Photo: Dirk Draeger
Hillsborough County, a municipality in Florida that contains the city of Tampa, has awarded a historical marker to Morrisound Recording, the legendary studio where your favorite death metal albums were recorded. According to the official post made by Morrisound’s Facebook account, the marker will be placed at the “site of our earlier studios on 56th St. in Temple Terrace, the site of some of the most well-known extreme metal recordings during the 1980’s and 90’s.”
To commemorate the commemoration, and because it’s expensive to have a plaque installed, Morrisound is selling T-shirts that feature the studio’s original logo on the front. The back features a list of the 20 best-selling death metal albums recorded at Morrisound, according to Soundscan data. It also includes the month and year that each album was recorded.
Decibel recently published The Scott Burns Sessions: A Life in Death Metal 198-1997, by David Gehlke, which chronicles the iconic extreme metal engineer’s time at Morrisound. The 400+ page book covers over 100 albums and 70 artists that Burns was involved with while at the studio, making it your best place to learn the history and see tons of unreleased photos. You can score it now in the Decibel shop.
