Andy Sneap
Andy Sneap (born July 18, 1969 ) is an English music producer , sound engineer , guitarist and composer . He is known for the production of many metal albums.
Career
Sneap also plays with the band Sabbat , with whom he recorded three albums in the 1980s and early 1990s. With the money he made from the band, he bought some equipment and also started live engineering. Eventually he worked in a larger studio in Nottingham , where he also met Colin Richardson , who produced Machine Head and Fear Factory . In 1994 Sneap founded the Backstage Recording Studio in Derbyshire , where he produces. In 1996 he worked with Richardson on Machine Heads The More Things Change… . From 2001 to 2002 Sneap was also a guitarist for Fozzy .
Since 2006, Sneap has been a member of the reformed band Sabbat again, and since 2008 a member of the band Hell , which existed in the early 1980s, but which only released its debut album in 2011 with Sneap on guitar. It entered the German charts at number 46.
For the Judas Priest Firepower Tour 2018, he replaced Glenn Tipton , who had Parkinson's disease, at his personal request. He was also the producer of the "Firepower" album.
Awards
In Sweden , Sneap received a Grammy for mixing the Opeth album Deliverance . In the US , he was nominated for Grammys for The End of Heartache by Killswitch Engage and Endgame by Megadeth .
production
- Accept - Blood of the Nations , Stalingrad
- Arch Enemy - Anthems of Rebellion , Dead Eyes See No Future , The Root of All Evil
- Benediction - Grind Bastard
- Blaze Bayley - Silicon Messiah , Tenth Dimension , As Live As It Gets , Blood and Belief
- The Blueprint - zero * zero * one , Ecliptic
- Cathedral - Caravan Beyond Redemption
- Consumed - Breakfast at Pappas , Hit for Six , Pistols at Dawn
- Cradle of Filth - Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder
- Earth Crisis - Breed the Killers
- earthtone9 - arc'tan'gent
- English Dogs - All the Worlds a Rage , Bow to None , What a Wonderful Feeling
- Exit Ten - This World They'll Drown (Mini-Album)
- Exodus - Tempo of the Damned , The Atrocity Exhibition - Exhibit A , Exhibit B: The Human Condition
- Hecate Enthroned - The Slaughter of Innocence
- Hell - Human Remains
- Iron Monkey - Iron Monkey , Our Problem
- Judas Priest - Firepower
- Kill II This - CDeviate , Trinity
- Kreator - Violent Revolution , Enemy of God
- Machine Head - Through the Ashes of Empires
- Master plan - master plan , aeronautics
- Megadeth - United Abominations , Endgame
- Nevermore - Dead Heart in a Dead World , This Godless Endeavor
- Onslaught - Killing Peace
- Pissing Razors - Pissing Razors , Cast Down the Plague
- Rise to Addiction - A New Shade of Black for the Soul
- Skinlab - Bound, Gagged and Blindfolded , Disembody: The New Flesh
- Stuck Mojo - Declaration of a Headhunter , HVY1 , Rising
- Thorn.Eleven - Thorn.Eleven
- Testament - Dark Roots of Earth
Mix
- 36 Crazyfists - A Snow Capped Romance , Rest Inside the Flames , The Tide and Its Takers , Collisions and Castaways
- Arch Enemy - Wages of Sin , Doomsday Machine , Live Apocalypse (DVD), Tyrants of the Rising Sun (CD & DVD), The Root of All Evil , Khaos Legions
- Artillery - BACK
- As I Lay Dying - Shadows Are Security
- Biomechanical - The Empires of the Worlds
- Caliban - The Opposite From Within , The Undying Darkness
- Chimaira - Resurrection
- Cradle of Filth - Thornography
- Dearly Beheaded - Temptation
- Despised Icon - The Ills of Modern Man
- DevilDriver - The Fury of Our Maker's Hand (Live-Tracks, Special Edition), The Last Kind Words , Beast
- Dew-Scented - Incinerate
- Entombed - Monkey Puss (Live in London)
- Exodus - Another Lesson in Violence , Shovel Headed Kill Machine , Let There Be Blood
- Fozzy - Fozzy , happenstance
- Gigantour 2 (CD & DVD)
- Into Eternity - The Scattering of Ashes
- Job for a Cowboy - Genesis
- Killswitch Engage - Alive or Just Breathing , The End of Heartache , Disarm the Descent
- Kreator - Violent Revolution , Live Kreation , Enemy of God Revisited (DVD)
- Living Sacrifice - Conceived in Fire , The Infinite Order
- Machine Head - The More Things Change ...
- Megadeth - Warchest (Boxset), Blood in the Water: Live in San Diego (DVD)
- Napalm Death - Breed to Breathe , Inside the Torn Apart
- Nevermore - Dead Heart in a Dead World , Enemies of Reality (Remix), This Godless Endeavor , Year of the Voyager (CD & DVD), The Obsidian Conspiracy
- Opeth - Deliverance , Lamentations (Live at Shepherd's Bush Empire 2003) (DVD)
- Roadrunner United
- Soulfly - The Song Remains Insane (DVD), Conquer
- Skinlab - revolting room
- Spiritual Beggars - On Fire
- Testament - The Gathering , First Strike Still Deadly , Live in London , The Formation of Damnation , Dark Roots of Earth , Brotherhood of the Snake , Titans of Creation
- Trivium - Ascendancy
- Unearth - The March
Web links
- Official website
- Andy Sneap at Discogs (English)
- Interview video for Megadeth - Endgame on www.roadrunner.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b www.maelstrom.nu: Interview with Andy Sneap ( Memento from November 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ www.charts.de: Human Remains
- ↑ https://www.metal-hammer.de/judas-priest-parkinson-diagnose-bei-glenn-tipton-1018923/
- ↑ https://www.musikexpress.de/nie-wieder-auf-tour-judas-priest-gitarrist-glenn-tipton-an-parkinson-erkrankt-1014655/
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Sneap, Andy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British music producer, sound engineer, guitarist and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 18th July 1969 |