Bill Metoyer
Bill Metoyer is an American [record producer]] who has recorded with Slayer, Deliverance, Hirax, Morbid Angel, Trouble and Tourniquet. He has worked at Metal Blade Records for several years as house producer and currently works as A&R. He also works with Alpha Omega Management as A&R as well.[1] Metoyer formed Skull Seven Productions.[2]
Bill Metoyer | |
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Born | Los Angeles, California, U.S. | March 23, 1960
Genres | Heavy metal, rock |
Occupation(s) | Composer, mastering engineer, mixing engineer, producer |
Labels | Metal Blade |
Website | Bill Metoyer on Facebook |
Background
Metoyer attended the University of Sound Arts in 1978 and then became the chief engineer at Track Record in 1979.[3] Metoyer started his production career in 1983, recording bands like Slayer,[4][5] Flotsam and Jetsam,[6][7] Sacred Reich,[8] D.R.I.,[8] Corrosion of Conformity,[8] and Armored Saint.[9] Metoyer has worked with bands all of different styles, lyrical themes, some varying from Satanism to Christianity. In more recent days, Metoyer has worked with bands like Trouble[10] and Hirax.[11] Metoyer has been best known for his production of Slayer and Flotsam and Jetsam, however, he is also the creator of Skull Seven Productions in 1995[2] and works as an A&R for Alpha Omega Management as of 2016.[1]
Discography
Performance
- Philadelphia Freedom – Ugly Americans (1986; vocals)
- No Place for Disgrace – Flotsam and Jetsam (1988; vocals)
- A Pleasant Shade of Gray – Fates Warning (1997; vocals)
- Wargods of Metal – Sacred Steel (1998; vocals)
- Raise Your Fist to Metal – Frost (2003; vocals)
- But Wait, There's More – Dirty Rotten Imbeciles (2016; vocals)
Production
1980's
- Original Abattoir (Demo) – Abattoir (1983; engineering, producer)
- Screams from the Grave (Demo) – Abattoir (1983; engineering, producer)
- Armored Saint – Armored Saint (1983; engineering)
- Be My Slave – Bitch (1983; engineering)
- The Dominatress EP – Savage Grace (1983; engineering, mixing)
- Show No Mercy – Slayer (1983; engineering, mixing)
- Night on Bröcken – Fates Warning (1984; mixing)
- Give 'Em the Axe – Lizzy Borden (1984; Recording engineering)
- Battle Cry – Omen (1984; engineering)
- Metal Without Mercy – Ruthless (1984; Recording)
- Haunting the Chapel – Slayer (1984; engineering)
- Fist Held High – Thrust (1984; producer, engineering)
- Trouble – Trouble (1984; producer, engineering)
- Day of the Saxons (EP) – Witchkiller (1984; mixing)
- Animosity – Corrosion of Conformity (1985; engineering [tracks 1–5])
- We Have arrived – Dark Angel (1985; engineering)
- The Spectre Within – Fates Warning (1985; engineering)
- Raging Violence – Hirax (1985; engineering)
- You Axed for It! – Mentors (1985; engineering)
- Warning of Danger – Omen (1985; engineering)
- Hole in the Sky – Pandemonium (1985; engineering)
- Hell Awaits – Slayer (1985; engineering, Recording)
- The Skull – Trouble (1985; producer, engineering)
- Legions of the Dead – Trytan (1985; mixing, engineering, producer)
- One Foot in Hell – Cirith Ungol (1986; producer)
- Convicted – Cryptic Slaughter (1986; engineering)
- Merciless Death – Dark Angel (1986; engineering)
- Awaken the Guardian – Fates Warning (1986; engineering)
- Doomsday for the Deceiver – Flotsam and Jetsam (1986; engineering)
- Torture Knows No Boundaries – Heretic (1986; producer, engineering)
- Hate, Fear, and Power – Hirax (1986; engineering)
- The Murderess Metal Road Show – Lizzy Borden (1986; engineering)
- Up the Dose – Mentors (1986; engineering)
- The Curse – Omen (1986; producer, engineering, mixing)
- Depths of Death – Sentinel Beast (1986; engineering, producer)
- The Bitch is Back – Bitch (1987; producer, engineering, mixing)
- The High n' Mighty – Commander (1987; mixing, engineering)
- Money Talks – Cryptic Slaughter (1987; engineering, producer, mixing)
- Crossover – D.R.I. (1987; producer, mixing, engineering)
- Flotzilla" – Flotsam and Jetsam (1987; engineering)
- Not Dead Yet – Hirax (1987; engineering)
- Nightmares – Omen (1987; engineering)
- Ignorance – Sacred Reich (1987; producer, engineering)
- Too Late to Pray – Tyrant (1987; engineering, producer, mixing)
- Saints Will Conquer – Armored Saint (1988; engineering, producer)
- Socialized Hate – Atrophy (1988; producer)
- Stream of Consciousness – Cryptic Slaughter (1988; producer)
- 4 of a Kind – D.R.I. (1988; producer, mixing, engineering)
- Live at the Ritz – D.R.I. (1988; mixing)
- The Can – Dark Angel (1988; engineering)
- Wreckage in Flesh – Dr. Know (1988; engineering Assistant)
- "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting" – Flotsam and Jetsam (1988; producer, engineering)
- No Place for Disgrace – Flotsam and Jetsam (1988; producer; engineering)
- Gangland – Gangland (1988; producer)
- A Distant Thunder – Helstar (1988; producer, engineering, mixing)
- Breaking Point – Heretic (1988; producer, engineering)
- The Kill – Pandemonium (1988; producer, engineering)
- "War Pigs" – Sacred Reich (1988; producer)
- Surf Nicaragua – Sacred Reich (1988; producer)
- Marshall Law / Day of the Saxons – Witchkiller/Obsession (1988; mixing)
- A Rose By Any Other Name – Bitch (1989; mixing, remixing, producer, engineering)
- Thrash Zone – D.R.I. (1989; producer, engineering, mixing)
- Deliverance – Deliverance (1989; Recording, producer, mixing)
- Hot Metal Summer II Split – Deliverance (1989; producer, Recording, mixing)
- Nosferatu – Helstar (1989; producer, engineering)
- Leatherface – Laaz Rockit (1989; producer)
- Sex, Drugs & Rock 'n' Roll – Mentors (1989; engineering)
- Up the Dose / You Axed for It – Mentors (1989; producer)
- The Best of Omens: Teeth of the Hydra – Omens (1989; engineering)
- Freaks EP – Rigor Mortis (1989; producer, engineering)
- Inner Ascendance – Steel Prophet (1989; mixing)
- Man of Straw – Viking (1989; engineering)
1990s
- This section is incomplete
- Puppies and Friends – Atrophy (1990; producer, engineering, mixing)
- Violent By Nature – Atrophy (1990; producer, engineering, mixing)
- Bomber – Ken Baumgartner (1990; producer, engineering)
- Weapons of Our Warfare – Deliverance (1990; mixing)
- The American Way – Sacred Reich (1990; producer, engineering)
- 31 Flavors – Sacred Reich (1990; producer, engineering)
- Uncensored – Sacred Reich (1990; producer)
- The American Way – Sacred Reich (1990; producer, engineering)
- Stop the Bleeding – Tourniquet (1990; mixing, Mastering)
- WWIII – WWIII (1990; producer)
- Psycho Savant - Intruder (1991; producer, engineering, mixing)
- Abominations of Desolation - Morbid Angel (1991; producer)
- A Question - Sacred Reich (1991; producer, engineering)
- Psycho Surgery - Tourniquet (1991; producer, engineering, mixing)
- Technocracy - Corrosion of Conformity (1992; engineering, mixing)
- Songs of Pain - Sadus (1992; engineering, Recording, producer, mixing [track 3])
- A Vision of Misery - Sadus (1992; engineering, mixing, producer, mixing)
- Planetary Destruction - Stygian (1992; producer)
- Pathogenic Ocular Dissonance - Tourniquet (1992; producer, engineering, mixing)
- Screams and Whispers - Anacrusis (1993; Remix [on "Release"])
- The Passing - Betrayal (1993; engineering, Tracking)
- First Impressions - Jim Matheos (1993; producer, engineering, mixing)
- The Man with the Action Hair - Cement (1994; producer, recording)
- Pale Fire - Fates Warning (1994; producer, recording)
- Inside Out - Fates Warning (1994; producer, recording)
- Decadent Delirium - Psychic Pawn (1994; recording, mixing, producer)
- Red Demo - Sadus (1994; recording)
- Coma Rage - Viper (1994; producer)
- Camelot in Smithereens - Deliverance (1995; mixing)
- The Prayer - Step Child (1995; producer)
- Demo 95 - The Militants (1995; producer)
- Demo 1995 - World in Pain (1995; producer, engineering, mixing)
- Terror Rising / Give 'em the Axe - Lizzy Borden (1996; engineering)
- Heal - Sacred Reich (1996; producer, engineering, mixing)
- Alive and Dead - Six Feet Under (1996; producer, engineering, mixing)
- Shadow of Doubt - Skrew (1996; mixing)
- King of Kings - Tyrant (1996; producer, mixing, engineering)
- Scorched Earth - Wardog (1996; mixing, producer)
- Valraven - Valraven (1996; producer)
- High - Flotsam and Jetsam (1997; Mixing, Recording)
- Through the Make Believe - New Eden (1997; Mixing)
- Still Ignorant (1987-1997) - Sacred Reich (1997; Mixing)
- Warpath - Six Feet Under (1997; Engineer)
- Angel Seed XXIII - Skrew (1997; Producer, Engineering, Mixing)
- Crawl to China - Tourniquet (1997; Engineering, Mixing, Producer)
- Breathe Deep the Dark - Destiny's End (1998; Producer, Engineering, Mixing)
- Diet of Worms - Echo Hollow (1998; Producer, Engineering, Mixing)
- Still Life - Fates Warning (1998; Recording engineer)
- Wargods of Metal - Sacred Steel (1998; Producer, Engineering, Mixing)
- Acoustic Archives - Tourniquet (1998; Producer)
- Away with Words - Jim Matheos (1999; Drum and Violin Engineering)
- Helldarado Promo - W.A.S.P. (1999; Engineering)
- Helldorado - W.A.S.P. (1999; Engineering)
- Engine - Engine (1999; Mixing)
2000s
- Revelation - Armored Saint (2000; Mixing)
- Genesis - Steel Prophet (2000; Engineering, Mixing)
- Microscopic View of a Telescopic Realm - Tourniquet (2000; Producer)
- Transition - Destiny's End (2001; Assistant Engineering)
- My God - Flotsam and Jetsam (2001; Producer, Mixing, Recording)
- Burning Vengeance - Infamy (2001; Mastering)
- Metal Blade Demos - Vehemence (2001; Supervising)
- Unholy Terror - W.A.S.P. (2001; Engineering)
- Front Toward Enemy - The Fallen (2002; Producer, Engineering)
- Dying for the World - W.A.S.P. (2002; Engineering, Mixing, Producer)
- Redemption - Redemption (2003; Drum Engineering)
- Where Moth and Rust Destroy - Tourniquet (2003; Producer)
References
- tarjavirmakari (March 11, 2016). "ALPHA OMEGA Management Announce Legendary Audio Engineer and Producer BILL METOYER as New A&R". Metal Shock Finland. Retrieved August 27, 2020.
- "Skull Seven". Retrieved August 27, 2020.
- Milligan, Glenn (August 2014). "An Interview with the Legendary Heavy Metal Album Producer, Bill Metoyer". Retrieved August 27, 2020.
- "Slayer 'Haunting the Chapel' Inside the EP with Producer / Engineer Bill Metoyer". Full in Bloom. April 24, 2020. Retrieved August 27, 2020.
- McIver, Joel (2010). The Bloody Reign of Slayer. Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-1-84938-386-8.
- "FLOTSAM AND JETSAM: Producer Bill Metoyer Signs On For Next Album". Blabbermouth.net. April 8, 2007. Retrieved August 27, 2020.
- "FLOTSAM AND JETSAM – Bill Metoyer Confirmed To Produce New Album". Bravewords. April 8, 2007. Retrieved August 27, 2020.
- Kleine Neerken, Heiko. "Bill Metoyer". Lords of Metal ezine. Retrieved August 27, 2020.
- "Armored Saint 2020 Album – Interview w/ Producer/Engineer Bill Metoyer – Inside the Album". Full in Bloom. February 22, 2020. Retrieved August 27, 2020.
- "Trouble Taps Producer Bill Metoyer For New Album Mix". Blabbermouth.net. October 27, 2012. Retrieved August 27, 2020.
- "HIRAX Enters Studio With Producer Bill Metoyer (Video)". Blabbermouth.net. June 24, 2012. Retrieved August 27, 2020.