Acclaimed Metal Producer ANDY SNEAP: Interview Posted Online
The Earache/Wicked World Records web site has posted a lengthy interview with acclaimed British metal producer Andy Sneap. Sneap, a former guitarist for the once-promising U.K. metal outfit SABBAT (which featured in its ranks future SKYCLAD frontman Martin Walkyier),has worked with a number of the top underground heavy metal acts of the last few years, including MACHINE HEAD, ARCH ENEMY, NEVERMORE, SKINLAB and STUCK MOJO. Several excerpts from the interview follow:
Q: What was your big break in getting your foot in the door for producing work? Did you take any courses in studio engineering etc before deciding on it as a career, or where you able to apply your practical experience from being in bands as a springboard?
Andy Sneap: No, I lied quite convincingly, telling people I knew I could do this and that, though I'd had more experience than most by doing demo's and albums etc. I bought my own little set up and just learnt from there, then started doing some live sound, getting to know the basics.
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Taking his first professional steps into the world of metal during his teen years, UK-based guitarist Andy Sneap has spent decades as one of the most respected musicians and music producers in heavy music, having worked with bands including Exodus, Testament, Kreator, Arch Enemy, Bullet for My Valentine, Megadeth, DevilDriver, and most recently Judas Priest, whose acclaimed latest album ‘Firepower'' was co-produced by Andy. At the time of our interview, he was on tour with Priest, filling in on live guitar duties for an ailing Glenn Tipton.
You’re currently on tour playing guitar with Judas Priest.
Yeah, we’re in Munich tomorrow, and then we play Wacken on Thursday, then Woodstock in Poland on Friday. We finish this part of the tour in the UK on the 10th. We have a week off after that, and then jump straight on the co-headlining tour with Deep Purple in North America.
If someone had told you at age 15 that you’d be onstage with one of the most legendary bands in metal, what would you have said?
Even if someone had told me a year ago, I wouldn’t have believed it! It’s an odd se
Andy Sneap
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Andy Sneap
| Andy Sneap | |
Andy Sneap, | |
| Födelsedatum | 18 juli (55&#;år) Derbyshire, England, Storbritannien |
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| Genrer | Heavy metal, thrash metal |
| Roll | Musiker, låtskrivare, musikproducent, ljudtekniker |
| Instrument | Gitarr |
| År som aktiv | – |
| Relaterade artister | Hell, Sabbat, Judas Priest, The Scintilla Project, Godsend |
Andy Sneap, född 18 juli,[1] är en brittisk musiker, skivproducent, inspelningstekniker och mixare. Han är mest känd för sina hyllade mixningar av heavy metal-album. Sneap är också gitarrist i det klassiska thrash metal-bandet Sabbat samt heavy metal-bandet Hell. Han grundade sin egen studio, Backstage Recording.[2]
Diskografi (urval)
Studioalbum med Sabbat[3]
Studioalbum med Hell[4]
Studioalbum med The Scintilla Project[5]
Produktionsdiskografi
- Arch Enemy - Anthems of Rebellion, Dead Eyes See No Future
- Benediction - Grind Bastard
- Blaze - Silicon Messiah, Tenth Dimension, As Live As It Gets, Blood and Belief
- The Blueprint - "zero*zero*one", "Ecliptic"
- Cathedral - Caravan Beyond Redemption
- Consumed - Breakfast at Pappas, Hit for S
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