Let's add another name to my list of favorite engineers

poundingmetal74

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I've had Nightmare's new album Insurrection in my CD player for the past week... it fucking ROCKS! The production is just massive and the guitar tone is on par with Fredrick Nordstrom... in fact until 5 minutes ago I thought the album was in fact engineered by him.

Nope, it was Primal Fear producer: Achim Koehler. Just a massive sounding heavy, HEAVY record. There's a bit of growling but I'm willing to forgive it for such a monster of a record. Sort of like Dream Evil on steroids.

Take a listen:


My hats off to Adam!
 
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Love the first 30 seconds, awesome sound & very heavy, but than it's getting too much happy-metal-ish, solo after that is real nice again. Need to hear the full album to decide, but indeed the sound is quit awesome...
 
Achim is an awesome engineer and a real nice guy too! He's worked on many a cd. I met him via Edguy but he also regularly works with Primal Fear. He's done Brainstorm and Symphorce as well.

http://www.myspace.com/kingkongkoehler a bit of bio

Producer, Mixer, Engineer, FOH Specialist, Meatlover, Beertrinker, Schnapstrinker.. Check out: www.achimkoehler.de or www.audioengineer.com Clients: Amon Amarth, Accept, Abattoir, Angel of Eden, Angel Blake, Artch, At Vance, Axxis, Armored Saint, Attacker, Axel Rudi Pell, BassInvaders, Ballistic, Baxter, Blaze, Black Destiny, Bonfire, Brainstorm, Callejon, Cans, Cataract, Chinchilla, Coldseed, Contracrash, Criminal, Crystal Ball, Deathstars, Demon, Destillery, Destinys End, Doomshine, Doro, The Duskfall, Echoes Of Eternity, Edguy, Elvenking, Engel, Fleshcrawl, Fragments Of Unbecoming, Glenmore, Godiva, Gotthard, Hackneyed, Heaven Shall Burn, Hammerfall, Headhunter, Hellstar, The Heat, Heathen, Helloween, Ihresgleichen, Immortal, Impellitteri, Iron Cross, Jag Panzer, Kataklysm, Kaminari, Kamelot, Kreator, Kovenant, Labyrinth, Leaves Eyes, Legion Of The Damned, Lizzy Borden, Manilla Road, Martin Kesici, Markus Grosskopf, Masterplan, Maximum, Melvins, Mendeed, Mennen, Metal Blade, Metal Church, Missa Mercuria, Mystic Prophecy, My Darkest Hate, Mystery Blue, Necronomicon, The New Black, Nevermore, Nuclear Blast, Normahl, Omen, One Man Army, Onslaught, The Order, Paradox, Pegazus, Pink Cream 69, Powerwolf, Powerworld, Primal Fear, Psychotic Waltz, Pungent Stench, Rawhead Rexx, Red To Grey, Red Aim, Reign Of Silence, Ross The Boss, Sacred Steel, Savior Machine, Saxon, Scar Symmetry, Schmier, Secret Sphere, Sentenced, Silent Force, Sinner, Sodom, Sonic Syndicate, Soapbox, Steel Prophet, StereoPilot, Stormwitch, Stone The Crow, Stratovarius, Stringface, Symphorce, The Sygnet, Tankard, Testament, Titan Force, Totenmond, Toss..n..Turn, Tribuzzy, Tyrant, Tyrus, Underpaid, Vanden Plas, Vengeance, Victory, VoiVod, Wizo, Wizard, Zar and many more...