Chris Tsangarides

Christopher Andrew Tsangarides (17 August 1956 – 6 January 2018) was a British record producer, sound engineer and mixer of Greek Cypriot origin. He was best known for his work with many heavy metal artists, including Gary Moore, Thin Lizzy, Judas Priest, Helloween, Anvil, Angra, Anthem, Yngwie Malmsteen, and Tygers of Pan Tang.

Tsangarides worked with many pop and alternative artists as well, including Depeche Mode, UK Decay, Tom Jones, Concrete Blonde, and The Tragically Hip.

Early life Tsangarides was born in Famagusta, Cyprus. He learned to play piano as a child and studied trumpet at the Royal Academy of Music, before studying economics at college.

Career Tsangarides started his career in the music business in 1974, as an apprentice at Morgan Studios in London, one of the major independent recording studios in the UK at the time. Initially, he worked there as a tape operator and his first job as sound engineer was on Judas Priest's second album Sad Wings of Destiny in 1976. He engineered the British hit single "Naughty Naughty Naughty" in 1977, a pop song by Joy Sarney, whose success gave him much more work as engineer at the studio. Tsangarides continued working with Moore on live albums and produced Back to the Blues in 2001.

When Morgan Studios 3 and 4 were acquired by Zomba Management in 1980 and rechristened Battery Studios, Tsangarides was hired by the new owners as part of a team of "in-house producers" which included Robert John "Mutt" Lange, Martin Birch, Tony Platt and Nigel Green. and the Grammy nominated Painkiller by Judas Priest in 1990. He worked in those years with Black Sabbath,

Beside his work with metal bands, Tsangarides recorded songs for artists of other musical genres, In 1999, Tsangarides collaborated as a performer and songwriter with Shin Hae-chul in the techno/metal act Monocrom. They made one album and did an arena tour in Shin's native Korea. Among others, New Model Army, Leanne Harte, Winters Bane and Glyder recorded there.

Tsangarides is featured in Sacha Gervasi's documentary film Anvil! The Story of Anvil, released in 2009, while at work on the album This Is Thirteen, which Anvil recorded at Ecology Room Studios. The first release on the new label was Normalityville Horror by Spit Like This on 21 May.

Legacy Tsangarides is known for a guitar recording technique called "the vortex", which he first used when recording the guitar of John Goodsall for the Brand X album Moroccan Roll in 1977.

The Amorettes Angra Anthem Anvil Aqualung Joan Armatrading Barón Rojo Biomechanical Bitches Sin Black Acid Souls Black Sabbath Blanco Diablo Blind Tiger Kevin Borich Brand X Briar Rose Broon Ethan Brosh Capital Sun Chemicals of Democracy Colosseum II The Comsat Angels Concrete Blonde Sara Craig Crowning Glory Dave Cousins Sara Craig Delfins Depeche Mode Desolation Angels Bruce Dickinson Exodus Fear of God Fortnox ( Epic) Samantha Fox Ian Gillan Girl Girlschool Glyder Hardwicke Circus Helloween Hex A D The Human League Incinery Jailcat Japan Tom Jones Judas Priest Killing Joke King Diamond King Lizard The Lords of the New Church Loudness Magnum Yngwie Malmsteen Mama's Boys Matisse Matt Mays and El Torpedo Nick Miller Mimas Money More Gary Moore Mountain New Model Army N.EX.T Nightlord Ozzy Osbourne Gilbert O'Sullivan Overkill Praying Mantis Prowler (band) The Prime Movers Quartz The Quireboys Rock Goddess Revival Savage Messiah Shin Hae-chul/Monocrom Sinner The Sisters of Mercy Slave Raider Spider Spit Like This Steeleye Span Stella Maris Stonebringer Strawbs John Sykes Therapy? Thin Lizzy ThisGirl Barbara Thompson Tigertailz TNT Tokyo Blade The Tragically Hip Tygers of Pan Tang Tytan (band) UFO UK Decay Virgil & the Accelerators Winters Bane Wretched Soul Y&T

Chris would work on his final record with NWOBHM band MORE in 2017. The record was released by the band 7 years later in 2025.