Scott Burns (record producer)

Scott Burns is an American computer engineer and a former music producer of death metal records from late 1980s and 1990s. He was crucial to the emergence of the Florida death metal scene.^[1]

He has produced many records for many famous death metal bands, including Death, Deicide, Cannibal Corpse, Sepultura, Obituary, Atheist, Transmetal, Suffocation, and Cynic. He has engineered some of the top genre-defining death metal albums such as Death's Human, Massacre's From Beyond, Obituary's Slowly We Rot, and Assück's Misery Index. He most recently worked on the album Frozen in Time (2005) by Obituary. Burns has since quit producing to work in computer programming.^[2]^[3]

Albums produced/mixed/engineered[]

Release	Band	Year
Anticapital	Assück	1991
Rites of the Black Mass	Acheron	1991
Blindspot	Assück	1992
Misery Index	Assück	1996
Eaten Back to Life	Cannibal Corpse	1990
Butchered at Birth	Cannibal Corpse	1991
Tomb of the Mutilated	Cannibal Corpse	1992
The Bleeding	Cannibal Corpse	1994
Vile	Cannibal Corpse	1996
Piece of Time	Atheist	1989
Unquestionable Presence	Atheist	1991
Hallucinations	Atrocity	1990
Beliefs	AWAKE!	1989
To the Gory End	Cancer	1990
Dead Shall Rise	Cancer	1991
Demo	Cynic	1990
Demo	Cynic	1991
Focus	Cynic	1993
Leprosy	Death	1988
Spiritual Healing	Death	1990
Human	Death	1991
Individual Thought Patterns	Death	1993
Sacrificial (demo)	Deicide	1989
Deicide	Deicide	1990
Legion	Deicide	1992
Once upon the Cross	Deicide	1995
Serpents of the Light	Deicide	1997
Tortured Existence	Demolition Hammer	1990
Idolatry	Devastation	1991
Soul Erosion (demo)	Disincarnate	1992
Slaughter in the Vatican	Exhorder	1990
Emergent	Gordian Knot	2003
Considered Dead	Gorguts	1991
The Erosion of Sanity	Gorguts	1993
Refuse to Crawl	The Guff	1991
Syzygial Miscreancy	Hellwitch	1990
Demented	Hideous Corpse	1992
Voracious Contempt	Internal Bleeding	1996

Internal Bleeding - Voracious Contempt (Mixing) (1996)
KMFDM - Glory (remixed "Move On") (1993)
Jason Rawhead - Dehumanized (1995)
Loudblast - Disincarnate (1991)
Loudblast - Sublime Dementia (1993)
Malevolent Creation - The Ten Commandments (1990)
Malevolent Creation - Retribution (1992)
Malevolent Creation - In Cold Blood (1997)
Master - Master (1990)
Master - On the Seventh Day God Created ... Master (1991)
Massacre - From Beyond (1991)
Monstrosity - Millennium (1996)
Napalm Death - Harmony Corruption (1990)
Napalm Death - Suffer The Children (1991)
Nasty Savage - Miscellaneous Releases (1985–1989)
No Return - Contamination Rises (1992)
Obituary - Slowly We Rot (1989)
Obituary - Cause of Death (1990)
Obituary - The End Complete (1992)
Obituary - World Demise (1994)
Obituary - Frozen in Time (2005)
Overthrow - Within Suffering (1990)
Pestilence - Testimony of the Ancients (1991)
Psychotic Waltz - Mosquito (1994)
Psychotic Waltz - Bleeding (1996)
Raped Ape - Terminal Reality (6-song mini album) (1992)
Resurrection - Embalmed Existence (1993)
Sadus - Elements of Anger (1997)
Solstice - Solstice (1992)
Sean Malone - Cortlandt (1996)
Sepultura - Beneath the Remains (1989)
Sepultura - Arise (1991)
Sepultura - Third World Posse (1992)
Six Feet Under - Haunted (1995)
Slap of Reality - Fletch (1991)
Skeletal Earth - Eulogy for a Dying Fetus (1991)
Speckmann Project - Speckmann Project (1992)
Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten (1991)
Suffocation - Pierced from Within (1995)
Suffocation - Despise the Sun (1998)
Terrorizer - World Downfall (listed as engineer) (1989)
Transmetal - El Infierno de Dante (1993)
Transmetal - Mexico Barbaro (1996)
Various artists - At Death's Door (1990)
Various artists - At Death's Door II (1993)

References[]

^ Stevenson, Arielle (October 22, 2009). "The way the music died: The earliest days of Tampa Death Metal". Tampa Bay Times. Times Publishing Company. Archived from the original on October 23, 2009. Retrieved April 26, 2016.
^ "Deicide Interview". Mourning the Ancient. Retrieved January 16, 2012.
^ "Scott Burns Interview". Voices From the Darkside. Retrieved January 9, 2013.

[:0-1] Stevenson, Arielle (October 22, 2009). "The way the music died: The earliest days of Tampa Death Metal". Tampa Bay Times. Times Publishing Company. Archived from the original on October 23, 2009. Retrieved April 26, 2016.

[2] "Deicide Interview". Mourning the Ancient. Retrieved January 16, 2012.

[3] "Scott Burns Interview". Voices From the Darkside. Retrieved January 9, 2013.

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