Randy Slaugh
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Background information | |
Birth name | Randall James Slaugh |
Born | October 3, 1987 |
Origin | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US |
Occupation(s) | Music producer, composer, arranger |
Instruments | Piano, synthesizer, guitar, bass, drums, percussion, saxophone, violin |
Years active | 2010–present |
Labels | |
Website | www |
Randy Slaugh (born October 3, 1987) is an American music producer and composer[1] based in Salt Lake City, Utah.[2][3][4] He has worked with artists such as Jelly Roll,[5] Sleeping With Sirens,[6] Yelawolf, Skillet,[7] Architects,[8][9] The Amity Affliction,[10][11] Periphery,[12][13][14] David Archuleta,[15] TesseracT,[16] Devin Townsend,[17][18] and Four Year Strong,[19][20] and is a member of Kscope's cross-continental music group White Moth Black Butterfly.[21][22][23] In recent years, he has worked on music for television series on Netflix, CBS, NBC, ABC, Hulu, Discovery, ESPN, VH1, and MTV, for video games such as Free Fire, and for ad campaigns for Bombas, NBA, Levi's, and KMC Wheels.[24] Slaugh is part of the Producers & Engineers Wing Committee for the The Recording Academy,[25] and a member of the Sundance Institute, Music Producers Guild, Society of Composers & Lyricists[26] and the Heavy Music Awards.[27][28]
Life and career
Early years
Randy Slaugh grew up in the suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania playing music in alternative rock and post-hardcore bands. He began teaching himself audio production and later went on to study communication and advertising in college. While at college, Slaugh connected with audio engineer Ken Dudley[29] and started learning more professional levels of production.[30][31]
2010–present
In 2010, Slaugh connected with the band Periphery at some of their early shows.[32] After hearing a demo of their song "Have a Blast," he reached out to lead guitarist and producer Misha Mansoor, and offered to record real violin and cello to replace the midi strings in the demo.[33][34] In 2013, Slaugh worked with Misery Signals, who were recording their album Absent Light in Idaho and were looking for more extensive string arrangements to feature on the album.[35][36] Later that year, he went on to work with I Killed the Prom Queen,[37] Devin Townsend,[38] Architects,[39] We Shot the Moon, and Intervals.[40] In 2015, Slaugh joined progressive pop group White Moth Black Butterfly after working with Daniel Tompkins and Keshav Dhar on Skyharbor's Guiding Lights album the previous year.[41][42] He co-wrote and co-produced the group's album Atone, as well as their Rising Sun (EP), which were released via Kscope.[43]
Devin Townsend's Z², which Slaugh did orchestration and engineering on,[44][45] won Metal/Hard Music Album of the Year[46] at the 2015 Juno Awards.[47][48] Skyharbor's Guiding Lights was named Best Album: Critic's Choice in Rolling Stone's 2015 Metal Awards,[49] and Architects' Lost Forever // Lost Together won Best Album in the Relentless Kerrang Awards.[50] The song "The Price is Wrong" from Periphery's Periphery III: Select Difficulty was nominated for Best Metal Performance[51] at the 2017 Grammy Awards.[52][53] and Periphery's 2019 release Hail Stan charted #1 on Billboard's Independent Album, Current Rock Album and Current Hard Music Album charts.[54]
In 2018, Slaugh broke into the TV and film world working on shows such as MTV's Catfish: The TV Show, VH1's Black Ink Crew, TLC's 90 Day Fiancé, Discovery's Diesel Brothers and A&E's Wahlburgers.[55] He has since composed music for television series across several networks, and for movies including Bollywood film The Body[56][57] and independent crime thriller Locker 42.[58]
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Selected discography
Year | Artist | Title | Label | Role |
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2012 | Periphery | Periphery II: This Time It's Personal | Sumerian | Session producer, string arrangements |
2013 | Misery Signals | Absent Light | Basick (Dist.) | Session producer, string arrangements |
2014 | I Killed the Prom Queen | Beloved | Epitaph | Session producer, string arrangements, engineering |
Voyager | V | Independent | Session producer, string arrangements, engineering | |
Confession | Life and Death | Mediaskare | Session producer, string & choir arrangements, engineering | |
Devin Townsend & Ché Aimee Dorval | Casualties of Cool | HevyDevy | Session producer, string arrangements, engineering | |
Architects | Lost Forever // Lost Together | Epitaph | Session producer, string arrangements, engineering | |
Skyharbor | Guiding Lights | Basick | Session producer, string arrangements, engineering | |
Intervals | A Voice Within | Basick (Dist.) | Session producer, string arrangements | |
Devin Townsend Project | Z² | HevyDevy | Session producer, orchestration, engineering | |
2015 | Skyharbor | Out of Time | Independent | Session producer, string arrangements, engineering |
Devin Townsend Project | Ziltoid Live at the Royal Albert Hall | HevyDevy | Orchestration (backing tracks) | |
2016 | Architects | All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us | Epitaph | Session producer, string & brass arrangements, engineering |
Periphery | Periphery III: Select Difficulty | Sumerian | Session producer, string, brass & choir arrangements, engineering | |
2017 | Thy Art Is Murder | Dear Desolation | Nuclear Blast | Programming, string arrangements, piano |
White Moth Black Butterfly | Atone | Kscope | Producer, songwriter, mixing, engineering | |
2018 | TesseracT | Sonder | Kscope | Session producer, choir arrangements, conducting |
Madilyn Paige | Anymore | Shadow Mountain | Additional production & programming, song arranging | |
Skyharbor | Sunshine Dust | eOne | Session producer, string arrangements, engineering | |
White Moth Black Butterfly | Rising Sun (EP) | Kscope | Producer, songwriter, mixing, engineering | |
Silent Planet | When The End Began | Solid State, UNFD | Additional production & programming, string arrangements, engineering | |
Unearth | Extinction(s) | Century Media | Orchestration, piano, programming | |
2019 | Periphery | Periphery IV: Hail Stan | 3DOT, eOne | Session producer, string, brass & choir arrangements, engineering, conducting |
Daniel Tompkins | Castles | Kscope | Producer, remixing[59] | |
Anup Sastry | Illuminate | Independent | Additional production & programming, orchestration, choir arrangements[60] | |
2020 | Jason Kui | Naka | Prosthetic | Additional production & programming |
Four Year Strong | Brain Pain | Pure Noise | Session producer, string arrangements, engineering[61] | |
Outline in Color | Papercuts | Independent | Additional production & programming | |
Jon Gomm | The Faintest Idea | Kscope | Co-writer (1 song) [62] | |
Confession | Twenty Twenty | Independent | Orchestration & programming [63] | |
Outline in Color / Dropout Kings | BottleRat | BRKN | Additional production & programming | |
Of Virtue | What Defines You (Re-release) | SharpTone | Producer (1 song) | |
2021 | Humanity's Last Breath | Välde | Unique Leader | Orchestration, programming & additional production |
White Moth Black Butterfly | The Cost of Dreaming | Kscope | Producer, songwriter, programming, engineering | |
Caskets | Lost Souls | SharpTone | Additional production & programming | |
The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die | Illusory Walls | Epitaph | Session producer, string arrangements, engineering, programming | |
One Promise | Ordinary People | Universal | Additional production & programming | |
Anson Kong | Three Words | Music Nation | Additional production & programming, acoustic guitar, engineering | |
The Amity Affliction | Somewhere Beyond The Blue | Warner, Pure Noise | Additional production & programming | |
2022 | Bury Tomorrow | Death (Ever Colder) | Music For Nations, Sony | Additional production & programming |
Bury Tomorrow | Life (Paradise Denied) | Music For Nations, Sony | Additional production & programming | |
Sleeping With Sirens | Complete Collapse | Sumerian | Additional production & programming | |
Outline in Color | Coast is Clear | Thriller | Additional production & programming | |
Hei'An | Imago | Independent | Additional production & programming | |
2023 | ||||
Skillet | Dominion: Day Of Destiny (Deluxe Edition) | Atlantic | Additional production & programming | |
Nothing More | You Don't Know What Love Means (Piano Version) | Better Noise | Additional production & programming | |
The Amity Affliction | Not Without My Ghosts | Warner, Pure Noise | Additional production & programming[64] | |
TesseracT | War of Being | Kscope | Additional production & programming[65][66][67] | |
Jelly Roll / Kendall Tucker | Dragging Me Down | Independent | Additional production & programming[68][69] |
Television
Year | Title | Network | Role |
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2015 | World Series of Fighting 24: Fitch vs. Okami | NBC Sports | Composer: additional music (1 episode) |
2016 | Teen Mom | MTV | Composer: additional music (5 episodes) |
2018 | Catfish: The TV Show | MTV | Composer: additional music (4 episodes) |
Diesel Brothers | Discovery | Composer: additional music (5 episodes) | |
Wahlburgers | A&E | Composer: additional music (7 episodes) | |
Black Ink Crew: Chicago | VH1 | Composer: additional music (10 episodes) | |
Basketball Wives | VH1 | Composer: additional music (4 episodes) | |
90 Day Fiancé | TLC | Composer: additional music (13 episodes) | |
2019 | Bridezillas | WE TV | Composer: additional music (1 episode) |
Cartel Crew | VH1 | Composer: additional music (6 episodes) | |
90 Day Fiancé | TLC | Composer: additional music (4 episodes) | |
Chopped | Food Network | Composer: additional music (1 episode) | |
Very Cavallari | E! | Composer (3 episodes) | |
The Dude Perfect Show | Nickelodeon | Composer: additional music (2 episodes) | |
The Real Housewives of Atlanta | Bravo | Composer: additional music (3 episodes) | |
Project Runway | Bravo | Composer: additional music (2 episodes) | |
The Challenge | MTV | Composer: additional music (1 episode) | |
Magic for Humans | Netflix | Composer: additional music (1 episode) | |
2020 | Undercover Boss | CBS | Composer (3 episodes) |
Royal Rumble | WWE | Composer: additional music (1 episode) | |
Shark Week | Discovery | Composer: additional music (1 episode) | |
90 Day Fiancé | TLC | Composer: additional music (1 episode) | |
Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles | Bravo | Composer: additional music (1 episode) | |
2021 | Mayans M.C. | FX | Composer: additional music (3 episodes) |
NCIS: Los Angeles | CBS | Composer: additional music (1 episode) | |
Catfish: The TV Show | MTV | Composer (4 episodes) | |
Jackass Shark Week | Discovery | Composer: additional music | |
The Real Housewives of Atlanta | Bravo | Composer (3 episodes) | |
2022 | The Rookie | ABC | Composer: additional music (1 episode) |
Undercover Boss | CBS | Composer (5 episodes) | |
Property Brothers | HGTV | Composer: additional music (1 episode) | |
2023 | Jubilee | Amazon Prime | Composer: additional music (10 episode) |
LA Fire and Rescue | NBC | Composer |
Film
Year | Title | Production Company | Role |
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2019 | The Body | Viacom 18 | Session producer, string arrangements, engineering |
Pre-production | Locker 42 | Vigilant Entertainment | Composer |
Video games
Year | Title | Software Company | Role |
---|---|---|---|
2020 | Free Fire | Garena | Composer: additional music [70] |
2020 | Whiffle Blasters | Suckerbird / Epic | Composer: additional music [71] |
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External links
- Randy Slaugh on AllMusic
- Randy Slaugh at IMDb