Andy Wallace (producer)

Andy Wallace is an American music studio engineer with a long track record of successful productions, beginning with the 1986 production of the Run-DMC/Aerosmith collaboration on "Walk This Way" with Rick Rubin. Following this breakout success, Wallace went on to work with Feeder, Sum 41, The Cult, Slayer, Prince, Bruce Springsteen, Sepultura, Soulfly, Nirvana, The Misfits, White Zombie, Jeff Buckley, Ben Folds Five,^[1] Faith No More, Rollins Band, Rush, Alice Cooper, Bernard Butler, Bad Religion, Sonic Youth, L7, Guns N' Roses, Rage Against the Machine, Front 242, Alabama 3, Linkin Park, Trapt, Foo Fighters, Silverchair, At the Drive-In, Staind, Sevendust, Blind Melon, System of a Down, Phish, Skunk Anansie, A Perfect Circle, Limp Bizkit, 3 Doors Down, Fuel, Chevelle, Disturbed, Paul McCartney, The Cribs, Atreyu, Young Astronauts Club, Avenged Sevenfold, Dream Theater, Ghost (Swedish band), A Day to Remember and many others. As of October 2005, over 80 million album units had been sold worldwide that contained a credit to Andy Wallace.^[2]

In 1999, Wallace shared a Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical with Tchad Blake and Trina Shoemaker, for their work on Sheryl Crow's album, The Globe Sessions.

Discography (selection)

p – produced, m – mixed, e – engineered

• Run-D.M.C. - Raising Hell (1986) - e/m
• Slayer – Reign in Blood (1986) e/m
• The Cult - Electric (1987) e/m
• Slayer - South of Heaven (1988) e/m
• The Front - The Front (1989) p/e/m
• New Model Army - Thunder and Consolation (1989) m
• The Godfathers – More Songs About Love & Hate (1989) m
• Slayer – Seasons in the Abyss (1990) p/m
• Radio Active Cats - Radio Active Cats (1991) - p/e/m
• Sepultura – Arise (1991) m
• Nirvana – Nevermind (1991) m
• The Rollins Band - The End of Silence (1992) p
• L7 - Bricks Are Heavy (1992) m
• White Zombie - La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Volume One (1992) p/e/m
• Sonic Youth – Dirty (1992) m
• Helmet – Meantime (1992) m
• Rage Against the Machine – Rage Against the Machine (1992) m
• Ned's Atomic Dustbin - Are You Normal? (1992) p/e/m
• Nirvana - Hormoaning (1992)
• Galactic Cowboys - Space in Your Face (1993) m
• Fishbone - Give a Monkey a Brain and He'll Swear He's the Center of the Universe (1993) m
• Sepultura – Chaos A.D. (1993) p/m
• Toadies - Rubberneck (1994) m
• Bad Religion - Stranger Than Fiction (1994) p
• Helmet - Betty (1994) m
• Jeff Buckley – Grace (1994) p/e/m
• Shudder To Think - Pony Express Record (1994) m
• Big Head Todd & The Monsters - Strategem (1994) m
• Faith No More – King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime (1995) p/m
• Blind Melon - Soup (1995) p
• Rancid - ...And Out Come the Wolves (1995) m
• Seaweed - Spanaway (1995) m
• Front 242 - 06:21:03:11 Up Evil m
• Sepultura – Roots (1996) m
• Nirvana – From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah (1996) m
• Rage Against the Machine – Evil Empire (1996) m
• Silverchair – Freak Show (1997) m
• Sevendust - Sevendust (1997) m
• The Misfits – American Psycho (1997) m
• Soulfly – Soulfly (1998) m
• Phish – The Story of the Ghost (1998) p/m
• Bernard Butler - Friends and Lovers (1999) m
• Atari Teenage Riot - 60 Second Wipeout (1999) m
• Feeder – Yesterday Went Too Soon (1999) m
• Tonic - Sugar (1999) m
• Foo Fighters – There Is Nothing Left to Lose (1999) m (3, 6, 7)
• Sevendust - Home (1999) m
• Skunk Anansie - Post Orgasmic Chill (1999) p/m
• Disturbed - The Sickness (2000) m
• Soulfly - Primitive (2000) m
• Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory (2000) m
• Limp Bizkit - Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water (2000) p/m
• Toadies - Hell Below / Stars Above (2000) m
• Staind - Break The Cycle (2001) m
• At the Drive-In – Relationship of Command (2000) m
• System of a Down – Toxicity (2001) m
• Slipknot – Iowa (2001) m
• Stereophonics – Just Enough Education to Perform (2001) m
• Natalie Imbruglia - White Lilies Island (2001) m
• Oleander - Unwind (2001) m
• Systematic - Somewhere in Between (2001) m
• Fenix TX - Lechuza (2001) m
• Powerman 5000 - Anyone for Doomsday? (2001) m
• Puddle of Mudd - Come Clean (2001) m
• System of a Down – Steal This Album! (2002) m
• Trapt - Trapt (2002) m
• Disturbed - Believe (2002) m
• Taproot - Welcome (2002) m
• Pacifier - Pacifier (2002) m (1, 4, 8)
• Trust Company - The Lonely Position of Neutral (2002) m
• Chevelle - Wonder What's Next (2002) m
• Earshot - Letting Go (2002) m
• Korn - Untouchables (2002) m
• Staind - 14 Shades of Grey (2003) m
• The Distillers – Coral Fang (2003) m
• Fuel - Natural Selection (2003) m
• Rooney - Rooney (2003) m
• Linkin Park – Meteora (2003) m
• Thrice - The Artist in the Ambulance (2003) m
• A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step (2003) m
• Blink-182 - Blink-182 (2003) m (4, 5, 8, 11)
• Chevelle - This Type of Thinking (Could Do Us In) (2004) m
• Sum 41 - Chuck (2004) m (1, 4, 7-11, 13)
• Patti Smith - Trampin' (2004) e
• System of a Down – Mezmerize & Hypnotize (2004/2005) m
• Rise Against – Siren Song Of The Counter Culture (2004) m
• Avenged Sevenfold - City Of Evil (2005) m
• 3 Doors Down - Seventeen Days (2005) m
• Coheed and Cambria - Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness (2005) m
• Dashboard Confessional - Dusk and Summer (2006) m
• Kasabian - Empire (2006) m
• Elefant - The Black Magic Show (2006) m
• From First to Last - Heroine (2006) m
• Biffy Clyro – Puzzle (2007) m
• Good Charlotte - Good Morning Revival (2007) e/m
• Avenged Sevenfold - Avenged Sevenfold (2007) m
• Paul McCartney - Memory Almost Full (2007) m^[3]
• Atreyu - Lead Sails Paper Anchor (2007) m
• The Cribs - Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever (2007) m
• Kelly Clarkson - My December (2007) m
• Airbourne - Runnin' Wild (2007) m
• 3 Doors Down - 3 Doors Down (2008) m
• Shiny Toy Guns – Season of Poison (2008) m
• Kaiser Chiefs – Off With Their Heads (2008) m
• Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy (2008) m
• Coldplay - Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends (2008) m
• Plain White T's - Big Bad World (2008) m
• Gallows – Grey Britain (2009) m
• Relient K - Forget and Not Slow Down (2009) m
• Biffy Clyro - Only Revolutions (2009) m
• Kashmir - Trespassers (2010) p
• Avenged Sevenfold – Nightmare (2010) m
• Portugal. The Man - In The Mountain, In The Cloud (2011) m
• Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn of Events (2011) m
• X Japan – "Jade" (2011) m
• Blink-182 - "Natives" from Neighborhoods (2011) m
• The Joy Formidable - Wolf's Law (2013) m
• Skillet* - Rise (2013) m
• Avenged Sevenfold - Hail to the King (2013) m
• Linkin Park - The Hunting Party (2014) m
• Ghost - Meliora (2015) m
• A Day to Remember - Bad Vibrations (2016) m
• Avenged Sevenfold - The Stage (2016) p/m

References

1. "Whatever And Ever Amen - Press Release". Bff.magicalarmchair.com. Retrieved 2014-05-28.
2. "Tech Tips from America's Hottest mixer-Andy Wallace". Mixonline.com. 2005-10-01. Retrieved 2016-06-12.
3. Memory Almost Full (Booklet). Paul McCartney. MPL Communications / Hear Music. 2007. 888072303485.

External links

• Interview with Andy Wallace in Mix magazine