Joe Barresi
- Joe Barresi has produced, engineered and mixed some of the most important hard rock, metal and punk bands of the last 15 years. Although widely respected for his abilities as an engineer, Joe is first and foremost a musician and this greatly influences the way he makes records. Over the years, Joe has consistently worked with quality artists and made some of their more seminal records. His discography reflects his impeccable ear for great rock music.
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PRODUCER/ENGINEER/MIXER Credits:
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Jerry Cantrell 'I Want Blood'
Joe co-produced (with Jerry), recorded and mixed this album which includes performances from Duff McKagan (Guns N' Roses), Robert Trujillo (Metallica), Mike Bordin (Faith No More) and Lola Colette. The first single, "Vilified," is
- #16 Mainstream Rock Airplay
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Avenged Sevenfold
Virtual Reality Concert
Joe mixed the sound for this ground-breaking virtual reality concert.
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Apocalyptica 'Plays Metallica Vol.2'
Joe produced, recorded and mixed this album, including the first single "The Four Horsemen."
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Guns N' Roses "Perhaps"
Joe mixed the band's newest single.
- #1 Hard Rock Digital Song Sales
- #3 Rock Digital Song Sales
- #8 Hot Hard Rock Song
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Avenged Sevenfold
'Life Is but a Dream...'
Joe produced and recorded this album, which Metal Hammer deemed the 2nd Best Album Of 2023.
- #2 US Hard Rock Album
- #2 Alternative Album
- #2 Vinyl Album
- #3 UK Rock/Metal Album
- #3 Top Rock Album
- #5 Album Sales
- #4 Hard Rock Song ("Nobody")
- #13 Billboard Top 200 debut
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Slipknot 'The End, So Far'
Joe co-produced, recorded and mixed this album which ranks #1 on the US Hard Rock, Top Rock, Rock & Alternative, Tastemaker, Vinyl, and Album Sales charts. The album is considered one of "The Best Albums of 2022" by Revolver, Metal Hammer and Loudwire.
- #2 debut on Billboard Top 200
- #1 debut in UK, AUS, DEU, MEX, CHE
- Grammy Nominee "Best Metal Performance" (Hive Mind)
- #1 US Hard Rock Album
- #1 UK Rock & Metal Album
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Tool "Opiate 2"
Joe did additional recording and mixed this alternate take of “Opiate” from Tools 1992 EP of the same name.
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The Bronx 'VI'
Joe produced, recorded and mixed this album.
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Chevelle 'Niratias'
This is the 4th album that Joe has (co)produced, recorded and mixed with the band, and the 3rd to top the US Rock Album chart.
- #9 debut on Billboard Top 200
- #1 at Active Rock Radio
- #1 Current Rock Album
- #1 Overall Album
- #1 Internet Album
- #1 Digital Album
- #1 Alternative Album
- #1 Hard Rock Album
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Tool 'Fear Inoculum'
Joe recorded and mixed this album. It was Billboard's #1 Hard Rock, Rock, Digital, Internet and Tastemaker Album, also topping the Album, Rock and Hard Rock Sales charts.
- "Top Rock Album" - BMA's 2020
- "Dynamic Range Award" winner
- #1 Album in US, CA
- #4 Album in UK
- #9 Best Metal Album of the Decade (Loudwire)
- Gold in US
- "Best Album" nominee - 2020 Heavy Music Awards
- Grammy Winner "Best Metal Performance"
("7empest")
- #1 iTunes Song
("Fear Inoculum")
- #3 Billboard Hot Rock Song ("Fear Inoculum")
- TEC Creative Achievement Award Winner – “Record Production/Single” (Fear Inoculum)
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Slipknot
'We Are Not Your Kind'
Joe mixed this album, including the singles "Unsainted" (certified Gold) and "Solway Firth."
- certified Gold in UK, CA
- #25 Best Metal Album of the Decade (Loudwire)
- #1 Billboard Top 200 debut
- #1 UK Album
- #1 CAN Album
- #1 AUS Album
- #1 Top Rock Album
- #1 Hard Rock Album
- #1 iTunes Album
- #1 iTunes Rock Album
- "Top Rock Album" - BMA nominee
- "Best Album" nominee - 2020 Heavy Music Awards
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Volbeat
'Rewind, Replay, Rebound'
This album was mixed by Joe. It debuted in the Top 10 in over a dozen countries including UK and Canada, and is certified Gold in Denmark, Germany, Sweden, and Platinum in Austria.
- #1 Mainstream Rock Single
"Die To Live"
- #1 Mainstream Rock Single
"Last Day Under The Sun"
- #1 GER Album
- #2 Tastemaker Album
- #5 Top Current Album
- #6 US Rock Album
- #6 Hard Rock Album
- #7 UK Album
- #8 CAN Album
- #9 Digital Album
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Alice In Chains
'Rainier Fog'
This album was mixed by Joe.
- #1 Alternative Album
- #1 Top Rock Album
- #1 Hard Rock Album
- #1 Tastemaker Album
- #8 Album in GER
- #9 Album in UK
- #11 Album in CAN
- #12 Billboard Top 200
- Avenged Sevenfold 'The Stage'
Joe co-produced (with the band) and engineered this album.
- #1 Album on the Top Rock, Hard Rock, Alternative and Tastemaker charts
- #1 debut in CAN
- #4 debut in US, AUS
- #4 Digital Album
- Grammy nominee
"Best Rock Song"
- "Metal Album of the Year" - Loudwire Awards
- Chevelle
'The North Corridor'
This is the third album that Joe has (co)produced and mixed with the band.
- #1 Top Rock Album
- #1 Hard Rock Album
- #1 Alternative Album
- #8 Billboard Top 200 debut
- #2 Digital Album
- #7 Tastemaker Album
- #1 Active Rock Single "Joyride"
- Volbeat
'Seal The Deal & Let's Boogie'
Joe mixed this album, which debuted at #1 in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Sweden and Switzerland. It's the band's highest-charting album in the US.
- #2 debut in CAN
- #4 debut on Billboard Top 200
- #1 Mainstream Rock single
"The Devil's Bleeding Crown"
- Platinum in US ("The Devil's Bleeding Crown")
- Slipknot
'.5: The Gray Chapter'
Joe mixed this album, which Artistdirect gave a perfect rating, also stating "it's their best work." It includes the gold-selling single "The Devil In I."
- Gold in US
- "Best Rock Album"
Grammy Nominee
- "Best Metal Performance"
Grammy Nominee
- #1 Billboard 200
- #1 ARIA Album
- #2 UK Album
- Black
Stone Cherry
'Magic Mountain'
Joe produced, recorded and mixed this album, which Classic Rock
magazine recently nominated for "Album of the Year".
- #1 Rock Album in UK
- #1 Hard Rock Album in US
- #6 Rock Album in US
- #5 UK Top Album debut
- #13 UK Official Record Store chart (for physical sales
in its first week)
- #22 Billboard Top 200 debut
- Chevelle
'La Gargola'
Joe returned to produce, record and mix this album (following
their last release 'Hats Off to the Bull'). It debuted at #3
in the US, becoming the band's highest charting album.
- #3 Billboard Top 200 debut
- #1 Top Rock Album
- #1 Alternative Album
- #1 Hard Rock Album
- #4 Digital Album
- #9 debut in Canada
- Queens of the Stone Age
'...Like Clockwork'
Joe mixed the track "Fairweather
Friends" for this Grammy nominated album.
- #1 Billboard Top 200
- #2 UK Album
- #1 Top Hard Rock Album
- #1 Top Digital Album
- #1 Top Rock Album
- #1 Top Independent Album
- #1 Top Alternative Album
- Grammy Nominee
"Best Engineered Album"
"Best Rock Album"
- Tool
'10,000 Days'
Joe recorded and mixed this Grammy Award-winning album. It reached
#1 in Australia, Canada, US, Norway, and reached #4 in the UK
- the band's highest ever chart position in that country.
- One of the Top 50 Albums of 2006 - Rolling Stone
- #1 Billboard Top 200 debut
in US and Europe
- 2x Platinum in US and Canada
Including "Vicarious":
- #2 Billboard Modern Rock chart
- #2 Billboard Mainstream Rock chart
Also including "The Pot":
- #2 Billboard Mainstream Rock chart
- Soundgarden
'King Animal'
Joe provided additional production on this album, which he also
mixed. Total Guitar ranked it the "#3 Album of the Year"
(2012).
- #5 Billboard Top 200 debut
- #1 Hard Rock Album
- #1 Tastemaker Album
- #1 iTunes Rock Album (NZ)
- #2 iTunes Rock Album (FI, SE)
- Bad
Religion 'New Maps of Hell'
Bad Religion is one of the best-selling punk rock acts of all
time. Their fourteenth full-length album was produced, recorded
and mixed by Joe. It reached #35 on Billboard's Top 200, the
band's highest-ever chart position.
- #3 Independent Album
- #6 Tastemaker Album
- #7 Hard Rock Album
- #9 debut in the UK
- #13 Alternative Album
- #35 Billboard Top 200 debut
- Hardcore Superstar 'HCSS'
Joe mixed this album, which debuted at #1 in Sweden.
- Every
Time I Die 'Ex Lives'
This album (produced, recorded and mixed by Joe) debuted at
#20 on Billboard's Top 200, making it the band's highest charting
album to date.
- #20 Billboard Top 200 debut
- #1 Hard Rock Album
- #4 Independent Album
- #7 Rock Album
- #7 Tastemaker Album
- #10 iTunes Best Seller
- Parkway
Drive 'Deep Blue'
Produced, recorded and mixed by Joe, this album is Parkway Drive's
most critically acclaimed release. It won the ARIA Award for
"Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Album" (2010) and has been
certified gold in AUS.
- #1 Australia Artist Chart
- #2 ARIA Top 50 debut
- #2 Hard Rock Album
- #4 Independent Album
- #21 Best Metal Album of the Decade (Loudwire)
- Buckcherry
'Confessions'
Mixed by Joe, this album reached the Top 10 on Billboard's Hard
Rock, Independent, Modern Rock, Alternative and Top Rock Albums
Charts.
- #20 Billboard Top 200 debut
- #1 Hard Rock Album
- #1 iTunes Rock Album
- Coheed
& Cambria
'Year of the Black Rainbow'
The band's 5th album was co-produced, engineered and co-mixed
by Joe.
- #5 Billboard Top 200 debut
- #1 Hard Rock Album
- #2 Rock Album
- #2 Alternative Album
- #2 Tastemaker Album
- #3 Digital Album
- #14 Canadian Album
- Chevelle
'Hats Off To The Bull'
Joe produced, recorded and mixed this album, including the single
"Face To The Floor," which is certified Gold in the US.
- #1 Billboard Active Rock
Song of the Year (2012)
- #1 Billboard Active Rock Band of 2012
- #1 Billboard Rock Song
- #3 Hard Rock Album
- #5 Rock / Alternative Album
- #7 Billboard Alternative Song
- #20 Billboard Top 200 debut
- Bad
Religion ' True North'
This album was produced, recorded and mixed (with Brett Gurewitz)
by Joe. It became the band's first album to crack Billboard's
Top 20 and their highest ever peak on that chart.
- #19 Billboard Top 200 debut
- #1 Tastemaker Album
- #4 Alternative Album
- #5 Independent Album
- #7 Rock Album
- Queens
of the Stone Age
'Queens of the Stone Age'
Joe produced, recorded and mixed the debut album for QOTSA before
they had a record deal. The album was released by indie label
Loose Groove, and garnered praise from press (Rolling Stone
named QOTSA "One of the ten most important hard & heavy
bands of the year") and radio - all of which landed the
band a deal with Interscope Records.
- Nine
Inch Nails 'Hesitation Marks'
Joe recorded drums on 'Hesitation Marks.' The album made the
Best Albums of 2013 lists with Rolling Stone, Stereogum
and Spin. This is the bands highest int'l charting album in
CAN and UK, debuting at #1 (CAN) and #2 (UK).
- Grammy Nominee for "Best Alternative Music Album"
(2014)
- #3 Billboard Top 200 debut
- Clutch
'From Beale Street to Oblivion'
Joe produced, recorded and mixed this full-length album. AllMusic
calls it "their strongest and most focused recording yet."
- Isis
'Wavering Radient'
The band's fifth album (produced, recorded and mixed by Joe),
remains their most successful release ever.
- #10 Top Independent Album
(bands highest placing to date)
- #17 BBC Radio 1 Top 40 Rock Album
(bands first chart position outside the US)
- Skunk
Anansie 'Stoosh'
Joe mixed this album in the mid 90's. By 2005, Stoosh was ranked
#367 in Rock Hard magazine's book of 'The 500 Greatest
Rock & Metal Albums of All Time.'
- over 2 million copies sold in Europe
- Platinum in UK, IT
- Gold in DE, SE, CH
- Middle
Class Rut
Joe mixed "New Low," the first single from the band's first
full length LP 'No Name No Color.'
- #6 Billboard Alternative Song
- #12 Billboard Rock Song
- Stam1na
'Nocebo'
Joe produced and recorded this album in Finland, and then mixed
it at his studio in California. It was certified Gold (in Finland)
less than 2 weeks after release. The album stayed in Finland's
top 50 for twelve weeks.
- Teosto Award nominee (2013)
- #1 album in Finland
- Queens
of the Stone Age
'Lullabies to Paralyze'
Joe co-produced, engineered and mixed this album, deemed "One
of the Top 50 Albums of 2005" by Rolling Stone. Billboard
ranked it "7th Best Album," and Filter Magazine considered
it their "10th Best Album of the Year" (2005).
- #1 Rock Album in UK
- #1 Rock Single in UK ("Little Sister")
- #5 Billboard Top 200 debut
- Gold in AUS, CAN, UK
- Xavier
Rudd
'Dark Shades of Blue'
Joe mixed Xavier's fifth studio album, which debuted at #5 on
the Australian Albums Chart - Making it his second highest charting
album to date.
- Apocalyptica
'7th Symphony'
Joe produced, engineered and mixed this album for the Finnish
metal band.
- #4 Top Hard Rock Album
- #6 Top Independent Album
- #2 Album in Finland
- Soundgarden
"Live To Rise"
Joe mixed this track, which appears on the motion picture soundtrack
for Marvel'sAvengers Assemble.
- #1 Active Rock Song
- #1 Heritage Rock Song
- #2 Hard Rock Album
- #3 Alternative Album
- #4 Rock Album
- #11 Billboard Top 200 debut
- Queens
of the Stone Age
'Era Vulgaris'
Joe mixed "Make It Wit Chu" from the band's 5th album.
- #1 song on CAN Rock National Radio
- #5 debut on CAN album chart
- #9 on United World Chart
- #14 on Billboard's Top 200