James Harrison

James Steven Harrison  CBE (born February 6, 1980) is a British singer-songwriter and record producer who gained worldwide fame as the lead vocalist of deathcore band Celestial Sphere.

Harrison along with his band are considered major pioneers in the deathcore genre. Beginning his career in 1998 in the death metal genre Harrison began to mix the death metal riffs and the metalcore breakdowns to form deathcore. The bands 2000 extended play Bliss from a Dead Embrace is often considered the first deathcore album.

Harrison, as part of Celestial Sphere, became the first extreme metal artist to have mainstream chart success with all of their studio albums reaching the top ten of the UK charts and seven reaching number one. The have also achieved two number one singles "Bring Me Home" and "Hickory Creek", the latter being the bands first and only track to feature entirely clean vocals.

Harrison is married to Nightwish lead singer Floor Jansen, first meeting in 1999 before marrying in 2005, they have four children together and Harrison has a further three from previous relationships.