Joe Rickard
American record producer and musician
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Joe Rickard (born April 12, 1987) is an American record producer, mixing engineer, and drummer. He was a member of the rock band Red from 2008 through 2014 and Swedish heavy metal band In Flames from 2016 through 2019.[1] He then began primarily writing, mixing and producing, often working with music producer Howard Benson.[2]
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April 12, 1987
- Musician
- record producer
- engineer
- Drums
- keyboards
Joe Rickard | |
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Rickard with In Flames in 2017 | |
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| Born | Joseph Robert Rickard April 12, 1987 |
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| Years active | 2004–present |
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| Website | joerickardproductions.com |
Biography
Rickard is the former drummer for Swedish heavy metal band In Flames and Grammy Award-nominated band Red.[3] He has performed on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno[4] and The Conan O'Brien Show,[5] and was voted one of the Up & Coming Drummers of 2010 by Modern Drummer Magazine.[6] He also recorded all of the live drums for Mötley Crüe's 2019 biographical film, The Dirt.[7] In November 2007, Rickard replaced Hayden Lamb as the drummer of Red. In 2014, after spending six years, three albums and numerous tours with Red, Rickard decided to leave the band.[8] He joined Swedish metal band In Flames in 2016.[1] Rickard was the drummer for In Flames until 2019.[9]
After touring in several bands and performing on various albums, Rickard has now become a full time producer, mixer, and writer. He has worked with Three Days Grace, Apocalyptica, 10 Years, Starset, Another Day Dawns,[10] Love And Death, Brian Welch, Diamante, Keith Wallen of Breaking Benjamin, Rob Graves, Trevor McNevan of Thousand Foot Krutch, Manafest, The Wedding, and Islander. He also works with music producer Howard Benson on a regular basis, mixing several of his recent releases.[11]
Discography
| Year | Artist | Album | Role |
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| 2025 | Stitched Up Heart | "SICK SICK SICK (featuring Eyes Set To Kill and Lauren Babic)" | Mixer, Immersive Mix Engineer[12] |
| Fallen Within | "Worlds Apart (featuring Saliva)" | Mixer, Mastering Engineer, Programmer, Immersive Mix Engineer[13] | |
| Dream Beard | "SPRAY (featuring Sada Baby)" | Immersive Mix Engineer[14] | |
| Butcher Babies | Insincerity ( "Sincerity (You Were Never There For Me)" feat. Saliva, Lyric Noel, and Harper, "Sincerity (The War You Started)" feat. Kinda Happy, ORIGINAL SELF, and Sleeping In Silence, "Sincerity (Now I See It All So Clear)" feat. Gina Fritz, Chad Kowal, and neversleep., "Sincerity (You Fooled Me Twice)" feat. Ben Jewell, Erik "Shredz" Jenson and Cage Fight, "Sincerity (I Know I Wasn't Perfect)" feat. Shawn O'Donnell and ALYXX) | Producer, Mixer, Mastering Engineer, Programmer, Immersive Mix Engineer[15] | |
| Limp Bizkit | "Making Love To Morgan Wallen" | Immerse Mixing Engineer[16] | |
| Silos | APOCALIPS 2.0 (feat. HIGHSOCIETY) | Mixer, Immersive Mixing Engineer | |
| Three Days Grace | Alienation | Assistant Engineer[17] | |
| Bobby Amaru & Veda | "Somebody That I Used To Know," "Just Pretend," "Somewhere I Belong," Somebody's Watching Me," "Last Resort" | Producer, Mixer, Mastering Engineer, Programmer, Immersive Mix Engineer,[18][19][20][21][22] | |
| Saliva | "They Don't Really Care About Us," "Hit 'Em Where It Hurts," "Too Broke To Fix (featuring the Founder)" | Producer, Mixer, Recording Engineer, Programmer, Immersive Mix Engineer,[23] "Hit 'Em Where It Hurts",[24][25] | |
| Three Days Grace | Apologies | Assistant Engineer, Composer[26] | |
| Starset | Silos | Producer, Mixer, Recording Engineer, Programmer, Studio Drummer | |
| Dead Rabbitts | Redefined | Producer, Mixer, Immersive Mix Engineer[27] | |
| Caleb Hyles | The Darkness Before The Dawn | Producer, Mixer, Programmer, Immersive Mix Engineer[28] | |
| Silos | Apocalips | Mixer, Immersive Mix Engineer[29] | |
| Saliva | Revelation: Retold[30] ("Time Bomb", "High On Me: Retold", "Horizon: Retold", "Crowd Goes Wild", and "Devil's World" only) | Producer, Mixer, Programmer, Immersive Mix Engineer | |
| 2024 | Ashes Remain | "Lost Light" | Mixer, Recording Engineer |
| Three Days Grace | "Mayday" | Assistant Recording Engineer | |
| Ashes Remain | "Don’t Let Go" | Mixer, Recording Engineer | |
| Butcher Babies and Judge & Jury | "Sincerity" | Producer, Mixer, Programmer, Immersive Mix Engineer[31] | |
| Starset | "Dystopia" | Producer, Programmer, Recording Engineer, Songwriter[32] | |
| Breaking Benjamin | "Awaken" | Recording Engineer, Vocal Recording Engineer[33] | |
| Veda, Saliva, and Judge & Jury | "I Breakdown" | Producer, Mixer, Programmer, Immersive Mix Engineer[34] | |
| Judge & Jury and Tyler Connolly of Theory of a Deadman | "The Urge" | Producer, Mixer, Immersive Mix Engineer[35] | |
| Starset | "TokSik" | Producer, Programmer, Engineer[36] | |
| Veda, Saliva, and Judge & Jury | "Wannabe Me" | Producer, Mixer, Drums, Immersive Mix Engineer[37] | |
| Starset | "DEGENERATE" | Producer, Mixer, Engineer, Programmer[38] | |
| Manafest | Learning How To Be Human | Producer, Songwriter[39] | |
| POKMINDSET | "JEK" | Mixer, Mastering[40] | |
| Starset | "Brave New World" | Producer, Programmer, Engineer[41] | |
| The Black Moods | "Heaven" | Mixer, Mastering, Engineer[42] | |
| 2023 | Jonathan Young and Judge & Jury | Children of Night | Mixer, Atmos Mixer[43] |
| Red | Rated R | Co-writer, Mixer | |
| Kala and Judge & Jury | Diary of a Depressed Creative | Producer, Mixer, Atmos Mixer[44] | |
| In Flames | Foregone | Mixer, Programmer, Studio Keyboards | |
| 2022 | Starset, Breaking Benjamin, and Judge & Jury | "Waiting on the Sky to Change" | Producer, Mixer, Atmos Mixer |
| 2021 | Keith Wallen | This World or the Next | Producer, Mixer, Co-writer, Studio Drummer, Engineer, Programmer, Editor[45] |
| Starset | Horizons | Producer, Mixer | |
| Love and Death | Perfectly Preserved | Producer, Mixer[46] | |
| 2020 | Bella Thorne | "SFB" | Mixer |
| HOUNDS | "Shake Me Up" | Mixer | |
| Apocalyptica | "Talk to Me" (featuring Lzzy Hale) | Mixer | |
| 10 Years | Violent Allies | Mixer[47] | |
| Another Day Dawns | Stranger | Producer, Mixer, Co-writer, Engineer, Programmer, Editor | |
| Diamante | American Dream | Mixer | |
| JunkBunny | Down the Rabbit Hole | Mixer[48] | |
| Three Days Grace | "Somebody That I Used to Know" | Mixer[49] | |
| Red | Declaration | Co-writer, Mixer, Mastering | |
| 2019 | Joyous Wolf | Place in Time | Mixer[50] |
| Issues | Beautiful Oblivion | Co-editor | |
| Starset | Divisions | Producer, Co-writer, Studio Drummer, Engineer, Programmer, Editor | |
| In Flames | I, the Mask | Studio Drummer, Drum Programmer[51] | |
| 2018 | Diamante | Coming in Hot | Studio Drummer, Drum Programmer, percussion[52] |
| Palisades | Erase The Pain | Mixer[53] | |
| 2017 | All That Remains | Madness | Drum Programmer |
| Warbringer | Woe to the Vanquished | Drum Technician[54] | |
| Starset | Vessels | Studio Drummer, Editor | |
| Red | Gone | Co-writer, Studio Drummer | |
| 2016 | In Flames | Battles | Studio Drummer, Drum Programmer |
| 2015 | Islander | "Wake Up!" (featuring Jonathan Davis) | Producer, Co-mixer Co-writer, Studio Drummer, Programmer, Editor |
| 2014 | Caleb Johnson | Testify | Studio Drummer |
| Starset | Transmissions | Co-writer, Studio Drummer, programmer[55] | |
| 2013 | Love and Death | Between Here & Lost ("Paralyzed" only) | Studio Drummer, Engineer |
| Red | Release the Panic | Co-writer, Studio Drummer, programmer[56] | |
| 2012 | Disciple | O God Save Us All | Editor[57] |
| 2011 | Red | Until We Have Faces | Co-writer, Studio Drummer[58] |
| 2010 | Kerrie Roberts | Kerrie Roberts | Studio Drummer, Percussion |
| 2009 | Red | Innocence & Instinct | Studio Drummer[59] |
| Pillar | Confessions | Studio Drummer | |
| 2007 | The Wedding | Polarity | Studio Drummer |
