About this episode

Arthur Rizk discusses his journey in extreme music production and his work with various influential bands.

We're joined by Pennsylvania's own ARTHUR RIZK ! Longtime friend of the show and expert producer/engineer of all things extreme. Before discussing his work with bands like Blood Incantation, Power Trip, the Cavaleras, Cro-Mags, Kreator (and so many more)... We discuss Arthur's background as the once reluctant guitar player of legendary PA Hardcore band WAR HUNGRY , which lead to him finding his footing in the hardcore community in the early oughts as a young metalhead. These days Arthur is juggling his time as a musician between COLD WORLD , ETERNAL CHAMPION and SUMERLANDS when he's not manning the board for metal's biggest bands. We're also joined once again by guest co-host and another modern great in extreme music engineering, our very own Taylor Young . This is a fascinating deep dive into the world of hardcore, metal & punk production with two of the greatest minds currently doing it. Enjoy. _____________ HardLore: A Knotfest Series, fueled by Monster Energy. Shot, edited and mixed by ⁠⁠⁠Steven Grise⁠⁠⁠ Title sequence by ⁠⁠⁠Nicholas Marzluf⁠⁠⁠ ​Join the ⁠⁠⁠HARDLORE PATREON⁠⁠⁠ to watch every single weekly episode early and ad-free, alongside exclusive monthly episodes…

People in this episode

Hosts: Colin Young, Bo Lueders

Guests: Arthur Rizk, Taylor Young

Topics covered

• extreme music production
• hardcore music
• metal music
• punk production
• music engineering

Keywords

• Arthur Rizk
• extreme music
• hardcore
• metal production
• music engineering

Sponsors

Monster Energy, DUNABLE GUITARS, MILLS VINTAGE

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: WAR HUNGRY, Blood Incantation, Power Trip, Cavaleras, Cro-Mags, Kreator, COLD WORLD, ETERNAL CHAMPION, SUMERLANDS, HardLore

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