Nick Raskulinecz ( ) (born February 4, 1970) is an American record producer. He resides in Nashville, Tennessee.
Biography
Raskulinecz is from the Bearden area of Knoxville, Tennessee. He first produced and recorded bands in Knoxville on a eight-track recorder that his grandfather bought for him. He played in a popular local thrash/funk band called Hypertribe. Three of their albums were produced at Underground Recording Studio in Seymour, Tennessee, with Matt Lincoln engineering and sharing producing duties. Soon Raskulinecz moved to Los Angeles with his band, now renamed Movement, in 1995, and took a job at Sound City Studios as an assistant, following a suggestion by Brian Bell from Weezer. He eventually became an engineer and learned how to produce.
In 2001, shortly after Raskulinecz left Sound City, he was struggling as an independent engineer at a rehearsal studio and thought of returning to Knoxville with wife Amber. Then Dave Grohl, whom he met engineering the Foo Fighters track "A320" for Godzilla: The Album, invited Raskulinecz to help make the Foo Fighters' next album at Grohl's home studio in Alexandria, Virginia. Raskulinecz, who was set to make his producing debut making Last Call for Vitriol with fellow Knoxvillians Superdrag, instead accepted Grohl's proposal and the result was One by One, released in 2002. The experience was successful and Raskulinecz returned for the Foo Fighters follow-up In Your Honor (2005). He has also mixed the audio on the Foo Fighters DVDs Everywhere but Home, Foo Fighters Live at Wembley Stadium and Skin and Bones, the latter of which was accompanied by the live DVD at Hyde Park, also mixed by Raskulinecz.
In addition to his work with Foo Fighters, he has worked with such artists as Ghost, We As Human, Evanescence, Marilyn Manson, Soil, Deftones, Coheed and Cambria, Stone Sour, Trivium, Duff McKagan, Mondo Generator, Danzig, The Exies, Ash, My Ruin, Korn, Velvet Revolver, Halestorm, Rush, Mastodon, Shadows Fall, Superdrag, Goatsnake, Fireball Ministry, Rye Coalition, Death Angel, Danko Jones, Skid Row, and Apocalyptica.
Raskulinecz produced Snakes & Arrows with Canadian rock trio Rush in 2007. Rush brought back Raskulinecz to co-produce their 2010 singles "Caravan" and "BU2B", and then the album Clockwork Angels, which was released in June 2012. With Rush he earned the nickname "Booujzhe", from his description of how he wanted a particular drum beat to go in a song. Plus, Raskulinecz produced Threads of Life for Shadows Fall.
In September 2007, it was reported that Raskulinecz would produce Killing Season with Filipino American thrash quintet Death Angel. Killing Season is Death Angel's fifth album and was released February 26, 2008.
Raskulinecz produced an album with the Canadian band Thornley. The album, titled Tiny Pictures, was released on February 10, 2009. He was also the producer on Trivium's fourth album Shogun, released in 2008.
Raskulinecz produced Black Gives Way to Blue, the fourth studio album by grunge rock quartet Alice in Chains. Released on September 29, 2009, this was the band's first studio album in 14 years, since their 1995 self-titled Alice in Chains, and its first release with new singer William DuVall following the death of Layne Staley. He is also credited as the producer on The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here (2013) and Rainier Fog (2018).
In 2010, Raskulinecz moved to Nashville with his family, wanting to go back to Tennessee – from which his wife also hails – and raise his family there. At first he worked at Blackbird Studios, where he produced Stone Sour's Audio Secrecy, his second with the band (following Come What(ever) May). Also released that year was Deftones Diamond Eyes, which Raskulinecz recorded back in California.
Raskulinecz has also worked on Evanescence's third studio album, the self-titled Evanescence, which was released on October 11, 2011. Raskulinecz is currently in the band Epic Ditch with former Superdrag frontman John Davis. In February 2012, Epic Ditch released their vinyl debut "36-Hour" on Velocity of Sound Records in which Nick played bass and also produced the album.
Some of Raskulinecz' latest works include Big Wreck's first album in ten years, Albatross, the seventh studio album by Deftones Koi No Yokan, and second album by Swedish occult rock band Ghost, Infestissumam.
Rock Falcon Studios, Raskulinecz's own recording facility in Franklin, was founded in 2013. The first album done there was The Hold Steady's Teeth Dreams, released in 2014. Also done at Rock Falcon and released that year were Mastodon's Once More 'Round the Sun, and Adelitas Way's third album Stuck. He subsequently co-produced the Bush album Man on the Run. Raskulinecz recorded the first sessions of Sleeping with Sirens' Madness, but the band ended discarding the results aside from two bonus tracks.
In 2015, Raskulinecz produced the cello rock band Apocalyptica's album Shadowmaker, released on April 17, 2015. That same year he produced The Killer Instinct by the Black Star Riders, and this led to Raskulinecz producing a solo EP for guitarist Damon Johnson, Echo. In 2016, he produced Korn's 12th album The Serenity of Suffering, and 13th album The Nothing in 2019. In the 2020s he has continued to produce for Deftones, Evanescence, and others.
Production credits YearTitleBandNotes2000In the Valley of Dying StarsSuperdragCo-produced with Superdrag2002One by OneFoo FightersCo-produced with Adam Kasper2002Kill Your TelevisionThe Reunion ShowCo-produced with The Reunion Show2003Set Me FreeVelvet Revolver Hulk & Contraband 2004MeltdownAshCo-produced with Ash2005In Your HonorFoo Fighters Played double bass on "On the Mend" and bass on "Cold Day in the Sun"2006Come What(ever) MayStone Sour2007Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World for TomorrowCoheed and CambriaCo-produced with Rick RubinDead PlanetMondo GeneratorSnakes & ArrowsRushArigato!John DavisCo-produced with John Davis2008ShogunTrivium2009Tiny PicturesThornleyBlack Gives Way to BlueAlice in ChainsCo-produced with Alice in Chains2010Audio SecrecyStone SourDiamond EyesDeftonesBlack Magic; All Mysteries RevealedYear Long Disaster2011EvanescenceEvanescence2012AlbatrossBig WreckKoi No YokanDeftonesClockwork AngelsRush2013InfestissumamGhostThe Devil Put Dinosaurs HereAlice in ChainsCo-produced with Alice in Chains2014Teeth DreamsThe Hold SteadyOnce More Round The SunMastodonStuckAdelitas WaySisyphus SaysThe Lees Of Memory2015Man on the RunBush Co-produced with Jay BaumgardnerMadnessSleeping With SirensBonus tracks onlyThe Killer InstinctBlack Star RidersShadowmakerApocalyptica2016The Serenity of SufferingKornUnnecessary EvilThe Lees Of Memory2017WolvesRise Against(how to live) AS GHOSTS10 YearsCold Dark PlaceMastodonTracks 1, 2 & 42018Rainier FogAlice in ChainsCo-produced with Alice in ChainsViciousHalestorm2019The NothingKorn2020UnderneathCode OrangeCo-produced with Jami Morgan and Will YipMoon ShotThe Lees Of Memory2021The Bitter TruthEvanescence2022The Gang's All HereSkid Row2023Yes, And...'68 2023Chosen At RandomIn the Whale2023Pages EPBig Wreck2024HorizonsBlack Smoke Trigger2024FireKittie2024"Sound The Alarm"Our Lady Peace2024Soundtrack To Summer 2024Badflower2025"Afterlife"Evanescencefrom Netflix series Devil May Cry2025Private MusicDeftonesCo-produced with Deftones2025The Rest of the StoryBig Wreck
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