Andy Sneap onstage with Sabbat, Bradford 2007

Andy Sneap (1969) is an English record producer, recording engineer, mixer, guitarist, and songwriter. He is best known for producing and mixing many acclaimed heavy metal albums. Andy is also the guitarist for the classic thrash metal band Sabbat. Currently he works out of his own studio, Backstage Studios, housed in a converted farm in Derbyshire, which he founded in 1994.

Andy received a Swedish Grammy for his work on Opeth's Deliverance album, as well as a US Grammy nomination for his work on Killswitch Engage's The End of Heartache.

Production discography

• Arch Enemy - Anthems of Rebellion, Dead Eyes See No Future
• Benediction - Grind Bastard
• B L A Z E - 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 Six, Pistols at Dawn
• Cradle of Filth - Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder
• Earth Crisis - Breed the Killers
• earthtone9 - arc'tan'gent
• English Dogs - All The Worlds A Rage, Bow To None, What A Wonderful Feeling
• Exit Ten - This World They-ll Drown (mini-album)
• Exodus - Tempo of the Damned, The Atrocity Exhibition... Exhibit A
• Hecate Enthroned - Slaughter Of Innocence
• Iron Monkey - Iron Monkey, Our Problem,
• Kill II This - Deviate, Trinity
• Kreator - Violent Revolution, Enemy of God
• Machine Head - Through the Ashes of Empires
• Masterplan - Masterplan, Aeronautics
• Megadeth - United Abominations
• Nevermore - Dead Heart in a Dead World, This Godless Endeavor
• Onslaught - Killing Peace
• Pissing Razors - Pissing Razors, Cast Down The Plague
• Rise To Addiction - Rise To Addiction, A New Shade of Black for the Soul
• Skinlab - Bound Gagged + Blindfolded, Disembody
• Stuck Mojo - Declaration Of A Headhunter, HVY1, Rising

Mixing discography

• 36 Crazyfists - A Snow Capped Romance, Rest Inside The Flames, The Tide and Its Takers
• Arch Enemy - Wages of Sin, Dead Eyes See No Future, Doomsday Machine, Live Apocalypse (DVD)
• Artillery - B.A.C.K.
• As I Lay Dying - Shadows Are Security
• Biomechanical (band) - The Empires Of The Worlds
• Caliban - The Opposite From Within, The Undying Darkness
• Chimaira - Resurrection
• Cradle of Filth - Thornography
• Despised Icon - The Ills Of Modern Man
• DevilDriver - The Fury of Our Maker's Hand (live tracks on Special Edition), The Last Kind Words
• Dew-Scented - Incinerate
• Entombed - Monkey Puss (Live in London)
• Exodus - Another Lesson in Violence, Tempo of the Damned, Shovel Headed Kill Machine, The Atrocity Exhibition... Exhibit A
• Fozzy - Fozzy, Happenstance
• Gigantour 2 (CD & DVD)
• Into Eternity - The Scattering of Ashes
• Job for a Cowboy - Genesis
• Killswitch Engage - Alive or Just Breathing, The End of Heartache
• Kreator - Violent Revolution, Live Kreation, Enemy of God Revisited (DVD)
• Living Sacrifice - Conceived In Fire
• Machine Head - The More Things Change...
• Megadeth - Warchest (boxset)
• Napalm Death - Breed to Breathe, Inside the Torn Apart
• Nevermore - Dead Heart in a Dead World, Enemies of Reality (Remix), This Godless Endeavor
• Opeth - Deliverance, Lamentations (Live at Shepherd's Bush Empire 2003) (DVD)
• Roadrunner United
• Soulfly - The Song Remains Insane (DVD), Conquer
• Skinlab - reVolting Room
• Spiritual Beggars - On Fire
• Testament - The Gathering, First Strike Still Deadly, Live In London, The Formation of Damnation
• Trivium - Ascendancy

See also

• List of record producers

External links

• Andy Sneap official home page

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