Scott Burns

Scott Burns is an American computer engineer and a former music producer of death metal records from late 1980s and 1990s. He was crucial to the emergence of the Florida death metal scene, and has been called an "extreme metal overlord".

He has produced many records for many influential death metal bands, including Death, Deicide, Cannibal Corpse, Sepultura, Obituary, Atheist, Transmetal, Suffocation, and Cynic. He has engineered some of the top genre-defining death metal albums such as Death's Human, Suffocation's Effigy of the Forgotten, Obituary's Slowly We Rot, and Cannibal Corpse's Tomb of the Mutilated. He most recently worked on the album Frozen in Time (2005) by Obituary. Burns has since quit producing full-time to work in computer programming. He said: "Since I was young and having fun, I got pigeonholed. Which is fine, but I was just 'the death metal guy.'"

According to Jack Owen, Burns commuted an hour to Morrisound, and would often sleep in the studio or in band members' closets at their residences.

In 2023, Burns was the subject of the David E. Gehlke biography The Scott Burns Sessions: A Life in Death Metal 1987–1997, which documents his career and albums produced at Morrisound and features interviews with him and other artists involved in their creation. Following its release, Burns made a rare public appearance at the 2024 Decibel Metal and Beer Festival in Philadelphia.

Discography + Year Band Release Role 1987 Whiplash Ticket to Mayhem Engineering 1988 Death Leprosy Engineering 1989 Amon Sacrificial (Demo) Mixing The Guff The Art of Deception (Demo) Engineering Sepultura Beneath the Remains Producer, Engineering, Mixing Obituary Slowly We Rot Producer, Engineering, Mixing Atheist Piece of Time Producer, Engineering Terrorizer World Downfall Engineering Awake! Beliefs (EP) Producer, Engineering 1990 Assück Necrosalvation (EP) Engineering Cynic Demo 1990 Producer, Engineering Death Spiritual Healing Producer, Mixing Cancer To the Gory End Producer, Mixing Deicide Deicide Producer, Engineering, Mixing Napalm Death Harmony Corruption Producer, Engineering, Mixing Napalm Death Suffer the Children Producer, Engineer, Mixing Cannibal Corpse Eaten Back to Life Producer, Engineering Demolition Hammer Tortured Existence Producer, Engineer, Mixing Obituary Cause of Death Producer, Engineering, Mixing Master Master Producer, Engineer, Mixing Atrocity Hallucinations Producer, Engineering, Mixing Exhorder Slaughter in the Vatican Producer, Engineering, Mixing Various artists At Death's Door (A Collection of Brutal Death Metal) Producer (tracks 1, 3, 6, 8, 9 & 12) Hellwitch Syzygial Miscreancy Engineering Overthrow Within Suffering Producer, Engineering, Mixing 1991 Cynic Demo 1991 Producer, Engineering Acheron Rites of the Black Mass (Demo) Producer The Guff Refuse to Crawl (Demo) Producer, Engineering Skeletal Earth Eulogy for a Dying Fetus Producer, Engineering Sepultura Arise Producer, Engineering, Lyrical assistance & translation Slap of Reality Fletch (EP) Producer, Engineer Malevolent Creation The Ten Commandments Producer, Engineering, Mixing Devastation Idolatry Producer, Engineering, Mixing Cancer Death Shall Rise Producer Cannibal Corpse Butchered at Birth Producer, Engineering Loudblast Disincarnate Producer, Engineering, Mixing Massacre From Beyond Engineering Atheist Unquestionable Presence Producer Pestilence Testimony of the Ancients Producer, Engineering, Mixing Gorguts Considered Dead Producer, Engineering, Mixing Death Human Producer, Mixing Suffocation Effigy of the Forgotten Producer, Engineering, Mixing Assück Anticapital Producer, Engineering Master On the Seventh Day God Created... Master Producer, Engineering, Mixing 1992 Assück Blindspot (EP) Producer, Engineering Disincarnate Soul Erosion (Demo) Producer, Engineering, Mixing Hideous Corpse Demented (Demo) Mixing Sepultura Third World Posse (EP) Producer (track 1), Mixing (track 2) Speckmann Project Speckmann Project Producer The Guff Jackass Live Producer, Engineering No Return Contamination Rises N/A Acheron Rites of the Black Mass Producer, Engineering Obituary The End Complete Producer, Engineering, Mixing Deicide Legion Engineering, Mixing Malevolent Creation Retribution Producer, Engineering, Mixing Assück State to State (EP) Engineering Solstice Solstice Engineering, Mixing Cannibal Corpse Tomb of the Mutilated Producer, Engineering, Mixing 1993 Raped Ape Terminal Reality (EP) Producer, Engineering, Mixing Skeletal Earth Dreighphuck (EP) Producer Various artists At Death's Door II Producer (tracks 2, 4, 7 & 8) Resurrection Embalmed Existence Producer, Engineering Death Individual Thought Patterns Producer, Engineering Cynic Focus Producer, Engineering, Mixing Transmetal El Infierno de Dante (also available as Dante's Inferno) Producer, Mixing Loudblast Sublime Dementia Producer, Engineering, Mixing Hellwitch Terraasymmetry (EP) Engineering Loudblast Cross the Threshold (EP) Producer, Mixing (track 6) 1994 Skeletal Earth Dē.ĕv'ṓ.lū'shŭn Producer Cannibal Corpse The Bleeding Producer, Engineering, Mixing, Mastering Psychotic Waltz Mosquito Producer, Engineering, Mixing Obituary World Demise Producer, Engineering, Mixing KMFDM Glory Remixing (track 6, "Move On") 1995 Jason Rawhead Dehumanized Producer, Engineering Deicide Once upon the Cross Producer, Engineering, Mixing Suffocation Pierced from Within Producer, Engineering, Mixing Six Feet Under Haunted Producer, Engineering, Mixing Internal Bleeding Voracious Contempt Mixing 1996 Sean Malone Cortlandt Producer, Engineering Transmetal México bárbaro Producer, Mixing, Mastering Transmetal El llamado de la hembra Producer Cannibal Corpse Vile Producer, Engineering, Mixing Psychotic Waltz Bleeding Engineering Monstrosity Millennium Producer, Mixing 1997 Assück Misery Index Engineering Malevolent Creation In Cold Blood Producer, Engineering Sadus Elements of Anger Producer, Mixing, Mastering Deicide Serpents of the Light Producer, Engineering, Mixing 1998 Suffocation Despise the Sun (EP) Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Mastering KMFDM Agogo Remixing (track 8, "Hole in the Wall") 2003 Gordian Knot Emergent Producer 2005 Obituary Frozen in Time Producer