Logan Mader Biography

Logan Conrad Mader (born November 16, 1970 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a record producer and current guitarist in melodic death metal band Once Human, as well as former lead guitarist in groove metal band Machine Head, which was formed in Oakland, California in 1992.

Mader is most famous for his time in Machine Head, whose 1994 debut, Burn My Eyes, was released by Roadrunner Records and quickly became the top-selling debut album in the label's history until Slipknot's debut album. Their second album, The More Things Change..., was released in 1997 and Logan left the band shortly thereafter to divert his energy and time to side projects.

Biography

Machine Head, Soulfly and Medication

Machine Head formed on October 12, 1991 with Mader on lead guitar, Robb Flynn on guitar and vocals, Adam Duce on bass and Tony Costanza on drums. He played with Machine Head through two albums until early 1998. After Logan's six year run with Machine Head, he joined the band Soulfly where he filled the slot as guitarist for their 1998 world tour. Logan's union with Soulfly was short lived (8 months) and the only track he technically recorded with them was one of the remixes for Quilombo. Wanting to once again pursue his own projects, Logan left Soulfly in January 1999.

Post Soulfly, Logan formed the heavy, yet melodic, Los Angeles rock band, Medication, with Whitfield Crane (formerly of Ugly Kid Joe). Due to a series of internal issues, Medication disbanded in February 2003.

Stereo Black and production

Shortly after the dissolution of Medication, Logan formed the band New Black, which was later changed to Stereo Black. Although the band opened for a local Hed PE gig, tracked a full demo, shopped it to a few labels and created an internet buzz, they were never signed. Years later, the Stereo Black track Save Me which was later called Inside. The song was featured in the trailer for Max Payne and The Butterfly Effect 2 and in the direct to video film Never Back Down 2: The Beatdown. They also created a song for the Scream 4 soundtrack, titled "Denial."

Currently, Logan runs Dirty Icon Productions, a Los Angeles based production team, alongside partner, Lucas Banker. Dirty Icon, published by Reverb/Universal, writes, produces, records, mixes and masters for other artists.

Return to live music

Mader announced his new project, Once Human, in May 2015, which features newcomers Lauren Hart (vocals), Damian Rainauld (bass) and Ralph Alexander (drums). The group signed to earMUSIC and will release their debut album, The Life I Remember, in September 2015.

In August and September 2015, Once Human will tour the southern, midwestern and southwestern United States with Fear Factory, Chicago rock band The Bloodline and Hollywood melodic metal band Before the Mourning.

Discography

With Machine Head

• Burn My Eyes (1994)
• The More Things Change... (1997)

With Soulfly

• Soulfly Digipak (1998) - appears on "Quilombo (Extreme Ragga Dub Remix)"
• Tribe (1999)

With Stereo Black

• Stereo Black (Demo) (2005)

With Roadrunner United

• The All-Star Sessions (2005)

With Once Human

• The Life I Remember (2015)

Albums produced

• K-Again - Memories Of An Evolution EP - (2003)
• FM Revolver - Leaving Madeira - (2005)
• Media Lab - Bleeding Memory - (2005)
• Contra - This Machine Kills - (2005)
• So Abused " Community Service" -(2005)
• Silent Civilian - Rebirth of the Temple - (2006)
• Twin Method - The Volume of Self - (2006)
• Cloud Nine - Quick As Lightning - (2006)
• Five Finger Death Punch - The Way of the Fist - (2007) mixing and mastering
• Dommin - Mend Your Misery - (2007)
• Divine Heresy - Bleed the Fifth - (2007), Bringer of Plagues (2009)
• W.A.S.P. - Dominator - (2007) mixing and mastering
• The Perfect Victim - TBA - (2008)
• Cavalera Conspiracy - Inflikted - (2008), Blunt Force Trauma - (2011)
• Gojira - The Way of All Flesh - (2008) - Engineered Drums, Mixed & Mastered album.
• Psycroptic - Ob(Servant) - (2008)
• Hamlet - La Puta y el Diablo - (2009) mixing and mastering
• Achozen - Achozen - (2009)
• Echoes of Eternity - As Shadows Burn - (2009)
• AIZEN - Winter in Hell (2009)
• Devildriver - Pray for Villains (2009)
• Incite - The Slaughter (2009)
• W.A.S.P. - Babylon (2009) mixing and mastering
• The Changing - For Obvious Reasons (2010)
• Soulfly - Omen (2010)
• Bonded by Blood (band) - The Aftermath (Bonded by Blood album) (2011)
• Channel Zero - Feed 'Em with a Brick (2011)
• Gojira - Sea Shepherd EP - (2011)
• Fear Factory - The Industrialist - (2012)
• Tensions Arise - Stand In Defiance - (2012)
• Incite - All Out War - (2012)
• Dagoba - "Post Mortem Nihil Est" - (2013)
• Devil You Know - The Beauty of Destruction - (2014)
• Septicflesh - Titan - (2014)
• Black Bomb A - "Comfortable Hate" - (2015)
• Overunit Machine - "Aldaraja" - (2016)
• Invidia - TBD (2016)