Will Putney

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Will Putney
Birth nameWilliam Scott Putney [1]
Born (1983-05-29) May 29, 1983 (age 41) [2] [3]
Origin Sayreville, New Jersey, U.S.
Genres
Occupations
  • Musician
  • record producer
InstrumentGuitar
Years active2007–present
Member of

Will Putney (born May 29, 1983) is an American record producer and musician based in New Jersey. [4] [5] [6] He is the guitarist and co-founder of deathcore band Fit for an Autopsy, [7] [8] as well as the guitarist of metalcore supergroup End, and hardcore punk supergroup Better Lovers.

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Early life

Putney grew up in Sayreville, New Jersey. He began playing guitar as a teenager and formed his first band when he was 15. [9] He studied biomedical engineering at the Stevens Institute of Technology. [10]

Career

Producing

Putney's music production career began when he met the producer Machine while interning at The Syndicate, a marketing music management and radio promotion company that shared the same building with Machine's studio, the Machine Shop. [11] [12] In 2007, he began working at the Machine Shop studio in Hoboken, New Jersey. [13]

He and Machine moved the Machine Shop studio to Belleville, New Jersey, where they both worked until around 2013, when Putney took over the studio. [14] [15] Putney then expanded the Belleville facility and renamed it Graphic Nature Audio in 2015. [16] [17] [18] [19]

In 2015, he also co-founded his own record label Graphic Nature Records as an imprint of Equal Vision. [20] [21]

Graphic Nature Audio is currently located in Kinnelon, New Jersey. [22]

Genre

Putney works primarily in the metalcore, deathcore and hardcore punk genres. [23] [24] He has produced, mixed, and mastered many records for dozens of notable acts and bands, including Every Time I Die, The Amity Affliction, The Acacia Strain, Body Count, Thy Art Is Murder, Northlane, Gojira, Silent Planet, After the Burial, Terror, Unearth, Knocked Loose, Norma Jean, Fit for an Autopsy, Vein.fm, Harm's Way, Stray from the Path, and Counterparts. [25] [26] [27] [28] [29]

He frequently works alongside engineers Randy LeBoeuf, Steve Seid, and Matt Guglielmo on his projects. [30] [31] In 2021, he was nominated and won a Grammy in the category of Best Metal Performance as producer for the song "Bum-Rush" by Body Count. [32] [33] In an interview with Metal Hammer , Body Count frontman Ice-T described Putney as "the Dr. Dre of metal." [34]

Bands

Fit for an Autopsy

Will Putney is a founding member and current guitarist for the deathcore band Fit for an Autopsy. [35] Although he is currently a member of the band, he has not played live with the band since around their first two albums, due to his busy schedule as a producer, although he still records guitar for the band in the studio and is the main songwriter for the band. [36] [37]

End

In 2017, Putney founded metalcore supergroup End, featuring current and former members of Counterparts, Shai Hulud, Misery Signals, Reign Supreme, Blacklisted, Trade Wind and Structures. [38] [39] [40]

Better Lovers

In 2023, Putney joined hardcore punk supergroup Better Lovers, featuring former members of Every Time I Die and The Dillinger Escape Plan. [41] [42] [43]

Discography

Fit for an Autopsy

Albums

EPs

End

Albums

EPs

Live albums

Better Lovers

Albums

EPs

Bayonet

EPs

When They All Fell

EPs

Awards and nominations

Grammy Awards

YearNominee/workAwardResultNotesRef
2021 Bum-Rush Best Metal PerformanceWonProducer [45]

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