Hamish Glencross
Person · male · United Kingdom · Dundee · born 1978
British musician
Also known as Хэмиш Гленкросс
Timeline
1970s
Biography
Biography
Hamish Glencross is a Scottish guitarist best known for his work with the English metal band My Dying Bride. He also co-founded the short-lived Blackdoom Records with the band's other guitarist, Andrew Craighan.
Glencross had a brief acting career before concentrating on music, most notably in the UK children's drama Children's Ward.
Prior to joining My Dying Bride, Glencross played guitar for Bradford alternative rock band Driftwood, UK progressive metal band Seer's Tear, and Leeds-based punk/metal band Apocalypso. He was a member of UK doom metal band Solstice playing on their album New Dark Age. In 1999 he replaced My Dying Bride guitarist Calvin Robertshaw prior to the band touring for the album The Light at the End of the World. As of 2011, he also plays lead guitar in the UK death metal band Vallenfyre, appearing on the albums A Fragile King, Splinters and Fear Those Who Fear Him all released on Century Media Records.
On 6 June 2014, My Dying Bride announced via their web site that Glencross had left the band due to "irreconcilable differences," and that former guitarist Calvin Robertshaw would be returning.
Glencross is currently vocalist and guitarist in epic doom band Godthrymm which also features members and ex-members of My Dying Bride, Anathema, and Solstice.
Glencross currently endorses Jackson guitars, and has been playing them exclusively since 2006. He favours the Jackson Randy Rhoads model, playing a number of variations of that model both live and in the studio.
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 8 | 49.7th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
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Discography (0 release groups)
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Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Hamish Glencross head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 8 | 49.7th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Awards & honours
Line-up
| Name | From | To | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seer’s Tear(band) | 1994 | 1996 | electric guitar |
| Solstice(band) | 1996 | 1999 | electric guitar |
| My Dying Bride(band) | 1999 | 6 June 2014 | electric guitar |
| Vallenfyre(band) | 2010 | 2018 | electric guitar,original |
| Vallenfyre(band) | 2017 | 2018 | electric bass guitar |
| Godthrymm(band) | 2017 | present | lead vocals,original |
| Green Sabre(band) | 2025 | present | electric guitar |
Where this record comes from
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https://musicbrainz.org/artist/37ac996e-4329-425e-a33b-31cd76693c18core—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2525225genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2525225seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamish_Glencrossbiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamish_Glencross
Why this artist is in the database
- List of Scottish musicians
Tier rule: curated genre/region list
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Wikidata: Q2525225 · MusicBrainz: 37ac996e-4329-425e-a33b-31cd76693c18
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