Scott Burns (record producer)

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Scott Burns
Genres
OccupationsComposer, mastering engineer, mixing engineer, producer
Years active
  • 1987–1997
    (Full-time)
  • 1998–present
    (Part-time)

Scott Burns is an American computer engineer and a former music producer of death metal records from late 1980s and 1990s. He was crucial to the emergence of the Florida death metal scene.[1][2]

He has produced many records for many famous 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, Massacre's From Beyond, Obituary's Slowly We Rot, and Assück's Misery Index. 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.[3][4]

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.[5][6][7] Following its release, Burns made a rare public appearence at the 2024 Decibel Metal and Beer Festival in Philadelphia.[8]

Discography[edit]

Year Band Release Role
1988 Death Leprosy Engineering[9]
1989 Amon Sacrificial (Demo) Mixing[10][11]
The Guff The Art of Deception (Demo) Engineering[12]
Sepultura Beneath the Remains Producer, Engineering, Mixing[13]
Obituary Slowly We Rot Producer, Engineering, Mixing[14]
Atheist Piece of Time Producer, Engineering[15]
Terrorizer World Downfall Engineering[16]
Awake! Beliefs (EP) Producer, Engineering[17]
1990 Assück Necrosalvation (EP) Engineering[18]
Cynic Demo 1990 Producer, Engineering[19]
Death Spiritual Healing Producer, Mixing[20]
Cancer To the Gory End Producer, Mixing[21]
Deicide Deicide Producer, Engineering, Mixing[22]
Napalm Death Harmony Corruption Producer, Engineering, Mixing[23]
Napalm Death Suffer the Children Producer, Engineer, Mixing[24]
Cannibal Corpse Eaten Back to Life Producer, Engineering[25]
Demolition Hammer Tortured Existence Producer, Engineer, Mixing[26]
Obituary Cause of Death Producer, Engineering, Mixing[27]
Master Master Producer, Engineer, Mixing[28]
Atrocity Hallucinations Producer, Engineering, Mixing[29]
Exhorder Slaughter in the Vatican Producer, Engineering, Mixing[30]
Various artists At Death's Door (A Collection of Brutal Death Metal) Producer (tracks 1, 3, 6, 8, 9 & 12)[31]
Hellwitch Syzygial Miscreancy Engineering[32]
Overthrow Within Suffering Producer, Engineering, Mixing[33]
1991 Cynic Demo 1991 Producer, Engineering[34]
Acheron Rites of the Black Mass (Demo) Producer[35]
The Guff Refuse to Crawl (Demo) Producer, Engineering[36]
Skeletal Earth Eulogy for a Dying Fetus Producer, Engineering[37]
Sepultura Arise Producer, Engineering, Lyrical assistance & translation[38]
Slap of Reality Fletch (EP) Producer, Engineer[39]
Malevolent Creation The Ten Commandments Producer, Engineering, Mixing[40]
Devastation Idolatry Producer, Engineering, Mixing[41]
Cancer Death Shall Rise Producer[42]
Cannibal Corpse Butchered at Birth Producer, Engineering[43]
Loudblast Disincarnate Producer, Engineering, Mixing[44]
Massacre From Beyond Engineering[45]
Atheist Unquestionable Presence Producer[46]
Pestilence Testimony of the Ancients Producer, Engineering, Mixing[47]
Gorguts Considered Dead Producer, Engineering, Mixing[48]
Death Human Producer, Mixing[49]
Suffocation Effigy of the Forgotten Producer, Engineering, Mixing[50]
Assück Anticapital Producer, Engineering[51]
Master On the Seventh Day God Created... Master Producer, Engineering, Mixing[52]
1992 Assück Blindspot (EP) Producer, Engineering[53]
Disincarnate Soul Erosion (Demo) Producer, Engineering, Mixing[54]
Hideous Corpse Demented (Demo) Mixing[55]
Sepultura Third World Posse (EP) Producer (track 1), Mixing (track 2)[56]
Speckmann Project Speckmann Project Producer[57]
The Guff Jackass Live Producer, Engineering[58]
No Return Contamination Rises N/A[59]
Acheron Rites of the Black Mass Producer, Engineering[60]
Obituary The End Complete Producer, Engineering, Mixing[61]
Deicide Legion Engineering, Mixing[62]
Malevolent Creation Retribution Producer, Engineering, Mixing[63]
Assück State to State (EP) Engineering[64]
Solstice Solstice Engineering, Mixing[65]
Cannibal Corpse Tomb of the Mutilated Producer, Engineering, Mixing[66]
1993 Raped Ape Terminal Reality (EP) Producer, Engineering, Mixing[67]
Skeletal Earth Dreighphuck (EP) Producer[68]
Various artists At Death's Door II Producer (tracks 2, 4, 7 & 8)[69]
Resurrection Embalmed Existence Producer, Engineering[70]
Death Individual Thought Patterns Producer, Engineering[71]
Cynic Focus Producer, Engineering, Mixing[72]
Transmetal El Infierno de Dante (also available as Dante's Inferno) Producer, Mixing[73]
Loudblast Sublime Dementia Producer, Engineering, Mixing[74]
Hellwitch Terraasymmetry (EP) Engineering[75]
Loudblast Cross the Threshold (EP) Producer, Mixing (track 6)[76]
1994 Skeletal Earth Dē.ĕv'ṓ.lū'shŭn Producer[77]
Cannibal Corpse The Bleeding Producer, Engineering, Mixing, Mastering[78]
Psychotic Waltz Mosquito Producer, Engineering, Mixing[79]
Obituary World Demise Producer, Engineering, Mixing[80]
KMFDM Glory Remixing (track 6, "Move On")[81]
1995 Jason Rawhead Dehumanized Producer, Engineering[82]
Deicide Once upon the Cross Producer, Engineering, Mixing[83]
Suffocation Pierced from Within Producer, Engineering, Mixing[84]
Six Feet Under Haunted Producer, Engineering, Mixing[85]
Internal Bleeding Voracious Contempt Mixing[86]
1996 Sean Malone Cortlandt Producer, Engineering[87]
Transmetal México bárbaro Producer, Mixing, Mastering[88]
Transmetal El llamado de la hembra Producer[89]
Cannibal Corpse Vile Producer, Engineering, Mixing[90]
Psychotic Waltz Bleeding Engineering[91]
Monstrosity Millennium Producer, Mixing[92]
1997 Assück Misery Index Engineering[93]
Malevolent Creation In Cold Blood Producer, Engineering[94]
Sadus Elements of Anger Producer, Mixing, Mastering[95]
Deicide Serpents of the Light Producer, Engineering, Mixing[96]
1998 Suffocation Despise the Sun (EP) Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Mastering[97]
KMFDM Agogo Remixing (track 8, "Hole in the Wall")[98]
2003 Gordian Knot Emergent Producer[99]
2005 Obituary Frozen in Time Producer[100]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Stevenson, Arielle (October 22, 2009). "The way the music died: The earliest days of Tampa Death Metal". Tampa Bay Times. Times Publishing Company. Archived from the original on October 27, 2009. Retrieved April 26, 2016.
  2. ^ Blabbermouth (July 8, 2019). "ATHEIST's KELLY SHAEFER Says Legendary Death Metal Producer SCOTT BURNS 'Was A True Pioneer'". BLABBERMOUTH.NET. Retrieved June 1, 2024.
  3. ^ "Deicide Interview". Mourning the Ancient. Retrieved January 16, 2012.
  4. ^ "Scott Burns Interview". Voices From the Darkside. Retrieved January 9, 2013.
  5. ^ Shadows, Em (September 11, 2023). "Decibel Announces New Book on Scott Burns, Legendary Death Metal Producer". MetalSucks. Retrieved June 1, 2024.
  6. ^ P, J. (January 1, 2024). "Gehlke, David E.- The Scott Burns Sessions:A Life In Death Metal 1987-1997 (Book review)". Metal-Rules.com. Retrieved June 1, 2024.
  7. ^ "Book Spotlight: Reading (and Riffing!) is Fundamental". New Noise Magazine. Retrieved June 1, 2024.
  8. ^ Kennelty, Greg (January 15, 2024). "Legendary Death Metal Producer SCOTT BURNS To Make Rare Appearance At Decibel's Metal & Beer Fest". Metal Injection. Retrieved June 1, 2024.
  9. ^ Leprosy in the Metal Archives
  10. ^ Amon: Feasting the Beast in the Metal Archives
  11. ^ Deicide / Amon (18) – Amon: Feasting The Beast in Discogs
  12. ^ The Art of Deception in the Metal Archives
  13. ^ Beneath the Remains in the Metal Archives
  14. ^ Slowly We Rot in the Metal Archives
  15. ^ Piece of Time in the Metal Archives
  16. ^ World Downfall in the Metal Archives
  17. ^ Awake! – Beliefs in Discogs
  18. ^ Necrosalvation in the Metal Archives
  19. ^ Demo 1990 in the Metal Archives
  20. ^ Spiritual Healing in the Metal Archives
  21. ^ To the Gory End in the Metal Archives
  22. ^ Deicide in the Metal Archives
  23. ^ Harmony Corruption in the Metal Archives
  24. ^ Suffer the Children in the Metal Archives
  25. ^ Eaten Back to Life in the Metal Archives
  26. ^ Tortured Existence in the Metal Archives
  27. ^ Cause of Death in the Metal Archives
  28. ^ Master (2) – Master in Discogs
  29. ^ Hallucinations in the Metal Archives
  30. ^ Slaughter in the Vatican in the Metal Archives
  31. ^ Various – At Death's Door (A Collection Of Brutal Death Metal) in Discogs
  32. ^ Syzygial Miscreancy in the Metal Archives
  33. ^ Within Suffering in the Metal Archives
  34. ^ Cynic (2) – Uroboric Forms (The Complete Demo Recordings 1988-1989-1990-1991) in Discogs
  35. ^ Rites of the Black Mass in the Metal Archives
  36. ^ Refuse to Crawl in the Metal Archives
  37. ^ Eulogy for a Dying Fetus in the Metal Archives
  38. ^ Arise in the Metal Archives
  39. ^ Slap Of Reality – Fletch in Discogs
  40. ^ The Ten Commandments in the Metal Archives
  41. ^ Idolatry in the Metal Archives
  42. ^ Death Shall Rise in the Metal Archives
  43. ^ Butchered at Birth in the Metal Archives
  44. ^ Disincarnate in the Metal Archives
  45. ^ From Beyond in the Metal Archives
  46. ^ Unquestionable Presence in the Metal Archives
  47. ^ Testimony of the Ancients in the Metal Archives
  48. ^ Considered Dead in the Metal Archives
  49. ^ Human in the Metal Archives
  50. ^ Effigy of the Forgotten in the Metal Archives
  51. ^ Anticapital in the Metal Archives
  52. ^ On the Seventh Day God Created... Master in the Metal Archives
  53. ^ Assück – Blindspot in Discogs
  54. ^ Soul Erosion in the Metal Archives
  55. ^ Demented in the Metal Archives
  56. ^ Third World Posse in the Metal Archives
  57. ^ Speckmann Project in the Metal Archives
  58. ^ Jackass Live in the Metal Archives
  59. ^ NO RETURN To Release 'The Curse Within' Album In November in Blabbermouth
  60. ^ Rites of the Black Mass in the Metal Archives
  61. ^ The End Complete in the Metal Archives
  62. ^ Legion in the Metal Archives
  63. ^ Retribution in the Metal Archives
  64. ^ State to State in the Metal Archives
  65. ^ Solstice in the Metal Archives
  66. ^ Tomb of the Mutilated in the Metal Archives
  67. ^ Terminal Reality in the Metal Archives
  68. ^ Dreighphuck in the Metal Archives
  69. ^ Various – At Death's Door II in Discogs
  70. ^ Embalmed Existence in the Metal Archives
  71. ^ Individual Thought Patterns in the Metal Archives
  72. ^ Focus in the Metal Archives
  73. ^ El infierno de Dante in the Metal Archives
  74. ^ Sublime Dementia in the Metal Archives
  75. ^ Terraasymmetry in the Metal Archives
  76. ^ Cross the Threshold in the Metal Archives
  77. ^ Dē.ĕv'ṓ.lū'shŭn in the Metal Archives
  78. ^ The Bleeding in the Metal Archives
  79. ^ Mosquito in the Metal Archives
  80. ^ World Demise in the Metal Archives
  81. ^ KMFDM – Glory in Discogs
  82. ^ Jason Rawhead – Dehumanized in Discogs
  83. ^ Once upon the Cross in the Metal Archives
  84. ^ Pierced from Within in the Metal Archives
  85. ^ Haunted in the Metal Archives
  86. ^ Voracious Contempt in the Metal Archives
  87. ^ Sean Malone – Cortlandt in Discogs
  88. ^ México bárbaro in the Metal Archives
  89. ^ El llamado de la hembra in the Metal Archives
  90. ^ Vile in the Metal Archives
  91. ^ Bleeding in the Metal Archives
  92. ^ Millennium in the Metal Archives
  93. ^ Misery Index in the Metal Archives
  94. ^ In Cold Blood in the Metal Archives
  95. ^ Elements of Anger in the Metal Archives
  96. ^ Serpents of the Light in the Metal Archives
  97. ^ Despise the Sun in the Metal Archives
  98. ^ KMFDM – Agogo in Discogs
  99. ^ Gordian Knot – Emergent in Discogs
  100. ^ Frozen in Time in the Metal Archives
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