Ralf Scheepers (born 5 February 1965) is the vocalist for the German heavy metal band

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. He has a relatively high-pitched tenor-esque singing voice and sometimes uses a shriek reminiscent of

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's Rob Halford, although it is his baritone lows which give him a near four-octave range in the modal register. He has also sung in

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and Tyran' Pace. Scheepers has also done guest vocals for the bands Avantasia, Scanner, Therion, Ayreon, and Shadow Gallery, and worked with Tom Galley on

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's ''Blind Faith'' album. He currently provides instruction for all around singing, music, studio and recording/processing techniques at RS Vocal Works in Baltmannsweiler, Germany. Writer Paul Stenning has described him as "the greatest example of strength in metal."

Discography

Primal Fear

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'' (1998) *''

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'' (1999) *'' Nuclear Fire'' (2001) *''EP - Horrorscope'' (2002) *'' Black Sun'' (2002) *''DVD - The History of Fear'' (2003) *'' Devil's Ground'' (2004) *''

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'' (2005) *'' Metal Is Forever : The Very Best of Primal Fear'' (2006) *'' New Religion'' (2007) *'' 16.6: Before the Devil Knows You're Dead'' (2009) *''Live in the USA'' (2010) *''DVD - 16.6 All over the World'' (2010) *'' Unbreakable'' (2012) *'' Delivering the Black'' (2014) *'' Rulebreaker'' (2016) *''DVD - Angels of Mercy: Live in Germany'' (2017) *''Best Of Fear'' (2017) *''

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'' (2018) *'' Metal Commando'' (2020) *''I Will Be Gone feat.

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'' (2021)

Tyran' Pace

* ''Eye to Eye'' (1983) * ''Long Live Metal'' (1984) * ''Watching You'' (1986)

Gamma Ray

* '' Heading for Tomorrow'' (1990) * ''DVD/VHS/LASERDISC -

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'' (1990) * '' Sigh No More'' (1991) * '' Insanity and Genius'' (1993) * ''DVD/VHS/LASERDISC - Lust for Live'' (1993) * ''DVD/VHS/LASERDISC Power of Metal (1994)'' ''live compilation together with Rage, Conception, and Helicon'' * '' The Best (of)'' (2015) * ''30 Years of Amazing Awesomeness'' (2021) * ''DVD - 30 Years Live Anniversary'' (2021)

F.B.I.

*''Hell on Wheels'' (1993)

Solo

*'' Scheepers'' (2011)

Blackwelder

*''Survival of the Fittest'' (2015)

Enzo and the Glory Ensemble

*''In the Name of the Father'' (2015) *''In the Name of the Son'' (2017) *''In the Name of the World Spirit'' (2020)

Michael Schenker Group

*’’Immortal’’ (2021)

Guest appearances

*'' Scanner'' - ''

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'' (1988) *''German Rock Project'' - ''Let Love Conquer the World'' (1991) *'' Sinner'' - '' No More Alibis'' (1992) *'' Brainstorm'' – '' Hungry'' (1997) *'' Roland Grapow'' - '' The Four Seasons of Life'' (1997) *'' Scanner'' - '' Ball of the Damned'' (1997) *''

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'' - ''

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'' (1998) *'' Therion'' - '' Vovin'' (1998) *'' Sinner'' - '' The Nature of Evil'' (1998) *'' Therion'' - '' Crowning of Atlantis'' (1999) *'' Ayreon'' - '' Universal Migrator Part 2: Flight of the Migrator'' (2000) *''VA - Catch The Rainbow : A Tribute to Rainbow'' (2000) *''VA - German Rock Stars'' - ''Wings of Freedom'' (2001) *'' Sinner'' - '' There Will Be Execution'' (2003) *'' Tribuzy'' - ''

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'' (2005) *'' Sinner'' - '' Mask of the Sanity'' (2007) *'' Tribuzy'' - ''Execution Live Reunion'' (2007) *''Solna'' - ''Sent from Heaven (EP)'' (2008) *'' Shadow Gallery'' - ''

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'' (2009) *''Solna'' - ''Eurameric'' (2009) *''

'' - ''Blind Faith'' (2010) *''

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'' - ''Legends'' (2011) *''Helker'' - ''Somewhere in the Circle'' (2013) *''Highlord'' - ''The Warning After'' (2013) *''Nergard'' - ''Memorial for a Wish'' (2013) *''Rage of Angels'' - ''Dreamworld'' (2013) *'' Magnus Karlsson'' - ''

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'' (2013) *'' Pamela Moore'' - ''Resurrect Me'' (2013) *''Domination'' - ''Doom in Nation'' (2013) *'' Mägo de Oz'' - ''The Black Book'' (2013) *''Hellcircles'' - ''Prelude to Decline'' (2014) *''Desert'' - ''Never Regret'' (2015) *''Gaelbah'' - ''Häxan'' (2015) *''Graveshadow'' - ''Blink'' (2015) *'' Hansen'' - ''XXX : 30 Years Of Metal'' (2016) *''Derdian'' - ''Revolution Era'' (2016) *''The Rose of Lilith'' - ''Soulless'' (2017) *''Soulspell Metal Opera'' - ''The Second Big Bang'' (2017) *''Europica'' - ''Part One'' (2017) *''Icy Steel'' - ''Guest on Earth'' (2018) *''Constantine'' - ''Aftermath'' (2019) *''Hellrazer'' - ''Bonecrusher'' (2019) *''Trend Kill Ghosts'' - ''Kill Your Ghosts'' (2019) *''Adrian Benegas'' - ''The Revenant'' (2019) *''Vanish'' - ''Altered Insanity'' (2020) *''Hellbound'' - ''Overlords'' (2020) *''Avaland'' - ''Theater of Sorcery'' (2021) *''Marius Danielsen'' - ''Legend of Valley Doom Part III'' (2021) *'' Trick or Treat'' - ''The Unlocked Songs'' (2021) *'' Powerwolf - ''

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'' (Deluxe Version)'' (2021) *''Basement Prophecy'' - Metal Zeit (Daalschlag cover) (2021) *'' Avantasia'' - The Wicked Rule the Night (2022) *''

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'' - You Will Never Be Our God (2022)

Filmography

As actor

*''Dreath: Sidestories Underground (Short 2012) - Soldier *''Devil's Five'' (2021) - Ansel Schneider

Soundtrack

*''Gamma Ray: Skeletons & Majesties Live'' (Video 2012) (lyrics: "The Spririt", "Brothers") / (writer: "Brothers")

References

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