Is there a specific moment or project that helped push you on to the next level? There are tons of engineers and producers out there doing records with mid-sized bands, but only a handful of go-to, A-level guys producing the bulk of what’s topping the US modern metal scene. I figured out I could actually make a living doing this instead of relying on four or five other crazy people to keep a band together. I would probably have been a much better guitar player if I hadn’t been so fascinated with audio! In reality, I always wanted to be a performer, but when people started noticing how seriously I took sounds I sort of became the person they would go to about tones and recording advice. I would spend hours tweaking my amps and trying all kinds of different things. Between my dad pointing things out to me and my guitar teachers really schooling me on production and tones, I really got deep into the audio world pretty early. Once I really started getting serious about guitar, I got deeper and deeper into how things sounded and how those things were achieved. I would listen to his records all the time and eventually, they started buying me my own at a pretty young age. Growing up, my dad had a pretty amazing stereo system with some old JBL 4311 studio monitors as his main setup.
I was always fascinated with how things sounded once i started playing guitar. How did you get started in the business and how come you ended up behind the console as opposed to on stage? With the Death Metal EZX, you get the touch and stroke of a legendary drummer combined with Mark Lewis’ engineering applied on two meticulously sampled and tuned drum kits, ready to bring your music into the future and add some new life to your death metal. The two featured kits, handpicked from the Death & Darkness SDX, display two kindred but fundamentally different beasts of razor-sharp, pristine and crystal clear drums designed to cut through in anything from rampant tempos to dense walls of guitars and extremely layered productions.
It was recorded by acclaimed engineer/mixer/producer Mark Lewis at the impeccable room at Sonic Ranch in Tornillo, Texas, and sampled by legendary drummer Sean Reinert (Death, Cynic). This is where the Death Metal EZX takes its vantage point – to bring you timeless drums, tailored for modern death metal production. Today, although fragmented and more of an umbrella to a host of sub-genres, death metal has never been more alive.
Arguably no genre has evolved in a more organic way, with a constantly rejuvenating fanbase and steady increment of bands.
Ever since, trends in heavy music have come and gone, but death metal has stayed its course and stood its ground. By then, the rest of the world had caught on and death metal as a phenomenon was a fact. On the other shore of the North Sea, in Scandinavia, bands such as Entombed, Therion and At the Gates all added their own blend to the mix. At the same time on the opposite continent in the UK, the likes of Carcass, Benediction and Napalm Death advanced with their own breed of death. Then, by the early 1990s, acts like Death, Morbid Angel, Cannibal Corpse and a handful other US bands predominantly from the Florida and East Coast areas started gaining traction. In the mid-to-late ’80s, death metal was a peripheral genre of underground bands.
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