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Dan Lancaster
Lancaster performing withMuse in 2023
Background information
Born	Daniel Lancaster London, England
Genres	Pop rock heavy metal
Occupations	Producer mixer writer artist musician
Instruments	Vocals guitar keyboards percussion
Years active	2009–present
Labels	BMG Kobalt

Dan Lancaster is an English record producer, musician, songwriter and artist from the UK.^[1] He is best known for his mixing and production work in contemporary rock music, and has worked with prominent global acts such asBlink-182,5 Seconds Of Summer,Bring Me the Horizon,One OK Rock,^[2]Lower Than Atlantis,^[3]Don Broco,^[4]Muse,A Day to Remember andThree Days Grace.

He is a three-time Grammy nominee for his work withBring Me the Horizon andBlink-182, and he has twice been nominated for "Best Producer" at theHeavy Music Awards.^[5][6]

Lancaster is a self-taught producer and learnt by practising using a smallPro Tools production rig in his own home.

Lancaster's career in music began as the lead singer and guitarist of post-hardcore band Proceed. The band frequently toured the UK and Europe and were friends and frequent performers with UK rock bandDon Broco.^[7] The band released an EP in June 2010 titled 'Curious Electric' before bassist Tom Doyle eventually left the group to join Don Broco when their former bassist, Luke Rayner, parted ways with the group in 2012.^[8]

Lancaster has cited Proceed as the inspiration behind his career in production, as he began self-producing their material which eventually led to producing for other artists. Speaking toBIMM, Lancaster stated: "I developed a skill because I had to. I invested in some [production] equipment initially just to make my own stuff sound better, and then some other people came in and said 'Hey, why don't you help us make a song?'. And then 4 years went past, I was quite deep into it, and my career was set."^[9]

Lancaster's early work in production and mixing included records forLower Than Atlantis,^[10]Oceans Ate Alaska^[11] andMallory Knox.^[12]

In 2012, Lancaster worked withDon Broco, co-writing, producing and mixing their debut full-length albumPriorities. The album peaked at #25 on theUK Album Charts, marking Lancaster's first UK Top 40 album.^[13]

In 2013 he produced, co-wrote, and mixedLower Than Atlantis'eponymously titled fourth album, which peaked at #16 in the UK Albums Chart.^[14] The following year, he worked with Mike Duce fromLower Than Atlantis to co-write and produce the song "Heartache on the Big Screen" for5 Seconds of Summer, a B-Side to their breakout single "She Looks So Perfect".^[15]

In 2015, Lancaster contributed production, co-writing and mixing toDon Broco's second albumAutomatic, obtaining his first UK Top 10 album as a producer in the process when the album peaked at #6 on the UK Album Charts.^[16] Significantly, this year gave Lancaster his big break when he was chosen to mixBring Me the Horizon's fifth albumThat's the Spirit via a blind mix shoot-out.^[17] The album reached #2 in both the UK Albums Chart and US Billboard 200 when released in September 2015, while reaching number one in Australia and Canada amongst other countries.

The success of this album lead to Lancaster starting to collaborate with acts from outside the UK. He contributed mixing toBlink-182's seventh album,California (July 2016), which reached number one in both the UK Albums Chart^[18] andUS Billboard 200,^[19] and is certified Gold in Australia, the United States and United Kingdom. Lancaster received his firstGrammy Award nomination for his work onCalifornia when it was nominated for "Best Rock Album" at the 2017 Awards.^[20] Just a couple of months afterwards, he then worked with Japanese bandOne OK Rock for their single "Taking Off" as well as other tracks on their album "Ambitions", which reached #1 on the WeeklyOricon Albums Chart, bringing with it Lancaster's third album to go number one in at least one country, and his first number one in Japan.^[21][22]

Between 2016 and 2017, Lancaster worked with a number of artists, branching out into more mainstream music than his traditional clients in rock music. He co-wrote and producedNina Nesbitt's "Chewing Gum" single from herModern Love EP (2016),^[23] then contributed production to theGood Charlotte albumYouth Authority (2016),^[24] as well as co-writing and producing three tracks forFenech-Soler's third albumZilla (2017).^[25]

Lancaster worked closely with long-term collaboratorsLower Than Atlantis andDon Broco throughout the 2017-2018 period. He was involved in the recording, producing and mixing of Lower Than Atlantis' fifth album, February 2017'sSafe in Sound, with writing credits on this album for "Had Enough", "Dumb", "Long Time Coming" and "Work For It".^[26][27] He then worked withDon Broco for the third album running, recording, co-writing, producing, and mixingTechnology, released 2 February 2018.^[4] The album peaked at #5 on the UK Albums Chart; their most successful album to date.^[28] Other projects completed in this time include mixing the songs "American Attraction" and "Casualty" fromAnti-Flag's tenth albumAmerican Fall (November 2017),^[29]Hollywood Undead's fifth albumV,^[30] and mixing the songs "Lovesick", "Heartbroken", and "Midnight" fromYou Are Someone Else (March 2018), the debut album by British indie-pop bandFickle Friends.^[31]

In 2019 Lancaster grew a particularly close relationship withBring Me the Horizon. Having mixed their 2015 albumThat's the Spirit, Lancaster was retained to mix their sixth album "amo" released in January 2019.amo debuted at #1 in Australia and the UK, a second time in the former and a first in the latter for the group.^[32][33]amo earned Lancaster his second and thirdGrammy nominations, as promotional single "MANTRA" was nominated for "Best Rock Song" at the2018 awards, and the album was nominated for "Best Rock Album" at the2019 awards.^[34] When Bring Me the Horizon were commissioned to write a song for the soundtrack toHideo Kojima's video gameDeath Stranding, Lancaster was again drafted in to provide additional production and mixing to "Ludens", all of which was completed in a mixture of a studio and hotel room in Bologna, Italy while the band were on tour, with a deadline of just a few hours at times in the mixing stage.^[35] Finally, Lancaster mixed the group's experimentalMusic to Listen To... EP, released unannounced on 27 December 2019.^[36]

2019 also saw Lancaster work for a number of artists both with an existing relationship with himself and with new clients. Lancaster mixedA Day to Remember's single "Resentment" from their seventh albumYou're Welcome,^[37] and he co-wrote, produced and mixed the title track ofOne OK Rock's ninth albumEye of the Storm, which was once again a #1 album in Japan.^[38] The making of "Eye of the Storm" was the subject of a promotional video made by YouTube Music.^[39] He continued to work withDon Broco by mixing the standalone single "HALF MAN HALF GOD" as well co-writing, producing and mixing their super-group single "ACTION" which featuredTakahiro Moriuchi (One OK Rock),Tyler Carter (formerly ofIssues),Caleb Shomo (Beartooth) andTilian Peason (Dance Gavin Dance).^[40] He mixed tracks forYONAKA's debut albumDon't Wait 'Til Tomorrow,^[41] and mixed American rock bandSTARSET's third albumDIVISIONS.^[42]

In 2020, Lancaster began his year by once again working withBring Me the Horizon, this time mixing the lead single "Parasite Eve" from their October 2020 EPPost Human: Survival Horror. Lancaster was the subject of an episode of a documentary that the band filmed to showcase the challenges of making music remotely during theCOVID-19 pandemic lockdown measures put in place in the UK.^[43] Lancaster contributed mixing toEnter Shikari's sixth albumNothing Is True & Everything Is Possible,^[44] which peaked at #2 in the UK Albums Chart,^[45] as well as mixing for British rock bandThe Hunna.^[46] In June 2020 Lancaster worked withOli Sykes ofBring Me the Horizon and Brazilian model Alissa Salls to produce and mix "Like", the debut single of Salls' artist project Alissic.^[47]

In 2021, Lancaster worked once again with One OK Rock, this time to co-write, produce and mix their single 'Broken Heart of Gold',^[48] which was written for the movieRuroni Kenshin: The Beginning, released in Japan on 23 April, with a global release date set for 30 July 2021. During a documentary showing the making of the single, singerTakahiro Moriuchi commented on his long-term relationship with Lancaster, stating: "Dan Lancaster is a sweetheart, and also he is really talented. Me and Dan are totally in understanding of each other."^[49] In 2022, Lancaster mixed the single "Won't Stand Down" by the rock bandMuse, and joined them on theirWill of the People tour, providing keys, percussion and guitar.^[50]

Since the end of his previous project with post-hardcore band Proceed in 2012, Lancaster began posting clips of his own solo music on his Instagram in 2016.^[51]

After multiple clips of teaser footage for new music, Lancaster released his debut solo single "Move A Mountain" in August 2018 via Raw Kingdom with support fromAWAL. The track received a positive critical reception fromRock Sound andKerrang! amongst others, with Robin Murray ofClash writing: "It's an expertly pieced together track, with the songwriter using the full force of his experience and expertise. The start of something new, something special."^[52]

Lancaster followed "Move a Mountain" with single "Wild Life" in September 2018, before his debut solo headline show at Oslo in London in October 2018.^[53]

In May 2019, Lancaster embarked on his first tours as a solo artist. He supportedLower Than Atlantis' on their farewell UK tour, with performances at Manchester Academy, Birmingham O2 Academy andBrixton Academy in London.^[54] At the Birmingham leg of the tour, Lancaster was brought in by the group to be their emergency stand-in vocalist for the show, after singer Mike Duce had lost his voice at the show in Manchester the night before.^[55]

Lancaster followed this tour immediately by supporting long-term collaboratorsOne OK Rock in mainland Europe on their May 2019 tour with fellow support actAnteros. Lancaster often appeared on stage with the band during their performances to perform songs he'd co-written with the group, such as "Taking Off".^[56]

In June 2019 Lancaster released a double-single, "I Tried" and "Phases", followed by the release of "Stay Away" in July 2019.

In May 2021, Lancaster signed a new publishing deal withBMG, to allow him to continue to write and produce for other artists as well as continue to work on his own music.^[57]

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