Stage One Studio
# Stage One Studio

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Das Stage One Studio ist ein deutsches Tonstudio im Stadtteil Bühne der nordrhein-westfälischen Kleinstadt Borgentreich, rund 35 km nordwestlich von Kassel. Spezialisiert ist das Studio auf alle Produktionsschritte bei einer Musikproduktion, es werden also sowohl die Aufnahmen als auch die Abmischung und das Mastering durchgeführt. Betrieben wird es von Andy Classen. Die Hauptkundschaft besteht aus Metal-Bands.

## Geschichte

Das Stage One Studio wurde 1990 vom damaligen Holy-Moses-Gitarristen Andy Classen als Exklusivstudio des kleinen Labels West Virginia Records gegründet. Bis 1994 hatte Classen im Stage One Studio alle Bands des Labels produziert, darunter neben Holy Moses auch Warpath und Incubator. Im Zuge seines Ausstieges bei Holy Moses konzentrierte sich Classen ab diesem Zeitpunkt vollständig auf seine Arbeit als Produzent und Toningenieur, übernahm das Studio komplett und begann für Labels wie Nuclear Blast, Century Media Records, Gun Records, Metal Blade Records, AFM Records, Massacre Records, Season of Mist, Armageddon Music und weitere zu arbeiten.

## Beschreibung

Das Stage One Studio besteht aus einem rund 16 m² großen Regieraum, der durch ein Sichtfenster mit dem ca. 22,5 m² großen Aufnahmeraum verbunden ist. Untergebracht ist das Studio in Classens Wohnhaus. Direkt an das Studio angeschlossen ist zudem eine Wohnung, welche durch Bands bei den Aufnahmen gegen eine Kaution kostenlos benutzt werden kann, und Platz für bis zu fünf Personen bietet.

## Bekannte Kunden und Werke

Das Stage One Studio mit Andy Classen als Produzent entwickelte sich in den 1990er Jahren zu einem der wichtigsten Studios für Hardcore Punk, Hardcore, Thrash Metal und Death Metal in Europa. Insbesondere seit etwa 2000 stieg die Bedeutung des Studios enorm, so dass es auch zunehmend von außereuropäischen Bands wie Criminal (Chile), Krisiun (Brasilien) oder Mantic Ritual und Solace of Requiem (beide USA) gebucht wurde. Die folgende Tabelle gibt nahezu vollständig alle Alben wieder, an deren Produktion das Stage One Studio beteiligt war.
| VÖ-Jahr | Band | Album | Aufnahmen | Abmischung | Mastering |
| 1990 | Howlin’ Mad | Insanity | • | • | |
| 1991 | Holy Moses | Terminal Terror | • | • | |
| 1991 | Incubator | Symphonies of Spiritual Cannibalism | • | • | |
| 1991 | Jumpin’ Jesus | The Art of Crucifying | • | • | |
| 1992 | Deathrow | Life Beyond | • | • | |
| 1992 | Holy Moses | Reborn Dogs | • | • | |
| 1992 | Holy Moses | Too Drunk to Fuck | • | • | |
| 1992 | Incubator | McGillroy the Housefly | • | • | |
| 1992 | Obscenity | Suffocated Truth | • | • | |
| 1992 | Polluted Inheritance | Ecocide | • | • | |
| 1993 | Incubator | Hirnnektar | • | • | |
| 1993 | Warpath | Massive | • | • | |
| 1993 | Warpath | When War Begins… Truth Disappears | • | • | |
| 1994 | Asphyx | Asphyx | • | • | • |
| 1994 | Brightside | Face the Truth | • | • | |
| 1994 | Holy Moses | No Matter What’s the Cause | • | • | |
| 1994 | Ryker’s | Brother Against Brother | • | • | |
| 1994 | Warpath | Against Everyone | • | • | |
| 1995 | Approach to Concrete | …Failures? | • | • | |
| 1995 | Belphegor | The Last Supper | • | • | • |
| 1995 | Brightside | Punchline | • | • | |
| 1995 | Lunar | Lunar | | • | • |
| 1995 | Ryker’s | First Blood | • | • | |
| 1995 | Sanctimonium | Pathetique: The Beryllian Throne | • | • | |
| 1995 | Sleeping Gods | Above and Beyond | • | • | |
| 1996 | Brightside | No Policy | • | • | |
| 1996 | Crack Up | Blood is Life | • | • | |
| 1996 | Croon | Just | • | • | • |
| 1996 | Rotting Christ | Triarchy of the Lost Lovers | • | • | • |
| 1996 | Ryker’s | Ground Zero | • | • | |
| 1996 | Ryker’s | Low Life | • | • | |
| 1996 | Shit for Brains | Vortex cordis | • | • | |
| 1997 | Burden of Grief | Haunting Requiems | • | • | |
| 1997 | Burden of Grief | Above Twilight Wings | • | • | • |
| 1997 | Crack Up | From the Ground | • | • | |
| 1997 | disbelief | Disbelief | • | • | • |
| 1997 | Mis.Divine | Angsttriaden | • | • | • |
| 1997 | Nagelfar | Hünengrab im Herbst | • | • | • |
| 1997 | Richthofen | Seelenwalzer | • | • | • |
| 1997 | Ryker’s | A Lesson In Loyality | • | • | |
| 1997 | Ryker’s | Cold Lost Sick | • | • | |
| 1997 | Surface | To Millenium… and Beyond | • | • | • |
| 1998 | Brightside | Bulletproof | • | • | • |
| 1998 | Crack Up | Heads Will Roll | • | • | • |
| 1998 | disbelief | Infected | • | • | • |
| 1998 | Drecksau | Brecher | • | • | |
| 1998 | Eisregen | Krebskolonie | • | • | |
| 1998 | Niederschlag | Scrotum | • | • | |
| 1998 | Waylander | Reawakening Pride Once Lost | • | • | • |
| 1999 | Drecksau | Schmerz | • | • | |
| 1999 | Kadath | Cruel! | • | • | • |
| 1999 | Nagelfar | Srontgorrth | • | • | • |
| 1999 | Path of Debris | The Eyes of the Basilisk | • | • | • |
| 1999 | Ryker’s | Life is a Gamble | • | • | |
| 1999 | Suidakra | Lays from Afar | • | • | • |
| 1999 | Temple of the Absurd | Mother, Creator, God | • | | |
| 1999 | Zonata | Tunes of Steel | • | • | • |
| 2000 | Anfall | Feuer, Eis & Energie | • | • | • |
| 2000 | Blue Valentine | Seelen Taetowierung | • | • | • |
| 2000 | Crack Up | Dead End Run | • | • | |
| 2000 | Die Apokalyptischen Reiter | All You Need Is Love | • | • | • |
| 2000 | Dogma IVS | Dunkelheit und Licht | • | • | • |
| 2000 | Final Breath | Flash Burnt Crucifixes | • | • | • |
| 2000 | Krisiun | Conquerors of Armageddon | • | • | • |
| 2000 | Mindfield | Deviant | • | • | • |
| 2000 | Ryker’s | From the Cradle to the Grave | • | • | |
| 2000 | Suidakra | The Arcanum | • | • | • |
| 2001 | Brightside | True Force | • | • | • |
| 2001 | Burden of Grief | On Darker Trails | • | • | • |
| 2001 | Callenish Circle | My Passion // Your Pain | • | • | • |
| 2001 | Dark at Dawn | Crimson Frost | • | • | • |
| 2001 | disbelief | Worst Enemy | • | • | • |
| 2001 | Holy Moses | Master of Disaster | • | • | • |
| 2001 | Nagelfar | Virus West | • | • | • |
| 2001 | Rebaelliun | Annihilation | • | • | • |
| 2001 | Semen Datura | This Love is Dead | • | • | • |
| 2001 | Sleeping Gods | Regenerated | • | • | |
| 2002 | Dark Age | The Silent Republic | • | • | • |
| 2002 | Dew-Scented | Inwards | • | • | • |
| 2002 | Final Breath | Mind Explosion | • | • | • |
| 2002 | Holy Moses | Disorder of the Order | • | • | • |
| 2002 | Mourning Caress | Imbalance | • | • | • |
| 2002 | Rotting Christ | Genesis | • | • | |
| 2002 | Suidakra | Emprise to Avalon | • | • | • |
| 2002 | Tankard | B-Day | • | • | |
| 2003 | Callenish Circle | Flesh Power Dominion | • | • | • |
| 2003 | Dew-Scented | Ill-Natured & Innoscent | | | • |
| 2003 | Dew-Scented | Impact | • | • | • |
| 2003 | Die Apokalyptischen Reiter | Have a Nice Trip | • | • | • |
| 2003 | disbelief | Spreading the Rage | • | • | • |
| 2003 | Graveworm | Engraved in Black | • | • | • |
| 2003 | Mindfield | Below | • | • | |
| 2003 | Suidakra | Signs for the Fallen | • | • | • |
| 2003 | The Old Dead Tree | The Nameless Disease | • | • | • |
| 2003 | Vollrausch | Wirkstoff: Adrenalin | • | • | |
| 2004 | Blow Job | Unboned | | • | • |
| 2004 | Dementor | God Defamer | • | • | • |
| 2004 | Dies Ater | Out of the Dark | • | • | • |
| 2004 | Final Breath | Let Me Be Your Tank | • | • | • |
| 2004 | Occult | Elegy for the Weak | • | • | • |
| 2004 | Path of Golconda | Destination: Downfall | • | • | • |
| 2004 | Reckless Tide | Repent or Seal Your Fate | | | • |
| 2004 | Tankard | Beast of Bourbon | • | • | • |
| 2005 | Criminal | Sicaro | • | • | • |
| 2005 | Dew-Scented | Issue VI | • | • | • |
| 2005 | Graveworm | (N)utopia | • | • | • |
| 2005 | Legion of the Damned | Malevolent Rapture | • | • | • |
| 2005 | Neaera | The Rising Tide of Oblivion | • | • | • |
| 2005 | President Evil | Evil Goes to Hollywood | • | • | • |
| 2005 | Sencirow | Perception of Fear | • | • | • |
| 2005 | Spellbound | Incoming Destiny | • | • | • |
| 2005 | The Old Dead Tree | The Perpetual Motion | • | • | • |
| 2006 | Belphegor | Pestapokalypse VI | • | • | • |
| 2006 | Clobberin Time | The Dawn of a Dying Race | • | • | • |
| 2006 | Death Will Score | From the Ashes | • | • | • |
| 2006 | Dos Dias De Sangre | Bound By Honor | • | • | • |
| 2006 | Drone | Head-On Collision | • | • | • |
| 2006 | Edgecrusher | Forever Failure | • | • | • |
| 2006 | Krisiun | AssassiNation | • | • | • |
| 2006 | My Darkest Hate | Combat Area | • | • | • |
| 2006 | Path of Golconda | The Threshold Diaries | • | • | • |
| 2006 | President Evil | The Trash ‘n’ Roll Asshole Show | • | • | • |
| 2006 | Shorts & Churchbells | Reason to Complain | | • | • |
| 2006 | Sinister | Afterburner | • | • | • |
| 2006 | Sniper | Seducer of Human Souls | | • | • |
| 2006 | Tankard | The Beauty and the Beer | • | • | • |
| 2007 | Ancient Existence | Hate is the Law | • | • | • |
| 2007 | Cripper | Freak Inside | | | • |
| 2007 | Dark Embrace | The Rebirth of Darkness | • | • | • |
| 2007 | Dies Ater | Odiums Spring | • | • | • |
| 2007 | Graveworm | Collateral Defect | • | • | • |
| 2007 | Inzest | Grotesque New World | • | • | • |
| 2007 | Legion of the Damned | Sons of the Jackal | • | • | • |
| 2007 | Nine XI | The Opening | • | • | • |
| 2007 | Requiem | Premier Killing League | • | • | • |
| 2007 | Revolting Breed | Rise Against | | • | • |
| 2007 | Solace of Requiem | Utopia Reborn | | | • |
| 2007 | Spellbound | Nemesis 2665 | • | • | • |
| 2007 | Tankard | Best Case Scenario: 25 Years in Beers | • | • | • |
| 2007 | The Old Dead Tree | The Water Fields | • | • | • |
| 2007 | Tough Motion | Delta | • | • | • |
| 2008 | Aavas | Sepulcretum | • | • | • |
| 2008 | Belphegor | Bondage Goat Zombie | • | • | • |
| 2008 | Daksinroy | Dystopia | • | • | • |
| 2008 | Davidian | Hear Their Cries | • | • | • |
| 2008 | Grave Desecrator | Sign of Doom | | | • |
| 2008 | Hatred | Madhouse Symphonies | | | • |
| 2008 | Krisiun | Southern Storm | • | • | • |
| 2008 | Legion of the Damned | Cult of the Dead | • | • | • |
| 2008 | Legion of the Damned | Feel The Blade | • | • | • |
| 2008 | Mindead | Abandon All Hope | | | • |
| 2008 | Morpheus | Extermination of the Dominant Species | | | • |
| 2008 | Postmortem | Constant Hate | | | • |
| 2008 | President Evil | Hell in a Box | | | • |
| 2008 | Prostitute Disfigurement | Descendants of Depravity | • | • | • |
| 2008 | Sencirow | The Nightmare Within | • | • | • |
| 2008 | Sniper | Your World is Doomed | | • | • |
| 2008 | Subterfuge Carver | Deathcore | | • | • |
| 2008 | Thytopia | Bleeding Earth | | | • |
| 2009 | Archgoat | The Light-Devouring Darkness | | | • |
| 2009 | Arckanum | ÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞ | | | • |
| 2009 | Belphegor | Walpurgis Rites – Hexenwahn | • | • | • |
| 2009 | Cryptic Wintermoon | Fear | | | • |
| 2009 | Damned Creed | Enslaved Thoughts | | • | • |
| 2009 | Distorted Impalement | Bodyslam | | • | • |
| 2009 | Graveworm | Diabolical Figures | • | • | • |
| 2009 | Hyades | The Roots of Trash | | • | • |
| 2009 | Insanity Reigns Supreme | Occultus insanus damnatus | • | • | • |
| 2009 | Maithungh | Lust in the Kingdom of God | | | • |
| 2009 | Mantic Ritual | Executioner | • | • | • |
| 2009 | Mastic Scum | Dust | | | • |
| 2009 | Misticia | Sickness of the Earth | | • | • |
| 2009 | Mor Dagor | Mk. IV | • | • | • |
| 2009 | Pandemia | Feet of Anger | • | • | • |
| 2009 | Path of Golconda | Return | • | • | • |
| 2009 | Punish | Raptus | • | • | • |
| 2009 | Requiem | Infiltrate… Obliterate… Dominate… | • | • | • |
| 2009 | Shadows Far | As Black Turns Red | | • | • |
| 2009 | Tankard | Thirst | • | • | • |
| 2009 | VeiL | Blinkers Define the Spasm | | | • |
| 2010 | Deafness by Noise | Aim to Please | • | • | • |
| 2010 | Debt of Nature | Crush, Kill and Burn | | • | • |
| 2010 | disbelief | Heal | | | • |
| 2010 | Legen Beltza | Need to Suffer | | | • |
| 2010 | Malignant Tumour | Earthshaker | • | • | • |
| 2010 | Neaera | Forging the Eclipse | • | | |
| 2010 | Obszoen Geschoepf | Symphony of Decay | • | • | • |
| 2010 | Odium | Stop My Anger | | • | • |
| 2010 | Punish My Heaven | First Punishment | • | • | • |
| 2010 | Refugium | Unknown | | | • |
| 2010 | Sentimentalistic Bitches | Down Below | | | • |
| 2010 | Singstars of Death | The Pink Album | | • | • |
| 2010 | Solace of Requiem | The Great Awakening | • | • | • |
| 2010 | Spheron | To Dissect Paper | | • | • |
| 2010 | Unholy Ritual | Finis origine pendet | | • | • |
| 2010 | Varg | Blutaar | • | • | • |
| 2011 | Desecrated Sphere | The Unmasking Reality | | • | • |
| 2011 | Kaerbholz | 100 Prozent | | • | • |
| 2011 | Requiem | Within Darkened Disorder | • | • | • |
| 2011 | Varg | Wolfskult | • | • | • |
| 2011 | Brainscan | Breaking Down your Mind | | • | • |
| 2011 | Krisiun | The Great Execution | • | • | • |
| 2011 | Theodicy | Diary Of War | | • | • |
| 2011 | Transnight | The Dark Half | | | • |
| 2012 | Seven Ends | To the Worms | | • | • |
| 2012 | Taina | Illusion | | • | • |