Fredrik Nordström

Björn Tom Fredrik Nordström,^[1] born on 5 January 1967, is a Swedish musician and record producer. He is best known as the guitarist in the heavy metal band Dream Evil.^[2] Nordström is one of the leading melodic death metal producers in Sweden, and he has worked with some of the genre's top acts, including Bring Me The Horizon, Architects, At the Gates,^[3] Arch Enemy,^[4] Nightrage,^[5] Dark Tranquillity,^[6] In Flames,^[7] Soilwork,^[8] and Opeth.^[9]

Fascinated by technology from a young age, Nordström opened a small recording studio in Gothenburg, Sweden, mainly to record his own music. The studio evolved into Studio Fredman, one of the leading Swedish recording studios where he works with his employee Henrik Udd.

In 1999 Nordström formed the heavy metal band Dream Evil to perform his own music, and as of 2010 Dream Evil has released five albums, one live DVD/CD set and two EPs. Today he is considered one of the top metal producers in Europe, and one of the central figures of the Gothenburg style.

Discography with Dream Evil

• Dragonslayer (2002)
• Evilized (2003)
• Children of the Night (EP, 2003)
• The First Chapter (EP, 2004)
• The Book of Heavy Metal (2004)
• United (2006)
• Gold Medal in Metal (Alive & Archive) (2008)
• In the Night (2010)

Production credits

1990

• Calcutta Cornflakes – demo

1993

• Ceremonial Oath – The Book of Truth

1994

• At the Gates – Terminal Spirit Disease
• In Flames – Lunar Strain (mixing, engineering)
• In Flames – Subterranean (EP) (engineering)

1995

• At the Gates – Slaughter of the Soul
• Dark Tranquillity – Of Chaos and Eternal Night (EP)
• Dark Tranquillity – The Gallery
• Memory Garden – Forever (EP)

1996

• Arch Enemy – Black Earth
• Dark Tranquillity – Enter Suicidal Angels (EP)
• In Flames – The Jester Race
• LOK – Ord och inga visor
• Memory Garden – Tides
• Sacrilege – Lost in the Beauty You Slay
• Sludge Nation – Wisehead
• Sludge Nation – Blow your Speakers with Sludge Nation

1997

• Armageddon – Crossing the Rubicon
• Dark Tranquillity – The Mind's I
• Dimension Zero – Penetrations from the Lost World
• HammerFall – Glory to the Brave
• In Flames – Black-Ash Inheritance (EP)
• In Flames – Whoracle
• Lord Belial – Enter the Moonlight Gate
• Misanthrope – Visionnaire
• Sacrilege – The Fifth Season
• Skitsystem – Levande Lik

1998

• Arch Enemy – Stigmata
• Exhumation – Dance Across the Past
• HammerFall – Legacy of Kings
• The Haunted – The Haunted
• Misanthrope – Libertine Humiliations
• Opeth – My Arms, Your Hearse
• Embraced - Amorous Anathema
• Runemagick – The Supreme Force of Eternity
• Soilwork – Steelbath Suicide
• Spiritual Beggars – Mantra III

1999

• Arch Enemy – Burning Bridges
• Dark Tranquillity – Projector
• Exhumation – Traumaticon
• In Flames – Colony
• Malevolence – Martyrialized
• Opeth – Still Life
• Septic Flesh – Revolution DNA
• Sinergy – Beware the Heavens

2000

• Arch Enemy – Burning Japan Live 1999
• Buried Dreams – Perceptions
• The Crown – Deathrace King
• Dark Tranquillity – Haven
• In Flames – Clayman
• Sludge – Scarecrow Messiah
• Soilwork – The Chainheart Machine
• Spiritual Beggars – Ad Astra

2001

• Arch Enemy – Wages of Sin
• Dimmu Borgir – Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia
• Godgory – Way Beyond
• Opeth – Blackwater Park (mixing)
• Soilwork – A Predator's Portrait

2002

• Arch Enemy – Burning Angel (EP)
• Dark Tranquillity – Damage Done
• Dragonland – Holy War
• Dream Evil – Dragonslayer
• Eternal Oath – Righteous
• The Fifth Sun – The Moment of Truth
• Opeth – Deliverance (engineering)
• Sinergy – Suicide by My Side
• Soilwork - Natural Born Chaos

2003

• Darkest Hour – Hidden Hands of a Sadist Nation
• Dimmu Borgir – Death Cult Armageddon
• Dream Evil – Evilized
• The Haunted – One Kill Wonder
• Nightrage – Sweet Vengeance
• Old Man's Child – In Defiance of Existence
• Pagan's Mind – Celestial Entrance
• Passenger – Passenger
• Septic Flesh – Sumerian Daemons
• Zyklon – Aeon

2004

• Ancient – Night Visit (mixing)
• Dark Tranquillity – Exposures – In Retrospect and Denial
• Dream Evil – The Book of Heavy Metal
• The Fifth Sun – The Hunger to Survive
• The Haunted – Revolver
• Rotting Christ – Sanctus Diavolos (mastering)
• Sludge – Yellow Acid Rain

2005

• Contrive – The Meaning Unseen
• Dark Tranquillity – Character (mixing)
• Dragonlord – Black Wings of Destiny
• Eternal Oath – Wither
• Firewind – Forged by Fire (mixing assistance)
• Nightrage – Descent into Chaos
• Old Man's Child – Vermin
• Pagan's Mind – Enigmatic: Calling
• Powerwolf – Return in Bloodred

2006

• Bleed in Vain – Say Everything Will Be Fine (mixing)
• Dream Evil – United
• Ever Since – Between Heaven and Hell
• Firewind – Allegiance (mixing)
• Dragonland – Astronomy (mixing)
• I Killed the Prom Queen – Music for the Recently Deceased
• Lyzanxia – Unsu
• Machinae Supremacy – Redeemer
• Norther – Till Death Unites Us
• Splitter – En Sorglig Historia
• Wolf – The Black Flame

2007

• All Ends – Wasting Life (EP)
• All Ends – All Ends
• Anthelion – Bloodshed Rebefallen
• Arch Enemy – Rise of the Tyrant
• Dimmu Borgir – In Sorte Diaboli
• Iron Fire – Blade of Triumph
• Powerwolf – Lupus Dei
• Breed – Breed (mixing)

2008

• Bring Me the Horizon – Suicide Season
• Coming Fall – Kill the Lights
• Eclipse Eternal – Ubermensch: Evolution Beyond the Species
• Evergrey – Torn
• Firewind – The Premonition
• The Hollow Earth Theory – Rise of Agartha
• Norther – N
• Septic Flesh – Communion
• Zonaria – The Cancer Empire
• Cripple Bastards – Variante alla Morte
• Arkan – Hilal

2009

• Eyes of Noctum – Inceptum
• Feed Her to the Sharks – The Beauty of Falling (mixing)
• Job for a Cowboy – Ruination (mixing)
• Nightrage – Wearing a Martyr's Crown (production/mixing/keyboards)
• Old Man's Child – Slaves of the World
• Outrage – Outrage
• Powerwolf – Bible of the Beast
• Mean Streak – Metal Slave (mixing)
• Wintergrave - Final Termination (EP)

2010

• Bring Me the Horizon – There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It. There Is a Heaven, Let's Keep It a Secret
• Buried In Verona – Saturday Night Sever
• Dream Evil – In the Night
• Dreamshade – What Silence Hides
• Demovore – Beneath Darkened Skies
• Sabaton – Coat of Arms (mixing)
• The Moor – TBA
• Arkan – Salam
• Nightrage - Vengeance Descending (production/mixing/keyboards)

2011

• Akrya – Akrya (Mastering)
• Nervosia - Apathy's Throne (EP) (Mixing/Mastering)
• Hamlet - Amnesia (Mixing/Mastering)
• Nightrage - Insidious (Mixing/Mastering)
• Confession - The Long Way Home
• Shadowside - Inner Monster Out
• Myrath - Tales of the Sands (Mixing)
• Adept - "Death Dealers"

2012

• A Breach Of Silence - "Dead or Alive"
• At The Skylines – The Secrets To Life (Producer)
• Deathronic - "Duality Chaos" (Mixing/Mastering)^[10]
• Eths - "III"
• Far West Battlefront - Chapters (Mixing/Mastering)
• Feed Her to the Sharks - "Savage Seas"
• Marissa Burns Trey - "TBA" ^[11]
• Furnaze - "None More Black"^[12]
• Midnight In Alaska - "Boundless"^[13]
• Buried In Verona - "Notorious"
• For Godly Sorrow - "TBA" (Mastering)
• The Julia Set - "TBA" (Mixing/Mastering)^[14]
• InnerSiege - "Kingdom Of Shadows" (Mixing/Mastering)^[15]

2013

• Delta - "The End of Philosophy" (Mixing)
• Artificial Heart - "A Heart Once Lost" (Mixing/Mastering)
• Adept - "Silence the World"
• Raven Lord - "Descent to the Underworld" (Mixing)
• Desolated - "Disorder Of Mind" (Mastering)
• Outrage - Outraged
• Solium Fatalis - Self Titled (Mixing/Mastering)
• Primitai - Rise Again (Mixing/Mastering)
• Excrecor - Hypnotic Affliction (Mastering)

2014

• Tellus Terror - EZ Life DV8 (Mixing and Mastering)
• I Killed the Prom Queen - Beloved
• Architects - Lost Forever // Lost Together
• HammerFall – (r)Evolution
• A Breach of Silence - The Darkest Road (Producer)
• At the Gates - At War with Reality
• Forget My Silence - Supersonic ^[16]

2015

• Dawn Protection - Eternal (Mixing and Mastering)
• Powerwolf - Blessed & Possessed (Producer)
• Chabtan - The Kiss of Coatlicue (Mastering) ^[17]

2016

• Follow My Lead - Spit,Kick,Revolt.
• Architects - All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us

See also

• Dream Evil
• Studio Fredman

References

External links

• Official website of Studio Fredman