The Electric Bunker

04/20/2020

Happy release day! Got a double header today. Last fall between Deafheaven tours, I managed to record a marathon 2 day session of D U T C H G U T S playing their set live at God City with a third guitarist thrown in for good measure. Mixed by me here and mastered by Jack Butcher at Enormous Door, it's a beast of a record and I was stoked to be a part of it. 10 Years of Neglect indeed. Great work fellas.

Release #2 of the day: Leather Lung covering Silverchair's Isreal's Son, tracked by me at Mad Oak, mixed here, and mastered by Zach Weeks at God City. This was a sneaky B side we recorded during the session for LL's Black Sabbath cover for Magnetic Eye Records back in March, which also included me recording a different band (my band Summoner) the same day. Two bands, 3 songs, one day. Oh and one lefty and one righty drummer cause why not right? That was also a marathon. I guess I still like marathons.

And up for considerable honorable mention (because I forgot to post it here like a meatball) is another Magnetic Eye Records band, Ghastly Sound, who recorded two tracks with Urian Hackney that I mixed, and Zach Weeks at God City mastered them. THAT was an exciting project to be a part of. Good times all around.

Stay safe, stay healthy, keep working on stuff and let's make a god damn record this year because I won't be back on tour for like a year at this rate. Stay tuned.

11/23/2019

Update time... since the last post have played 31 shows in 22 countries on 3 continents... so that was fun as hell/time consuming. I also tracked 3 bands in 5 days at God City right before our European tour, and Mourned has released their two song cassette I recorded at God City, mixed by Arthur Rizk.

Next up: wrapping up our Asia tour tonight in Manila, then I will have the pleasure of flying down to New Zealand to record Tuscoma, which will be mixed by Jack Shirley, who has recorded and mixed all of the Deafheaven albums to date. Pretty rad.

I’ll be home this winter and have some time open if anybody wants to record some stuff. Carry on 👋

Mourned · Single · 2019 · 2 songs.

09/11/2019

I recently had the pleasure of mixing this song for this video. Band rules. Vid rules. I think Decibel rules too. Good times!

Boston doom quintet Glacier bring their heavy post-metal freeze to a sweltering temple in their video for album opener “O World! I Remain No Longer Here."

08/22/2019

Always nice to see a project I did get a nice nod and write up in Decible :)

Hey, Leather Lung put a little rock n' roll swagger and outlaw country sneer in its sludge metal for you! How thoughtful!

07/12/2019

Looooots going on this summer! Eight days in total engineering at God City, a handful at the new New Alliance (place sounds great!), one at Mad Oak this weekend, plus a bunch of mixing work at the Bunker. Off tour until September if anyone wants to squeeze something else in this summer ;)

05/18/2019

Hello! Man, these updates are getting fewer and further between these days, but here's what's been up since the last one, aside from touring NZ and Australia, then doing a full North American co-headliner with Baroness, all of which was incredibly boring and not at all fun or enjoyable ;)

Anyhoo, since the last update, Worshipper has released their album we did at God City and The Bunker (which I am very, very proud of and is my first legit "producer" credit, I believe). Before that, I did a live mix for REVOLVER Magazine of Deafheaven's newest single "Black Brick" on that Baroness tour. Once I got home, I edited some drums for Kurt on the new Sect record (mems of Cursed, Fallout Boy, etc), recorded Plagues at God City, and booked a session at the brand new New Alliance East: Mixing, Mastering, Production, Song Writing location. The A Team also put out this live video I recorded and mixed (do we just call that producing now?) at Mid East in December.

Hmmm I think that's it for now? I'll be mixing Converge at a fest in Vancouver next week that I'm playing with DOOMRIDERS (hell yeah!), and that all sounds like a dang good time to me.

Stay tuned, stay classy, and LET'S MAKE A RECORD :)

12/27/2018

Hi everybody,
it's been a long time since the last update, but here's what we've been up to since September, in vague chronology:

-Recorded Leather Lung at God City
-Mixed and mastered Prisoners Cinema
-played 50 shows in 65 days with Deafheaven
-The Wall Redux (Magnetic Eye Records) came out, which I recorded and mixed a few tracks on.
-Mixed the Worshipper record we did at God City this summer
-Got the Aneurysm record back from mastering
-Got nominated for a Grammy for playing bass with Deafheaven
-Did some mobile recording at Mid East
-Wrapping up Leather Lung mixes this week

So there ya have it. The back half of 2018 has been crammed with more music than I ever pictured being a part of... and we got a god damned Grammy nomination. Not a bad year all in all.

Happy Holiday and here's to more music in 2019!

Now, let's make a record :)

- Chris
..and here I am mixing something, somewhere, on tour. As our tour manager Edgar said when he took this picture "this guys is always working," or something like that. Stay busy people. It's the only way.

09/14/2018

It’s finally here! I recorded a couple of these tunes and Summoner contributed “Hey You.” I had a lot of fun working on this record. Take a listen:

09/06/2018

Guys, check out this live Deafheaven track I mixed for this Revolver piece. It’s way at the end, but you can see how I spent my summer in the meantime ;)

Backstage dancing, West Coast vibes and a stunning full live performance of "Honeycomb"