Picture: Dirk Draeger
Hillsborough County, a municipality in Florida that comprises the town of Tampa, has awarded a historic marker to Morrisound Recording, the legendary studio the place your favourite demise metallic albums have been recorded. In line with the official submit made by Morrisound’s Fb account, the marker might be positioned on the “web site of our earlier studios on 56th St. in Temple Terrace, the location of among the most well-known excessive metallic recordings throughout the 1980’s and 90’s.”
To commemorate the commemoration, and since it’s costly to have a plaque put in, Morrisound is promoting T-shirts that function the studio’s authentic emblem on the entrance. The again encompasses a record of the 20 best-selling demise metallic albums recorded at Morrisound, in response to Soundscan information. It additionally consists of the month and 12 months that every album was recorded.
Decibel just lately printed The Scott Burns Periods: A Life in Dying Metallic 198-1997, by David Gehlke, which chronicles the long-lasting excessive metallic engineer’s time at Morrisound. The 400+ web page e book covers over 100 albums and 70 artists that Burns was concerned with whereas on the studio, making it your greatest place to be taught the historical past and see tons of unreleased photographs. You’ll be able to rating it now within the Decibel store.