Andy Sneap

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Andy Sneap
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Sneap with Judas Priest in 2022
Background information
Born (1969-07-18) 18 July 1969 (age 55)
Belper, Derbyshire, England
Genres Heavy metal, thrash metal
Occupation(s)Musician, record producer, composer, audio engineer
InstrumentGuitar
Years active1984–present

Andy Sneap (born 18 July 1969) is an English guitarist, record producer, and composer with over 100 albums to his name, most of which have been produced at his Backstage Recording studios in rural Derbyshire. Some of the most critically acclaimed production-work on albums include Deliverance by Opeth and Disarm the Descent by Killswitch Engage; for which he earned a Swedish Grammis and a US Grammy nomination, respectively. As a performer, he first built his reputation as one of the guitarists in the British thrash metal band Sabbat, and played with them up until their disbanding. He is currently one of the co-guitarists of the British heavy metal band Hell. [1] In 2018, Sneap joined Judas Priest as a touring guitarist, following long-time lead guitarist Glenn Tipton's diagnosis of Parkinson's disease which conflicts with his touring abilities, [2] and while not an official member of the band, he contributed guitar work to their nineteenth studio album Invincible Shield (2024). [3]

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He is one of the most active music producers in the heavy metal music genre and has worked with bands such as Judas Priest, Accept, Blaze Bayley, Dream Theater, Saxon, Opeth, Amon Amarth, Arch Enemy, Exodus, Megadeth, Kataklysm, Kreator, Nevermore, Testament, Carcass, Fear Factory, Overkill and DevilDriver. [4] [5] [6] Of his production career, Sneap holds the distinction of having been credited as a producer, mixer or engineer on all six of Testament's albums since The Gathering (1999) – including the collection of re-recorded material First Strike Still Deadly (2001) – as well as all nine of Exodus' releases since the live album Another Lesson in Violence (1997). [6] He also mixed Megadeth's show from the DVD The Big Four: Live from Sofia, Bulgaria , also featuring Metallica, Slayer and Anthrax. [6]

Biography

Andy Sneap was born on 18 July 1969 in Belper, Derbyshire. He got his first guitar and amplifier from his parents at age 12 as a Christmas present. He started learning guitar with founding Hell member Dave Halliday, who had a huge effect on Andy and left him all the rights to all his songs and equipment in his will following his death. [7] Sneap joined a British heavy metal band called Hydra as the second guitarist when he was 15 years old. But two weeks later, the original guitarist and drummer quit, Simon Negus joined them, and the band's name changed to Sabbat. [8]

After disbanding Hydra and forming a new band, they chose Sabbat as the new name, which came from a book on witchcraft. [8] After one year of rehearsing, they recorded a four-track demo tape, Fragments of a Faith Forgotten. Sneap distributed the demo tape to many record companies, but on listening, Berlin-based recording company Noise Records showed interest and asked for more material. In 1987, Noise Records offered the band a recording contract, but the contract could not be signed until Sneap turned 18 years old in July 1987. So they made a plan to start recording the band's first full studio album, History of a Time to Come . Andy wrote all the music while Martin Walkyier was responsible for the lyrics. [9] Sabbat released the album on 20 April 1988 via Noise Records, which received positive attention from journalists and fans alike.

In January 1989 Sneap and the other band members entered Sky Trak Studio in Berlin to start recording their second album, Dreamweaver , which was a concept album based on the 1983 book by Brian Bates – The Way of Wyrd: Tales of an Anglo-Saxon Sorcerer. Andy wrote almost all of the music except three songs, which Simon Jones also wrote with Andy. The album has come to be regarded as a classic of the thrash metal genre, which reflects Andy's predilection at that time for increasingly lengthy and progressively technical thrash metal songs.

Discography

As a band member

BandAlbum detailsRoleSource
Sabbat History of a Time to Come
  • Label: Noise Records
  • Release date: 20 April 1988
Composer, Guitar, Remastering
Dreamweaver
  • Label: Noise Records
  • Release date: 15 May 1989
Composer, Guitar, Remastering
Mourning Has Broken
  • Label: Noise Records
  • Release date: 26 March 1991
Composer, Guitar
Hell Human Remains
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Release date: 13 May 2011
Engineer, Guitar, Mixing, Producer [10]
Curse and Chapter
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Release date: 22 November 2013
Composer, engineer, Guitar, Mixing, Producer [7]

Selected production

YearAlbum detailsRoleSource
1994 English Dogs – Bow to None
  • Label: Impact Records
  • Release date: 1994
Assistant, Mixing [11]
1996Dearly Beheaded – TemptationEngineer [12] [13]
1997 Machine Head – The More Things Change... Mixing [14]
Napalm Death – Inside the Torn Apart Mixing [15]
Exodus – Another Lesson in Violence Producer [16]
Skinlab – Bound, Gagged and Blindfolded
  • Label: Century Media
  • Release date: 8 July 1997
Engineer, Mixing, Producer [17]
Napalm Death – Breed to Breathe (EP)
  • Label: Earache Records
  • Release date: 17 November 1997
Mixing [18]
1998 Obituary – Dead
  • Label: Roadrunner
  • Release date: 21 April 1998
Mixing [19]
English Dogs – All the World's a Rage
  • Label: Impact Records
  • Release date: 25 August 1998
Producer [20]
Earth Crisis – Breed the Killers
  • Label: Roadrunner
  • Release date: 8 September 1998
Audio Engineer, Audio Production, engineer, Mixing, Producer [21]
1999Skinlab – Disembody: The New Flesh
  • Label: Century Media
  • Release date: 23 February 1999
Mixing, Producer, Vocals (Additional) [22]
Testament – The Gathering Engineer, Mixing [23]
Artillery – B.A.C.K.
  • Label: Die Hard music
  • Release date: 2 October 1999
Mixing [24]
2000 B L A Z E – Silicon Messiah
  • Label: SPV
  • Release date: 22 May 2000
Engineer, Mastering, Mixing, Producer [25]
Nevermore – Dead Heart in a Dead World
  • Label: Century Media
  • Release date: 17 October 2000
Engineer, Mastering, Mixing, Producer [26]
Fozzy – Fozzy
  • Label: Palm Pictures / Megaforce Records
  • Release date: 24 October 2000
Mastering, Mixing [27]
2001 Arch Enemy – Wages of Sin
  • Label: Century Media
  • Release date: 2 April 2001
Mastering, Mixing [28]
Kreator – Violent Revolution Engineer, Mastering, Mixing, Producer [29]
Testament – First Strike Still Deadly
  • Label: Spitfire Records
  • Release date: 24 October 2001
Audio Engineer, Mixing [30]
2002B L A Z E – Tenth Dimension
  • Label: SPV
  • Release date: 15 January 2002
Engineer, Mastering, Mixing, Producer [31]
Arch Enemy – Burning Angel
  • Label: Century Media
  • Release date: 6 March 2002
Mastering, Mixing [32]
Killswitch Engage – Alive or Just Breathing
  • Label: Roadrunner
  • Release date: 21 May 2002
Mastering, Mixing [33]
Skinlab – Revolting Room
  • Label: Century Media
  • Release date: 27 May 2002
Additional tracking, Mixing [34]
Living Sacrifice – Conceived in Fire Mastering, Mixing [35]
Opeth – Deliverance
  • Label: Koch, Music for Nations
  • Release date: 12 November 2002
Mixing [36]
Masterplan – Enlighten MeEngineer, producer [37]
2003Masterplan – Masterplan
  • Label: AFM Records
  • Release date: 20 January 2003
Engineer, producer [38]
B L A Z E – As Live as It Gets
  • Label: SPV
  • Release date: 25 March 2003
Engineer, Mastering, Mixing, Producer [39]
Nevermore – Enemies of Reality
  • Label: Century Media
  • Release date: 29 July 2003, April 2005 (reissue)
Remastering, Remixing (2005 reissue) [40]
Arch Enemy – Anthems of Rebellion
  • Label: Century Media
  • Release date: 23 August 2003
Engineer, Mastering, Mixing, Pre-Production, Producer [41]
MTV2 Headbangers Ball
  • Label: Roadrunner
  • Release date: 7 October 2003
Mixing, producer [42]
Machine Head – Through the Ashes of Empires
  • Label: Roadrunner
  • Release date: 31 October 2003
Technician [43]
Opeth – Lamentations (Live at Shepherd's Bush Empire 2003)
  • Label: Koch, Music for Nations
  • Release date: 24 November 2003
Mixing, Recording [44]
2004Exodus – Tempo of the Damned Engineer, Mastering, Mixing, Producer [45]
36 Crazyfists – A Snow Capped Romance
  • Label: Roadrunner
  • Release date: 16 March 2004
Mastering, Mixing [46]
B L A Z E – Blood & Belief
  • Label: SPV/Steamhammer
  • Release date: 26 April 2004
Audio Engineer, Audio Production, engineer, Mastering, Mixing, Photography, Producer [47]
Killswitch Engage – The End of Heartache
  • Label: Roadrunner
  • Release date: 11 May 2004
Mastering, Mixing [48]
Caliban – The Opposite from Within
  • Label: Roadrunner
  • Release date: 17 October 2004
Audio Engineer, Mastering, Mixing [49]
Bullet for My Valentine – Bullet for My Valentine Mastering [50]
2005Kreator – Enemy of God
  • Label: SPV/Steamhammer
  • Release date: 10 January 2005
Audio Production, Mixing, Producer [51]
Trivium – Ascendancy
  • Label: Roadrunner
  • Release date: 15 March 2005
Mastering, Mixing, Vocals [52]
As I Lay Dying – Shadows Are Security Mastering, Mixing [53]
Arch Enemy – Doomsday Machine
  • Label: Century Media
  • Release date: 26 July 2005
Mastering, Mixing [54]
Nevermore – This Godless Endeavor
  • Label: Century Media
  • Release date: 26 July 2005
Engineering, Mastering, Mixing, Producer [55]
Bullet for My Valentine – Hand of Blood Audio Production, Mastering [56]
Bullet for My Valentine – The Poison
  • Label: Visible Noise
  • Release date: 3 October 2005
Mixing, Producer (track 6) [57]
Exodus – Shovel Headed Kill Machine
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Release date: 4 October 2005
Mastering, Mixing [58]
2006Caliban – The Undying Darkness
  • Label: Abacus
  • Release date: 4 April 2006
Mastering, Mixing [59]
As I Lay Dying – A Long March: The First Recordings
  • Label: Metal Blade
  • Release date: 16 May 2006
Mixing (tracks 1 and 3) [60]
36 Crazyfists – Rest Inside the Flames Mastering, Mixing [61]
Kerrang Album
  • Release date: 11 September 2006
Producer [62]
Into Eternity – The Scattering of Ashes
  • Label: Century Media
  • Release date: 3 October 2006
Mastering, Mixing [63]
Cradle of Filth – Thornography
  • Label: Roadrunner
  • Release date: 17 October 2006
Mastering, Mixing [64]
2007 Onslaught – Killing Peace Mixing, Producer [65]
Chimaira – Resurrection
  • Label: Ferret Music (U.S.), Nuclear Blast (Worldwide)
  • Release date: 6 March 2007
Audio Engineer, Engineer, Mixing [66]
Annihilator – Metal
  • Label: SPV/Steamhammer
  • Release date: 16 April 2007
Mixing, Producer [67]
Job for a Cowboy – Genesis
  • Label: Metal Blade
  • Release date: 15 May 2007
Mastering, Mixing [68]
Megadeth – United Abominations
  • Label: Roadrunner
  • Release date: 15 May 2007
Audio Engineer, Audio Production, engineer, Mastering, Mixing, Producer [69]
Rise to Addiction – A New Shade of Black for the SoulAudio Production, engineer, Mixing, Producer [70]
Despised Icon – The Ills of Modern Man
  • Label: Century Media
  • Release date: 22 May 2007
Mastering, Mixing [71]
DevilDriver – The Last Kind Words
  • Label: Roadrunner
  • Release date: 31 July 2007
Mastering, Mixing [72]
As I Lay Dying – An Ocean Between Us
  • Label: Metal Blade
  • Release date: 21 August 2007
Technician (guitar re-amping) [73]
Exodus – The Atrocity Exhibition... Exhibit A
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Release date: 26 October 2007
Engineer, Mixing, Producer [74]
2008Testament – The Formation of Damnation
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Release date: 29 April 2008
Engineer, Mixing [75]
36 Crazyfists – The Tide and Its Takers
  • Label: Ferret
  • Release date: 27 May 2008
Mastering, Mixing [76]
Soulfly – Conquer
  • Label: Roadrunner
  • Release date: 29 July 2008
Mixing [77]
Unearth – The March
  • Label: Metal Blade
  • Release date: 14 October 2008
Mastering, Mixing [78]
Nevermore – The Year of the Voyager
  • Label: Century Media
  • Release date: 20 October 2008
Mastering, Mixing [79]
Cradle of Filth – Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder
  • Label: Roadrunner
  • Release date: 28 October 2008
Audio Engineer, Audio Production, Engineer, Mastering, Mixing, Producer [80]
Exodus – Let There Be Blood
  • Label: Zaentz Records
  • Release date: 28 October 2008
Mastering, Mixing [81]
2009 Iron Monkey – Our Problem
  • Label: Earache Records
  • Release date: 26 May 2009
Engineer, Mixing, Producer [82]
DevilDriver – Pray for Villains
  • Label: Roadrunner
  • Release date: 14 July 2009
Guitar Producer, Mastering, Mixing, Mixing Advisor [83]
Megadeth – Endgame
  • Label: Roadrunner
  • Release date: 14 September 2009
Engineer, Mastering, Mixing, Producer [84]
Arch Enemy – The Root of All Evil
  • Label: Century Media
  • Release date: 28 September 2009
Mastering, Mixing [85]
2010Living Sacrifice – The Infinite Order
  • Label: Solid State
  • Release date: 26 January 2010
Mastering, Mixing [86]
Exodus – Exhibit B: The Human Condition
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Release date: 7 May 2010
Mastering, Mixing, Producer [87]
Nevermore – The Obsidian Conspiracy
  • Label: Century Media
  • Release date: 8 June 2010
Mastering, Mixing [88]
36 Crazyfists – Collisions and Castaways
  • Label: Ferret, Roadrunner
  • Release date: 27 July 2010
Mastering, Mixing [89]
Accept – Blood of the Nations
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Release date: 20 August 2010
Engineer, Mastering, Mixing, Producer [90]
Dimmu Borgir – Abrahadabra
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Release date: 22 September 2010
Guest Artist, Mixing [91]
Megadeth – " Sudden Death "
  • Label: Roadrunner
  • Release date: 28 September 2010
Mixing [92]
Slayer – The Big Four: Live from Sofia, Bulgaria Mixing [93]
Cradle of Filth – Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa Assistant Engineer, Mastering [94]
2011DevilDriver – Beast
  • Label: Roadrunner
  • Release date: 22 February 2011
Mastering, Mixing [95]
Arch Enemy – Khaos Legions
  • Label: Century Media
  • Release date: 30 May 2011
Mastering, Mixing [96]
Megadeth – Thirteen
  • Label: Roadrunner
  • Release date: 1 November 2011
Additional engineering [97]
2012Accept – Stalingrad
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Release date: 6 April 2012
Engineer, Mastering, Mixing, Producer [98]
Testament – Dark Roots of Earth
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Release date: 27 July 2012
Additional Footage, engineer, Mastering, Mixing, Producer [99]
2013 Saxon – Sacrifice
  • Label: UDR
  • Release date: 1 March 2013
Mastering, Mixing, Producer [100]
Killswitch Engage – Disarm the Descent
  • Label: Roadrunner
  • Release date: 2 April 2013
Mastering, Mixing [101]
Amon Amarth – Deceiver of the Gods
  • Label: Metal Blade
  • Release date: 25 June 2013
Engineer, Mastering, Mixing, Producer [102]
Carcass – Surgical Steel
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Release date: 13 September 2013
Mastering, Mixing [103]
XXX: Three Decades of Roadrunner Records
  • Label: Roadrunner
  • Release date: 30 September 2013
Mixing, Producer [104]
2014 Ronnie James Dio – This Is Your Life Engineer [105]
Accept – Blind Rage
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Release date: 15 August 2014
Mastering, Mixing, Producer [106]
Exodus – Blood In, Blood Out
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Release date: 14 October 2014
Engineer (drums), Mastering, Mixing, Tracking [107]
Machine Head – Bloodstone & Diamonds
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Release date: 10 November 2014
Additional tracking, editing, and mixing [108]
Carcass – Surgical Remission/Surplus Steel (EP)
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Release date: 11 November 2014
Mastering, Mixing [109]
2015 Kataklysm – Of Ghosts and Gods
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Release date: 31 July 2015
Mastering, Mixing [110]
Fear Factory – Genexus
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Release date: 7 August 2015
Mastering, Mixing [111]
Saxon – Battering Ram
  • Label: UDR
  • Release date: 16 October 2015
Engineer, Mastering, Mixing, Producer [112]
2016Amon Amarth – Jomsviking
  • Label: Metal Blade
  • Release date: 25 March 2016
Engineer, Mixing, Producer [113]
Despised Icon – Beast
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Release date: 22 June 2016
Mastering, Mixing [114]
Testament – Brotherhood of the Snake
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Release Date: 28 October 2016
Mastering, Mixing [115]
2017 Overkill – The Grinding Wheel
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Release date: 10 February 2017
Mixing [116]
Accept – The Rise of Chaos
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Release date: 4 August 2017
Mastering, Mixing, Producer [117]
2018Saxon – Thunderbolt
  • Label: Silver Lining
  • Release Date: 2 February 2018
Engineer, Mixing, Producer [118]
Judas Priest – Firepower Co-Producer (Along with Tom Allom), Engineer, Mastering, Mixing [119] [120]
2019Overkill – The Wings of War
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Release date: 22 February 2019
Mastering, Mixing (track 11) [121]
Xentrix – Bury the Pain Mixing [122]
Killswitch Engage – Atonement
  • Label: Metal Blade
  • Release date: 16 August 2019
Mastering, Mixing [123]
2020Testament – Titans of Creation
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Release Date: 3 April 2020
Mastering, Mixing [124]
Kreator – "666 - World Divided"
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Release date: 10 April 2020
Producer [125]
John Petrucci – Terminal Velocity
  • Label: Sound Mind Music/The Orchard
  • Release Date: 28 August 2020
Mastering, Mixing [126]
2021Accept – Too Mean to Die
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Release date: 29 January 2021
Mixing, Producer [127]
Fear Factory – Aggression Continuum
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Release date: 18 June 2021
Mastering, Mixing [128]
Dream Theater – A View from the Top of the World Mastering, Mixing [129]
Exodus – Persona Non Grata
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Release date: 19 November 2021
Mixing [130]
2022Saxon – Carpe Diem
  • Label: Silver Lining
  • Release date: 4 February 2022
Mastering, Mixing, Producer [131]
Annihilator – Metal II
  • Label: earMUSIC
  • Release date: 18 February 2022
Re-amping (guitars) [132]
Amon Amarth – The Great Heathen Army
  • Label: Metal Blade
  • Release date: 5 August 2022
Mastering, Mixing, Producer [133]
Xentrix – Seven Words
  • Label: Listenable
  • Release date: 4 November 2022
Mixing [134]
2023 Elegant Weapons – Horns for a Halo
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Release date: 26 May 2023
Mastering, Mixing, Engineering, Producer [135]
2024Saxon – Hell, Fire and Damnation
  • Label: Silver Lining
  • Release date: 19 January 2024
Mastering, Mixing, Producer [136]
Judas Priest – Invincible Shield
  • Label: Epic
  • Release date: 8 March 2024
Producer, Guitar [137] [3]
Accept – Humanoid Mastering, Mixing, Producer [138]
2025Dream Theater – Parasomnia
  • Label: Inside Out
  • To be released: 7 February 2025
Engineering, Mastering, Mixing [139]

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