Scott Burns

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Scott Burns was a very active music producer in the death metal genre in the 1980s and 1990s . He worked at Morrisound Studios in Temple Terrace, Florida . In 2005 he ended his career as a music producer to work as a programmer .

Career

Scott Burns began his career as a live mixer for bands like Obituary and Massacre . In 1987 he got a job as a sound engineer in the Morrisound Recording Studios. His first works were the Ticket to Mayhem of Whiplash and the album Leprosy of Death . After Burns had already worked as an engineer on Sepultura's album Schizophrenia , he was allowed to produce her album Beneath the Remains (1989). This was his first job as a music producer. He quickly acquired a high status in the death metal scene through his work for Death, Obituary, Atheist , Cannibal Corpse and Deicide . In addition to the local bands from Florida, the British Napalm Death recorded their death metal album Harmony Corruption with him. He also produced the debut album for the German band Atrocity . His quite unusual productions for Atheist and the Testimony of the Ancients album by Pestilence became known .

Although he was mostly occupied with the death metal sound and even rejected Bon Jovi for lack of time, he also worked for other bands such as Savatage and Annihilator in between . In the 1990s, the criticism of the fairly similar sound of the death metal productions grew. Scott Burns was also getting tired of the scene and withdrew from active production in 1998.

" I think it's over, finished, done. There are no good new bands, the stealing is shameless, four or five bands will survive the rest will disappear. (Eng. "I think it's over, it's over, done. There are no good new bands, it's shameless how people steal, four or five bands will survive, the rest will disappear.") "

- Scott Burns

His last work was a friendship service for Obituary , with whom he recorded the reunion album Frozen in Time (2005). Since then he has concentrated on his new profession as a programmer.

In the 1990s, a crossed-out photo of Scott Burns was used as the logo for the anti-mosh campaign of Mayhem founder Øystein “Euronymous” Aarseth . The accompanying slogan was “no fun, no core, no mosh, no trends” and was to be found on all nine releases of Aarseth's record company Deathlike Silence Productions (DSP). With “Anti-Mosh” the young, emerging Black Metal movement wanted to differentiate itself from Death Metal, which was heavily influenced by Burns' production and, in their opinion, is becoming more and more commercial.

Productions (selection)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Deicide Interview
  2. ↑ a b Death Metal Special on emptywords.org

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Burns, Scott
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American music producer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century