Flemming Rasmussen (born 1 January 1958) is a Danish

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, and owner and founder of

Sweet Silence Studios Sweet Silence Studios was the leading Danish recording studio for rock music during most of its existence. It was originally built in Amager by Danish engineers Freddy Hansson, Flemming Rasmussen and Stig Kreutzfeldt beginning in February 1976. F ...

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, Denmark. Rasmussen is currently main engineer/producer at Sweet Silence North in Helsingør.

Biography

Throughout his career, Rasmussen has worked with many different music genres, but is best known for his work with heavy metal. Rasmussen began his career as an assistant at the Rosenberg Studios facility run by producer/engineer Freddy Hansson. In 1976, Hansson founded the

and brought Rasmussen with him. In 1980, Rasmussen became co-owner of the studio, and one year later became an engineer, recording the 1981 album ''

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'' by

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. This subsequently attracted Metallica, who brought in Rasmussen to work on their album '' Ride the Lightning'' (1984). The partnership continued through to the proceeding two studio albums, ''

Master of Puppets ''Master of Puppets'' is the third studio album by American heavy metal band Metallica, released on March 3, 1986, by Elektra Records. Recorded in Denmark at Sweet Silence Studios with producer Flemming Rasmussen, it was the band's last albu ...

'' (1986) and '' ...And Justice for All'' (1988). He also produced the

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album ''

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'',

Blind Guardian Blind Guardian is a German power metal band formed in 1984 in Krefeld, West Germany. They are often credited as one of the seminal and most influential bands in the power metal and speed metal subgenres.Imaginations from the Other Side ''Imaginations from the Other Side'' is the fifth studio album by the German power metal band Blind Guardian, released in 1995. The atmosphere of this album is darker in comparison to their earlier works, such as ''Battalions of Fear'', which had ...

'', '' The Forgotten Tales'' and ''

Nightfall in Middle-Earth ''Nightfall in Middle-Earth'' is the sixth studio album by German power metal band Blind Guardian. It was released on 28 April 1998 through Virgin Records. It is a concept album based upon J. R. R. Tolkien's ''The Silmarillion'', a book of tales ...

'',

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's '' By Inheritance'' and Ensiferum's ''

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'', amongst others. In 1999 he took over Sweet Silence, which was demolished in 2009 to make way for an apartment complex and a car park. Rasmussen then moved to Winding Road Studios in Copenhagen. He then left in January 2014 to reopen Sweet Silence in Helsingør north of Copenhagen, under the name of Sweet Silence North. Rasmussen won a Grammy for producing Metallica's " One" in 1989. In 1994, the Danish Grammys recognized him as producer of the year for his work on Sort Sol's '' Glamourpuss''. Flemming also worked with

Evile Evile are an English thrash metal band from Huddersfield, formed in 2004. They have experienced numerous line-up changes over the years, with drummer Ben Carter being the only member of the original line-up to have stayed consistently. The curr ...

on their debut ''

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'' in 2007. and Monte Pittman "The Power of Three" in 2014.

References

External links

Sweet Silence Studios
1958 births Danish record producers Living people Danish audio engineers {{Denmark-bio-stub