Will Putney

Will Putney is an American producer, mixer, and engineer based in Jersey City, New Jersey. Will has worked with a number of prominent metal bands, most notably For Today, The Acacia Strain, Body Count, Thy Art Is Murder, Northlane, The Amity Affliction, Miss May I, Upon a Burning Body, and Stray from the Path.

Commercial success

Putney earned an Australian Gold Record for his work on The Amity Affliction's Let the Ocean Take Me, which debuted at #1 on Australia’s ARIA Charts in 2014.^[1] The band’s previous album, Chasing Ghosts (album), was mixed and mastered by Will^[2] and also debuted at #1 on the ARIA Charts^[3]

Preferred Gear

•Joe Meek VC3Q

Selected production discography

Year	Artist	Title	Label	Role	Achievements
2016	Every Time I Die	Low Teens	Epitaph Records	Producer, Engineer, Mixer
2016	Knocked Loose	Laugh Tracks	Pure Noise Records	Producer, Engineer, Mixer
2016	Bad Omens	Bad Omens	Sumerian Records	Producer, Engineer, Mixer
2016	The Amity Affliction	This Could Be Heartbreak	Roadrunner Records	Producer, Engineer, Mixer
2016	Like Moths to Flames	The Dying Things We Live For	Rise Records	Producer, Mixer, Masterer
2015	Reflections	The Color Clear	eOne / Good Fight Music	Producer, Mixer, Masterer [4]
2015	Northlane	Node	UNFD / Rise Records	Producer, Mixer, Masterer [5]
2015	Stray From The Path	Subliminal Criminals	Sumerian Records	Producer, Engineer, Mixer, Masterer
2015	Like Moths to Flames	The Dream is Dead 7"	Rise Records	Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Mastering
2015	Thy Art Is Murder	Holy War	Nuclear Blast	Producer, Mixer, Masterer[6]
2015	Oceano	Ascendants	Earache	Mixer, Masterer
2015	Sworn In	The Lovers/The Devil	Razor & Tie	Engineer, Producer, Mixer, Masterer [7]
2014	Fit for a King	Slave to Nothing	Solid State Records	Producer, Mixer, Masterer[8]
2014	Gideon	Calloused	Facedown Records	Producer, Mixer, Masterer[9]
2014	Reset, Reflect	The Bite	Independent	Masterer[10]
2014	D at Sea	Anchors & Diamonds	UNFD	Producer, Engineer, Mixer, Masterer[11]
2014	Structures	Life Through a Window	Sumerian Records	Producer, Engineer, Mixer, Masterer[12]
2014	Upon a Burning Body	The World Is My Enemy Now	Sumerian Records	Producer, Engineer, Mixer, Masterer, Writer
2014	Heart in Hand	A Beautiful White[13]	Century Media	Producer
2014	Miss May I	Rise of the Lion	Rise Records	Writer for "Gone" and "Last Letter"
2014	Body Count	Manslaughter	Sumerian Records	Producer, Mixer, Engineer, Masterer[14]
2014	The Acacia Strain	Coma Witch	Rise Records	Producer, Mixer, Engineer, Masterer[15]
2014	Wolves at the Gate	VxV	Solid State Records	Producer, Engineer, Mixer, Masterer[16]
2014	The Amity Affliction	Let the Ocean Take Me	Roadrunner Records	Producer, Engineer, Mixer[17]	Certified Gold in Australia;[18] #1 Debut on Australia's ARIA Charts[19]
2014	Bury Tomorrow	Runes	Nuclear Blast	Mixer, Masterer[20]
2014	For Today	Fight The Silence	Razor & Tie	Producer, Engineer, Mixer, Masterer, Co-writer[21]
2013	Heart Of A Coward	Severance	Century Media Records	Mixer, Masterer[22][23]
2013	Impending Doom	Death Will Reign	eOne Music	Producer, Engineer, Mixer, Masterer, Co-writer[24]
2013	Exhumed (band)	Necrocracy	Relapse Records	Mixer, Masterer
2013	Winds of Plague	Resistance	Century Media Records	Producer, Engineer, Mixer, Masterer, Writer
2013	The Acacia Strain	Above/Below EP	Rise Records	Producer, Engineer, Mix, Masterer[25]
2013	Fit for an Autopsy	Hellbound	eOne Music	Producer, Engineer, Mixer, Masterer, Writer[26]
2013	Like Moths to Flames	An Eye for an Eye	Rise Records	Producer, Engineer, Mixer, Masterer, Writer[27]
2013	Misery Signals	Absent Light	Independent	Pre-production/Add Production[28]
2013	My Ticket Home	Strangers Only	Rise Records	Producer, Engineer, Mixer, Masterer
2013	Counterparts (band)	The Difference Between Hell and Home	Victory Records	Producer, Engineer, Mixer, Masterer[29]
2013	Stray from the Path	Anonymous	Sumerian Records	Producer, Engineer, Mixer, Masterer[30]
2013	For Today	Prevailer	Razor & Tie	Producer, Engineer, Mixer, Masterer[31]
2013	Northlane	Singularity	UNFD	Producer, Engineer, Mixer, Masterer[32]
2012	Poison the Well (band)	Tear from the Red (re-issue)	Rise Records	Re-Master[33]
2012	Poison the Well (band)	The Opposite of December (re-issue)	Rise Records	Re-Master[34]
2012	Vision of Disorder	The Cursed Remain Cursed	Candlelight Records	Producer, Engineer[35][36]
2012	Thy Art Is Murder	Hate	Independent	Producer, Engineer, Mixer, Masterer[37][38]
2012	The Amity Affliction	Chasing Ghosts	Roadrunner Records	Mixer, Masterer[39]	#1 Debut on Australia's ARIA Charts[40]
2012	Miss May I	Ballad of a Broken Man (single)	Rise Records	Writer
2012	Texas in July	Texas in July	Equal Vision Records	Producer, Engineer, Masterer[41]
2012	For Today	Immortal	Razor & Tie	Producer, Engineer, Mixer, Masterer[42]
2012	Upon a Burning Body	Red. White. Green.	Sumerian Records	Producer, Engineer, Mixer, Masterer[43]
2011	Northlane	Discoveries	UNFD	Mixer, Masterer[44]
2011	Hundredth (band)	Let Go	Mediaskare Records	Mixer, Masterer
2011	Like Moths to Flames	When We Don't Exist	Rise Records	Producer, Engineer, Mixer, Masterer, Writer[45]
2011	Molotov Solution	Insurrection	Blkheart Group	Producer, Engineer, Mixer, Masterer[46]
2011	Structures	Divided By	Sumerian Records	Producer, Engineer, Mixer, Masterer, Writer[47]
2011	Stray from the Path	Rising Sun	Sumerian Records	Producer, Engineer, Mixer, Masterer[48]
2011	Fit for an Autopsy	The Process of Human Extermination	Black Market	Producer, Engineer, Mixer, Masterer
2011	The Human Abstract (band)	Digital Veil	eOne Music	Producer, Engineer, Mixer, Masterer[49]
2010	Shadows Fall	Madness in Manila: Shadows Fall Live in the Philippines 2009	ILG	Mixer, Masterer
2010	After the Burial	In Dreams	Sumerian Records	Vocal Production[50]
2010	For Today	Breaker	Facedown Records	Producer, Engineer, Mixer, Masterer[51]
2010	Upon a Burning Body	The World Is Ours	Sumerian Records	Producer, Engineer, Mixer, Masterer[52]
2010	Reign Supreme	Testing the Limits of Infinite	Deathwish Inc.	Producer, Engineer, Mixer, Masterer[53]
2010	Chiodos	Illuminaudio	Equal Vision Records	Engineer[54]
2010	Four Year Strong	Enemy of the World	The Island Def Jam Music Group	Engineer[55]	Peak Billboard Chart positions: #47 Billboard 200; #10 Digital Albums; #6 Alternative Albums; #9 Top Rock Albums[56]
2009	Suicide Silence	No Time to Bleed	Century Media Records	Engineer[57]
2005	Armor for Sleep	What to Do When You Are Dead"	Equal Vision	Engineering

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