Will Putney

Will Putney is an American producer, mixer, and engineer based in Jersey City, New Jersey. Will has worked with a number of prominent metal bands, most notably For Today, The Acacia Strain, Body Count, Thy Art Is Murder, Northlane, The Amity Affliction, Miss May I, Upon a Burning Body, and Stray from the Path.

Commercial success

Putney earned an Australian Gold Record for his work on The Amity Affliction's Let the Ocean Take Me, which debuted at #1 on Australia’s ARIA Charts in 2014.^[1] The band’s previous album, Chasing Ghosts (album), was mixed and mastered by Will^[2] and also debuted at #1 on the ARIA Charts^[3]

Preferred Gear

•Joe Meek VC3Q

Selected production discography

Year	Artist	Title	Label	Role	Achievements
2015	Reflections	The Color Clear	eOne / Good Fight Music	Producer, Mixer, Masterer [4]
2015	Northlane	Node	UNFD / Rise Records	Producer, Mixer, Masterer [5]
2015	Like Moths to Flames	The Dream is Dead 7"	Rise Records	Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Mastering
2015	Thy Art Is Murder	Holy War	Nuclear Blast	Producer, Mixer, Masterer[6]
2015	Oceano	Ascendants	Earache	Mixer, Masterer
2015	Sworn In	The Lovers/The Devil	Razor & Tie	Engineer, Producer, Mixer, Masterer [7]
2014	Fit for a King	Slave to Nothing	Solid State Records	Producer, Mixer, Masterer[8]
2014	Gideon	Calloused	Facedown Records	Producer, Mixer, Masterer[9]
2014	Reset, Reflect	The Bite	Independent	Masterer[10]
2014	D at Sea	Anchors & Diamonds	UNFD	Producer, Engineer, Mixer, Masterer[11]
2014	Structures	Life Through a Window	Sumerian Records	Producer, Engineer, Mixer, Masterer[12]
2014	Upon a Burning Body	The World Is My Enemy Now	Sumerian Records	Producer, Engineer, Mixer, Masterer, Writer
2014	Heart in Hand	A Beautiful White[13]	Century Media	Producer
2014	Miss May I	Rise of the Lion	Rise Records	Writer for "Gone" and "Last Letter"
2014	Body Count	Manslaughter	Sumerian Records	Producer, Mixer, Engineer, Masterer[14]
2014	The Acacia Strain	Coma Witch	Rise Records	Producer, Mixer, Engineer, Masterer[15]
2014	Wolves at the Gate	VxV	Solid State Records	Producer, Engineer, Mixer, Masterer[16]
2014	The Amity Affliction	Let the Ocean Take Me	Roadrunner Records	Producer, Engineer, Mixer[17]	Certified Gold in Australia;[18] #1 Debut on Australia's ARIA Charts[19]
2014	Bury Tomorrow	Runes	Nuclear Blast	Mixer, Masterer[20]
2014	For Today	Fight The Silence	Razor & Tie	Producer, Engineer, Mixer, Masterer, Co-writer[21]
2013	Heart Of A Coward	Severance	Century Media Records	Mixer, Masterer[22][23]
2013	Impending Doom	Death Will Reign	eOne Music	Producer, Engineer, Mixer, Masterer, Co-writer[24]
2013	Exhumed (band)	Necrocracy	Relapse Records	Mixer, Masterer
2013	Winds of Plague	Resistance (Winds of Plague album)	Century Media Records	Producer, Engineer, Mixer, Masterer, Writer
2013	The Acacia Strain	Above/Below EP	Rise Records	Producer, Engineer, Mix, Masterer[25]
2013	Fit for an Autopsy	Hellbound	eOne Music	Producer, Engineer, Mixer, Masterer, Writer[26]
2013	Like Moths to Flames	An Eye for an Eye (Like Moths to Flames album)	Rise Records	Producer, Engineer, Mixer, Masterer, Writer[27]
2013	Misery Signals	Absent Light	Independent	Pre-production/Add Production[28]
2013	My Ticket Home	Strangers Only	Rise Records	Producer, Engineer, Mixer, Masterer
2013	Counterparts (band)	The Difference Between Hell and Home	Victory Records	Producer, Engineer, Mixer, Masterer[29]
2013	Stray from the Path	Anonymous (Stray from the Path album)	Sumerian Records	Producer, Engineer, Mixer, Masterer[30]
2013	For Today	Prevailer	Razor & Tie	Producer, Engineer, Mixer, Masterer[31]
2013	Northlane	Singularity	UNFD	Producer, Engineer, Mixer, Masterer[32]
2012	Poison the Well (band)	Tear from the Red (re-issue)	Rise Records	Re-Master[33]
2012	Poison the Well (band)	The Opposite of December (re-issue)	Rise Records	Re-Master[34]
2012	Vision of Disorder	The Cursed Remain Cursed	Candlelight Records	Producer, Engineer[35][36]
2012	Thy Art Is Murder	Hate (Thy Art Is Murder album)	Independent	Producer, Engineer, Mixer, Masterer[37][38]
2012	The Amity Affliction	Chasing Ghosts (album)	Roadrunner Records	Mixer, Masterer[39]	#1 Debut on Australia's ARIA Charts[40]
2012	Miss May I	Ballad of a Broken Man (single)	Rise Records	Writer
2012	Texas in July	Texas in July (album)	Equal Vision Records	Producer, Engineer, Masterer[41]
2012	For Today	Immortal (For Today album)	Razor & Tie	Producer, Engineer, Mixer, Masterer[42]
2012	Upon a Burning Body	Red. White. Green.	Sumerian Records	Producer, Engineer, Mixer, Masterer[43]
2011	Northlane	Discoveries	UNFD	Mixer, Masterer[44]
2011	Hundredth (band)	Let Go (Hundredth album)	Mediaskare Records	Mixer, Masterer
2011	Like Moths to Flames	When We Don't Exist	Rise Records	Producer, Engineer, Mixer, Masterer, Writer[45]
2011	Molotov Solution	Insurrection (album)	Blkheart Group	Producer, Engineer, Mixer, Masterer[46]
2011	Structures	Divided By	Sumerian Records	Producer, Engineer, Mixer, Masterer, Writer[47]
2011	Stray from the Path	Rising Sun (Stray from the Path album)	Sumerian Records	Producer, Engineer, Mixer, Masterer[48]
2011	Fit for an Autopsy	The Process of Human Extermination	Black Market	Producer, Engineer, Mixer, Masterer
2011	The Human Abstract (band)	Digital Veil	eOne Music	Producer, Engineer, Mixer, Masterer[49]
2010	Shadows Fall	Madness in Manila: Shadows Fall Live in the Philippines 2009	ILG	Mixer, Masterer
2010	After the Burial	In Dreams (After the Burial album)	Sumerian Records	Vocal Production[50]
2010	For Today	Breaker (For Today album)	Facedown Records	Producer, Engineer, Mixer, Masterer[51]
2010	Upon a Burning Body	The World Is Ours (Upon a Burning Body album)	Sumerian Records	Producer, Engineer, Mixer, Masterer[52]
2010	Reign Supreme	Testing the Limits of Infinite	Deathwish Inc.	Producer, Engineer, Mixer, Masterer[53]
2010	Chiodos	Illuminaudio	Equal Vision Records	Engineer[54]
2010	Four Year Strong	Enemy of the World	The Island Def Jam Music Group	Engineer[55]	Peak Billboard Chart positions: #47 Billboard 200; #10 Digital Albums; #6 Alternative Albums; #9 Top Rock Albums[56]
2009	Suicide Silence	No Time to Bleed	Century Media Records	Engineer[57]
2005	Armor for Sleep	What to Do When You Are Dead"	Equal Vision	Engineering

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