofLorna Shore

William Ramos (born 1993 or 1994)[5] is an American singer who is the lead vocalist of the deathcore band Lorna Shore.

Early life[edit]

Will Ramos grew up in a small town in New Jersey near New York City, and has continued to live there into adulthood.[6] He is of Puerto Rican descent.[6][7] He has three half sisters, all of whom are separated in age from him by fifteen years or more.[7]

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.[8][7] 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.[7] Ramos has cited as influences the bands Infant Annihilator[9] and All Shall Perish,[6] and credits his attempts to mimic the vocalists Dan Watson from Enterprise Earth and Mitch Lucker from Suicide Silence with helping him to learn to perform high vocals.[6][7]

Career[edit]

In around 2014 or 2015, Will Ramos began performing with his first band, the metalcore group Secrets Don't Sleep.[7] He later joined the deathcore band A Wake In Providence,[10] which went on tour with Lorna Shore prior to Ramos joining the band.[10][7] He also worked in the film industry as a freelancer.[9] 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.[9]

Lorna Shore[edit]

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.[11] The tour was ultimately cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[12] Shortly after Ramos joined the group on a touring basis in March, the band decided to record an EP with him.[9] 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.[13]

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".[13] "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".[6]

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.[5]

Guest vocals[edit]

In November 2021, Ramos performed guest vocals for a revised version of Brand of Sacrifice's track "Lifeblood".[6][14] In February 2023, Ramos performed guest vocals on "Heritage" by Dutch deathcore band Distant.[15] In March 2023, Ramos was a guest vocalist on the song "Trag3dy" from nothing,nowhere.'s album Void Eternal.[16] Ramos performed a song called "Leviathan", released in March 2023 as downloadable content for the 2022 Metal: Hellsinger rhythmic first-person shooter video game.[17]

Other projects[edit]

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.[18]

Ramos periodically posts one-take performances of Lorna Shore songs on YouTube,[19] as well as vocal covers of songs by musicians including Sleep Token, Chelsea Grin, and Spiritbox.[20][21]

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,[22] and the follow-up "Vessel" in July 2023.

Discography[edit]

Lorna Shore

Project: Vengeance

  • "Cut. Bleed. Repeat." (single, March 2023)
  • "Vessel" (single, July 2023)

Euclid

  • Euclid (EP, 2020)
  • Exsomnis (2021)

A Wake in Providence

  • The Imperfect: Iconoclast (EP, 2016)
  • A Darkened Gospel (EP, 2017)
  • Insidious: Phase II (2017)

Guest appearances

  • 2015: "Find Me Guilty" (with Secrets Don't Sleep)
  • 2015: "Anomaly" (with Secrets Don't Sleep)
  • 2015: "Still Standing" (with Secrets Don't Sleep)
  • 2016: "Thanatophobic" (with Monument of a Memory)
  • 2017: "The Void" (with Deathsinger)
  • 2017: "History of a Drowning Boy" (with Cranely Gardens)
  • 2018: "Comatose" (with Monument of a Memory)
  • 2018: "The Extermination Process" (with Gravewalker)
  • 2018: "Ocean of Illusions" (with Ocean of Illusions)
  • 2018: "Repeat" (with The Fallen Prodigy)
  • 2019: "Damned" (with Sold Soul)
  • 2021: "Lifeblood" (with Brand of Sacrifice)
  • 2021: "400" (with Beyond Deviation)
  • 2022: "Victorious When the Devil Failed" (with Monument of a Memory)
  • 2022: "Anabolic Spudsman" (Thique edition; with Bilmuri)
  • 2022: "Torture Congregation" (with Semi-Rotted)
  • 2023: "Heritage" (with Distant)
  • 2023: "Leviathan" (with Metal: Hellsinger)
  • 2023: "Trag3dy" (with nothing,nowhere.)
  • 2024: "Riptide" (with The Gnarly Neighbor)
  • 2024: "The Cleansing" (with August Burns Red)
  • 2024: "Dark Signs" (with Nik Nocturnal) - Sleep Token cover

References[edit]

  1. ^ Goodrich, Jason (October 12, 2022). "How Lorna Shore Beat the Odds to Become the New Faces of Deathcore". Revolver. Archived from the original on October 15, 2022. Retrieved October 15, 2022.
  2. ^ DiVita, Joe (March 22, 2022). "Yes, Lorna Shore Are Actually Bringing Deathcore to Lollapalooza". Loudwire. Archived from the original on May 17, 2022. Retrieved April 30, 2022.
  3. ^ Aarons, Ricky (August 12, 2021). "Lorna Shore – …And I Return to Nothingness (EP Review)". Wall of Sound. Archived from the original on October 15, 2022. Retrieved October 14, 2022.
  4. ^ Morin, Max (October 12, 2022). "Album Review: Lorna Shore Pain Remains". Metal Injection. Archived from the original on October 14, 2022. Retrieved October 14, 2022.
  5. ^ a b Aarons, Ricky (October 12, 2023). "Virtual Hangs: Will Ramos of Lorna Shore 'Writing Lorna Shore's Romantic Deathcore Ballad'". Wall Of Sound. Retrieved April 8, 2023.
  6. ^ a b c d e f DiVita, Joe (December 13, 2021). "Interview - Lorna Shore's 'To the Hellfire' Is the 2021 Song of the Year". Loudwire. Retrieved April 8, 2023.
  7. ^ a b c d e f g Ramos, Will (November 12, 2021). "Lorna Shore's Will Ramos: Tea Time Interview with The Charismatic Voice" (Interview). Interviewed by Elizabeth Zharoff.
  8. ^ Pementel, Michael (October 14, 2023). "'I don't look at myself as a deathcore vocalist': Lorna Shore Singer Will Ramos Talks Vocal Care, Love For Manga, + Crafting Tragedy On 'Pain Remains". The Pit. Retrieved April 8, 2023.
  9. ^ a b c d Finney, Graham (August 23, 2021). "Lorna Shore Vocalist Will Ramos on Inspiration, Internet Comments, and Joining One of His Favourite Bands". V13.net. Retrieved April 8, 2023.
  10. ^ a b Chillingworth, Alec (January 11, 2023). "Lorna Shore are the deathcore band 2023 needs: "We wanna make people cry and punch each other in the head"". LouderSound. Retrieved April 8, 2023.
  11. ^ Neilstein, Vince (March 6, 2020). "And Lorna Shore's New Vocalist is..." MetalSucks. Retrieved April 8, 2023.
  12. ^ "Lorna Shore Releases Music Video For New Single 'To The Hellfire'". Blabbermouth.net. June 11, 2021. Retrieved April 8, 2023.
  13. ^ a b Neilstein, Vince (June 11, 2021). "Lorna Shore Drop "To the Hellfire" Single with New Vocalist Will Ramos". MetalSucks. Retrieved April 8, 2023.
  14. ^ Enis, Eli (November 11, 2021). "Hear Lorna Shore's Will Ramos Rage on Brand of Sacrifice's "Lifeblood" Redux". Revolver. Retrieved April 8, 2023.
  15. ^ Carter, Emily (February 8, 2023). "Distant team up with Lorna Shore's Will Ramos for new single Heritage". Kerrang!. Retrieved April 8, 2023.
  16. ^ Enis, Eli (March 31, 2023). "Hear Lorna Shore's Will Ramos rage on Nothing, Nowhere.'s new song "Trag3dy"". Revolver. Retrieved April 8, 2023.
  17. ^ Pementel, Michael (March 29, 2023). "Listen: New 'Metal: Hellsinger' Song 'Leviathan' Features Lorna Shore's Will Ramos". The Pit. Retrieved April 8, 2023.
  18. ^ Selzer, Jonathan (June 15, 2022). "Watch Lorna Shore vocalist Will Ramos scream from a camera inside his throat". LouderSound. Retrieved April 8, 2023.
  19. ^ "See Will Ramos' insane one-take vocal performance of Lorna Shore's "Immortal"". Revolver. January 9, 2023. Retrieved April 8, 2023.
  20. ^ Keenan, Hesher (March 13, 2023). "Will Ramos Dropped Some Clean Vocals in His Cover of Sleep Token's "Chokehold"". MetalSucks. Retrieved April 8, 2023.
  21. ^ DiVita, Joe (April 29, 2022). "Lorna Shore's Will Ramos + Nik Nokturnal Beef Up Deathcore Classic With New Cover". Loudwire. Retrieved April 8, 2023.
  22. ^ Enis, Eli (March 8, 2023). "Deathcore supergroup PROJECT: VENGEANCE: Hear brutal debut single "CUT. BLEED. REPEAT."". Revolver. Retrieved April 8, 2023.
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