Andrew Murdock, also known as Mudrock, is an American record producer specializing in the rock and metal genres. In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes. ... Rock is a form of popular music with a prominent vocal melody accompanied by guitar and drums. ... Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that emerged as a defined musical style in the 1970s, having its roots in hard rock bands which, between 1969 and 1974,[1] mixed blues and rock music to create a hybrid with a thick, heavy, guitar-and-drums-centered sound, characterised...

He is perhaps best known for producing Godsmack's Godsmack and Awake albums. More recently, he has produced the latest two albums for the successful American metal band Avenged Sevenfold, as well as albums for Slunt, The Riverboat Gamblers, Powerman 5000, Eighteen Visions, Unloco and Alice Cooper. Mudrock is based in Los Angeles, and has his own studio in partnership with Scott Gilman; The Hobby Shop. Godsmack was the first major label album by the band Godsmack. ... Godsmack is a heavy metal/post-grunge band formed in 1996 from Salem, Massachusetts. ... Being awake is a metabolic state which is marked by catabolic processes and which is characterized by consciousness, the opposite of sleep, an anabolic process. ... Avenged Sevenfold, sometimes abbreviated to A7X, is a heavy metal/hard rock, and formerly metalcore band formed in Huntington Beach, California. ... The Riverboat Gamblers are a punk rock band from Denton, Texas currently signed to Volcom Entertainment. ... Powerman 5000 frequently referred to as PM5K, are a Boston-based alternative metal band formed in 1989. ... Eighteen Visions is a Post-Hardcore band based in California. ... Unloco was founded in 2000 by frontman Joey Duenas. ... Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier, February 4, 1948), is a rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans four decades. ...

Producer

• Godsmack CP/E/M Republic
• Godsmack CP/E/M Republic
• Slunt "One Night Stand" CP/E/M Repossession Records
• Powerman 5000 "Blood Splat Rating System" CP/E/M Conscience
• Powerman 5000 "Mega! Kung Fu Radio" CP/E/M DreamWorks
• Avenged Sevenfold "Waking the Fallen" P/E/M Hopeless
• Avenged Sevenfold "City of Evil" P/E Warner Bros
• Eighteen Visions "Obsession" P/E Trustkill/Sony
• Alice Cooper "The Eyes of Alice Cooper" P/E/M Spitfire
• Chimaira "Pass Out of Existence" P/E/M Roadrunner
• Trik Turner "Friends and Family" P/E/M RCA
• Unloco "Becoming i" P/E/M Maverick
• Anyone "Anyone" AP/E/M Roadrunner