Scott Burns (music 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]

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

Discography

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Year Band Release Role
1987 Whiplash Ticket to Mayhem Engineering[11]
1988 Death Leprosy Engineering[12]
1989 Amon Sacrificial (Demo) Mixing[13][14]
The Guff The Art of Deception (Demo) Engineering[15]
Sepultura Beneath the Remains Producer, Engineering, Mixing[16]
Obituary Slowly We Rot Producer, Engineering, Mixing[17]
Atheist Piece of Time Producer, Engineering[18]
Terrorizer World Downfall Engineering[19]
Awake! Beliefs (EP) Producer, Engineering[20]
1990 Assück Necrosalvation (EP) Engineering[21]
Cynic Demo 1990 Producer, Engineering[22]
Death Spiritual Healing Producer, Mixing[23]
Cancer To the Gory End Producer, Mixing[24]
Deicide Deicide Producer, Engineering, Mixing[25]
Napalm Death Harmony Corruption Producer, Engineering, Mixing[26]
Napalm Death Suffer the Children Producer, Engineer, Mixing[27]
Cannibal Corpse Eaten Back to Life Producer, Engineering[28]
Demolition Hammer Tortured Existence Producer, Engineer, Mixing[29]
Obituary Cause of Death Producer, Engineering, Mixing[30]
Master Master Producer, Engineer, Mixing[31]
Atrocity Hallucinations Producer, Engineering, Mixing[32]
Exhorder Slaughter in the Vatican Producer, Engineering, Mixing[33]
Various artists At Death's Door (A Collection of Brutal Death Metal) Producer (tracks 1, 3, 6, 8, 9 & 12)[34]
Hellwitch Syzygial Miscreancy Engineering[35]
Overthrow Within Suffering Producer, Engineering, Mixing[36]
1991 Cynic Demo 1991 Producer, Engineering[37]
Acheron Rites of the Black Mass (Demo) Producer[38]
The Guff Refuse to Crawl (Demo) Producer, Engineering[39]
Skeletal Earth Eulogy for a Dying Fetus Producer, Engineering[40]
Sepultura Arise Producer, Engineering, Lyrical assistance & translation[41]
Slap of Reality Fletch (EP) Producer, Engineer[42]
Malevolent Creation The Ten Commandments Producer, Engineering, Mixing[43]
Devastation Idolatry Producer, Engineering, Mixing[44]
Cancer Death Shall Rise Producer[45]
Cannibal Corpse Butchered at Birth Producer, Engineering[46]
Loudblast Disincarnate Producer, Engineering, Mixing[47]
Massacre From Beyond Engineering[48]
Atheist Unquestionable Presence Producer[49]
Pestilence Testimony of the Ancients Producer, Engineering, Mixing[50]
Gorguts Considered Dead Producer, Engineering, Mixing[51]
Death Human Producer, Mixing[52]
Suffocation Effigy of the Forgotten Producer, Engineering, Mixing[53]
Assück Anticapital Producer, Engineering[54]
Master On the Seventh Day God Created... Master Producer, Engineering, Mixing[55]
1992 Assück Blindspot (EP) Producer, Engineering[56]
Disincarnate Soul Erosion (Demo) Producer, Engineering, Mixing[57]
Hideous Corpse Demented (Demo) Mixing[58]
Sepultura Third World Posse (EP) Producer (track 1), Mixing (track 2)[59]
Speckmann Project Speckmann Project Producer[60]
The Guff Jackass Live Producer, Engineering[61]
No Return Contamination Rises N/A[62]
Acheron Rites of the Black Mass Producer, Engineering[63]
Obituary The End Complete Producer, Engineering, Mixing[64]
Deicide Legion Engineering, Mixing[65]
Malevolent Creation Retribution Producer, Engineering, Mixing[66]
Assück State to State (EP) Engineering[67]
Solstice Solstice Engineering, Mixing[68]
Cannibal Corpse Tomb of the Mutilated Producer, Engineering, Mixing[69]
1993 Raped Ape Terminal Reality (EP) Producer, Engineering, Mixing[70]
Skeletal Earth Dreighphuck (EP) Producer[71]
Various artists At Death's Door II Producer (tracks 2, 4, 7 & 8)[72]
Resurrection Embalmed Existence Producer, Engineering[73]
Death Individual Thought Patterns Producer, Engineering[74]
Cynic Focus Producer, Engineering, Mixing[75]
Transmetal El Infierno de Dante (also available as Dante's Inferno) Producer, Mixing[76]
Loudblast Sublime Dementia Producer, Engineering, Mixing[77]
Hellwitch Terraasymmetry (EP) Engineering[78]
Loudblast Cross the Threshold (EP) Producer, Mixing (track 6)[79]
1994 Skeletal Earth Dē.ĕv'ṓ.lū'shŭn Producer[80]
Cannibal Corpse The Bleeding Producer, Engineering, Mixing, Mastering[81]
Psychotic Waltz Mosquito Producer, Engineering, Mixing[82]
Obituary World Demise Producer, Engineering, Mixing[83]
KMFDM Glory Remixing (track 6, "Move On")[84]
1995 Jason Rawhead Dehumanized Producer, Engineering[85]
Deicide Once upon the Cross Producer, Engineering, Mixing[86]
Suffocation Pierced from Within Producer, Engineering, Mixing[87]
Six Feet Under Haunted Producer, Engineering, Mixing[88]
Internal Bleeding Voracious Contempt Mixing[89]
1996 Sean Malone Cortlandt Producer, Engineering[90]
Transmetal México bárbaro Producer, Mixing, Mastering[91]
Transmetal El llamado de la hembra Producer[92]
Cannibal Corpse Vile Producer, Engineering, Mixing[93]
Psychotic Waltz Bleeding Engineering[94]
Monstrosity Millennium Producer, Mixing[95]
1997 Assück Misery Index Engineering[96]
Malevolent Creation In Cold Blood Producer, Engineering[97]
Sadus Elements of Anger Producer, Mixing, Mastering[98]
Deicide Serpents of the Light Producer, Engineering, Mixing[99]
1998 Suffocation Despise the Sun (EP) Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Mastering[100]
KMFDM Agogo Remixing (track 8, "Hole in the Wall")[101]
2003 Gordian Knot Emergent Producer[102]
2005 Obituary Frozen in Time Producer[103]
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