Matt Bayles

Matt Bayles (born October 19, 1972 ) is an American record producer and musician .

Life

Bayles attended Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro , known for its degree programs in arts. His career began in the mid-1990s as a sound engineer or sound engineer for various grunge bands such as Soundgarden ( Down on the Upside ), Pearl Jam ( No Code , Yield ) and The Presidents of the United States of America (debut album of the same name). Since the end of the 1990s he has been working as an independent producer, mainly for groups that can roughly be assigned to the sub-genre areas of Alternative Metal and Doom Metal , but also for artists like Rocky Votolato . Bayles is one of the founding members of Minus the Bear , where he worked as a keyboardist . He left the band in January 2006, as he gave his production activities higher priority.

Bayles owns the Red Room Recording studio in Seattle with Chris Common , but often visits the bands he records with to produce albums on site. On some of the albums he has produced, he is also represented as a guest musician, mostly as a guitarist, keyboardist or pianist.

Produced albums (selection)

• The Blood Brothers - March On Electric Children (2002)
• Botch
  • American Nervoso (1998)
  • We Are The Romans (1999)
  • An Anthology Of Dead Ends (2002)
• From Ashes Rise - Nightmares (2003)
• Horse the Band - The Mechanical Hand (2005)
• Isis
  • Celestial (2000)
  • Oceanic (2002)
  • Panopticon (2004)
  • In the Absence of Truth (2006)
• Minus the Bear
  • "Highly Refined Pirates" (2004)
  • "They Make Beer Commercials Like This" (2004)
  • "Menos El Oso" (2005)
  • "Planet of Ice" (2007)
• mastodon
  • Remission (2002)
  • Leviathan (2004)
  • Blood Mountain (2006)
• Norma Jean - O God, The Aftermath (2005)
• Pretty Girls Make Graves - dto. (2002)
• Russian Circles
  • Station (2008)
• These Arms Are Snakes - Oxeneers Or The Lion Sleeps When Its Antelope Go Home (2004)
• Yakuza - Samsara (2006)
• Vanna - "Curses" (2007)
• The Fall of Troy - "Manipulator" (2007)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Information on his Facebook page , accessed on June 15, 2011
2. ↑ mattbayles.com ( Memento from July 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ): “I was also a founding member of Minus the Bear. I left in Jan 2006 to put my focus back on making records. " ; accessed on June 15, 2011

Web links

• Website (English)
• Matt Bayles in the All Music Guide (English)