Christopher Harris (born April 1, 1972), known professionally as Chris "Zeuss" Harris or simply Zeuss, is an American record producer.

Zeuss
Birth nameChristopher Harris
Born (1972-04-01) April 1, 1972 (age 52)
Genres
Occupations
  • Producer
  • Engineer
  • Mixer
  • Songwriter
  • Composer
  • Musician
Years active1996–present
Websitezeussproducer.com

Biography

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Zeuss is best known in the worlds of hard rock, heavy metal music, hardcore punk, and metalcore.[1] He has engineered, produced, mixed, and mastered albums by a number of high-profile acts, including Rob Zombie,[2] Queensrÿche,[3] Demon Hunter,[4] Suicide Silence,[5] Suffocation,[6] Municipal Waste,[7] Soulfly,[8] Chimaira,[9] Throwdown,[10] Whitechapel,[11] Bleeding Through,[12] Kataklysm,[13] and God Forbid.[14] He’s made over a half dozen records each with Shadows Fall[15] (including the band’s most commercially successful album,[16] The War Within) and Hatebreed.[17] His relationship with Hatebreed extends to affiliated projects, including Kingdom of Sorrow,[18] Jasta, and numerous artists signed to singer Jamey Jasta's Stillborn Records.

Rob Zombie,[19] Joey Jordison,[20] and Max Cavalera[21] are among the musicians who have complimented Zeuss in the press.

Discography

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Year Band/Artist Album Title Record Label Role Billboard 200 Award
2000 100 Demons In the Eyes of the Lord Good Life Recordings Producer, Mixing
2000 Shadows Fall Of One Blood Century Media Records Producer, Engineer, Mixing
2001 God Forbid Determination Century Media Records Co-producer, Engineer
2002 All That Remains Behind Silence and Solitude Metal Blade Records Co-producer, Mixing
2002 Sworn Enemy Integrity Defines Strength (EP) Stillborn Records Engineer, Mixing
2002 Hatebreed Perseverance Universal Music Group Engineer 50
2002 Shadows Fall The Art of Balance Century Media Records Producer, Mixing
2003 Hatebreed The Rise of Brutality Universal Music Group Producer, Engineer 30 Grammy Award (Nominated)[22]
2003 Blood Has Been Shed Spirals Ferret Music Producer, Engineer
2003 Sworn Enemy As Real as It Gets Elektra Records Producer, Engineer
2004 Agnostic Front Another Voice Nuclear Blast Co-producer, Engineer
2004 Full Blown Chaos Wake the Demons Stillborn Records Producer, Engineer, Mixing
2004 The Autumn Offering Revelations of the Unsung Stillborn Records Engineer, Mixing
2004 100 Demons 100 Demons Deathwish Inc. Producer, Mixing
2004 Shadows Fall The War Within Century Media Records Producer, Engineer, Mixing 20 Grammy Award (Nominated)[23]
2005 Throwdown Vendetta Trustkill Records Producer, Engineer, Mixing 156
2005 Roger Miret and the Disasters 1984 Hellcat Records Engineer, Mixing
2005 Hell Within Asylum of the Human Predator Lifeforce Records Mixing
2005 Madball Legacy Ferret Music Producer, Engineer, Mixing
2005 The Red Chord Clients Metal Blade Records Producer, Engineer, Mixing
2006 Shadows Fall Fallout from the War Century Media Records Producer, Engineer, Mixing 83
2006 Shai Hulud Hearts Once Nourished with Hope and Compassion Revelation Records Re-mixing
2006 Demiricous One (Hellbound) Metal Blade Records Producer, Engineer, Mixing
2006 Hatebreed Supremacy Roadrunner Records Producer, Engineer, Mixing 31
2006 Remembering Never God Save Us Ferret Music Producer, Engineer, Mixing
2006 Terror Always the Hard Way Trustkill Records Producer, Engineer, Mixing
2006 Sworn Enemy The Beginning of the End Abacus Recordings Mixing
2006 Icepick Violent Epiphany Stillborn Records Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Mastering
2007 Emmure Goodbye to the Gallows Victory Records Producer, Engineer, Mixing 191
2007 Municipal Waste The Art of Partying Earache Records Producer, Engineer, Mixing
2007 Agnostic Front Warriors Nuclear Blast Co-producer, mixing
2007 Shadows Fall Threads of Life Atlantic Records Mixing 46 Grammy Award (Nominated)[24]
2007 Sanctity Road to Bloodshed Roadrunner Records Mixing on tracks 7, 11, 12
2007 Thy Will Be Done Was and Is to Come Stillborn Records Producer, Engineer, Mixing
2007 Ion Dissonance Minus the Herd Abacus Recordings Producer, Engineer, Mixing
2007 Madball Infiltrate the System Ferret Music Producer, Engineer, Mixing
2007 Her Nightmare Come Anarchy Come Ruin Resist Records Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Mastering
2007 3 Inches of Blood Fire Up the Blades Roadrunner Records Mixing 147
2007 Carnifex Dead in My Arms This City Is Burning Records Producer
2008 Emmure The Respect Issue Victory Records Producer, Engineer, Mixing 141
2008 Kingdom of Sorrow Kingdom of Sorrow Relapse Records Co-producer, Engineer, Mixing 131
2008 With Blood Comes Cleansing Horror Victory Records Producer, Engineer, Mixing
2008 Arsis We Are the Nightmare Nuclear Blast Producer, Engineer, Mixing
2008 Stick to Your Guns Comes from the Heart Century Media Records Producer, Engineer, Mixing
2008 Whitechapel This Is Exile Metal Blade Records Mixing, mastering 118
2008 Vinnie Stigma New York Blood I Scream Records Mixing
2008 The Acacia Strain Continent Prosthetic Records Producer, Engineer, Mixing 107
2008 Terror The Damned, the Shamed Century Media Records Producer, Engineer, Mixing
2008 Carnifex The Diseased and the Poisoned Victory Records Producer, Engineer, Mixing
2009 Chimaira The Infection Ferret Music Mixing 30
2009 The Red Chord Fed Through the Teeth Machine Metal Blade Records Mixing, Mastering
2009 Hatebreed Hatebreed Entertainment One Music Producer, Engineer, Mixing 37
2009 Throwdown Deathless Entertainment One Music Mixing OC Music Awards (Nominated)[25]
2009 Thy Will Be Done In Ancient of Days Stillborn Records Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Mastering
2009 Born of Osiris A Higher Place Sumerian Records Producer, Engineer 73
2009 Hatebreed For the Lions Entertainment One Music Mixing 58
2009 Municipal Waste Massive Aggressive Earache Records Producer, Engineer, Mixing
2009 Shadows Fall Retribution Everblack Industries Producer, Engineer, Mixing 35
2009 Impending Doom The Serpent Servant Facedown Records Mixing, Mastering
2009 Neaera Omnicide – Creation Unleashed Metal Blade Records Mixing, Mastering
2009 Too Pure To Die Confess Trustkill Records Co-producer, engineer, mixing
2010 The Acacia Strain Wormwood Prosthetic Records Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Mastering 67
2010 Legend Valediction Rise Records Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Mastering
2010 Arsis Starve for the Devil Nuclear Blast Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Mastering
2010 Oceano Contagion Earache Records Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Mastering 163
2010 Bleeding Through Bleeding Through Rise Records Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Mastering 143
2010 Kingdom of Sorrow Behind the Blackest Tears Relapse Records Mixing, Mastering 151
2010 Murderdolls Women and Children Last Roadrunner Records Producer, Engineer, Mixing 42
2010 Baptized in Blood Baptized in Blood Roadrunner Records Producer, Engineer, Mixing 143
2011 Chimaira The Age of Hell Entertainment One Music Mixing, Mastering 54
2011 Suicide Silence The Black Crown Century Media Records Mixing, Mastering 28
2011 Crowbar Sever the Wicked Hand Entertainment One Music Mixing, Mastering
2011 Ten Tonn Hammer Your Words Are Nothing FONO ltd Records Mixing, Mastering
2011 Texas In July One Reality Equal Vision Records Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Mastering 174
2011 Earth Crisis Neutralize the Threat Century Media Records Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Mastering
2011 Chelsea Grin My Damnation Artery Recordings Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Mastering 64
2011 Threat Signal Threat Signal Nuclear Blast Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Mastering
2011 Thy Will Be Done Temple (EP) Eye.On Lion Recordings Engineer, Mixing
2012 MyChildren MyBride Mychildren Mybride Solid State Records Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Mastering 183
2012 War of Ages Return to Life Facedown Records Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Mastering 155
2012 A Bullet for Pretty Boy Symbiosis Razor & Tie, Artery Recordings Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Mastering
2012 The Casualties Resistance Season of Mist Co-producer, Engineer, Mixing, Mastering
2012 Revocation Teratogenesis (EP) Scion A/V Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Mastering
2012 Soulfly Enslaved Roadrunner Records Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Mastering 82
2012 Arsis Lepers Caress (EP) Scion A/V Mixing, mastering
2013 Scar the Martyr Scar the Martyr Roadrunner Records Mixing 129
2013 Kataklysm Waiting for the End to Come Nuclear Blast Mixing, mastering Juno Awards (Nominated)[26]
2013 Rob Zombie Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor T-Boy Records Engineer, (assistant), Programming 7
2013 Howl Bloodlines Relapse Records Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Mastering
2013 Six Feet Under Unborn Metal Blade Records Mixing, Mastering
2013 Generation Kill We're All Gonna Die Nuclear Blast Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Mastering
2013 Huntress Starbound Beast Napalm Records Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Mastering
2013 Hatebreed The Divinity of Purpose Razor & Tie Co-producer, Engineer 20
2013 Suffocation Pinnacle of Bedlam Nuclear Blast Mixing, Mastering 152
2014 Devil You Know The Beauty of Destruction Nuclear Blast Mixing 45
2014 Crowbar Symmetry in Black Entertainment One Music Mastering 68
2014 Earth Crisis Salvation of Innocents Candlelight Records Mixing, Mastering
2014 Throwdown Intolerance Entertainment One Music Mixing, Mastering 142
2014 Demon Hunter Extremist Solid State Records Mixing 16 Dove Award (Won)[27]
2014 Marty Friedman Inferno Prosthetic Records Engineer (additional)
2014 Sanctuary The Year the Sun Died Century Media Records Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Mastering 125
2014 Revocation Deathless Metal Blade Records Producer, Engineer, Mixing 124
2014 Hammercult Steelcrusher Sonic Attack Records Mixing, Mastering
2014 Rise of the Northstar Welcame Nuclear Blast Mixing, Mastering
2015 Rob Zombie Spookshow International (Live) T-Boy Records Mixing 118
2015 Vision of Disorder Razed to the Ground[28][29] Candlelight Records Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Mastering
2015 Act of Defiance Birth and the Burial Metal Blade Records Engineer, Mixing, Mastering
2015 Queensrÿche Condition Hüman Century Media Records Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Mastering 27
2016 Rob Zombie The Electric Warlock Acid Witch Satanic Orgy Celebration Dispenser T-Boy Records Producer, Engineer, Mixing 6
2016 Hatebreed The Concrete Confessional Nuclear Blast Producer, engineer, mastering 25
2016 Armageddon Parallels and Introspection Independent Mastering
2016 Revocation Great Is Our Sin Metal Blade Records Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Mastering 189
2017 Demon Hunter Outlive Solid State Records Mixing 25
2017 Forgotten Tomb We Owe You Nothing Agonia Records Mixing, Mastering
2017 Wednesday 13 Condolences Nuclear Blast Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Mastering
2017 Witherfall Nocturnes and Requiems Century Media Records Mixing, Mastering
2017 Suffocation ...Of the Dark Light Nuclear Blast Mixing, Mastering
2017 Bloodclot! Up In Arms Metal Blade Records Producer, Engineer
2017 Six Feet Under Torment Metal Blade Records Mixing, Mastering
2017 Sanctuary Inception Century Media Records Mixing, Mastering
2017 Iced Earth Incorruptible Century Media Records Engineer, Mixing, Mastering
2018 Marc Rizzo Rotation Combat Records Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Mastering
2018 Witherfall A Prelude to Sorrow Century Media Records Mixing, Mastering
2018 Dee Snider For the Love of Metal Napalm Records Mastering
2018 Purgatory Jon Schaffer's Purgatory Century Media Records Mastering
2018 Revocation The Outer Ones Metal Blade Records Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Mastering
2019 Incite Built to Destroy Minus Head Records Mastering
2019 Overkill The Wings of War Nuclear Blast Mixing, Mastering
2019 Death Before Dishonor Unfinished Business Bridge Nine Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Mastering
2019 Demon Hunter Peace Solid State Records Mixing, Mastering Dove Award (Nominated)
2019 Demon Hunter War Solid State Records Mixing, Mastering Dove Award (Nominated)
2019 Heathen The Evolution Of Chaos Mascot Records Remaster
2019 Queensrÿche The Verdict Century Media Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Mastering
2019 Demons & Wizards Demons & Wizards Century Media Remaster
2019 Demons & Wizards Touched By The Crimson King Century Media Remaster
2019 Disciple Love Letter Kill Shot Tooth And Nail Mixing, Mastering Dove Award (Nominated)
2019 Witherfall Vintage EP Century Media Records Mixing, Mastering
2020 Heathen Empire Of The Blind Nuclear Blast Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Mastering
2020 Raven Metal City SPV/Steamhammer Mixing, Mastering
2020 Black Veil Brides Re-Stitch These Wounds Sumerian Records Mastering
2020 Sanctuary Into The Mirror Black (30th Anniversary) Century Media Records Remaster
2020 Sanctuary Black Reflections (Live 1990) Century Media Records Mixing, Mastering
2020 Iced Earth Iced Earth (30th Anniversary) Century Media Records Remixing, Mastering
2020 Hatebreed Weight Of The False Self Nuclear Blast Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Mastering
2021 Rob Zombie The Lunar Injection Kool Aid Eclipse Conspiracy Nuclear Blast Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Mastering Grammy Award (Nominated)[24]
2021 Angelus Apatrida Angelus Apatrida Century Media Records Mixing, Mastering
2021 Cruel Hand Darkside Of The Cage Static Era Records Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Mastering
2021 Todd La Torre Rejoice In The Suffering Rat Pak Records Mixing, Mastering
2021 The Letter Black The Letter Black Rockfest Records Mixing, Mastering
2021 Mammothor The Ecstasy of Silence...The Agony of Dreams American Overdrive Mixing, Mastering
2021 Spirit Adrift Forge Your Future Century Media Records Mixing, Mastering
2021 Twiztid Unlikely Prescription Majik Ninja Entertainment Mastering
2022 Spirit Adrift 20 Centuries Gone Century Media Records Mixing
2022 Queensrÿche Digital Noise Alliance Century Media Records Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Mastering
2022 Demon Hunter Exile Weapons MFG Mastering
2023 Spirit Adrift Ghost At The Gallows Century Media Records Mixing, Mastering
2023 Death Before Dishonor Master Of None Bridge Nine Records Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Mastering
2023 Angelus Apatrida Aftermath Century Media Records Mixing, Mastering
2023 Slighted This Means War Static Era Records Mixing, Mastering
2023 Mammothor Lies By Omission American Overdrive Mixing, Mastering
2023 Throwdown Haymaker XX Pit Viper Records Remastering
2023 Demon Hunter "Some Of Us" Weapons MFG Mixing, Mastering

Filmography

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Film Director Studio Distributor Role Year
31 Rob Zombie Saban Entertainment Saban Entertainment Music by 2016
3 from Hell Lionsgate 2019
The Munsters Universal 1440 Entertainment Universal 1440 Entertainment 2022

References

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