Ross Robinson (born February 13, 1967) is an Americanrecord producer who discovered rock/metal acts such asKorn,Glassjaw,The Blood Brothers,Slipknot, andLimp Bizkit. He has also worked withTech N9ne,The Cure,Sepultura, and many others.^[2]

The son of Bob Robinson and inspirational speakerByron Katie,^[3] Robinson began as athrash metal guitarist for the bandsDetente and Murdercar and picked up his knowledge of producing from the studios where his band recorded demos and also worked atBlackie Lawless's studio, Fort Apache, in Burbank, CA. Robinson received his first production job for the 1991Fear Factory albumConcrete. Robinson would use the album as a showcase of sorts in helping him land producing slots with other acts, particularly the up-and-coming bandKorn.

Robinson is regarded as "The Godfather ofNu Metal",^[4] along with Korn frontmanJonathan Davis, despite denouncing the nu metal movement later on for becoming complacent and the newer bands for not expanding on the style that he helped create with Korn's first album,Korn (1994).^[5]

Robinson has also been successful in thepost-hardcore genre, producingAt the Drive-In's album,Relationship of Command in 2000, as well asGlassjaw's albums,Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence (2000) andWorship and Tribute (2002). Robinson has also worked with the likes ofThe Cure on theireponymous album (2004) andFrom First to Last on their albumHeroine (2006).

In 2003 he producedThe Blood Brothers'...Burn, Piano Island, Burn, which was a departure for both the band and Robinson. In contrast to The Blood Brothers' previously raw, often under-produced songs (which lasted as short as 90 seconds at times),...Burn, Piano Island, Burn featured much longer and more complex compositions.

Robinson was the owner of the IAM: Wolfpack label. In 2007 it was announced that he was starting a new label IAM: Wolfpack, which released the debut CD fromBlack Light Burns titledCruel Melody. He is a co-owner of semi-private NY nightclubThe Plumm, along withDavid Wells,Jesse Bradford, Noel Ashman and others.

From 2008, Robinson decided to produce new talents he discovered viaMyspace. He recorded and mixed a young French trio called My Own Private Alaska, which mixes classical piano and scream based vocals. TheirAmen album was released on March 1, 2010, through his label I Am Recordings.

He worked with theSlovenian bandSiddharta on their new project Saga. He also producedRepeater's second album,We Walk from Safety.

Robinson has been producingindie rock bands such British bandsKlaxons andDananananaykroyd. In late 2008, the Luxembourgish dance rock bandINBORN! were approached by Robinson. Having heard the band on the net, he offered to record their first official long player. The band entered Robinson's studio on October 1, 2010.

In 2010, Robinson returned to produce Korn'sninth album, 14 years after last working with band. Korn wanted to recapture the raw energy of the first two albums which Robinson produced.^[6]

In 2013, Robinson producedTech N9ne'srock EPTherapy.

Robinson also worked with Sepultura for their 2013 albumThe Mediator Between Head and Hands Must Be the Heart.

As of 2017, he has recently worked withThe Used,Suicide Silence, andFrank Iero and the Patience among others.

Robinson had a minor role in producingLimp Bizkit's sixth studio album, then titledStampede of the Disco Elephants,^[7] however such contributions were later discarded after the album's refactoring and 2021 release.

• Detente –Recognize No Authority (1986) (guitar)
• Murdercar – unreleased album (1990) (guitar)

• Concrete –Fear Factory (1991)
• The Crimson Idol –W.A.S.P. (1992) (engineer)
• Creep – Creep (1993)
• Neidermayer's Mind –Korn (1993)
• Korn –Korn (1994)
• Feed-Us –Cradle of Thorns (1994)
• Adrenaline –Deftones (1995) (production on "Fist")
• Injected –Phunk Junkeez (1995)
• Roots –Sepultura (1996)
• All Is Not Well –Manhole (1996)
• Life Is Peachy –Korn (1996)
• E-lux -Human Waste Project (1997)
• Three Dollar Bill, Y'all –Limp Bizkit (1997)
• Soulfly –Soulfly (1998)
• Cold –Cold (1998)
• Hard to Swallow –Vanilla Ice (1998)
• Strangeland (1998) (production on "Absent")
• Slipknot –Slipknot (1999)
• The Burning Red –Machine Head (1999)
• Amen –Amen (1999)
• Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence –Glassjaw (2000)
• Relationship of Command –At the Drive-In (2000)
• We Have Come for Your Parents – Amen (2000)
• Iowa – Slipknot (2001)
• Start with a Strong and Persistent Desire –Vex Red (2002)
• Concrete – Fear Factory (re-released 2002)
• Worship and Tribute – Glassjaw (2002)
• Alive! –Snot (2002) (production on "Choose What?")
• ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn –The Blood Brothers (2003)
• Join, or Die – Amen (2003)
• The Cure –The Cure (2004)
• Rule 3: Conceal Your Intentions – Septembre (2004)
• Team Sleep –Team Sleep (2005) (production on "Blvrd. Nights" and "Live from the Stage")
• The Unquestionable Truth (Part 1) – Limp Bizkit (2005)
• Heroine –From First to Last (2006)
• Redeemer –Norma Jean (2006)
• Wolves –Idiot Pilot (2007)
• Worse Than a Fairy Tale –Drop Dead, Gorgeous (2007)
• Cruel Melody –Black Light Burns (2007) (mixing on "Mesopotamia")
• The Anti Mother –Norma Jean (Aug 2008)
• Saga –Siddharta (2009)
• Korn III: Remember Who You Are –Korn (2010)
• Surfing the Void –Klaxons (2010)
• Amen - My Own Private Alaska (2010)
• PERSONA –INBORN! (2011)^[8]
• There Is a Way –Dananananaykroyd (2011)
• Birth, School, Work, Death –Hyro Da Hero (2011)
• We Walk from Safety –Repeater (2011)
• Anthems of the Hero – Kraddy (2011)^[9]
• VI – Siddharta (2011)
• Haria –Berri Txarrak (2011)
• abcdefghijklmnoprstuwxyz – semantik punk (2012)
• Therapy EP –Tech N9ne (2013)
• The Mediator Between Head and Hands Must Be the Heart –Sepultura (2013)
• The Drone –We Are Knuckle Dragger (2013)^[10]
• Blood Maker EP –Wild Throne (2014)
• Denbora da poligrafo bakarra –Berri Txarrak (2014)
• My Dreams Dictate My Reality –Soko (2015)
• Searching for Zero –Cancer Bats (2015)
• Harvest of Darkness –Wild Throne (2015)
• Only Ghosts –Red Fang (2016)
• II –De La Tierra (2016)
• A New Wave of Violence -Head Wound City (2016)
• Into the Vanishing Light –Night Verses (2016)^[11]
• Parachutes -Frank Iero and the Patience (2016)
• Suicide Silence –Suicide Silence (2017)
• Dead Cross –Dead Cross (2017)
• The Canyon –The Used (2017)
• Everything Is Fine -Amigo the Devil (2018)
• Lament –Touché Amoré (2020)^[12]
• ANTI-ICON -Ghostemane (2020)
• II - Dead Cross (2022)
• Sólo D'Lira -Molotov (2023)
• Spiral in a Straight Line –Touché Amoré (2024)

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