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By virtue of geography and a predilection for extremes, producer
Scott Burns became the go-to guy for death metal in the late '80s and early '90s. Living in south Florida, an area that was to death metal what Seattle was to grunge,
Burns began his career by doing live sound for bands such as
Obituary and
Massacre. The job eventually led to an apprenticeship at Morrisound Studios, ground zero for the death metal scene. He assisted on
Death's
Leprosy, as well as
Obituary's
Slowly We Rot, and through building a resumé, he eventually began engineering and producing
Cannibal Corpse and
Deicide, the genre's top acts at the time. A lucky break sent
Burns to Brazil (no other producer wanted to spend his Christmas in a studio), where he recorded
Beneath the Remains, the American debut of
Sepultura.
Burns continued to rise to the fore of the death metal scene, but as he was so deeply associated with it, when the genre petered out in the late '90s, the producer, pigeonholed by the industry, found it difficult to get work in other genres and has only worked on a handful of relevant records since. ~ Steve Kurutz