This is a chronological list of the production discography of American musician and record producer Kurt Ballou , and doubles as a list of recordings made at GodCity Studio.
Year | Album | Band |
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1996 | Jesuit [1] | Jesuit |
1998 | When Forever Comes Crashing | Converge |
Beyond Hypothermia | Cave In | |
The Huguenots [1] [2] | The Huguenots | |
The Mosquito Control EP [3] | Isis | |
1999 | Jesuit | Jesuit |
Until Your Heart Stops [3] | Cave In | |
Flounders Flyers College & Canada | All Chrome | |
Chaos Is Me [4] | Orchid | |
Division of Labor | Codeseven | |
The Red Sea | Isis | |
The Poacher Diaries | Converge | |
Frozen Divide | Year of our Lord | |
Sawblade | Isis |
Year | Album | Band |
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2000 | Rise of the Great Machine | Supermachiner |
2000 | Dance Tonight! Revolution Tomorrow! [5] | Orchid |
2000 | A Mile in Cold Water | Garrison |
2000 | American Nightmare | American Nightmare |
2000 | The Huguenots / Sevenpercentsolution [1] [2] | The Huguenots |
2000 | Cold Blue | The Hope Conspiracy |
2001 | Self Esteem Through Modern Science | Blue/Green Heart |
2001 | Seminar II: The Holy Rites of Primitivism Regressionism | Old Man Gloom |
2001 | Seminar III: Zozobra | Old Man Gloom |
2001 | After the Storm | Sevenday Curse |
2001 | Deeper the Wound | Converge & Hellchild |
2001 | Document #8 | Pg.99 |
2001 | Piebald | Piebald |
2001 | Presents | Jeromes Dream |
2001 | Garrison / Hundred Reasons | Garrison |
2001 | Jane Doe | Converge |
2001 | File 03 | The Hope Conspiracy |
2001 | Dying for It | Panic |
2001 | Final | Damage |
2001 | A Life Less Plagued | Carry On |
2002 | Best Record Ever [6] | Drowningman |
2002 | The Audio Medium | The Cancer Conspiracy |
2000 | The Wind Blew All the Fires Out | Eulcid |
2002 | Learning to Accept Silence | In Pieces |
2002 | Unfortunately, We're Not Robots | Curl Up and Die |
2002 | The Treachery Pact | Eden Maine |
2002 | You're Not Looking So Good | Suicide Note |
2002 | Earth and Sphere [7] | Beyond the Sixth Seal |
2002 | But a Whimper [3] | Ramallah |
2003 | Breaking the Fourth Wall | Beecher |
2003 | Soldiers | Embrace Today |
2003 | We Sing the Body Electric | Since By Man |
2003 | The Past and Now | The Static Age |
2003 | Not Now, Not Ever | Another Breath |
2003 | The Whitest of Elephants | Examination of the... |
2004 | Rope Tied to the Trigger | Scars of Tomorrow |
2004 | Charmer | Breather Resist |
2004 | Behold The Fuck Thunder | The Great Redneck Hope |
2004 | Kamikaze Missions | Backstabbers Inc. |
2004 | Christmas | Old Man Gloom |
2004 | You Fail Me [3] | Converge |
2004 | Sex Positions | Sex Positions |
2004 | Call Me Armageddon | The Power & The Glory |
2004 | Promises Kept | Champion |
2005 | The Lamb | Mi Amore |
2005 | This Elegy, His Autopsy [3] | Beecher |
2005 | Petitioning the Empty Sky (Remaster) [3] | Converge |
2005 | When Forever Comes Crashing (Remaster) [3] | Converge |
2005 | Erase All Name and Likeness | Transistor Transistor |
2005 | Brood of Vipers | Seventh Star |
2005 | Witness [3] | Modern Life Is War |
2005 | The Sirens of Silence [3] | Swarm of the Lotus |
2005 | The Moon Is a Dead World | Gospel |
2005 | Black Thunder [3] | Doomriders |
2005 | In Place Apart | Killing The Dream |
2006 | Dead Under Decor | Bleeding Kansas |
2006 | …Is My Co-pilot | The Punching Contest |
2006 | Dead Mountain Mouth | Genghis Tron |
2006 | Death Knows Your Name | The Hope Conspiracy |
2005 | Lost At Sea | In Dire Need |
2006 | No Heroes | Converge |
2006 | Substance | Betrayed |
2006 | Into Oblivion | Rise and Fall |
2007 | Peace on Earth, War on Stage | Blacklisted |
2007 | March Forth To Victory | The Freezing Fog |
2007 | Sleepwell Deconstructor | Trap Them |
2007 | The Undisputed Truth | Seventh Star |
2007 | This is Where the Fight Begins | The Ghost of a Thousand |
2007 | Animal | Animosity |
2007 | No Salvation | Coliseum |
2007 | The Emptiness | Samsara |
2007 | Séance Prime | Trap Them |
2007 | Don't Worry Lady | I Hate Sally |
2007 | A New Beat from a Dead Heart | 108 |
2007 | Redemption Through Looseness | Kruger |
2007 | Swears | The Casual Lean |
2007 | Discography | The Huguenots |
2008 | Live the Storm | Disfear |
2008 | Mount Hope | Pygmy Lush |
2008 | ...I Carry | Adai |
2008 | Heavier Than Heaven, Lonelier Than God | Blacklisted |
2008 | Lion of Judas | Elysia |
2008 | Board Up the House [8] | Genghis Tron |
2008 | Thaumaturgy | Dead or American |
2008 | Meanderthal | Torche |
2008 | Ruined Lives | Transistor Transistor |
2008 | Villains | Stray from the Path |
2008 | Traitors | Misery Index |
2008 | Thousands of Birds | Argument 5.45 |
2008 | Songs to Scream at the Sun | Have Heart |
2008 | II – Tutti A Pezzi | La Crisi |
2008 | Seizures in Barren Praise | Trap Them |
2008 | Bishop Kent Manning | the_Network |
2008 | Old Wounds | Young Widows |
2009 | Black Eye Blues | Lewd Acts |
2009 | Spoils of Failure | Buried Inside |
2009 | Rust | Supermachiner |
2009 | Our Circle Is Vicious | Rise and Fall |
2009 | Magrudergrind | Magrudergrind |
2009 | Darkness Come Alive | Doomriders |
2009 | True Nihilist | The Hope Conspiracy |
2009 | Axe to Fall | Converge |
2009 | Amnesia | Paint It Black |
2009 | Surrender | Paint It Black |
2009 | Red in Tooth & Claw [8] [9] | BATS |
Year | Album | Band |
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2010 | Acid Tiger | Acid Tiger |
2010 | Heavy Breathing | Black Breath |
2010 | Filth Rations | Trap Them |
2010 | Kvelertak | Kvelertak |
2010 | Unsilent Death | Nails |
2010 | To The Open Hearts | You are in my September! |
2010 | 18.61 | 108 |
2010 | Solve et Coagula | The Secret |
2010 | Howl and Filth | Generation of Vipers |
2010 | All Pigs Must Die | All Pigs Must Die |
2010 | From Desperate Times Comes Radicial Minds | Pettybone |
2011 | The Day The War Is Over | SEVEN7STEPS |
2011 | Highway To Health | Pneu |
2011 | Venerable | KEN mode |
2011 | Darker Handcraft | Trap Them |
2011 | Algorithms | Meek is Murder |
2011 | Old Friends | Pygmy Lush |
2011 | God Is War | All Pigs Must Die |
2011 | Discography | Jesuit |
2011 | Trenchfoot | Trenchfoot |
2011 | Invernal | Black Cobra |
2011 | This Old Earthquake | The Fear and Trembling |
2011 | Pain is a Warning | Today is the Day |
2012 | Sentenced To Life | Black Breath |
2012 | De Vermis Mysteriis | High on Fire |
2012 | Faith | Rise and Fall |
2012 | Rotten Thing To Say | Burning Love |
2012 | Harmonicraft | Torche |
2012 | No Absolutes in Human Suffering | Gaza |
2012 | No | Old Man Gloom |
2012 | Love Is Love/Return to Dust | Code Orange Kids |
2012 | All We Love We Leave Behind | Converge |
2012 | Agnus Dei | The Secret |
2013 | Bushcraft | Baptists |
2013 | Howl | This Routine Is Hell |
2013 | Abandon All Life | Nails |
2013 | Fever Hunting | Modern Life Is War |
2013 | Meir | Kvelertak |
2013 | When the Landscape is Quiet Again [8] [10] | Sleeping In Gethsemane |
2013 | Eros/Anteros | Oathbreaker |
2013 | Nice Hooves | Nice Hooves |
2013 | Everything is Awesome Nothing Matters | Meek is Murder |
2013 | Nothing Violates This Nature | All Pigs Must Die |
2013 | Akrasia EP | Immortal Bird |
2013 | Fiction or Truth ? | Castles |
2013 | Chemistry of Consciousness | Toxic Holocaust |
2013 | Serpents Unleashed | Skeletonwitch |
2014 | Crystalline | Hark |
2014 | Prayer for Terrene | Idylls |
2014 | Oblation | Floor |
2014 | Blissfucker | Trap Them |
2014 | From Parts Unknown | Every Time I Die |
2014 | Seizures Within Reason [8] [11] | Empty Vessels |
2014 | Splinters | Vallenfyre |
2014 | I Am King | Code Orange |
2014 | Tyranny of Will | Iron Reagan |
2014 | Bloodmines | Baptists |
2014 | Poison Everything | Obliterations |
2014 | Silence in the Ancestral House | Occultation |
2014 | The Ape of God | Old Man Gloom |
2015 | La Ira | Hamlet |
2015 | Restarter | Torche |
2015 | Rust | Harm's Way |
2015 | Four Year Strong | Four Year Strong |
2015 | Untitled [12] | The Armed |
2015 | Luminiferous | High on Fire |
2015 | Heaven Is Earth | Self Defense Family |
2015 | Lightless Walk | Cult Leader |
2015 | S/T 7" | Expander |
2015 | Bleeder | Mutoid Man |
2015 | Slaves Beyond Death | Black Breath |
2015 | The Gall | Nice Hooves |
2016 | What One Becomes | Sumac |
2016 | You Fail Me Redux | Converge |
2016 | Awake for Everything | Hesitation Wounds |
2016 | You Will Never Be One of Us | Nails |
2016 | Crown Feral | Trap Them |
2016 | Guidance | Russian Circles |
2016 | Once Love Was Lost | Vorvaň |
2016 | Was | Meek is Murder |
2016 | Sonoran Depravation | Gatecreeper |
2016 | Dissociation | The Dillinger Escape Plan |
2016 | Cinemechanica | Cinemechanica |
2017 | Forever | Code Orange |
2017 | Godless Prophets & the Migrant Flora | Darkest Hour |
2017 | Trumpeting Ecstasy | Full of Hell |
2017 | Through the Mirror | Endon |
2017 | Endless Computer | Expander |
2017 | War Moans | Mutoid Man |
2017 | RIPHOUSE [13] | Break City Drowwners |
2017 | Hiss Spun [14] | Chelsea Wolfe |
2017 | No Cure for Death [15] | SECT |
2017 | Hostage Animal | All Pigs Must Die |
2018 | Only Love [16] | The Armed |
2018 | Stranger Fruit | Zeal & Ardor |
2018 | Million Dollars to Kill Me | Joyce Manor |
2018 | Beautiful Ruin | Converge |
2018 | Love in Shadow | Sumac |
2018 | Electric Messiah | High on Fire |
2018 | A Patient Man | Cult Leader |
2019 | Weeping Choir | Full of Hell |
2019 | The Grand Descent | Fuming Mouth |
2019 | Ex Voto [17] | Djunah |
2019 | Blood Year | Russian Circles |
Year | Album | Band |
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2020 | Shadow of Life | Umbra Vitae |
Seminar IX: Darkness of Being(selected tracks) | Old Man Gloom | |
Seminar VIII: Light of Meaning(selected tracks) | Old Man Gloom | |
Internal Incarceration | Year of the Knife | |
May You Be Held | Sumac | |
2021 | Ultrapop | The Armed |
2022 | The Loser | Gospel |
Heavy Pendulum | Cave In | |
We’re Not Here to Be Loved | Fleshwater | |
2023 | Repent | Affliction Lane |
2023 | Mutants | Mutoid Man |
2024 | Cometh The Storm | High on Fire |
2024 | Light of Death | Umbra Vitae |
2024 | Dark Superstition | Gatecreeper |
2024 | Guilt Shrine | Generation of Vipers |
2024 | Every Bridge Burning | Nails |
Converge is an American metalcore band formed by vocalist and artist Jacob Bannon and guitarist and producer Kurt Ballou in Salem, Massachusetts in 1990. While recording their landmark fourth album Jane Doe in 2001, the group became a four-piece with the departure of guitarist Aaron Dalbec and the addition of bassist Nate Newton and drummer Ben Koller. This lineup has remained intact since. The members have also been involved in various side-projects and collaborations, including the bands Supermachiner (Bannon), Old Man Gloom (Newton), and Mutoid Man (Koller). With their extremely aggressive and boundary-pushing sound, rooted in hardcore and heavy metal, they are pioneers of metalcore and its subgenre mathcore.
Every Time I Die was an American metalcore band from Buffalo, New York, formed in 1998. For most of the band's career, the line-up was centred on brothers Keith (vocals) and Jordan Buckley (guitar), as well as rhythm guitarist Andy Williams, with bassist Stephen Micciche also being in the band for a cumulative 15 of the band's 24 years. After spending the first decade of their career on the Ferret Music label, they signed with Epitaph Records in 2008 and remained there until their split in early 2022. Every Time I Die released nine studio albums, with their final album Radical being released in October 2021.
Kurt Ballou is an American musician and record producer based in Massachusetts, best known as the guitarist for metalcore band Converge and for his prolific recording and production work at his own GodCity Studio.
Ben Koller is an American drummer who has played with Converge, Mutoid Man, Killer Be Killed and All Pigs Must Die. He started playing a full drum kit at age 14.
Russian Circles is an American instrumental post-metal band based in Chicago, Illinois. The band was originally formed by childhood friends Mike Sullivan and Dave Turncrantz after their previous musical projects dissolved. After parting ways with their original bass player Colin DeKuiper in 2007, the trio was rounded out by Brian Cook. The band has gained widespread recognition based on a series of critically acclaimed albums and extensive international touring. Their name is taken from a drill exercise used in ice hockey, a sport Sullivan and Turncrantz grew up playing in their original hometown of St. Louis.
Petitioning the Empty Sky is the second studio album by American metalcore band Converge. However, contrary to many sources, the band considers this a compilation album, being a collection of songs recorded at different times. While tracklists differ between releases, this album features studio recorded tracks along with live recordings of three songs. Petitioning the Empty Sky was released and distributed through several different labels beginning in the mid 90s.
When Forever Comes Crashing is the third studio album by American metalcore band Converge, on April 14, 1998, through Equal Vision Records.
Jane Doe is the fourth studio album by American metalcore band Converge, released on September 4, 2001 by Equal Vision Records. The album was produced by Matthew Ellard alongside guitarist Kurt Ballou, and the artwork was designed by lead vocalist Jacob Bannon. It was the band's first album to feature bassist Nate Newton and drummer Ben Koller, and the last to feature guitarist Aaron Dalbec; Converge's line-up has remained stable since.
The Armed are an anonymous American hardcore punk musical collective, formed in Detroit, Michigan in 2009. Although no official members of the group are known for absolute certain, the collective has been represented in the media by advertising creative and director Tony Wolski – formerly known as Adam Vallely. The project often features guest collaborators on their releases, which have included musicians such as Chris Pennie, Nick Yacyshyn, Ben Koller, Troy Van Leeuwen, and Urian Hackney. Converge guitarist Kurt Ballou has also been involved in the recording and production of most of their releases.
Bats is a five piece rock band based in Dublin, Ireland. Formed in 2007, Bats plays a blend of post-punk, hardcore and math rock, with lyrics drawing heavily from science subject areas.
18.61 is the fifth studio album by the American metallic hardcore band 108. The album follows 2007's A New Beat from a Dead Heart. The album was the first to be recorded with drummer Michael Justian, formerly of Trap Them and Unearth. 18.61 was released on April 13, 2010, through Deathwish Inc.
All Pigs Must Die is an American metalcore supergroup consisting of Kevin Baker of The Hope Conspiracy, Ben Koller of Converge, Adam Wentworth and Matt Woods of Bloodhorse, and Brian Izzi of Trap Them. All Pigs Must Die is signed to Nonbeliever Records, an imprint label of Shirts & Destroy.
Jesuit was an American hardcore punk band from Virginia Beach, Virginia. Active in the mid and late 1990s, the group released twelve songs but disbanded before recording a full-length album.
Stray from the Path is an American hardcore punk band formed in 2001 in Long Island, New York. They have released ten full-length albums. Their first three records were independently released – People Over Profit in 2002, Audio Prozac in 2003, and Our Oceania in 2004. Stray From The Path then signed with Sumerian Records and released six records with them; Villains in 2008, Make Your Own History in 2009, Rising Sun in 2011, Anonymous in 2013, Subliminal Criminals in 2015, and Only Death Is Real in 2017. They are currently signed to UNFD and released Internal Atomics in 2019, and Euthanasia in 2022. They have been seen on tour with bands such as: Architects, Northlane, Every Time I Die, The Acacia Strain, Terror, Norma Jean, Underoath, The Ghost Inside, For Today, Stick to Your Guns, Bleeding Through, Comeback Kid, and Counterparts.
All We Love We Leave Behind is the eighth studio album by American metalcore band Converge. It was released on October 8, 2012, via Epitaph Records. The album did not feature any guest collaborators, unlike the band's previous album Axe to Fall. The album was produced by Converge guitarist Kurt Ballou and the artwork was created by the band's singer Jacob Bannon.
Fit for an Autopsy is an American deathcore band from Jersey City, New Jersey, formed in 2008. The band consists of guitarists Pat Sheridan, Will Putney and Tim Howley, drummer Josean Orta, vocalist Joe Badolato, and bassist Peter "Blue" Spinazola. They are currently signed to Nuclear Blast and have released seven studio albums since formation.
Jeromes Dream is a screamo band formed in Connecticut and currently based in San Francisco, California, originally active from 1997 to 2001, and again from 2018 onwards.
What One Becomes is the second studio album by American post-metal band Sumac. It was released on June 10, 2016 through Thrill Jockey. The album was recorded at The Unknown studio in Anacortes then mixed and produced by Kurt Ballou at GodCity Studio in Salem.
The Deal is the debut album by American post-metal band Sumac. It was released on digital and CD formats through Profound Lore Records and on vinyl LP via SIGE Records on February 17, 2015. The album was recorded at Aleph and Litho studios in Seattle, Washington between July and August 2014. The album was mixed at GodCity Studios in Salem, Massachusetts by Kurt Ballou. The artwork was a collaborative effort between Aaron Turner and Faith Coloccia.
Rise of the Great Machine is the debut and only studio album by the project Supermachiner. It was released on November 28, 2000, through Undecided Records. The album features artwork created by Jacob Bannon.