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Scott Burns | |
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| Occupations | Composer, mastering engineer, mixing engineer, producer |
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Scott Burns is an American computer engineer and a former music producer of death metal records from late 1980s and 1990s. [1] He was crucial to the emergence of the Florida death metal scene, and has been called an "extreme metal overlord". [2] [3] [4]
He has produced many records for many influential death metal bands, including Death, Deicide, Cannibal Corpse, Sepultura, Obituary, Atheist, Transmetal, Suffocation, and Cynic. He has engineered some of the top genre-defining death metal albums such as Death's Human , Suffocation's Effigy of the Forgotten, Obituary's Slowly We Rot , and Cannibal Corpse's Tomb of the Mutilated. He most recently worked on the album Frozen in Time (2005) by Obituary. Burns has since quit producing full-time to work in computer programming. He said: "Since I was young and having fun, I got pigeonholed. Which is fine, but I was just 'the death metal guy.'" [5]
According to Jack Owen, Burns commuted an hour to Morrisound, and would often sleep in the studio or in band members' closets at their residences. [6]
In 2023, Burns was the subject of the David E. Gehlke biography The Scott Burns Sessions: A Life in Death Metal 1987–1997, which documents his career and albums produced at Morrisound and features interviews with him and other artists involved in their creation. [7] [8] [9] Following its release, Burns made a rare public appearance at the 2024 Decibel Metal and Beer Festival in Philadelphia. [10]
| Year | Band | Release | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | Death | Leprosy | Engineering [11] |
| 1989 | Amon | Sacrificial (Demo) | Mixing [12] [13] |
| The Guff | The Art of Deception (Demo) | Engineering [14] | |
| Sepultura | Beneath the Remains | Producer, Engineering, Mixing [15] | |
| Obituary | Slowly We Rot | Producer, Engineering, Mixing [16] | |
| Atheist | Piece of Time | Producer, Engineering [17] | |
| Terrorizer | World Downfall | Engineering [18] | |
| Awake! | Beliefs (EP) | Producer, Engineering [19] | |
| 1990 | Assück | Necrosalvation (EP) | Engineering [20] |
| Cynic | Demo 1990 | Producer, Engineering [21] | |
| Death | Spiritual Healing | Producer, Mixing [22] | |
| Cancer | To the Gory End | Producer, Mixing [23] | |
| Deicide | Deicide | Producer, Engineering, Mixing [24] | |
| Napalm Death | Harmony Corruption | Producer, Engineering, Mixing [25] | |
| Napalm Death | Suffer the Children | Producer, Engineer, Mixing [26] | |
| Cannibal Corpse | Eaten Back to Life | Producer, Engineering [27] | |
| Demolition Hammer | Tortured Existence | Producer, Engineer, Mixing [28] | |
| Obituary | Cause of Death | Producer, Engineering, Mixing [29] | |
| Master | Master | Producer, Engineer, Mixing [30] | |
| Atrocity | Hallucinations | Producer, Engineering, Mixing [31] | |
| Exhorder | Slaughter in the Vatican | Producer, Engineering, Mixing [32] | |
| Various artists | At Death's Door (A Collection of Brutal Death Metal) | Producer (tracks 1, 3, 6, 8, 9 & 12) [33] | |
| Hellwitch | Syzygial Miscreancy | Engineering [34] | |
| Overthrow | Within Suffering | Producer, Engineering, Mixing [35] | |
| 1991 | Cynic | Demo 1991 | Producer, Engineering [36] |
| Acheron | Rites of the Black Mass (Demo) | Producer [37] | |
| The Guff | Refuse to Crawl (Demo) | Producer, Engineering [38] | |
| Skeletal Earth | Eulogy for a Dying Fetus | Producer, Engineering [39] | |
| Sepultura | Arise | Producer, Engineering, Lyrical assistance & translation [40] | |
| Slap of Reality | Fletch (EP) | Producer, Engineer [41] | |
| Malevolent Creation | The Ten Commandments | Producer, Engineering, Mixing [42] | |
| Devastation | Idolatry | Producer, Engineering, Mixing [43] | |
| Cancer | Death Shall Rise | Producer [44] | |
| Cannibal Corpse | Butchered at Birth | Producer, Engineering [45] | |
| Loudblast | Disincarnate | Producer, Engineering, Mixing [46] | |
| Massacre | From Beyond | Engineering [47] | |
| Atheist | Unquestionable Presence | Producer [48] | |
| Pestilence | Testimony of the Ancients | Producer, Engineering, Mixing [49] | |
| Gorguts | Considered Dead | Producer, Engineering, Mixing [50] | |
| Death | Human | Producer, Mixing [51] | |
| Suffocation | Effigy of the Forgotten | Producer, Engineering, Mixing [52] | |
| Assück | Anticapital | Producer, Engineering [53] | |
| Master | On the Seventh Day God Created... Master | Producer, Engineering, Mixing [54] | |
| 1992 | Assück | Blindspot (EP) | Producer, Engineering [55] |
| Disincarnate | Soul Erosion (Demo) | Producer, Engineering, Mixing [56] | |
| Hideous Corpse | Demented (Demo) | Mixing [57] | |
| Sepultura | Third World Posse (EP) | Producer (track 1), Mixing (track 2) [58] | |
| Speckmann Project | Speckmann Project | Producer [59] | |
| The Guff | Jackass Live | Producer, Engineering [60] | |
| No Return | Contamination Rises | N/A [61] | |
| Acheron | Rites of the Black Mass | Producer, Engineering [62] | |
| Obituary | The End Complete | Producer, Engineering, Mixing [63] | |
| Deicide | Legion | Engineering, Mixing [64] | |
| Malevolent Creation | Retribution | Producer, Engineering, Mixing [65] | |
| Assück | State to State (EP) | Engineering [66] | |
| Solstice | Solstice | Engineering, Mixing [67] | |
| Cannibal Corpse | Tomb of the Mutilated | Producer, Engineering, Mixing [68] | |
| 1993 | Raped Ape | Terminal Reality (EP) | Producer, Engineering, Mixing [69] |
| Skeletal Earth | Dreighphuck (EP) | Producer [70] | |
| Various artists | At Death's Door II | Producer (tracks 2, 4, 7 & 8) [71] | |
| Resurrection | Embalmed Existence | Producer, Engineering [72] | |
| Death | Individual Thought Patterns | Producer, Engineering [73] | |
| Cynic | Focus | Producer, Engineering, Mixing [74] | |
| Transmetal | El Infierno de Dante (also available as Dante's Inferno) | Producer, Mixing [75] | |
| Loudblast | Sublime Dementia | Producer, Engineering, Mixing [76] | |
| Hellwitch | Terraasymmetry (EP) | Engineering [77] | |
| Loudblast | Cross the Threshold (EP) | Producer, Mixing (track 6) [78] | |
| 1994 | Skeletal Earth | Dē.ĕv'ṓ.lū'shŭn | Producer [79] |
| Cannibal Corpse | The Bleeding | Producer, Engineering, Mixing, Mastering [80] | |
| Psychotic Waltz | Mosquito | Producer, Engineering, Mixing [81] | |
| Obituary | World Demise | Producer, Engineering, Mixing [82] | |
| KMFDM | Glory | Remixing (track 6, "Move On") [83] | |
| 1995 | Jason Rawhead | Dehumanized | Producer, Engineering [84] |
| Deicide | Once upon the Cross | Producer, Engineering, Mixing [85] | |
| Suffocation | Pierced from Within | Producer, Engineering, Mixing [86] | |
| Six Feet Under | Haunted | Producer, Engineering, Mixing [87] | |
| Internal Bleeding | Voracious Contempt | Mixing [88] | |
| 1996 | Sean Malone | Cortlandt | Producer, Engineering [89] |
| Transmetal | México bárbaro | Producer, Mixing, Mastering [90] | |
| Transmetal | El llamado de la hembra | Producer [91] | |
| Cannibal Corpse | Vile | Producer, Engineering, Mixing [92] | |
| Psychotic Waltz | Bleeding | Engineering [93] | |
| Monstrosity | Millennium | Producer, Mixing [94] | |
| 1997 | Assück | Misery Index | Engineering [95] |
| Malevolent Creation | In Cold Blood | Producer, Engineering [96] | |
| Sadus | Elements of Anger | Producer, Mixing, Mastering [97] | |
| Deicide | Serpents of the Light | Producer, Engineering, Mixing [98] | |
| 1998 | Suffocation | Despise the Sun (EP) | Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Mastering [99] |
| KMFDM | Agogo | Remixing (track 8, "Hole in the Wall") [100] | |
| 2003 | Gordian Knot | Emergent | Producer [101] |
| 2005 | Obituary | Frozen in Time | Producer [102] |