Erik Rutan
| Erik Rutan | |
|---|---|
 Erik Rutan on stage at El Corazon in Seattle | |
| Background information | |
| Born | June 10, 1971 |
| Genres |
Death metal Thrash metal Progressive metal Symphonic metal |
| Occupations | Musician, singer, songwriter, guitarist, producer |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar, drums, keyboards |
| Associated acts | Hate Eternal, Morbid Angel, Ripping Corpse, Alas |
| Notable instruments | |
| B.C. Rich Guitars | |
Erik Rutan is an American heavy metal musician and producer from New Jersey.[1] He currently leads Hate Eternal on lead vocals and guitar and has also spent time with Morbid Angel (three different stints) and Ripping Corpse. When not performing, Rutan operates his own recording studio in Florida called Mana Recording Studios.
Recording
Rutan started his metal career with Ripping Corpse, recording one album titled Dreaming with the Dead released in 1991. Around 1995, Rutan left to join Morbid Angel, recording Domination (1995) before leaving in 1996 to found his own band, Hate Eternal, releasing their debut album Conquering the Throne in 1999. Rutan then returned to Morbid Angel to record Gateways to Annihilation, released in 2000. Rutan left Morbid Angel again to concentrate on Hate Eternal, releasing King of All Kings in 2002 and I, Monarch in 2005. He rejoined Morbid Angel once more for the band's 2006 summer tour of Europe, a move about which the other band members stated, "This will certainly be an exciting event with the 'Domination' lineup together for the first time in 10 years!" The tour included a stop at the Wacken Open Air festival.
Erik has also done a number of different side projects that highlight different aspects of his playing. For example, he formed the group Alas with former Therion vocalist Martina Astner, releasing the landmark progressive metal album Absolute Purity in 2001.
Rutan is featured as guest vocalist on the track "Bone Crown" off of Annotations of an Autopsy's second full length album, II: The Reign of Darkness.
Production
Rutan has produced the following albums:
- Belphegor: TBA
- Cannibal Corpse: Kill, Evisceration Plague, Torture
- Madball: Empire
- Agnostic Front: My Life My Way
- Six Feet Under: Commandment
- Annotations of an Autopsy: II: The Reign of Darkness
- Morbid Angel: Illud Divinum Insanus (drum production)
- Soilent Green: Inevitable Collapse in the Presence of Conviction, Confrontation
- Through the Eyes of the Dead: Malice
- Goatwhore: A Haunting Curse, Carving Out The Eyes Of God, Blood for the Master
- Vital Remains: Icons of Evil
- Malevolent Creation: Invidious Dominion (co-producer)
- Nile: Those Whom the Gods Detest (drum production)
- Krisiun: Conquerors of Armageddon
- Pessimist: Slaughtering The Faithful
- Internal Suffering: Internal Suffering, Awakening Of The Rebel
- Premonitions Of War: Left In Kowloon
- Aeon: Path of Fire (mixing)
- The Absence: From Your Grave
- Pathology: Legacy of the Ancients
- Avulsed: Gorespattered Suicide
- Into The Moat: The Design, The Campaign (album)
- Torture Killer: Swarm! (mixing)
- Pain Principle: Waiting For The Flies
- Covenance: Ravaging The Pristine
- Ophiolatry (band): Anti-Evangelistic Process
- Devourment: Conceived In Sewage
- The Mountain Goats: All Eternals Deck (four songs)[2]
- Masacre: Total Death[3]
Equipment
Guitars
Pickups
Amps
- ENGL Amps
- 2 Marshall JCM900 Dual Reverb heads with matching JCM900 4x12 bottoms.
Accessories
- Furman power conditioner.
- Korg rack tuner.
- ProCo Rat R2DU. This is the rack mount version.
- BBE Sonic Maximizer.
- 2 Rocktron Intelliflex units for delays / reverbs.
- ART Floorboard controller X-15 Ultrafoot.
References
- ↑ "Erik Rutan Of Hate Eternal: 'My Whole Life Became About This Record'".
- ↑ "John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats Twitter". Twitter. 2010-12-08. Retrieved 2010-12-08.
- ↑ "Details of Colombian Death metal band Masacre: Total Death".
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