Colin Richardson

For the British speedway rider, see Colin Richardson (speedway rider). For the Australian cricketer, see Colin Richardson (cricketer).

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
1983	The Chameleons	Script of the Bridge	Producer, Engineer
1985	The Chameleons	What Does Anything Mean? Basically	Producer (tracks 1-10)
1986	GBH	Clay Years 1981–1984	Engineer
1989	Napalm Death	Mentally Murdered (EP)	Engineer
	Bolt Thrower	Realm of Chaos	Mixing, Engineer
	Carcass	Symphonies of Sickness	Producer, Engineer
1990	The Exploited	The Massacre	Producer
1991	Bolt Thrower	Cenotaph (EP)	Producer (tracks 1-3)
	Bolt Thrower	War Master	Producer, Engineer, Recording
	Massacre	From Beyond	Producer
	Gorefest	Mindloss	Producer
	Carcass	Necroticism – Descanting the Insalubrious	Producer, Mixing
1992	Brutal Truth	Ill Neglect (EP)	Recording
	Napalm Death	Utopia Banished	Producer, Engineer
	Mercyless	Abject Offerings	Producer
	Carcass	Tools of the Trade (EP)	Producer
	Fear Factory	Soul of a New Machine	Producer, Mixing
	Brutal Truth	Extreme Conditions Demand Extreme Responses	Producer
	Gorefest	False	Producer, Recording, Engineer
	Bolt Thrower	The IVth Crusade	Producer, Recording
1993	Gorguts	The Erosion of Sanity	Mixing
	S.O.B.	Gate of Doom	Mixing
	Bolt Thrower	Spearhead (EP)	Producer
	Disincarnate	Dreams of the Carrion Kind	Producer, Mixing
	Brutal Truth	Perpetual Conversion (EP)	Producer (track 3)
	Crusher	Act II: Undermine! (EP)	Producer, Mixing
	Mercyless	Coloured Funeral	Producer, Engineer, Mixing
	Carcass	Heartwork	Producer
	Sinister	Diabolical Summoning	Producer, Engineer
	Loudblast	Cross the Threshold (EP)	Producer, Mixing
1994	Brutal Truth	Godplayer (EP)	Mixing
	Carcass	The Heartwork EP	Mixing
	Napalm Death	Fear, Emptiness, Despair	Mixing
	S.O.B.	Vicious World	Producer
	Machine Head	Burn My Eyes	Producer, Mixing
	Brutal Truth	Need to Control	Mixing
	Crash	Endless Supply of Pain	Producer, Engineer
	Baby Chaos	Safe Sex Designer Drugs & the Death of Rock 'N' Roll	Mixing
	Bolt Thrower	...For Victory	Producer
1995	Fear Factory	Demanufacture	Producer
	Various	Mortal Kombat	Producer (track 9)
	Napalm Death	Greed Killing (EP)	Producer, Mixing
1996	Napalm Death	Diatribes	Producer, Mixing
	The Exploited	Beat the Bastards	Producer, Mixing
	Dearly Beheaded	Temptation	Producer
	Carcass	Swansong	Producer
1997	Uncle Meat	Underneath	Producer, Mixing
	Crash	Experiment State of Fear	Producer, Mixing
	Machine Head	The More Things Change...	Producer, Co-mixing
	Napalm Death	Inside the Torn Apart	Producer, co-mixing
	Overkill	From the Underground and Below	Mixing
	Dearly Beheaded	Chamber of One	Producer
	Napalm Death	Breed to Breathe (EP)	Producer
1998	Hamlet	Insomnio	Producer, Recording, Mixing
	Loudblast	Fragments	Mixing
	Pulkas	Greed	Producer, Engineer
	Napalm Death	Words from the Exit Wound	Producer, Mixing
1999	Anonymus	Instinct	Producer, Mixing
	Mass Hysteria	Contraddiction	Producer, Recording, Mixing (tracks 1-11), Mastering
	Liberty 37	Oh River EP	Producer (tracks 1-3, 5, 6), Recording, Mixing
	Liberty 37	The Greatest Gift	Producer, Recording, Mixing
	Cannibal Corpse	Bloodthirst	Producer
	Overkill	Coverkill	Mixing
2000	Crash	Terminal Dream Flow	Producer, Recording, Engineer, Mixing
	One Minute Silence	Buy Now... Saved Later	Producer, Mixing
	Hamlet	El Inferno	Producer, Recording, Mixing
	Cannibal Corpse	Live Cannibalism	Mixing
	Overkill	Bloodletting	Mixing
2001	SugarComa	What Goes Around (EP)	Producer
	Mass Hysteria	De cercle en cercle	Producer, Recording, Mixing (tracks 1-6, 8, 10-13)
	Machine Head	Supercharger	Mixing
	Anathema	A Fine Day to Exit	Mixing
	Godflesh	Hymns	Engineer
2002	Five Pointe O	Untitled	Producer, Engineer, Mixing
	Cyclefly	Crave	Producer
	Hamlet	Hamlet	Producer, Recording, Mixing
	SugarComa	Becoming Something Else	Producer
	Murderdolls	Beyond the Valley of the Murderdolls	Mixing (track 20)
	Sepultura	Under a Pale Grey Sky	Mixing
	Slipknot	Disasterpieces	Mixing
2003	InMe	Overgrown Eden	Producer, Mixing
	Machine Head	Hellalive	Mixing
	Overkill	Killbox 13	Producer, Mixing, Engineer
	Chimaira	The Impossibility of Reason	Mixing
	Sikth	The Trees Are Dead & Dried Out Wait for Something Wild	Mixing (tracks 1-7, 10-13)
	Funeral for a Friend	Casually Dressed & Deep in Conversation	Producer, Engineer, Mixing
	Funeral for a Friend	Seven Ways to Scream Your Name (EP)	Producer, Engineer, Mixing (tracks 5-7)
	Machine Head	Through the Ashes of Empires	Mixing
	God Forbid	Better Days (EP)	Mixing
2004	God Forbid	Gone Forever	Mixing
	Slipknot	Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)	Mixing (bonus disc, tracks 5-7)
	Cradle of Filth	Nymphetamine	Mixing
	3 Inches of Blood	Advance and Vanquish	Mixing
	Bullet for My Valentine	Bullet for My Valentine (EP)	Producer, Mixing
2005	Lamb of God	Burn the Priest	Remixing, Remastering
	Wednesday 13	Transylvania 90210: Songs of Death, Dying, and the Dead	Mixing
	DevilDriver	The Fury of Our Maker's Hand	Producer, Mixing, Engineer
	Chimaira	Chimaira	Mixing
	Bullet for My Valentine	Hand of Blood (EP)	Producer, Mixing
	Bullet for My Valentine	The Poison	Producer, Mixing (tracks 1-5, 7-13)
	Roadrunner United	The All-Star Sessions	Mixing (tracks 1-3, 6, 7, 9, 15, 16)
	Slipknot	9.0: Live	Mixing
2006	Fightstar	Grand Unification	Producer, Mixing
	Hostility	Uncompromised	Mixing
	Hamlet	Pura Vida	Mixing
	Trivium	The Crusade	Mixing
	Slipknot	Voliminal: Inside the Nine	Mixing (select tracks)
2007	Dååth	The Hinderers	Mixing
	Machine Head	The Blackening	Producer, Mixing
	Sanctity	Road to Bloodshed	Mixing
	As I Lay Dying	An Ocean Between Us	Mixing
2008	Bullet for My Valentine	Scream Aim Fire	Producer, Mixing
	Slipknot	All Hope Is Gone	Mixing
	Trivium	Shogun	Mixing
2009	Kreator	Hordes of Chaos	Mixing
	Behemoth	Evangelion	Mixing
	Rodrigo y Gabriela	11:11	Mixing
2010	Eluveitie	Everything Remains as It Never Was	Mixing
	As I Lay Dying	The Powerless Rise	Mixing
	Tarja Turunen	What Lies Beneath	Mixing (select tracks)
2011	Sydonia	"Ocean of Storms"	Mixing
	Trivium	In Waves	Producer, Mixing
	Rise to Remain	City of Vultures	Producer, Mixing
2012	Callejon	Blitzkreuz	Mixing
	While She Sleeps	This Is the Six	Co-mixing
	As I Lay Dying	Awakened	Mixing
2013	Heaven Shall Burn	Veto	Mixing (Blizzard Over England Mix)
	Carcass	Surgical Steel	Producer
	Trivium	Vengeance Falls	Mixing
2014	Wovenwar	Wovenwar	Mixing, Engineer
	Machine Head	Bloodstone & Diamonds	Mixing
	Carcass	Surgical Remission/Surplus Steel (EP)	Producer
2015	While She Sleeps	Brainwashed	Co-mixing
	Bullet for My Valentine	Venom	Producer, Mixing, Engineer
2016	Bullet for My Valentine	"Don't Need You"	Producer, Mixing
2020	Those Damn Crows	Point of No Return	Producer, Recording, Mixing
	Ex Deo	"The Philosopher King"	Mixing
	Anonymus	La bestia	Producer (track 8)
	Kataklysm	Unconquered	Mixing
2022	Machine Head	Of Kingdom and Crown	Mixing
	Invictus	Unstoppable	Mixing (additional)
2023	Overkill	Scorched	Mixing
	Kataklysm	Goliath	Mixing (additional), Mastering (assistant)

External links

• Colin Richardson Myspace page
• INTERVIEW: Metal production guru Colin Richardson (musicradar.com)