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Randy Slaugh
Randy Slaugh conducting the choir session for TesseracT's Sonder
Randy Slaugh conducting the choir session for TesseracT's Sonder
Background information
Birth nameRandall James Slaugh
Born (1987-10-03) October 3, 1987 (age 37)
OriginPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, US
Occupation(s)Music producer, composer, arranger
InstrumentsPiano, synthesizer, guitar, bass, drums, percussion, saxophone
Years active2010–present
Labels
Websitewww.randyslaugh.com

Randy Slaugh (born October 3, 1987) is an American music producer and composer.[1][2][3][4] He has worked with artists such as Jelly Roll,[5] Skillet,[6] Sleeping With Sirens,[7] Yelawolf, Architects,[8][9] The Amity Affliction,[10][11] Periphery,[12][13][14] David Archuleta,[15] TesseracT,[16] Devin Townsend,[17][18] and Four Year Strong,[19][20] and is a member of Kscope's cross-continental music group White Moth Black Butterfly.[21][22][23] In recent years, he has worked on music for television series on Netflix, CBS, NBC, ABC, Hulu, Discovery, ESPN, VH1, and MTV, for video games such as Free Fire, and for ad campaigns for Bombas, NBA, Levi's, and KMC Wheels.[24] Slaugh is part of the Producers & Engineers Wing Committee for The Recording Academy,[25] and a member of the Sundance Institute, Music Producers Guild, Society of Composers & Lyricists[26] and the Heavy Music Awards.[27][28]

Life and career

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Early years

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Randy Slaugh grew up in the suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania playing music in alternative rock and post-hardcore bands. He began teaching himself audio production and later went on to study communication and advertising in college. While at college, Slaugh connected with audio engineer Ken Dudley[29] and started learning more professional levels of production.[30][31]

2010–present

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In 2010, Slaugh connected with the band Periphery at some of their early shows.[32] After hearing a demo of their song "Have a Blast," he reached out to lead guitarist and producer Misha Mansoor, and offered to record real violin and cello to replace the midi strings in the demo.[33][34] In 2013, Slaugh worked with Misery Signals, who were recording their album Absent Light in Idaho and were looking for more extensive string arrangements to feature on the album.[35][36] Later that year, he went on to work with I Killed the Prom Queen,[37] Devin Townsend,[38] Architects,[39] We Shot the Moon, and Intervals.[40] In 2015, Slaugh joined progressive pop group White Moth Black Butterfly after working with Daniel Tompkins and Keshav Dhar on Skyharbor's Guiding Lights album the previous year.[41][42] He co-wrote and co-produced the group's album Atone, as well as their Rising Sun (EP), which were released via Kscope.[43]

Devin Townsend's Z², which Slaugh did orchestration and engineering on,[44][45] won Metal/Hard Music Album of the Year[46] at the 2015 Juno Awards.[47][48] Skyharbor's Guiding Lights was named Best Album: Critic's Choice in Rolling Stone's 2015 Metal Awards,[49] and Architects' Lost Forever // Lost Together won Best Album in the Relentless Kerrang Awards.[50] The song "The Price is Wrong" from Periphery's Periphery III: Select Difficulty was nominated for Best Metal Performance[51] at the 2017 Grammy Awards.[52][53] and Periphery's 2019 release Periphery IV: Hail Stan charted #1 on Billboard's Independent Album, Current Rock Album and Current Hard Music Album charts.[54]

In 2018, Slaugh broke into the TV and film world working on shows such as MTV's Catfish: The TV Show, VH1's Black Ink Crew, TLC's 90 Day Fiancé, Discovery's Diesel Brothers and A&E's Wahlburgers.[55] He has since composed music for television series across several networks, and for movies including Bollywood film The Body[56][57] and independent crime thriller Locker 42.[58]

Slaugh at Swing House Studios, Los Angeles, CA working on Z² with Devin Townsend in 2014

Selected discography

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Year Artist Title Label Role
2012 Periphery Periphery II: This Time It's Personal Sumerian Session producer, string arrangements
2013 Misery Signals Absent Light Basick (Dist.) Session producer, string arrangements
2014 I Killed the Prom Queen Beloved Epitaph Session producer, string arrangements, engineering
Intervals A Voice Within Basick (Dist.) Session producer, string arrangements
Architects Lost Forever // Lost Together Epitaph Session producer, string arrangements, engineering
Devin Townsend & Ché Aimee Dorval Casualties of Cool HevyDevy Session producer, string arrangements, engineering
Voyager V Independent Session producer, string arrangements, engineering
Confession Life and Death Mediaskare Session producer, string & choir arrangements, engineering
Skyharbor Guiding Lights Basick Session producer, string arrangements, engineering
Devin Townsend Project Z² HevyDevy Session producer, orchestration, engineering
2015 Skyharbor Out of Time Independent Session producer, string arrangements, engineering
Devin Townsend Project Ziltoid Live at the Royal Albert Hall HevyDevy Orchestration (backing tracks)
2016 Architects All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us Epitaph Session producer, string & brass arrangements, engineering
Periphery Periphery III: Select Difficulty Sumerian Session producer, string, brass & choir arrangements, engineering
2017 Thy Art Is Murder Dear Desolation Nuclear Blast Programming, string arrangements, piano
White Moth Black Butterfly Atone Kscope Producer, songwriter, mixing, engineering
2018 TesseracT Sonder Kscope Session producer, choir arrangements, conducting
Madilyn Paige Anymore (feat. David Archuleta) Shadow Mountain Additional production & programming, song arranging
Skyharbor Sunshine Dust eOne Session producer, string arrangements, engineering
Silent Planet When The End Began Solid State, UNFD Additional production & programming, string arrangements, engineering
Unearth Extinction(s) Century Media Orchestration, piano, programming
White Moth Black Butterfly Rising Sun (EP) Kscope Producer, songwriter, mixing, engineering
2019 Periphery Periphery IV: Hail Stan 3DOT, eOne Session producer, string, brass & choir arrangements, engineering, conducting
Daniel Tompkins Castles Kscope Producer, remixing[59]
Anup Sastry Illuminate Independent Additional production & programming, orchestration, choir arrangements[60]
2020 Jason Kui Naka Prosthetic Additional production & programming
Four Year Strong Brain Pain Pure Noise Session producer, string arrangements, engineering[61]
Outline in Color Papercuts Independent Additional production & programming
Jon Gomm The Faintest Idea Kscope Co-writer (1 song) [62]
Confession Twenty Twenty Independent Orchestration & programming [63]
Outline in Color / Dropout Kings BottleRat BRKN Additional production & programming
Of Virtue What Defines You (Re-release) SharpTone Producer (1 song)
Citizen Soldier Down the Rabbit Hole Independent Producer (2 songs)
2021 Humanity's Last Breath Välde Unique Leader Orchestration, programming & additional production
White Moth Black Butterfly The Cost of Dreaming Kscope Producer, songwriter, programming, engineering
Caskets Lost Souls SharpTone Additional production & programming
The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die Illusory Walls Epitaph Session producer, string arrangements, engineering, programming
One Promise Ordinary People Universal Additional production & programming
Anson Kong Three Words Music Nation Additional production & programming, acoustic guitar, engineering
The Amity Affliction Somewhere Beyond The Blue Warner, Pure Noise Additional production & programming
2022 Bury Tomorrow Death (Ever Colder) Music For Nations, Sony Additional production & programming
Bury Tomorrow Life (Paradise Denied) Music For Nations, Sony Additional production & programming
Sleeping With Sirens Complete Collapse Sumerian Additional production & programming
Kris Barras Band Death Valley Paradise Mascot Additional production & programming
Lil Xay & Rowboat Clap That Channel 5 Producer, engineer
Loveless End of an Era Sony BMG (dist) Additional production & programming
Of Virtue Omen SharpTone Producer, co-writer (2 songs)
Outline in Color Coast is Clear BRKN Additional production & programming
2023
Skillet Dominion: Day Of Destiny (Deluxe Edition) Atlantic Additional production & programming
Nothing More Spirits (Deluxe) Better Noise Additional production & programming
The Amity Affliction Not Without My Ghosts Warner, Pure Noise Additional production & programming[64]
TesseracT War of Being Kscope Additional production & programming[65][66][67]
Jelly Roll / Kendall Tucker Dragging Me Down Independent Additional production & programming[68][69]
Caskets Reflections SharpTone Additional production & programming
2024
Karl Michael / Teddy Swims Rolling in the Deep (Live Cover) Independent Backtrack production & programming
Lakeview Lakeview Riser House Additional production & programming
Attack Attack! Disaster Oxide Additional production & programming[70][71]
Royale Lynn & Danny Worsnop Death Wish Epitaph Additional production & programming[72]
Austin Snell Still Bleeding Warner Additional production & programming
The Amity Affliction Let the Ocean Take Me (Redux) Warner, Pure Noise Additional production & programming

Television

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Year Title Network Role
2015 World Series of Fighting 24: Fitch vs. Okami NBC Sports Composer: additional music (1 episode)
2016 Teen Mom MTV Composer: additional music (5 episodes)
2018 Catfish: The TV Show MTV Composer: additional music (4 episodes)
Diesel Brothers Discovery Composer: additional music (5 episodes)
Wahlburgers A&E Composer: additional music (7 episodes)
Black Ink Crew: Chicago VH1 Composer: additional music (10 episodes)
Basketball Wives VH1 Composer: additional music (4 episodes)
90 Day Fiancé TLC Composer: additional music (13 episodes)
2019 Bridezillas WE TV Composer: additional music (1 episode)
Cartel Crew VH1 Composer: additional music (6 episodes)
90 Day Fiancé TLC Composer: additional music (4 episodes)
Chopped Food Network Composer: additional music (1 episode)
Very Cavallari E! Composer (3 episodes)
The Dude Perfect Show Nickelodeon Composer: additional music (2 episodes)
The Real Housewives of Atlanta Bravo Composer: additional music (3 episodes)
Project Runway Bravo Composer: additional music (2 episodes)
The Challenge MTV Composer: additional music (1 episode)
Magic for Humans Netflix Composer: additional music (1 episode)
2020 Undercover Boss CBS Composer (3 episodes)
Royal Rumble WWE Composer: additional music (1 episode)
Shark Week Discovery Composer: additional music (1 episode)
90 Day Fiancé TLC Composer: additional music (1 episode)
Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles Bravo Composer: additional music (1 episode)
2021 Mayans M.C. FX Composer: additional music (3 episodes)
NCIS: Los Angeles CBS Composer: additional music (1 episode)
Catfish: The TV Show MTV Composer (4 episodes)
Jackass Shark Week Discovery Composer: additional music
The Real Housewives of Atlanta Bravo Composer (3 episodes)
2022 The Rookie ABC Composer: additional music (1 episode)
Undercover Boss CBS Composer (5 episodes)
Property Brothers HGTV Composer: additional music (1 episode)
2023 Jubilee Amazon Prime Composer: additional music (10 episode)
LA Fire and Rescue NBC Composer

Film

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Year Title Production Company Role
2019 The Body Viacom 18 Session producer, string arrangements, engineering
2022 No Rain Nor Dew[73][74][75] Independent Composer
Pre-production Locker 42[76] Vigilant Entertainment Composer

Video games

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Year Title Software Company Role
2020 Free Fire Garena Composer: additional music [77]
2020 Whiffle Blasters Suckerbird / Epic Composer: additional music [78]
2025 War of Being DMTesseracT Composer [79][80]

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