Randy Slaugh

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]

Randy Slaugh
Randy Slaugh conducting the choir session for TesseracT's Sonder
Background information
Birth name	Randall James Slaugh
Born	(1987-10-03) October 3, 1987 (age 37)
Origin	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
Occupation(s)	Music producer, composer, arranger
Instruments	Piano, synthesizer, guitar, bass, drums, percussion, saxophone
Years active	2010–present
Labels	Kscope
Website	www.randyslaugh.com

Life and career

Early years

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

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

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

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

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

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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External links

• Randy Slaugh on AllMusic
• Randy Slaugh at IMDb