Erik Rutan

Erik Rutan
Erik Rutan on stage at El Corazon in Seattle
Background information
Born	(1971-06-10) June 10, 1971
Genres	Death metal Thrash metal Progressive metal Symphonic metal
Occupation(s)	Musician, singer, songwriter, guitarist, producer
Instruments	Vocals, guitar, drums, keyboards
Associated acts	Hate Eternal, Morbid Angel, Ripping Corpse, Alas
Notable instruments
B.C. Rich Guitars

Erik Rutan is an American heavy metal musician and producer from New Jersey.^[1] He currently leads Hate Eternal on lead vocals and guitar and has also spent time with Morbid Angel (three different stints) and Ripping Corpse. When not performing, Rutan operates his own recording studio in Florida called Mana Recording Studios.

Recording

Rutan started his metal career with Ripping Corpse, recording one album titled Dreaming with the Dead released in 1991. Around 1995, he left to join Morbid Angel, recording Domination (1995) before leaving in 1996 to found his own band, Hate Eternal, releasing their first album Conquering the Throne in 1999. Rutan then returned to Morbid Angel to record Gateways to Annihilation, released in 2000. Rutan left Morbid Angel again to concentrate on Hate Eternal, releasing King of All Kings in 2002 and I, Monarch in 2005. He rejoined Morbid Angel once more for the band's 2006 summer tour of Europe, a move about which the other band members said, "This will certainly be an exciting event with the Domination lineup together for the first time in 10 years!" The tour included a stop at the Wacken Open Air festival.

Rutan has had a number of side projects that highlight different aspects of his playing. For example, he formed the group Alas with former the Therion vocalist Martina Astner, releasing the landmark progressive metal album Absolute Purity in 2001.

Rutan is a guest vocalist on the track "Bone Crown" on Annotations of an Autopsy's second full length album, II: The Reign of Darkness.

Production

Rutan has produced the following albums:

• Belphegor: Conjuring the Dead
• Cannibal Corpse: Kill, Evisceration Plague, Torture
• Madball: Empire
• Agnostic Front: My Life My Way
• Six Feet Under: Commandment
• Annotations of an Autopsy: II: The Reign of Darkness
• Morbid Angel: Illud Divinum Insanus (drum production)
• Soilent Green: Inevitable Collapse in the Presence of Conviction, Confrontation
• Through the Eyes of the Dead: Malice
• Goatwhore: A Haunting Curse, Carving Out The Eyes of God, Blood for the Master, Constricting Rage of the Merciless
• Vital Remains: Icons of Evil
• Malevolent Creation: Invidious Dominion (co-producer)
• Nile: Those Whom the Gods Detest (drum production)
• Krisiun: Conquerors of Armageddon
• Pessimist: Slaughtering The Faithful
• Internal Suffering: Internal Suffering, Awakening of the Rebel
• Premonitions of War: Left In Kowloon
• Aeon: Path of Fire (mixing)
• In Battle: Welcome to the Battlefield
• The Absence: From Your Grave
• Pathology: Legacy of the Ancients
• Avulsed: Gorespattered Suicide
• Into The Moat: The Design, The Campaign (album)
• Torture Killer: Swarm! (mixing)
• Pain Principle: Waiting For The Flies
• Covenance: Ravaging The Pristine
• Ophiolatry: Anti-Evangelistic Process
• Devourment: Conceived in Sewage
• The Mountain Goats: All Eternals Deck (four songs)^[2]
• Masacre: Total Death^[3]
• Tombs: Savage Gold
• Ephel Duath: On Death and Cosmos
• Ephel Duath: Hemmed By Light, Shaped By Darkness

Equipment

Guitars

• B.C. Rich NJ Ironbird
• Ibanez RG7620

Pickups

• EMG Pickups

Amps

• ENGL Powerball.
• Marshall JCM 2000 DSL with matching JCM900 4x12 bottoms.

Accessories

• Maxon od808.
• Boss NS-2.
• Morley Bad Horsie.
• Boss 6 band eq.
• Furman power conditioner.
• Korg rack tuner.
• ProCo Rat R2DU. This is the rack mount version.
• BBE Sonic Maximizer.
• 2 Rocktron Intelliflex units for delays / reverbs.
• ART Floorboard controller X-15 Ultrafoot.

References