Will Putney

Putney grew up in Sayreville, New Jersey. He began playing guitar as a teenager and formed his first band when he was 15.{{Cite web |last=MetalSucks |date=September 10, 2013 |title=Exclusive Interview: Guitarist/Producer Will Putney from Fit For An Autopsy and Machine Shop |url=https://www.metalsucks.net/2013/09/10/will-putney-interview/ |access-date=November 27, 2024 |website=MetalSucks |language=en}} He studied biomedical engineering at the Stevens Institute of Technology.{{Cite web |title=Will Putney: Sounds of a Graphic Nature |url=https://tapeop.com/interviews/154/will-putney/ |access-date=November 27, 2024 |website=tapeop.com |language=en}}

Putney's music production career began when he met the producer Machine while interning at The Syndicate, a marketing music management and radio promotion company that shared the same building with Machine's studio, the Machine Shop.[https://www.metalsucks.net/2013/09/10/will-putney-interview/ Exclusive Interview: Guitarist/Producer Will Putney from Fit For An Autopsy and Machine Shop in Metalsucks]{{Cite web |last=Singer |first=Quentin Thane |title=Metal & Hardcore Producer Will Putney Talks Career Roots And The Pros And Cons Of Modern Music Production |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/quentinsinger/2019/08/23/metal--hardcores-producer-will-putney-talks-career-roots-and-the-pros-and-cons-of-modern-music-production/ |access-date=2025-01-18 |website=Forbes |language=en}} In 2007, he began working at the Machine Shop studio in Hoboken, New Jersey.{{Cite web |title=Will Putney |url=https://www.discogs.com/artist/1403313-Will-Putney |access-date=2025-01-18 |website=Discogs |language=en}}

He and Machine moved the Machine Shop studio to Belleville, New Jersey, where they both worked until around 2013, when Putney took over the studio.{{Cite web |last=Harvey |first=Steve |date=2019-07-25 |title=Getting Heavy with Will Putney |url=https://www.mixonline.com/recording/getting-heavy-with-will-putney |access-date=2025-01-18 |website=Mixonline |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Staff |first=P. S. W. |date=2021-02-18 |title=Solid State Logic ORIGIN Helps Graphic Nature Audio Pull The Sonic Pieces Together |url=https://www.prosoundweb.com/solid-state-logic-origin-helps-graphic-nature-audio-pull-the-sonic-pieces-together/ |access-date=2025-01-18 |website=ProSoundWeb |language=en-US}} Putney then expanded the Belleville facility and renamed it Graphic Nature Audio in 2015.{{Cite web |title=About |url=https://www.graphicnatureaudio.com/about |access-date=2025-01-18 |website=Graphic Nature Audio |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Graphic Nature Audio Discography |url=https://www.discogs.com/label/869012-Graphic-Nature-Audio?sort=year&sort_order=asc |access-date=2025-01-18 |website=Discogs |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Harvey |first=Steve |date=2019-07-25 |title=Getting Heavy with Will Putney |url=https://www.mixonline.com/recording/getting-heavy-with-will-putney |access-date=2025-01-18 |website=Mixonline |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Staff |first=P. S. W. |date=2021-02-18 |title=Solid State Logic ORIGIN Helps Graphic Nature Audio Pull The Sonic Pieces Together |url=https://www.prosoundweb.com/solid-state-logic-origin-helps-graphic-nature-audio-pull-the-sonic-pieces-together/ |access-date=2025-01-18 |website=ProSoundWeb |language=en-US}}

In 2015, he also co-founded his own record label Graphic Nature Records as an imprint of Equal Vision.[http://graphicnature.com/label/ Welcome to the launch of Graphic Nature Records. in Graphic Nature Records]{{Cite web |title=Will Putney Launches Record Label {{!}} The Circle Pit |url=https://www.thecirclepit.com/2015/09/will-putney-launches-record-label#:~:text=Producer%20Will%20Putney%20(Northlane,%20Stray%20From%20The,unique%20new%20imprint%20label%20within%20Equal%20Vision |access-date=2025-01-18 |website=www.thecirclepit.com |language=en-US}} Graphic Nature Audio is currently located in Kinnelon, New Jersey.{{Cite web |last=Staff |first=ProSoundNetwork Editorial |date=2021-02-19 |title=Graphic Nature Audio Relocates |url=https://www.mixonline.com/recording/graphic-nature-audio-relocates |access-date=2025-01-18 |website=Mixonline |language=en-US}}

Putney works primarily in the metalcore, deathcore and hardcore punk genres.[https://revvamplification.com/pages/will-putney WILL PUTNEY in Revv Amplification][https://www.mixonline.com/recording/getting-heavy-with-will-putney Getting Heavy with Will Putney in Mixonline] He has produced, mixed, and mastered many records for dozens of notable acts and bands, including Every Time I Die, The Amity Affliction, The Acacia Strain, Body Count, Thy Art Is Murder, Northlane, Gojira, Silent Planet, After the Burial, Terror, Unearth, Knocked Loose, Norma Jean, Fit for an Autopsy, Vein.fm, Harm's Way, Stray from the Path, and Counterparts.{{Cite web |date=November 25, 2024 |title=ICE-T and BODY COUNT are forever 'Merciless' |url=https://www.revolvermag.com/feature/ice-t-body-count-merciless-cover-story/ |website=Revolver}}{{Cite web |date=August 14, 2019 |title=Watch Knocked Loose Record Their Sophomore Album With Producer Will… |url=https://www.kerrang.com/watch-knocked-loose-record-their-sophomore-album-with-producer-will-putney |access-date=November 27, 2024 |website=Kerrang! |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=MetalSucks |date=November 25, 2015 |title=Video: In the Studio with Producer Will Putney (The Acacia Strain, Suicide Silence, Exhumed) |url=https://www.metalsucks.net/2015/11/25/video-in-the-studio-with-producer-will-putney-the-acacia-strain-suicide-silence-exhumed/ |access-date=November 27, 2024 |website=MetalSucks |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Barrios |first=Joel |date=September 24, 2023 |title=NORTHLANE Recently Hit The Studio With WILL PUTNEY |url=https://metalinjection.net/upcoming-releases/northlane-recently-hit-the-studio-with-will-putney |access-date=November 27, 2024 |website=Metal Injection |language=en-US}}[https://www.stltones.com/products/will-putney-producer-kemper-bundle?_pos=3&_sid=796abe85e&_ss=r Will Putney Kemper Pack in STLTONES]

He frequently works alongside engineers Randy LeBoeuf, Steve Seid, and Matt Guglielmo on his projects.[https://www.instagram.com/willputney/p/CYTE6X6APbc/ 12 years. in Instagram][https://www.mattguglielmo.com/ ABOUT MATT in Matt Guglielmo] In 2021, he was nominated and won a Grammy in the category of Best Metal Performance as producer for the song "Bum-Rush" by Body Count.{{Cite web |title=Body Count win Best Metal Performance at the 2021 Grammy Awards |url=https://www.altpress.com/body-count-win-best-metal-performance-at-the-2021-grammy-awards/ |access-date=November 27, 2024 |website=Alternative Press |language=en}}[https://tapeop.com/interviews/154/will-putney/ Will Putney: Sounds of a Graphic Nature in Tape Op] In an interview with Metal Hammer, Body Count frontman Ice-T described Putney as "the Dr. Dre of metal."{{Cite web |author1=Stephen HillContributions from Merlin Alderslade |date=June 24, 2024 |title="Is there anyone left I'd like to collaborate with? Ozzy!" Body Count frontman and rap icon Ice T on horror movies, Slayer and who he considers the "Dr Dre of metal" |url=https://www.loudersound.com/features/ice-t-interview-2024 |access-date=November 27, 2024 |website=louder |language=en}}

Will Putney is a founding member and current guitarist for the deathcore band Fit for an Autopsy.{{Cite web |last=DiVita |first=Joe|date=October 24, 2024 |title=The Five Most Brutal Albums of All Time, Chosen by Will Putney (Fit For an Autopsy) |url=https://loudwire.com/most-brutal-metal-albums-will-putney-fit-for-an-autopsy/ |access-date=November 27, 2024 |website=Loudwire |language=en}} Although he is currently a member of the band, he has not played live with the band since around their first two albums, due to his busy schedule as a producer, although he still records guitar for the band in the studio and is the main songwriter for the band.{{Cite web |last=MetalSucks |date=2013-09-10 |title=Exclusive Interview: Guitarist/Producer Will Putney from Fit For An Autopsy and Machine Shop |url=https://www.metalsucks.net/2013/09/10/will-putney-interview/ |access-date=2025-01-18 |website=MetalSucks |language=en}}{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5SNVEnXDZc |title="You have to set up the impact" - FIT FOR AN AUTOPSY's Will Putney Talks Songwriting |date=2022-01-24 |last=Trey Xavier |access-date=2025-01-18 |via=YouTube}}

In 2017, Putney founded metalcore supergroup End, featuring current and former members of Counterparts, Shai Hulud, Misery Signals, Reign Supreme, Blacklisted, Trade Wind and Structures.{{Cite web |last=MetalSucks |date=2017-08-07 |title=Current and Former Members of Fit for an Autopsy, Shai Hulud, Counterparts, and More Team Up to Bring You to Your End |url=https://www.metalsucks.net/2017/08/07/current-and-former-members-of-fit-for-an-autopsy-shai-hulud-counterparts-and-more-team-up-to-bring-you-to-your-end/ |access-date=2025-01-18 |website=MetalSucks |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Kraus |first=Brian |date=2017-08-11 |title=END (Counterparts, Fit For An Autopsy, Reign Supreme) release crushing debut EP—listen |url=https://www.altpress.com/end_counterparts_fit_for_an_autopsy_reign_supreme_release_crushing_debut_ep/ |access-date=2025-01-18 |website=Alternative Press Magazine |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=wookubus |date=2017-08-04 |title=Counterparts, Fit For An Autopsy, Etc. Supergroup End Debut "Usurper" |url=https://www.theprp.com/2017/08/04/news/counterparts-fit-autopsy-etc-supergroup-end-debut-usurper/ |access-date=2025-01-18 |website=Theprp.com |language=en-US}}

In 2023, Putney joined hardcore punk supergroup Better Lovers, featuring former members of Every Time I Die and The Dillinger Escape Plan.{{Cite web |date=July 31, 2024 |title=Better Lovers announce debut album: "We love what we've created. We… |url=https://www.kerrang.com/better-lovers-announce-debut-album-we-love-what-weve-created-we-know-you-will-too |access-date=November 27, 2024 |website=Kerrang! |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Dunworth |first=Liberty |date=2023-04-18 |title=Dillinger Escape Plan, Every Time I Die members announce new supergroup, Better Lovers |url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/dillinger-escape-plan-every-time-i-die-members-announce-new-supergroup-better-lovers-3432005 |access-date=2025-01-18 |website=NME |language=en-GB}}{{Cite web |date=2023-04-17 |title=Members of Dillinger Escape Plan and Every Time I Die launch new band… |url=https://www.kerrang.com/members-of-dillinger-escape-plan-and-every-time-i-die-launch-new-band-better-lovers |access-date=2025-01-18 |website=Kerrang! |language=en}}

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Albums

• The Process of Human Extermination (2011)
• Hellbound (2013)
• Absolute Hope Absolute Hell (2015)
• The Great Collapse (2017)
• The Sea of Tragic Beasts (2019)
• Oh What the Future Holds (2022)
• The Nothing That Is (2024)

EPs

• Hell on Earth (2009)
• The Depression Sessions (split with The Acacia Strain and Thy Art Is Murder) (2016)
• The Aggression Sessions (split with Thy Art Is Murder and Malevolence) (2023)

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Albums

• Splinters from an Ever-Changing Face (2020)
• The Sin of Human Frailty (2023)

EPs

• From the Unforgiving Arms of God (2017)
• Gather & Mourn (split with Cult Leader) (2022)

Live albums

• Bastard Reflection (2023)

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Albums

• Highly Irresponsible (2024)

EPs

• God Made Me an Animal (2023)

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EPs

• Bayonet (2011){{Citation |title=Bayonet - Bayonet |date=2011-07-26 |url=https://www.discogs.com/release/3498642-Bayonet-Bayonet |access-date=2025-01-18 |language=en}}

EPs

• A Sign of Things to Come (1999)
• Progression of Aggression (2001)

Grammy Awards

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