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Aidan

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About Me


Pathogen's Debut Video Clip - "Beyond Repent"

So yeah, i'm a record producer/engineer/live sound mixer from Perth, Western Australia. I started Sovereign Studios in 2001, which keeps me pretty busy these days. I'm also a freelance live sound mixer and do inhouse sound at Club Capitol and Amplifier Bar in Perth City.

My whole life revolves around music in some way. When i'm not crammed in the recording studio or mixing in clubs I'm normally busy playing/performing/writing/touring with my band Pathogen, a band I started when I was in high school. I also play in Malignant Monster, but I only joined their ranks last year. Working and playing in bands has allowed me to achieve goals and experience the things I had never thought possible. There is nothing quite like the rush you get when a huge crowd of people are going completely nuts to your music. It's better than any drug around, unfortunately also as addictive.
Pathogen has toured the country with Children of Bodom and The Black Dahlia Murder. We have also supported Opeth, Lamb Of God, Dark Tranquility, Arch Enemy, Fear Factory, Mayhem, Shadows Fall, As I Lay Dying, Entombed, Impaled Nazarene and Dismember. Malignant Monster has also played with Marduk, Cryptopsy, Atrocity and Leaves Eyes. The best part is the people I have gotten to meet along the way. I have made friends on the road that I hope will last a lifetime.

Being live sound mixer has allowed me to work with a lot of great bands. I have toured the country, doing sound exclusively for Hate Eternal, The Black Dahlia Murder, Psycroptic, I Killed The Prom Queen, Daysend, Stronger Than Hate, Vespers Descent, Dyscord and Kin. I have mixed live for Deicide, Cryptopsy, Dismember, Terror, Misery Signals, He Is Legend, Spitafield, Horrorpops, Infected Mushroom. I continue mix locally for Psycroptic, Parkway Drive, Daysend, 11th He Reaches London, and Anime Fire.I have also engineered and produced albums for The Berzerker and I Killed The Prom Queen as well as local acts Voyager, Plague, Vespers Descent, Alleged, From The Ruins, Miles Away, Break Even, The Restless Words, Mercurial, The Furor, Psychonaut and of course Pathogen and Malignant Monster. For a complete discography, check out the Sovereign Studios Myspace below.

Well that's about it really, drop me a line if your an interesting person, i get along better with extroverted people. I'm pretty down to earth, which seems to rub a few people up the wrong way, but you can't please everyone, so fuck it! Any good people are welcome to contact me. Drop me message before you add me though, it can be hard to separate the decent folk from the random idiots.

My Interests

Music, Music, Music, Sex, Music, Sex, Drugs, Nintendo

I'd like to meet:



Music:

In Flames, Opeth, Dark Tranquillity, At The Gates, Katatonia, Children of Bodom, Strapping Young Lad, Soilwork, Dissection, Emperor, Naglfar, Dimmu Borgir, Arch Enemy, Arcturus, Devin Townsend, Pantera, Carcass, Death, Slayer, Testament, Megadeth, Anthrax, Machine Head (early), Fear Factory, Tool, Black Dahlia Murder, Unearth, Killswitch Engage, Rise Against, Skid Row, Slaughter, GnFnR, Aerosmith, Faith No More, Pink Floyd, Alice In Chains, Tori Amos and Eminem

Movies:

Event Horizon, Clerks I & II, Dogma, Mallrats, Alien Trilogy, Point Break, Singles, The Wall, Airheads, Office Space, Saw, The Original Star Wars Trilogy

Television:

Ren & Stimpy, Simpsons, Family Guy. All the usual shit

Books:

I was elected to lead...not to read

Heroes:

Dimebag Darrel (rip), Slim Shady, Axl Rose, Alexi Laiho, Mikael Akerfeldt, Layne Staley (rip), Sebastian Bach, Devin Townsend, Chuck Schuldiner (rip) Stevie Ray Vaughn (rip), Alex Skolnick, Marty Friedman, Scotti Hill, Jimmy Page, Saul Hudson, Frederik Nordsrtom, Colin Richardson, Terry Date, Jay and Silent Bob

My Blog

Look at the shit I have to put up with!!!

Check this!  Out of the blue I get this message from this little faggot I went to high school with over a decade ago. I didn't give a shit about him then so I don't know why h...
Posted by Aidan on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 08:37:00 PST

R.I.P. Tyra girl

Hey Tyra-girl,  I miss u like fucking hell. U meant the absolute world to me and i will never fucking forget you.  You were the closest thing to a daughter i'll probably ever ...
Posted by Aidan on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 11:08:00 PST