# 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, and has been called an "extreme metal overlord".
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 full-time to work in computer programming.
In 2023, Burns was the subject of the David E. Gehlke biography The Scott Burns Sessions: A Life in Death Metal 1987–1997, which documents his career and albums produced at Morrisound and features interviews with him and other artists involved in their creation. Following its release, Burns made a rare public appearance at the 2024 Decibel Metal and Beer Festival in Philadelphia.

## Discography

| Year | Band | Release | Role |
| 1988 | Death | Leprosy | Engineering |
| 1989 | Amon | Sacrificial (Demo) | Mixing |
| 1989 | The Guff | The Art of Deception (Demo) | Engineering |
| 1989 | Sepultura | Beneath the Remains | Producer, Engineering, Mixing |
| 1989 | Obituary | Slowly We Rot | Producer, Engineering, Mixing |
| 1989 | Atheist | Piece of Time | Producer, Engineering |
| 1989 | Terrorizer | World Downfall | Engineering |
| 1989 | Awake! | Beliefs (EP) | Producer, Engineering |
| 1990 | Assück | Necrosalvation (EP) | Engineering |
| 1990 | Cynic | Demo 1990 | Producer, Engineering |
| 1990 | Death | Spiritual Healing | Producer, Mixing |
| 1990 | Cancer | To the Gory End | Producer, Mixing |
| 1990 | Deicide | Deicide | Producer, Engineering, Mixing |
| 1990 | Napalm Death | Harmony Corruption | Producer, Engineering, Mixing |
| 1990 | Napalm Death | Suffer the Children | Producer, Engineer, Mixing |
| 1990 | Cannibal Corpse | Eaten Back to Life | Producer, Engineering |
| 1990 | Demolition Hammer | Tortured Existence | Producer, Engineer, Mixing |
| 1990 | Obituary | Cause of Death | Producer, Engineering, Mixing |
| 1990 | Master | Master | Producer, Engineer, Mixing |
| 1990 | Atrocity | Hallucinations | Producer, Engineering, Mixing |
| 1990 | Exhorder | Slaughter in the Vatican | Producer, Engineering, Mixing |
| 1990 | Various artists | At Death's Door (A Collection of Brutal Death Metal) | Producer (tracks 1, 3, 6, 8, 9 & 12) |
| 1990 | Hellwitch | Syzygial Miscreancy | Engineering |
| 1990 | Overthrow | Within Suffering | Producer, Engineering, Mixing |
| 1991 | Cynic | Demo 1991 | Producer, Engineering |
| 1991 | Acheron | Rites of the Black Mass (Demo) | Producer |
| 1991 | The Guff | Refuse to Crawl (Demo) | Producer, Engineering |
| 1991 | Skeletal Earth | Eulogy for a Dying Fetus | Producer, Engineering |
| 1991 | Sepultura | Arise | Producer, Engineering, Lyrical assistance & translation |
| 1991 | Slap of Reality | Fletch (EP) | Producer, Engineer |
| 1991 | Malevolent Creation | The Ten Commandments | Producer, Engineering, Mixing |
| 1991 | Devastation | Idolatry | Producer, Engineering, Mixing |
| 1991 | Cancer | Death Shall Rise | Producer |
| 1991 | Cannibal Corpse | Butchered at Birth | Producer, Engineering |
| 1991 | Loudblast | Disincarnate | Producer, Engineering, Mixing |
| 1991 | Massacre | From Beyond | Engineering |
| 1991 | Atheist | Unquestionable Presence | Producer |
| 1991 | Pestilence | Testimony of the Ancients | Producer, Engineering, Mixing |
| 1991 | Gorguts | Considered Dead | Producer, Engineering, Mixing |
| 1991 | Death | Human | Producer, Mixing |
| 1991 | Suffocation | Effigy of the Forgotten | Producer, Engineering, Mixing |
| 1991 | Assück | Anticapital | Producer, Engineering |
| 1991 | Master | On the Seventh Day God Created... Master | Producer, Engineering, Mixing |
| 1992 | Assück | Blindspot (EP) | Producer, Engineering |
| 1992 | Disincarnate | Soul Erosion (Demo) | Producer, Engineering, Mixing |
| 1992 | Hideous Corpse | Demented (Demo) | Mixing |
| 1992 | Sepultura | Third World Posse (EP) | Producer (track 1), Mixing (track 2) |
| 1992 | Speckmann Project | Speckmann Project | Producer |
| 1992 | The Guff | Jackass Live | Producer, Engineering |
| 1992 | No Return | Contamination Rises | N/A |
| 1992 | Acheron | Rites of the Black Mass | Producer, Engineering |
| 1992 | Obituary | The End Complete | Producer, Engineering, Mixing |
| 1992 | Deicide | Legion | Engineering, Mixing |
| 1992 | Malevolent Creation | Retribution | Producer, Engineering, Mixing |
| 1992 | Assück | State to State (EP) | Engineering |
| 1992 | Solstice | Solstice | Engineering, Mixing |
| 1992 | Cannibal Corpse | Tomb of the Mutilated | Producer, Engineering, Mixing |
| 1993 | Raped Ape | Terminal Reality (EP) | Producer, Engineering, Mixing |
| 1993 | Skeletal Earth | Dreighphuck (EP) | Producer |
| 1993 | Various artists | At Death's Door II | Producer (tracks 2, 4, 7 & 8) |
| 1993 | Resurrection | Embalmed Existence | Producer, Engineering |
| 1993 | Death | Individual Thought Patterns | Producer, Engineering |
| 1993 | Cynic | Focus | Producer, Engineering, Mixing |
| 1993 | Transmetal | El Infierno de Dante (also available as Dante's Inferno) | Producer, Mixing |
| 1993 | Loudblast | Sublime Dementia | Producer, Engineering, Mixing |
| 1993 | Hellwitch | Terraasymmetry (EP) | Engineering |
| 1993 | Loudblast | Cross the Threshold (EP) | Producer, Mixing (track 6) |
| 1994 | Skeletal Earth | Dē.ĕv'ṓ.lū'shŭn | Producer |
| 1994 | Cannibal Corpse | The Bleeding | Producer, Engineering, Mixing, Mastering |
| 1994 | Psychotic Waltz | Mosquito | Producer, Engineering, Mixing |
| 1994 | Obituary | World Demise | Producer, Engineering, Mixing |
| 1994 | KMFDM | Glory | Remixing (track 6, "Move On") |
| 1995 | Jason Rawhead | Dehumanized | Producer, Engineering |
| 1995 | Deicide | Once upon the Cross | Producer, Engineering, Mixing |
| 1995 | Suffocation | Pierced from Within | Producer, Engineering, Mixing |
| 1995 | Six Feet Under | Haunted | Producer, Engineering, Mixing |
| 1995 | Internal Bleeding | Voracious Contempt | Mixing |
| 1996 | Sean Malone | Cortlandt | Producer, Engineering |
| 1996 | Transmetal | México bárbaro | Producer, Mixing, Mastering |
| 1996 | Transmetal | El llamado de la hembra | Producer |
| 1996 | Cannibal Corpse | Vile | Producer, Engineering, Mixing |
| 1996 | Psychotic Waltz | Bleeding | Engineering |
| 1996 | Monstrosity | Millennium | Producer, Mixing |
| 1997 | Assück | Misery Index | Engineering |
| 1997 | Malevolent Creation | In Cold Blood | Producer, Engineering |
| 1997 | Sadus | Elements of Anger | Producer, Mixing, Mastering |
| 1997 | Deicide | Serpents of the Light | Producer, Engineering, Mixing |
| 1998 | Suffocation | Despise the Sun (EP) | Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Mastering |
| 1998 | KMFDM | Agogo | Remixing (track 8, "Hole in the Wall") |
| 2003 | Gordian Knot | Emergent | Producer |
| 2005 | Obituary | Frozen in Time | Producer |