Colin Richardson is a British record producer, mixer and recording engineer. He has worked on over 100 albums and is most frequently associated with heavy metal and its subgenres.
Discography
| Release year | Artist | Album | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | The Membranes | Pin Stripe Hype (EP) | Producer, Engineer[1] |
| 1983 | The Chameleons | Script of the Bridge | Producer, Engineer[2] |
| 1985 | The Chameleons | What Does Anything Mean? Basically | Producer (tracks 1-10)[3] |
| 1986 | GBH | Clay Years 1981–1984 | Engineer[4] |
| 1989 | Napalm Death | Mentally Murdered (EP) | Engineer[5] |
| Bolt Thrower | Realm of Chaos | Mixing,[6] Engineer[7] | |
| Carcass | Symphonies of Sickness | Producer, Engineer[8] | |
| 1990 | The Exploited | The Massacre | Producer[9] |
| 1991 | Bolt Thrower | Cenotaph (EP) | Producer (tracks 1-3)[10][11] |
| Bolt Thrower | War Master | Producer, Engineer, Recording[12][13] | |
| Massacre | From Beyond | Producer[14] | |
| Gorefest | Mindloss | Producer[15] | |
| Carcass | Necroticism – Descanting the Insalubrious | Producer, Mixing[16] | |
| 1992 | Brutal Truth | Ill Neglect (EP) | Recording[17] |
| Napalm Death | Utopia Banished | Producer, Engineer[18] | |
| Mercyless | Abject Offerings | Producer[19] | |
| Carcass | Tools of the Trade (EP) | Producer[20] | |
| Fear Factory | Soul of a New Machine | Producer, Mixing[21] | |
| Brutal Truth | Extreme Conditions Demand Extreme Responses | Producer[22] | |
| Gorefest | False | Producer, Recording, Engineer[23] | |
| Bolt Thrower | The IVth Crusade | Producer, Recording[24][25] | |
| 1993 | Gorguts | The Erosion of Sanity | Mixing[26] |
| S.O.B. | Gate of Doom | Mixing[27] | |
| Bolt Thrower | Spearhead (EP) | Producer[28][29] | |
| Disincarnate | Dreams of the Carrion Kind | Producer, Mixing[30] | |
| Brutal Truth | Perpetual Conversion (EP) | Producer (track 3)[31] | |
| Crusher | Act II: Undermine! (EP) | Producer, Mixing[32] | |
| Mercyless | Coloured Funeral | Producer, Engineer, Mixing[33] | |
| Carcass | Heartwork | Producer[34] | |
| Sinister | Diabolical Summoning | Producer, Engineer[35] | |
| Loudblast | Cross the Threshold (EP) | Producer, Mixing[36] | |
| 1994 | Brutal Truth | Godplayer (EP) | Mixing[37] |
| Carcass | The Heartwork EP | Mixing[38] | |
| Napalm Death | Fear, Emptiness, Despair | Mixing[39] | |
| S.O.B. | Vicious World | Producer[40] | |
| Machine Head | Burn My Eyes | Producer, Mixing[41] | |
| Brutal Truth | Need to Control | Mixing[42] | |
| Crash | Endless Supply of Pain | Producer, Engineer[43] | |
| Baby Chaos | Safe Sex Designer Drugs & the Death of Rock 'N' Roll | Mixing[44] | |
| Bolt Thrower | ...For Victory | Producer[45][46] | |
| 1995 | Fear Factory | Demanufacture | Producer[47] |
| Various | Mortal Kombat | Producer (track 9)[48] | |
| Napalm Death | Greed Killing (EP) | Producer, Mixing[49] | |
| 1996 | Napalm Death | Diatribes | Producer, Mixing[50] |
| The Exploited | Beat the Bastards | Producer, Mixing[51] | |
| Dearly Beheaded | Temptation | Producer[52] | |
| Carcass | Swansong | Producer[53] | |
| 1997 | Uncle Meat | Underneath | Producer,[54][55] Mixing[56] |
| Crash | Experiment State of Fear | Producer, Mixing[57] | |
| Machine Head | The More Things Change... | Producer, Co-mixing[58] | |
| Napalm Death | Inside the Torn Apart | Producer, co-mixing[59] | |
| Overkill | From the Underground and Below | Mixing[60] | |
| Dearly Beheaded | Chamber of One | Producer[61] | |
| Napalm Death | Breed to Breathe (EP) | Producer[62] | |
| 1998 | Hamlet | Insomnio | Producer, Recording, Mixing[63] |
| Loudblast | Fragments | Mixing[64] | |
| Pulkas | Greed | Producer, Engineer[65] | |
| Napalm Death | Words from the Exit Wound | Producer, Mixing[66] | |
| 1999 | Anonymus | Instinct | Producer, Mixing[67] |
| Mass Hysteria | Contraddiction | Producer, Recording, Mixing (tracks 1-11), Mastering[68] | |
| Liberty 37 | Oh River EP | Producer (tracks 1-3, 5, 6), Recording, Mixing[69] | |
| Liberty 37 | The Greatest Gift | Producer, Recording, Mixing[70] | |
| Cannibal Corpse | Bloodthirst | Producer[71] | |
| Overkill | Coverkill | Mixing[72] | |
| 2000 | Crash | Terminal Dream Flow | Producer, Recording, Engineer, Mixing[73] |
| One Minute Silence | Buy Now... Saved Later | Producer, Mixing[74] | |
| Hamlet | El Inferno | Producer, Recording, Mixing[75] | |
| Cannibal Corpse | Live Cannibalism | Mixing[76] | |
| Overkill | Bloodletting | Mixing[77] | |
| 2001 | SugarComa | What Goes Around (EP) | Producer[78] |
| Mass Hysteria | De cercle en cercle | Producer, Recording, Mixing (tracks 1-6, 8, 10-13)[79] | |
| Machine Head | Supercharger | Mixing[80] | |
| Anathema | A Fine Day to Exit | Mixing[81] | |
| Godflesh | Hymns | Engineer[82] | |
| 2002 | Five Pointe O | Untitled | Producer, Engineer, Mixing[83] |
| Cyclefly | Crave | Producer[84] | |
| Hamlet | Hamlet | Producer, Recording, Mixing[85] | |
| SugarComa | Becoming Something Else | Producer[86] | |
| Murderdolls | Beyond the Valley of the Murderdolls | Mixing (track 20)[87] | |
| Sepultura | Under a Pale Grey Sky | Mixing[88] | |
| Slipknot | Disasterpieces | Mixing[89] | |
| 2003 | InMe | Overgrown Eden | Producer, Mixing[90] |
| Machine Head | Hellalive | Mixing[91] | |
| Overkill | Killbox 13 | Producer, Mixing, Engineer[92] | |
| Chimaira | The Impossibility of Reason | Mixing[93] | |
| Sikth | The Trees Are Dead & Dried Out Wait for Something Wild | Mixing (tracks 1-7, 10-13)[94] | |
| Funeral for a Friend | Casually Dressed & Deep in Conversation | Producer, Engineer, Mixing[95] | |
| Funeral for a Friend | Seven Ways to Scream Your Name (EP) | Producer, Engineer, Mixing (tracks 5-7)[96] | |
| Machine Head | Through the Ashes of Empires | Mixing[97] | |
| God Forbid | Better Days (EP) | Mixing[98] | |
| 2004 | God Forbid | Gone Forever | Mixing[99] |
| Slipknot | Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses) | Mixing (bonus disc, tracks 5-7)[100] | |
| Cradle of Filth | Nymphetamine | Mixing[101] | |
| 3 Inches of Blood | Advance and Vanquish | Mixing[102] | |
| Bullet for My Valentine | Bullet for My Valentine (EP) | Producer, Mixing[103] | |
| 2005 | Lamb of God | Burn the Priest | Remixing,[104] Remastering[105] |
| Wednesday 13 | Transylvania 90210: Songs of Death, Dying, and the Dead | Mixing[106] | |
| DevilDriver | The Fury of Our Maker's Hand | Producer, Mixing, Engineer[107] | |
| Chimaira | Chimaira | Mixing[108] | |
| Bullet for My Valentine | Hand of Blood (EP) | Producer, Mixing[109] | |
| Bullet for My Valentine | The Poison | Producer, Mixing (tracks 1-5, 7-13)[110] | |
| Roadrunner United | The All-Star Sessions | Mixing (tracks 1-3, 6, 7, 9, 15, 16)[111] | |
| Slipknot | 9.0: Live | Mixing[112] | |
| 2006 | Fightstar | Grand Unification | Producer, Mixing[113] |
| Hostility | Uncompromised | Mixing[114] | |
| Hamlet | Pura Vida | Mixing[115] | |
| Trivium | The Crusade | Mixing[116] | |
| Slipknot | Voliminal: Inside the Nine | Mixing (select tracks)[117] | |
| 2007 | Dååth | The Hinderers | Mixing[118] |
| Machine Head | The Blackening | Producer, Mixing[119] | |
| Sanctity | Road to Bloodshed | Mixing[120] | |
| As I Lay Dying | An Ocean Between Us | Mixing[121] | |
| 2008 | Bullet for My Valentine | Scream Aim Fire | Producer, Mixing[122] |
| Slipknot | All Hope Is Gone | Mixing[123] | |
| Trivium | Shogun | Mixing[124] | |
| 2009 | Kreator | Hordes of Chaos | Mixing[125] |
| Behemoth | Evangelion | Mixing[126] | |
| Rodrigo y Gabriela | 11:11 | Mixing[127] | |
| 2010 | Eluveitie | Everything Remains as It Never Was | Mixing[128] |
| As I Lay Dying | The Powerless Rise | Mixing[129] | |
| Tarja Turunen | What Lies Beneath | Mixing (select tracks)[130] | |
| 2011 | Sydonia | "Ocean of Storms" | Mixing[131] |
| Trivium | In Waves | Producer,[132] Mixing[133] | |
| Rise to Remain | City of Vultures | Producer, Mixing[134] | |
| 2012 | Callejon | Blitzkreuz | Mixing[135] |
| While She Sleeps | This Is the Six | Co-mixing[136] | |
| As I Lay Dying | Awakened | Mixing[137] | |
| 2013 | Heaven Shall Burn | Veto | Mixing (Blizzard Over England Mix)[138] |
| Carcass | Surgical Steel | Producer[139] | |
| Trivium | Vengeance Falls | Mixing[140] | |
| 2014 | Wovenwar | Wovenwar | Mixing,[141] Engineer[142] |
| Machine Head | Bloodstone & Diamonds | Mixing[143] | |
| Carcass | Surgical Remission/Surplus Steel (EP) | Producer[144] | |
| 2015 | While She Sleeps | Brainwashed | Co-mixing[145] |
| Bullet for My Valentine | Venom | Producer, Mixing, Engineer[146] | |
| 2016 | Bullet for My Valentine | "Don't Need You" | Producer, Mixing[147] |
| 2020 | Those Damn Crows | Point of No Return | Producer, Recording, Mixing[148] |
| Ex Deo | "The Philosopher King" | Mixing[149] | |
| Anonymus | La bestia | Producer (track 8)[150] | |
| Kataklysm | Unconquered | Mixing[151] | |
| 2022 | Machine Head | Of Kingdom and Crown | Mixing[152] |
| Invictus | Unstoppable | Mixing (additional)[153] | |
| 2023 | Overkill | Scorched | Mixing[154] |
| Kataklysm | Goliath | Mixing (additional), Mastering (assistant)[155] |