Scott Hull

Scott Hull (guitar) with Pig Destroyer

Scott Hull (* 1971 or 1972 ) is an American guitarist , record producer and sound engineer . He is co-founder of the grindcore bands Pig Destroyer and Agoraphobic Nosebleed . He also works as a sound engineer in his own recording studio Visceral Sounds in Bethesda , Maryland for bands that are under contract with Relapse Records , such as Baroness and Kylesa .

Life

Scott Hull was born in 1971 or 1972 to a United States Air Force officer . When he was seven years old, his parents bought him an acoustic guitar made by the American manufacturer Hondo. His father sparked Hull's interest in music, listened to the Beatles' albums with him and took him to concerts by AC / DC and Judas Priest . Hull's parents divorced when he was ten years old. In middle school , he became interested in punk and underground - Metal to be interested, let his hair grow and experimented with alcohol and other drugs. His mother and stepfather sent him to boarding school in New York City , after which Hull enrolled at Lynchburg College in Lynchburg , Virginia . After graduation, he moved to Boston College , where he worked as a research assistant on his doctorate in physics . Dissatisfied with his job and the annual salary of USD 12,000, he moved to Lockheed Martin's IT department as a database developer and system administrator in the late 1990s . In 1998 he met Lisa Scappa, a recruiter , and they married eight months later. In the mid-2000s, their son Preston was born. Scott Hull lives with his family in Bethesda, Maryland and works as a database specialist for the government.

Act

Scott Hull did not have professional guitar lessons. During his time at Lynchburg College in the late 1980s he played rock band together with the son of the conductor in a boarding school, the pieces of classic and contemporary rock music coverte . In 1991 he founded the group Head in the Picklejar, which existed until 1995. Greg Heiman, manager of Anal Cunt , came into contact with this band, with whom Hull recorded their 1996 album 40 More Reasons to Hate Us . In 1994 he founded the grindcore band Agoraphobic Nosebleed and released some demos and splits , in 1998 the first studio album was released. In 1997, Hull Pig founded Destroyer, whose first studio album was also released in 1998. Hull's commercial breakthrough came after Pig Destroyer was signed to Relapse Records in 2000 . Since 1995, Hull has been running the industrial / noise project Japanese Torture Comedy Hour together with Jay Randall, singer of Agoraphobic Nosebleed .

Hull has a fully equipped recording studio in his Bethesda home where he produces his bands' albums. In addition, he works in this studio called Visceral Sound as a sound engineer for bands that are under contract with Relapse Records. In 2008 a solo album entitled Requiem was released , which, like the two EPs Audiofilm I (2008) and Audiofilm II (2010), can be assigned to electronic music .

Equipment

Scott Hull plays the manufacturer an instrument Jackson Guitars with pickups from EMG .

Discography

with anal cunt

• 40 More Reasons to Hate Us ( Earache Records , 1996)

with agoraphobic nosebleed

• see Agoraphobic Nosebleed # discography

with Japanese Torture Comedy Hour

• 50,000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong (RRRecords, 1996)
• Recycled Music (RRRecords, 1998)
• Voltage Monster (Relapse Records, 2008)

with Pig Destroyer

• see Pig Destroyer # discography

solo

• Requiem (Relapse Records, 2008)
• Audio film I (EP, Crucial Blast, 2008)
• Audio film II (EP, Crucial Blast, 2010)

Web links

• David Rowell: Into the Darkness. Washington Post Magazine, August 9, 2009, accessed August 16, 2011 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Albert Mudrian: Top 20 Death Metal Guitarists: # 9 Scott Hull. Decibel Magazine, August 2007, archived from the original on October 28, 2008 ; accessed on August 16, 2011 . 
2. ↑ Shawn Macomber: Seth Putnam Remembered. Decibel Magazine, June 28, 2011, accessed August 16, 2011 . 
3. ↑ Pig Destroyer / Scott Hull ( Memento of the original from July 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from Jackson Guitars ' website , accessed August 16, 2011. 
4. ↑ Scott Hull ( Memento of the original from December 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the EMG website , accessed on August 16, 2011.