Top 10 Rock and Metal Musicians Who Have Owned Recording Studios

The Top Ten
1 Jimi Hendrix Jimi Hendrix (born November 27, 1942 - September 18, 1970) was an American rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter. Although his mainstream career spanned only four years, he is widely regarded as one of the most influential electric guitarists in the history of popular music, and one of the most celebrated musicians of the 20th century. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame describes him as "arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music". Hendrix is consistently ranked on lists of musicians who died too soon.

Jimi Hendrix founded Electric Lady Studios

2 Eddie Van Halen Edward Lodewijk "Eddie" Van Halen (January 26, 1955 – October 6, 2020) was a Dutch-American musician, songwriter, producer, and inventor. He was best known as the lead guitarist, occasional keyboardist and co-founder of the hard rock band Van Halen.

Owner of 5150 Studios

3 Mark Knopfler Mark Freuder Knopfler is a British singer, songwriter, guitarist, record producer and film score composer. He is best known for being the frontman of the British band Dire Straits.

He owns British Grove Studios, which is one of the most prominent British recording studios of the modern era.

4 Jeff Waters Jeff Waters (born February 13, 1966) is a Canadian metal musician and founder of the metal band Annihilator. He's best known as the guitarist for Annihilator, appreciated for his fast riffs and solos. Waters is also the primary songwriter in the band. Very often he has taken on the role of lead singer, bass player, engineer and producer. He has owned Watersound Studios Inc. since 1994. At a young age he took some classical and jazz guitar lessons. Notable songs include Alison Hell, Human Insecticide, The Trend, Ultra-Motion, Detonation.

Waters has owned Watersound Studios Inc. since 1994. He is a well-known and sought-after mixing/mastering engineer and producer.

My boy from ottawa!

5 Joe Duplantier Joseph "Joe" Duplantier is a French musician best known as the guitarist and vocalist of metal band Gojira.

Joe is the owner of Silver Cord Studio, a recording studio located in New York, which he designed himself.

6 Peter Tägtgren Alf Peter Tägtgren is a Swedish musician, multi-instrumentalist and producer. He is the founder, main songwriter, lead vocalist, and guitarist of the death metal band Hypocrisy as well as the industrial metal band PAIN in which he is the only member.

Owner of The Abyss recording studio. The list of albums recorded, produced or mixed by Peter Tägtgren at Abyss studios is really long. Includes bands like Overkill, Immortal, Sabaton, Children of Bodom, Amon Amarth, Dark Funeral, Enslaved, Celtic Frost, and many more.
List - Top 10 Albums Recorded, Produced or Mixed by Peter Tägtgren

7 Dan Swanö Dan-Erland Swanö is a Swedish musician who is currently the vocalist, guitarist, ex-bassist and ex-drummer for the band Nightingale, lately vocalist, keyboardist and drummer for the band Witherscape, as well as the Owner of Unisound but he achieved fame as the vocalist and songwriter of progressive death metal band Edge of Sanity.
8 Kai Hansen Kai Michael Hansen is a heavy metal guitarist and vocalist. Hansen is the founder, lead guitarist, and vocalist of power metal band Gamma Ray. He is also the co-founder and former member of German metal band Helloween.
9 Chad Kroeger Chad Robert Kroeger is a Canadian musician and producer, best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist for the Canadian rock band, Nickelback.

In 2002 he co-founded 604 Records with attorney Jonathan Simkin; it's based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
In 2014, 604 Records opened 604 Studios, a multimedia production facility featuring 2 recording studios, soundstage and in-house production team.

10 V. Santura

(real name: Victor Bullok).
A metal musician (guitars, vox) for Triptykon, Dark Fortress, Noneuclid.

He runs Woodshed Studio in Germany where all Obscura albums were recorded, mixed and mastered by him. And many other albums. He's also a producer.

The Contenders
11 Hannes Grossmann

The owner of Mordor Sounds; he played for Necrophagist, Obscura, Blotted Science, Hate Eternal and currently plays drums in Alkaloid.
His self-presentation:
"My name is Hannes Grossmann from Germany. I'm a professional session drummer & studio engineer (recording, mix and master)."

12 Magnus Karlsson Magnus Karlsson is a Swedish heavy metal songwriter, guitarist, multi-instrumentalist and producer, best known as the lead guitarist for the German metal band Primal Fear.
13 Dirk Schlächter
14 Piet Sielck

Owner of Powerhouse studio in Hamburg. He is a power metal guitarist, vocalist and producer. He is member of the power / speed metal band Iron Savior.

15 Linus Klausenitzer
16 Eike O. Freese

Co-owns Hammer Studios in Hamburg, Germany.
Vocals, Guitars for Dark Age (1995-present)

17 Ronny Sorkness

Vocalist for Valhall (1987-present) owned Necrohell Studios with his brother Kenneth Sorkness

18 Kenneth Sorkness

Bassist for Valhall owned Necrohell Studios with his brother Ronny Sorkness.

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