Soundhammer Studio

01/25/2026

With Nuno Bettencourt – I just got recognized as one of their top fans! 🎉

03/01/2025

Soundhammer Studio picked up some nice Neewer Q300 battery powered outdoor strobes for mobile and outdoor photography, band pics, and mobile shots. We have video LEDs for outdoor and mobile video, but needed some strobes for still photography too. Soundhammer Studio has the cams/lights/studios/cranes and pro gear for creating great shots in outdoor and location driven photography and video. Need band pics in crazy locations?...no problem. Alongside of great recording services, Studio is a one stop shop for your bands EPK.

09/08/2024

Thank you Poopy's for another amazing night. They did'nt want us to quit man, two screaming chats for encores at the end of the night and they STILL wanted more. Poopies actually needed us to STOP...haha. Thank you to Brian Mitchell for the amazing sound and those THUNDEROUS Clair Brothers subwoofers. It was great seeing some old friends, Leila, Bret Tuttle, Paul Tuttle, and even an olda buddy who was a singer in one of my other bands, he jumped up and sang one with us. We got to reunite with old friends, and met some new friends and fans too. It was a packed house as bikes kept coming and coming. We saw people who drove WAY out of their way when they heard we were going to be there, and they showed up to ROCK. Thank you all for an amazing cap to another year of CRUE U meyham! Next year....it's going to be crazier and larger....it never ends here with new ideas and things to make the shows better. Thank you all that came out. To those that missed it, put us down for next year and catch a band that really works its ass off to do the impossible.

07/20/2024

This show in Naperville will be our last show this year in Illinois. We've got the rest of the year booked from Missouri thru Indiana. It's our last "Bigger that Hell" show in IL ...and I do mean Bigger Than Hel too, all the big gear, pyro, and lasers are coming to this show. There's piceces of streamers still hanging from the ceiling from the last time I did the big OZ show with another band ... 😆....you don't wanna miss this one...last call friends... hope to see you there!!

06/10/2024

This Saturday... Poopy's will be the place to be as CRUE U hits the stage and begins it's summer schedule that takes them across a thousand mile stretch spanning four states. We only have 2 shows in the burbs, after that, we hit the road with our favorite opening act, Night Songs over to Kansas City for a full-tilt metal week of travel and performing. You wanna catch the new shows look, production and costumes. We've been working hard to deliver something way out of the ordinary at the local scene. Thee will be a T-shirt printing company follows around and will print out logo and many styles and colors of shirts, hats and God knows what else, right there on site.....there will be opportunities for pictures with the band, s d I may let you take pics behind the kit also....come on out and let's create amazing memories together!!!

04/07/2024

Tonight, I'll be running sound for SUNSET STRIP - Splitter's Bar & Grill . Come down and say hello and enjoy some killer 80s music done right!!

03/28/2024

So folks have been asking what Kill'n Karma has been up to.... Well, we've been rehearsing for the May 18th show. Here's a sneak peak for just a moment of one of the new tunes (there's a few) we've added. This is a kick-ass tune called Last Resort by Papa Roach, performed tonight at Soundhammer Studio during the rehearsal. Enjoy!

Preview of Kill'n Karma doing LAST RESORT by Pappa Roach

02/29/2024

Enough time has passed so that I can say this....
ONE of the many secret works that I have done here at my Soundhammer Studio, is that I all the voice overs for the MTV show "Teen Mom" were all done here at my Soundhammer Studio. It was an honor to work with the actresses and the MTV Entertainment Group and Paramount Media Networks and aid in the production of that show. When I see that show....I just secretly smile :-)

11/29/2023

These guys are hard at work making it happen!!

03/20/2023

It's a pleasure for Soundhammer Studio to be hosting the recording session for Night Songs upcoming demo. Night Songs is a very cool tribute band to the 80's Metal music of Cinderella. I've known these guys and gals for a while now since they opened up for my previous band more than a year ago. They are incredibly talented and fun people to work with. I was quickly drawn to them by thier halarious personalities and incredible renditions of Cincerella songs. We'll have the works out shortly and some studio vids to show the fun of it all. If you've not caught their act, go seem them April 1st at the Thirsty Beaver in Crestwood, IL. Tomorrow night, they perform for ME!...ha. Let's give them a "hell yeah!" of support folks!
Eric Ballenger - Lead Vocals (M&M pimp/pusher)
Jill LuneNoire - Backup Vocals (Eric's personal babysitter)
Axe Adee - Lead and Rythm Guitar (Eye gouge pick thrower)
Steve Wencewicz - Lead and Rythm Guitar (Hostility Manager)
Ed Ribeiro - Bass and Keyboards (Hang's around musicians in bars.)
Tom Schmidt - Drums & Harmonica (Eric's Ass gazer)