William Ramos is an American singer who is the lead vocalist of the

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band

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Early life

Will Ramos grew up in a small town in

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near

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, and has continued to live there into adulthood. He is of Puerto Rican descent. He has three half sisters, all of whom are separated in age from him by fifteen years or more. Ramos grew up playing music, and says he learned

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and

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starting at around fourteen years old by imitating the heavy metal music he enjoyed. He credits his early interest in heavier music to friends who introduced him to bands including

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, and

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. Ramos has cited as influences the bands

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and

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, and credits his attempts to mimic the vocalists Dan Watson from

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and

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with helping him to learn to perform high vocals.

Career

In around 2014 or 2015, Will Ramos began performing with his first band, the

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group Secrets Don't Sleep. He later joined the deathcore bands Flawed Saviour and

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, which went on tour with

prior to Ramos joining the band. He also worked in the film industry as a freelancer. When he joined Lorna Shore in 2020, Ramos was the vocalist for both the metalcore band A Monument of a Memory and the

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band Euclid.

Lorna Shore

Ramos first performed with Lorna Shore in March 2020 as a stand-in replacing CJ McCreery on the band's European tour with

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, and Viscera. The tour was ultimately cut short due to the

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. Shortly after Ramos joined the group on a touring basis in March, the band decided to record an EP with him. 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''. In June 2021, the band announced that Ramos would be joining as the group's permanent vocalist, and released the first

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and music video from the EP, "To The Hellfire". "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 ''

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'', who described "Will Ramos' downright absurd vocal performance loaded with nightmarish high shrieks and one spotlight pig squeal that set the internet on fire". 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.''

Guest vocals

In November 2021, Ramos performed guest vocals for a revised version of Brand of Sacrifice's track "Lifeblood". In February 2023, Ramos performed guest vocals on "Heritage" by Dutch deathcore band Distant. In March 2023, Ramos was a guest vocalist on the song "Trag3dy" from

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's album '' Void Eternal''. Ramos performed a song called "Leviathan", released in March 2023 as

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for the 2022 '' Metal: Hellsinger''

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video game. In April 2024,

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re-released a single titled "The Cleansing" from the band's prior year album, ''

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'', featuring a new guest performance by Ramos to celebrate the album's one-year release anniversary. On January 22, 2025,

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released the single "Atonement", which featured Ramos. The song marks the first time Ramos has recorded clean vocals for an album.

Other projects

Ramos has joined

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for several videos on her YouTube channel, "The Charismatic Voice". In one, Ramos performs harsh vocals while undergoing a

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to provide insight into the anatomical movements that produce the various growling, screaming, and squealing sounds he uses in his music. Ramos periodically posts one-take performances of Lorna Shore songs on YouTube, as well as vocal covers of songs by musicians including

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, and

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. Ramos has also collaborated with musician and YouTuber Nik Nocturnal. 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,

's Dickie Allen, Spite's Darius Tehrani, and Traitors' Tyler Shelton, released their debut single "Cut. Bleed. Repeat." in March 2023, and the follow-up "Vessel" in July 2023.

Discography

* '' ...And I Return to Nothingness'' (EP, 2021) * '' Pain Remains'' (2022) * ''I Feel the Everblack Festering Within Me'' (2025) Project: Vengeance * "Cut. Bleed. Repeat." (single, March 2023) * "Vessel" (single, July 2023) Euclid * ''Euclid'' (EP, 2020) * ''Exsomnis'' (2021)

* "The Imperfect: Iconoclast" (single, 2016) * "A Darkened Gospel" (single, 2017) * ''Insidious: Phase II'' (2017) Flawed Saviour * ''The Abandoned'' (EP, 2016) 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

) * 2024: "Riptide" (with The Gnarly Neighbor) * 2024: "The Cleansing" (with

) * 2024: "Dark Signs" (with Nik Nocturnal) –

cover * 2024: "Top 10 Statues That Cried Blood" (with Nik Nocturnal) –

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cover * 2025: "Dance!" (with

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) * 2025: "Atonement" (with

) * 2025: "Clouded Retinas" (with

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)

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ramos, William 1990s births 21st-century American male singers 21st-century American singers 21st-century Puerto Rican male singers 21st-century Puerto Rican singers American heavy metal singers American lyricists American musicians of Puerto Rican descent American death metal musicians Living people Singers from New Jersey Year of birth missing (living people) Metalcore singers