Aaron Stainthorpe (born November 12, 1968) is My Dying Bride's vocalist. When on stage, he is known for not making eye-contact with the audience because of his stage fright. He has often stated in interviews that he would become frustrated and perform poorly if he could see someone in the crowd who wasn't enjoying the show. November 12 is the 316th day of the year (317th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 49 days remaining. ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... My Dying Bride are a British death metal/doom metal hybrid band. ... Stage fright refers to an anxiety, fear or persistent phobia related to performance in front of an audience. ...
Born in Germany, his Father was a british army officer, his mother, Irish. Ran a great underground 'zine during the late eighties. The death of his mother had a profound on Aaron, leading, in part, to the deapair of his lyric's.
In December 2005, it was announced that Stainthorpe would lend his voice and some lyrics to an as yet untitled song with Sarah Jezebel Deva's new band Angtoria. The track - taken from the band's first album 'God Has A Plan For Us All' - was tentatively slated for release in April 2006. Sarah Jezebel Deva (real name, Sarah Jane Ferridge) is the female singer for the British Melodic Black Metal band Cradle of Filth and has been with the band since V Empire, although she is not officially referred to as a member of the group. ...
Nick Holmes (from Paradise Lost), Darren White (from Anathema) and AaronStainthorpe (from My Dying Bride) were the main developers of grunts within this context, in the early 1990s.
Stainthorpe was one of the first to make combined use of grunts and clean singing, a technique which was further developed mainly by Mikael Åkerfeldt (from Opeth).
Funeral doom metal bands have taken a different approach to death grunts.
Aaron was the great-grandson of Levi (Exodus 6:16-20) and represented the priestly functions of his tribe.
The presumption of the murmurers was rebuked, and Miriam was smitten with leprosy.
Aaron himself was not struck with the plague on account of sacerdotal immunity; and Miriam, after seven days’ quarantine, was healed and restored to favor (Numbers 12).