PROJECT: FAILING FLESH's GUTIERREZ 'Mixing' Business With Pleasure
February 14, 2007Mike DiCicco of The Connection Newspapers reports:
The town of Vienna [Virginia] is known for certain businesses, such as restaurants, salons, the 17 banks that line Maple Avenue, the specialty shops on Church Street. But a different kind of business is being carried out underground — in the basement of Kevin Gutierrez's house on Brian Drive. This is the home of Assembly Line Studios, where, for 10 years, tracks with titles like "Necessary Evil" and "The Funeral Parlor's Secret" have been captured, crafted and unleashed.
Although music from genres as diverse as pop, country and punk has filtered through Gutierrez's mixers, his specialties, he said, are hard rock and heavy metal. "I grew up listening to all the heavy metal stuff — KISS, METALLICA, SLAYER, VENOM, TYGERS OF PAN TANG," he said. Then there was the "crazy underground stuff." He still plays guitar, drums and bass for the experimental death metal band PROJECT: FAILING FLESH.
Gutierrez, 36, said he started out freelancing at various studios, but, "Eventually, I got sick of working for other people." Recording gear had also become more affordable, so he set up a small home studio in Dale City, where he was living at the time, and began to conduct a recording session every week or two, as the opportunity arose. Business picked up quickly. Now, he said, "This is full-time and then some, trust me." Three or four bands may come through the studio in a day.
Read the entire article at www.connectionnewspapers.com.
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