Fredrik Nordström

Björn Tom Fredrik Nordström (born 5 January 1967) is a Swedish record producer and musician, and the guitarist of the heavy metal band Dream Evil. He is one of the leading melodic death metal and power metal producers in Sweden and has worked with some of said genres' top acts, including At the Gates, Arch Enemy, Nightrage, Dark Tranquillity, In Flames, Soilwork, Opeth, and Powerwolf.

Fascinated by technology from a young age, Nordström opened a small recording studio in Gothenburg, mainly to record his own music. The studio evolved into Studio Fredman, one of the leading Swedish recording studios where he works with his employee Henrik Udd.

In 1999, Nordström formed the heavy metal band Dream Evil to perform his own music, and as of 2024, Dream Evil has released six albums, one live DVD/CD set, and two EPs. Today, Nordström is considered one of the top metal producers in Europe, and one of the central figures of the Gothenburg style.

Discography with Dream Evil Dragonslayer (2002) Evilized (2003) Children of the Night (EP, 2003) The First Chapter (EP, 2004) The Book of Heavy Metal (2004) United (2006) Gold Medal in Metal (Alive & Archive) (2008) In the Night (2010) Six (2017)

Production credits

1990 Calcutta Cornflakes (demo)

1993 Ceremonial Oath – The Book of Truth

1994 At the Gates – Terminal Spirit Disease In Flames – Lunar Strain (mixing, engineering) In Flames – Subterranean (EP) (engineering)

1995 At the Gates – Slaughter of the Soul Dark Tranquillity – Of Chaos and Eternal Night (EP) Dark Tranquillity – The Gallery Memory Garden – Forever (EP)

1996 Arch Enemy – Black Earth Dark Tranquillity – Enter Suicidal Angels (EP) In Flames – The Jester Race LOK – Ord och inga visor Memory Garden – Tides Sacrilege – Lost in the Beauty You Slay Sludge Nation – Wisehead Sludge Nation – Blow Your Speakers with Sludge Nation

1997 Armageddon – Crossing the Rubicon Dark Tranquillity – The Mind's I Dimension Zero – Penetrations from the Lost World HammerFall – Glory to the Brave In Flames – Black-Ash Inheritance (EP) In Flames – Whoracle Lord Belial – Enter the Moonlight Gate Misanthrope – Visionnaire Sacrilege – The Fifth Season Skitsystem – Levande Lik

1998 Arch Enemy – Stigmata Exhumation – Dance Across the Past HammerFall – Legacy of Kings The Haunted – The Haunted Misanthrope – Libertine Humiliations Opeth – My Arms, Your Hearse Embraced – Amorous Anathema Runemagick – The Supreme Force of Eternity Soilwork – Steelbath Suicide Spiritual Beggars – Mantra III

1999 Arch Enemy – Burning Bridges Dark Tranquillity – Projector Exhumation – Traumaticon In Flames – Colony Malevolence – Martyrialized Opeth – Still Life Septicflesh – Revolution DNA Sinergy – Beware the Heavens

2000 Arch Enemy – Burning Japan Live 1999 Buried Dreams – Perceptions The Crown – Deathrace King Dark Tranquillity – Haven In Flames – Clayman Sludge – Scarecrow Messiah Soilwork – The Chainheart Machine Spiritual Beggars – Ad Astra

2001 Arch Enemy – Wages of Sin Dimmu Borgir – Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia Godgory – Way Beyond Opeth – Blackwater Park (mixing) Soilwork – A Predator's Portrait

2002 Arch Enemy – Burning Angel (EP) Dark Tranquillity – Damage Done Dragonland – Holy War Dream Evil – Dragonslayer Eternal Oath – Righteous Firewind – Between Heaven and Hell The Fifth Sun – The Moment of Truth Opeth – Deliverance (engineering) Sinergy – Suicide by My Side Soilwork – Natural Born Chaos

2003 On Thorns I Lay – Egocentric Evergrey – Recreation Day Soilwork – Figure Number Five Darkest Hour – Hidden Hands of a Sadist Nation Dimmu Borgir – Death Cult Armageddon Dream Evil – Evilized Firewind – Burning Earth The Haunted – One Kill Wonder Nightrage – Sweet Vengeance Old Man's Child – In Defiance of Existence Pagan's Mind – Celestial Entrance Passenger – Passenger Septicflesh – Sumerian Daemons Zyklon – Aeon

2004 Ancient – Night Visit (mixing) Dark Tranquillity – Exposures – In Retrospect and Denial Dream Evil – The Book of Heavy Metal The Fifth Sun – The Hunger to Survive The Haunted – Revolver Rotting Christ – Sanctus Diavolos (mastering) Sludge – Yellow Acid Rain

2005 Contrive – The Meaning Unseen Dark Tranquillity – Character (mixing) Dragonlord – Black Wings of Destiny Eternal Oath – Wither Firewind – Forged by Fire (mixing assistance) Nightrage – Descent into Chaos Old Man's Child – Vermin Pagan's Mind – Enigmatic: Calling Powerwolf – Return in Bloodred

2006 Bleed in Vain – Say Everything Will Be Fine (mixing) Dream Evil – United Ever Since – Between Heaven and Hell Firewind – Allegiance (mixing) Dragonland – Astronomy (mixing) I Killed the Prom Queen – Music for the Recently Deceased Lyzanxia – Unsu Machinae Supremacy – Redeemer Norther – Till Death Unites Us Splitter – En Sorglig Historia Wolf – The Black Flame

2007 All Ends – Wasting Life (EP) All Ends – All Ends Anthelion – Bloodshed Rebefallen Arch Enemy – Rise of the Tyrant Dimmu Borgir – In Sorte Diaboli Iron Fire – Blade of Triumph Powerwolf – Lupus Dei Breed – Breed (mixing)

2008 Bring Me the Horizon – Suicide Season Coming Fall – Kill the Lights Eclipse Eternal – Ubermensch: Evolution Beyond the Species Evergrey – Torn Firewind – The Premonition The Hollow Earth Theory – Rise of Agartha Norther – N Septicflesh – Communion Zonaria – The Cancer Empire Cripple Bastards – Variante alla Morte Arkan – Hilal

2009 Eyes of Noctum – Inceptum Feed Her to the Sharks – The Beauty of Falling (mixing) Job for a Cowboy – Ruination (mixing) Narnia – Course of a Generation Nightrage – Wearing a Martyr's Crown (production/mixing/keyboards) Old Man's Child – Slaves of the World Outrage – Outrage Powerwolf – Bible of the Beast Mean Streak – Metal Slave (mixing) Wintergrave – Final Termination (EP)

2010 Bring Me the Horizon – There Is a Hell Believe Me I've Seen It. There Is a Heaven Let's Keep It a Secret. Buried in Verona – Saturday Night Sever Dream Evil – In the Night Dreamshade – What Silence Hides Demovore – Beneath Darkened Skies (mixing/mastering/re-amping, other work by Christopher Karlsrud) Sabaton – Coat of Arms (mixing) Arkan – Salam Nightrage – Vengeance Descending (production/mixing/keyboards)

2011 Akrya – Akrya (mastering) Nervosia – Apathy's Throne (EP) (mixing/mastering) Hamlet – Amnesia (mixing/mastering) Powerwolf – Blood of the Saints Nightrage – Insidious (mixing/mastering) Confession – The Long Way Home Shadowside – Inner Monster Out Myrath – Tales of the Sands (mixing) Adept – Death Dealers

2012 A Breach of Silence – Dead or Alive At the Skylines – The Secrets to Life (producer) Deathronic – Duality Chaos (mixing/mastering) Eths – III Far West Battlefront – Chapters (mixing/mastering) Feed Her to the Sharks – Savage Seas Furnaze – None More Black Midnight in Alaska – Boundless Buried in Verona – Notorious InnerSiege – Kingdom of Shadows (mixing/mastering)

2013 Delta – The End of Philosophy (mixing) Artificial Heart – A Heart Once Lost (mixing/mastering) Adept – Silence the World Raven Lord – Descent to the Underworld (mixing) Desolated – Disorder of Mind (mastering) Outrage – Outraged Powerwolf – Preachers of the Night Solium Fatalis – Solium Fatalis (mixing/mastering) Primitai – Rise Again (mixing/mastering) Excrecor – Hypnotic Affliction (mastering)

2014 Tellus Terror – EZ Life DV8 (mixing and mastering) I Killed the Prom Queen – Beloved Architects – Lost Forever // Lost Together HammerFall – (r)Evolution A Breach of Silence – The Darkest Road (producer) At the Gates – At War with Reality Forget My Silence – Supersonic

2015 Dawn Protection – Eternal (mixing and mastering) Powerwolf – Blessed & Possessed (producer) Buried in Verona – Vultures Above, Lions Below Chabtan – The Kiss of Coatlicue (mastering)

2016 Follow My Lead – Spit, Kick, Revolt. Architects – All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us HammerFall – Built to Last

2018 The Moor – Jupiter's Immigrants (mixing and mastering)

2019 O.Y.D. – Indigo Voice of Ruin – Acheron The Offering – Home Lagerstein – 25/7

2020 Aqvilea - Beyond the Elysian Fields

2021 Iotunn – Access All Worlds (mixing and mastering) The Moor – Wrath of Vultures (mixing and mastering) The Moor – Emissaries (mixing and mastering) Act of Denial – Negative (mixing and mastering Obscura – A Valediction (mixing and mastering) Cognizance (band) - Upheaval (mixing and mastering)

2022 Nightrage – Abyss Rising

2023 Saidon – Saidon Killsorrow – Wasteland Chronicles

2024 The Moor – Ombra Hammerfall – Avenge the Fallen Thermality – The Final Hours

2025 Obscura – A Sonication

2026 Dimmu Borgir – Grand Serpent Rising