Metal Shock Finland (World Assault )

Chris Tsangarides is an honourable Greek Cypriot-British Grammy-nominated record producer, sound engineer, and mixer, best known for his work with many heavy metal bands, including HELLOWEEN, JUDAS PRIEST, OVERKILL, THIN LIZZY, Yngwie Malmsteen, BLACK SABBATH and many more. He is also known for a guitar recording technique called “the vortex”, which he first used when recording the guitar of John Goodsall for the Brand X album “Moroccan Roll” in 1977. Yesterday, 10th February was Chris ‘s 40th anniversary of making records.

Mr Tsangarides posted the following statement via a post on facebook:

“Today marks my 40th anniversary of making records! 10 Feb.75 was a Monday and I was so thrilled to be starting my job! I’ve never done anything else….I’m so glad to have started it during that era of music Free, Zeppelin, Sabbath, Lizzy,Tull etc and young breakthrough bands like UFO, Judas Priest and of course the NWOBHM……there has been so much change in the recording industry during these past 5 decades that it has become a totally different animal from what it was in its heyday. Still having said that, I’m very proud of the small dent that my recordings have contributed to the great British recording industry!”

We at Metal Shock Finland would like to send out a special congratulations to Chris Tsangarides on his epic and great job.