Nice question, yeah alot of people have said its very much like the forefather guys and that is a band I really enjoy. When we designed the part it slowly developed into what it became really. I practice my singing to anything I can, if I hear music on and summat sounds hard for me to do, I'll have a go at it regardless of what it is, alot of the time I take the mikey too
As for the influences on that part if I was to really point a finger at what I was considering voice wise I'd have to say Keith Caputo on Life of Agonys River Runs Red album, he has a very distintive voice on that album, personally as clean vocals go I think it sounds great. A shame it all went down the toilet after that.