Jason Suecof | |
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Born | April 3, 1980 |
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Instrument | Guitar |
Years active | 2003–present |
Member of | Charred Walls of the Damned |
Formerly of | Capharnaum |
Website | audiohammerstudios |
Jason Suecof (born April 3, 1980) is an American record producer and audio engineer best known for his work with heavy metal bands such as Trivium, Battlecross, Death Angel, All That Remains, Bury Your Dead, The Black Dahlia Murder and The Autumn Offering. In addition, Suecof also has been the guitarist for heavy metal bands Capharnaum and Charred Walls of the Damned.
He produces most of his albums at his own Orlando, Florida-based studio, Audio Hammer. [1] He has produced and/or mixed bands such as Austrian Death Machine, Death Angel, Battlecross, [2] Chelsea Grin, All That Remains, [3] Motionless in White, Bury Your Dead, [4] August Burns Red, [5] The Black Dahlia Murder, [6] Dååth, [7] The Autumn Offering, [8] Luna Mortis, [9] Chimaira, [10] DevilDriver, [11] God Forbid, [12] If Hope Dies, [13] Trivium, Job for a Cowboy, [14] Whitechapel, [15] Mutiny Within, [16] Dir En Grey, [17] Sanctity, [18] and Odd Crew. Suecof has been a member of the technical death metal band Capharnaum, [19] as well as the comic project Crotchduster (under the alias of Fornicus 'Fuckmouth' McFlappy). [20] In 2010, he joined up with Howard Stern Show writer Richard Christy's (Ex-Iced Earth) new project, Charred Walls of the Damned as their guitarist. [21] Suecof is in a wheelchair due to spinal meningitis at age two, though he makes light of his condition and retains a sense of humor about it. [22]
Year | Band | Album | Type | Label | Role | Released |
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2024 | Job for a Cowboy | Moon Healer | Album | Metal Blade | Producer | February 23, 2024 |
Enterprise Earth | Death:An Anthology | Album | MNRK | Drum engineer | February 2, 2024 | |
2023 | The Convalescence | Harvesters of Flesh and Bone | Album | Cleopatra | Producer, recording, mixing | November 3, 2023 |
Carnifex | Necromanteum | Album | Nuclear Blast | Producer, mixing, mastering, engineer | October 6, 2023 | |
2022 | Nekrogoblikon | The Fundamental Slimes and Humours | Album | Mystery Box | Producer, mastering, engineer | April 1, 2022 |
Enterprise Earth | The Chosen | Album | eOne | Drum engineer | January 14, 2022 | |
2020 | Six Feet Under | Nightmares of the Decomposed | Album | Metal Blade | Recording (additional) | October 2, 2020 |
2019 | Cognizance | Malignant Dominion | Album | Prosthetic | Producer, mixing | September 6, 2019 |
Carnifex | World War X | Album | Nuclear Blast | Producer, mixing, engineer | August 2, 2019 | |
Death Angel | Humanicide | Album | Nuclear Blast | Producer | May 31, 2019 | |
Enterprise Earth | Luciferous | Album | eOne | Producer | April 5th, 2019 | |
Arrival of Autumn | Harbinger | Album | Nuclear Blast | Producer, mixing, engineer | March 29, 2019 | |
2018 | Carnifex | Bury Me in Blasphemy | EP | Nuclear Blast | Mixing | December 7, 2018 |
Terrorizer | Caustic Attack | Album | The End Records | Mixing, mastering, engineer | October 12, 2018 | |
Deicide | Overtures of Blasphemy | Album | Century Media | Producer | September 14, 2018 | |
Monstrosity | The Passage of Existence | Album | Metal Blade | Engineer (drums) | September 7, 2018 | |
2017 | War of Ages | Alpha | Album | Facedown | Producer, mixing, engineer | December 8, 2017 |
Belphegor | Totenritual | Album | Nuclear Blast | Mixing | September 15, 2017 | |
2016 | Carnifex | Slow Death | Album | Nuclear Blast | Producer, engineer | May 8, 2016 |
Whitechapel | Mark of the Blade | Album | Metal Blade | Additional engineering | June 24, 2016 | |
Death Angel | The Evil Divide | Album | Nuclear Blast | Producer | May 27, 2016 | |
Drowning Pool | Hellelujah | Album | eOne | Producer | May 2, 2016 | |
2015 | Cryptopsy | The Book of Suffering – Tome 1 | EP | Self Release | Mixing | October 30, 2015 |
Odd Crew | Mark These Words | Album | Mixing | October 9, 2015 | ||
Battlecross | Rise to Power | Album | Metal Blade | Producer, recording, engineer | August 21, 2015 | |
2014 | Job for a Cowboy | Sun Eater | Album | Metal Blade | Producer, mixing, engineer | November 11, 2014 |
Wretched | Cannibal | Album | Victory | Mixing | October 6, 2014 | |
2013 | Deicide | In the Minds of Evil | Album | Century Media | Producer, mixing, engineer | November 26, 2013 |
Reflections | Exi(s)t | Album | eOne, Good Fight | Engineer | October 22, 2013 | |
Death Angel | The Dream Calls for Blood | Album | Nuclear Blast | Producer, guest guitar solo | October 11, 2013 | |
Battlecross | War of Will | Album | Metal Blade | Vocal producer [2] | September 7, 2013 | |
The Black Dahlia Murder | Everblack | Album | Metal Blade | Producer | June 11, 2013 | |
2012 | The Defiled | Daggers | Album | Nuclear Blast | Producer [23] | August 5, 2013 |
Motionless in White | Infamous | Album | Fearless | Producer, [24] mixing | November 13, 2012 | |
The Contortionist | Intrinsic | Album | eOne, Good Fight | Mixing, engineer | July 17, 2012 | |
Chelsea Grin | Evolve | EP | Artery | Producer, [25] mixing | June 19, 2012 | |
Six Feet Under | Undead | Album | Metal Blade | Mixing | May 22, 2012 | |
Firewind | Few Against Many | Album | Century Media | Mixing | May 22, 2012 | |
Job for a Cowboy | Demonocracy | Album | Metal Blade | Producer, [26] mixing, engineer | April 10, 2012 | |
Demon Hunter | True Defiance | Album | Solid State | Mixing | April 10, 2012 | |
God Forbid | Equilibrium | Album | Victory | Producer, [27] engineer | March 26, 2012 | |
2011 | Draekon | Prelude To Tragedy | EP | Self Release | Engineer, mix engineer | 2011 |
Carnifex | Until I Feel Nothing | Album | Victory | Mixing | October 24, 2011 | |
Dirge Within | Absolution | EP | Big Time | Mixing | August 16, 2011 | |
Trivium | In Waves | Album | Roadrunner | Pre-production, songwriting [28] | August 2, 2011 | |
August Burns Red | Leveler | Album | Solid State | Producer, [29] mixing | June 21, 2011 | |
The Black Dahlia Murder | Ritual | Album | Metal Blade | Producer | June 17, 2011 | |
Job for a Cowboy | Gloom | EP | Metal Blade | Producer, mixing, engineer | June 7, 2011 | |
Emery | We Do What We Want | Album | Solid State | Mixing | March 29, 2011 | |
Born of Osiris | The Discovery | Album | Sumerian | Mixing | March 22, 2011 | |
The Famine | The Architects of Guilt | Album | Solid State | Mixing | February 15, 2011 | |
2010 | As They Sleep | Dynasty | Album | Solid State | Mixing | November 23, 2010 |
Atheist | Jupiter | Album | Season of Mist | Executive producer, mixing, engineer | November 8, 2010 | |
Dååth | Dååth | Album | Century Media | Vocal producer [30] | October 26, 2010 | |
Death Angel | Relentless Retribution | Album | Nuclear Blast | Producer, mixing, engineer | September 14, 2010 | |
Haste the Day | Attack of the Wolf King | Album | Solid State | Mixing | June 29, 2010 | |
Whitechapel | A New Era of Corruption | Album | Metal Blade | Producer, mixing | June 8, 2010 | |
MyChildren MyBride | Lost Boy | Album | Solid State | Mixing [31] | June 8, 2010 | |
To Speak of Wolves | Myself Is Less Than Letting Go | Album | Solid State | Mixing | May 18, 2010 | |
Demon Hunter | The World Is a Thorn | Album | Solid State | Mixing | March 9, 2010 | |
Mutiny Within | Mutiny Within | Album | Roadrunner | Additional producer, engineer [32] | February 23, 2010 | |
Charred Walls of the Damned | Charred Walls of the Damned | Album | Metal Blade | Producer, engineer, guitarist | February 2, 2010 | |
2009 | Evergreen Terrace | Almost Home | Album | Metal Blade | Vocal tracking | September 29, 2009 |
The Black Dahlia Murder | Deflorate | Album | Metal Blade | Producer | September 15, 2009 | |
August Burns Red | Constellations | Album | Solid State | Producer, [33] mixing | July 14, 2009 | |
Job for a Cowboy | Ruination | Album | Metal Blade | Producer, [34] mixing, engineer | July 7, 2009 | |
The Autumn Offering | Requiem | Album | Victory | Composer, engineer [35] | June 9, 2009 | |
Dååth | The Concealers | Album | Century Media | Producer, [36] mixing, engineer | April 21, 2009 | |
Luna Mortis | The Absence | Album | Century Media | Producer, [37] mixing | February 10, 2009 | |
2008 | Beneath the Massacre | Dystopia | Album | Prosthetic | Mixing | October 28, 2008 |
All That Remains | Overcome | Album | Prosthetic | Producer [38] | September 16, 2008 | |
Devil's Gift | Devil's Gift | Album | John Galt Entertainment | Producer, [39] mixing | September 12, 2008 | |
Kataklysm | Prevail | Album | Nuclear Blast | Mixing, engineer | May 23, 2010 | |
Bury Your Dead | Bury Your Dead | Album | Victory | Producer, mixing, engineer | March 18, 2008 | |
Beneath the Massacre | Dystopia | Album | Interscope | Composer [40] | March 18, 2008 | |
Violence To Vegas | Princess to Poison | EP | Feeding Ground | Producer, mixing, engineer | January 22, 2008 | |
2007 | The Autumn Offering | Fear Will Cast No Shadow | Album | Victory | Producer, mixing | October 30, 2007 |
All That Remains | All That Remains: Live | Live Album | Prosthetic | Mixing, engineer | October 30, 2007 | |
The Black Dahlia Murder | Nocturnal | Album | Metal Blade | Producer | September 18, 2007 | |
DevilDriver | The Last Kind Words | Album | Roadrunner | Producer | July 31, 2007 | |
Sanctity | Road to Bloodshed | Album | Roadrunner | Producer, [41] engineer | April 7, 2007 | |
Chimaira | Resurrection | Album | Ferret | Producer, [42] keyboards, sampling | March 6, 2007 | |
2006 | Seemless | What Have We Become | Album | Equal Vision | Producer, engineer | September 5, 2006 |
Bury Your Dead | Beauty and the Breakdown | Album | Victory | Producer, [43] mixing | July 11, 2006 | |
Trivium | The Crusade | Album | Roadrunner | Producer [44] | October 10, 2006 | |
The Autumn Offering | Embrace the Gutter | Album | Victory | Producer, mixing | May 16, 2006 | |
Failsafe | A Black Tie Affair | EP | Feeding Ground | Producer, [45] mixing, engineer, composer | April 11, 2006 | |
If Hope Dies | Life in Ruin | Album | Metal Blade | Producer, [46] mixing, mastering, engineer | March 7, 2006 | |
2005 | Roadrunner United | The All-Star Sessions | Album | Roadrunner | Producer, engineer | October 10, 2005 |
God Forbid | IV: Constitution of Treason | Album | Century Media | Producer, [47] engineer, programming | September 20, 2005 | |
Neuraxis | Trilateral Progression | Album | Willowtip | Mixing | September 13, 2005 | |
Cannae | Gold Becomes Sacrifice | Album | Prosthetic | Producer, [48] mixing, engineer | September 6, 2005 | |
Trivium | Ascendancy | Album | Roadrunner | Producer [49] | March 15, 2005 | |
2004 | Quo Vadis | Defiant Imagination | Album | Skyscraper Music | Mixing (assistant), engineer | November 4, 2004 |
Crotchduster | Big Fat Box of Shit | Album | Willowtip | Producer, mixing, engineer, composer, guitarist, vocalist | October 5, 2004 | |
Capharnaum | Fractured | Album | Willowtip | Producer, mixing, engineer, composer, guitarist | February 9, 2004 | |
2003 | Trivium | Ember to Inferno | Album | Lifeforce | Producer, [50] mixing, engineer | October 14, 2003 |
Monstrosity | Rise to Power | Album | Conquest | Engineer, guest guitar solo | September 23, 2003 | |
Summon | And the Blood Runs Black | Album | Moribund | Mixing, engineer | February 25, 2003 |
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