Brian McTernan

American record producer

Brian McTernan
McTernan performing with Battery in 1998
Background information
Origin	Baltimore
Genres	Hardcore punk youth crew straight edge
Occupation(s)	musician, producer
Instruments	guitar
Years active	1990–present
Associated acts	Battery Biology

Brian McTernan is an American musician and record producer from Baltimore. As a musician, McTernan served as lead vocalist for hardcore outfit Battery, guitar player for Ashes, and bass/guitar player for Biology.

McTernan operates a studio called Salad Days in Baltimore, titled after the Minor Threat song of the same name and has produced albums for a number of notable artists, including Emarosa, Darkest Hour and Hot Water Music.He was voted to be one of the 50 most influential people in Maryland by The Daily Record.^[1]

Contents

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  1 Early life
  


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  2 Musician
  


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  3 Producer
  


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  4 Recordings produced
  


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  5 References
  

Early life

McTernan was born in Bethesda, Maryland. During his youth, he spend some time in a psychiatric hospital due to depression, which he addressed on Battery's 2017 song "My Last Breath".^[2] He dropped out of high-school at the age on 17 to tour with Battery.^[3]

He comes from a family with many hardcore punk music ties. His brother Mike McTernan is the singer for Damnation A.D. and When Tigers Fight. His brother Peter played drums for Good Clean Fun for a short period of time.^{[citation needed]}

Musician

McTernan joined Ken Olden, Matt Squire, Toshi Yano and Zac Eller to form Battery in 1990. Originally called "Fury", the band released their first record in 1991 on Deadlock Records.The band broke up in 1998 but reunited briefly in 2012. In 2017, the band reunited for good, releasing a new compilation, For The Rejected By The Rejected, and embarked on a tour of Europe.^[2]

McTernan was also a songwriter and guitar player for the rock band Miltown, which was signed to Warner Brothers. Miltown broke up in the studio before the debut album was completed.

In 2005, he joined From Autumn To Ashes drummer Francis Mark, Every Time I Die bassist Josh Newton and Cornbread Compton of Engine Down as a bassist to form Biology. Signed to Vagrant Records, the band released one album, Making Moves, produced by McTernan, in 2005 and broke up in 2008.

Producer

In 1995, McTernan moved to Boston to be near his future wife who studied at Harvard University. He started his recording studio "Salad Days", naming it after a song by Minor Threat from their 1985 EP of the same name, in the basement of the house he shared with six roommates.^[3] The first recording produced by McTernan was the eponymous 1995 EP by New York City based post-hardcore band Texas Is the Reason for Revelation Records.

In 2000, McTernan and his wife moved to Beltsville, Maryland, where the studio was again located in the basement of their house which also housed the musicians who lived there during the recording sessions.^[3] McTernan specialized in recording up-and-coming unsigned artists who, when later signed by major labels, told them about McTernan's work, the word-of-mouth advertising gaining him contracts from major indie labels such as Equal Vision Records, Vagrant Records, Epitaph Records or Fueled by Ramen.^[3]

At the insistence of his wife, McTernan moved the studio again in 2005 by converting an empty house in the Fells Point neighborhood of Baltimore into a state-of-the-art recording studio with spacious living quarters where the musicians still live in McTernan's studio while recording, a rarity in modern times.^[3]

Recordings produced

Year	Artist	Album title	Label	Notes	References
1995	Texas is the Reason	Texas is the Reason	Revelation Records	EP
1995	Frodus	F-letter	Double Deuce Records		[4]
1997	The Ducky Boys	No Gettin Out	GMM Records
1997	30 Seconds Over Tokyo	All Ages Pie Eating Contest	Beer City Records	EP
1997	Cast Iron Hike	Watch It Burn	Victory Records
1998	In My Eyes	The Difference Between	Revelation Records
1998	Cave In	Beyond Hypothermia	Hydra Head
1998	Converge	Petitioning the Empty Sky	Equal Vision Records
1999	Snapcase	Snapcase vs. Boysetsfire	Equal Vision Records	Boysetsfire tracks produced by Morgan Walker
1999	Drowningman	How They Light Cigarettes In Prison	Revelation Records
1999	Piebald	When Life Hands You Lemons	Hydra Head
1999	Frodus	And We Washed Our Weapons In The Sea	Fueled By Ramen
2000	The Explosion	Flash Flash Flash	Jade Tree
2000	Cave In	Jupiter	Hydra Head
2000	Drowningman	Rock and Roll Killing Machine	Revelation Records
2000	Darkest Hour	The Mark of the Judas	MIA Records
2000	The Movielife	This Time Next Year	Revelation Records
2001	Fairweather	If They Move... Kill Them	Equal Vision
2001	Strike Anywhere	Change is a Sound	Jade Tree
2001	Jersey	Definition	Fueled By Ramen
2001	Hot Water Music	A Flight and a Crash	Epitaph Records		[5]
2001	The Movielife	Has a Gambling Problem	Drive-Thru Records	EP
2002	The Minor Times	Chris Chambers Never Misses	Hex Records	EP
2002	Thrice	The Illusion of Safety	Sub City		[3]
2002	Snapcase	End Transmission	Victory Records
2002	Hot Water Music	Caution	No Idea
2002	Engine Down	Demure			[6]
2002	Recover	Ceci n'est pas recover	Fiddler Records	EP
2002	Hot Rod Circuit	Sorry About Tomorrow	Vagrant Records
2003	Snapcase	Bright Flashes	Victory Records
2003	Strike Anywhere	Exit English	Jade Tree	Co-produced by Strike Anywhere
2003	The Movielife	Forty Hour Train Back to Penn	Drive-Thru Records, MCA
2003	Thrice	The Artist in the Ambulance	Island Records		[3]
2004	Hot Water Music	The New What Next	Epitaph Records
2004	Moments In Grace	Moonlight Survived	Atlantic Records/Salad Days Records		[7]
2005	Thrice	If We Could Only See Us Now	Island Records	EP of b-sides and live performances, includes DVD
2005	Bane	The Note	Equal Vision Records		[8]
2005	June	If You Speak Any Faster	Victory Records
2005	Biology	Making Moves	Vagrant
2005	Scary Kids Scaring Kids	The City Sleeps In Flames	Immortal Records
2005	Circa Survive	Juturna	Equal Vision Records		[9]
2005	The Loved Ones	The Loved Ones	Jade Tree	EP
2005	With Honor	This Is Our Revenge			[10]
2006	Darkest Hour	So Sedated, So Secure (re-issue)	Victory Records
2006	Strike Anywhere	Dead FM	Fat Wreck Chords
2006	The Draft	In a Million Pieces	Epitaph Records
2006	The Loved Ones	Keep Your Heart	Fat Wreck Chords
2006	YouInSeries	Outside We Are Fine	Equal Vision Records
2006	Moneen	The Red Tree	Vagrant Records
2006	Roses Are Red	What Became Of Me	Trustkill Records
2006	Senses Fail	Still Searching	Vagrant Records
2007	The Graduate	Anhedonia	Icon Records		[11]
2007	From Autumn to Ashes	Holding A Wolf By The Ears	Vagrant Records
2007	Circa Survive	On Letting Go	Equal Vision Records		[9]
2007	Hidden In Plain View	Resolution	Drive-Thru Records
2007	The Bled	Silent Treatment	Vagrant Records
2007	Thee Armada	EP Singles	Foundation Recordings	EP
2008	Destroy the Runner	I, Lucifer	Solid State Records
2008	Everlea	Everlea	Glassnote Records
2008	Sky Eats Airplane	Sky Eats Airplane	Equal Vision Records
2008	Senses Fail	Life is Not a Waiting Room	Vagrant Records
2008	Irrelevant	New Guilt	Resist Records
2008	Insite es:Insite	Esperando A Que Amanezca	Movic Records
2008	The Mostly Dead	Slightly/Alive	Mighty Science Records
2009	Flood of Red	Leaving Everything Behind	Dark City Records		[12]
2009	The Loved Ones	Distractions	Fat Wreck Chords	EP
2009	Darkest Hour	The Eternal Return	Victory Records
2009	The Sleeping	What It Takes	Victory Records
2009	Port Amoral	Villains	Roadrunner Records
2009	This Time Next Year	Road Maps & Heart Attacks	Equal Vision Records
2009	Harvard	The Inevitable and I	Enjoy The Ride Records
2009	Emarosa	Emarosa	Rise Records
2009	Life On Repeat	As I Grew	Equal Vision Records
2010	We Are The Ocean	Cutting Our Teeth	Hassle Records
2010	House Vs. Hurricane	Perspectives	Shock Records
2010	The Graduate	Only Every Time	Razor and Tie		[11]
2010	In Fear and Faith	Imperial	Rise Records
2010	Senses Fail	The Fire	Vagrant Records
2011	Dave Hause	Resolutions	Paper + Plastick
2011	Set Your Goals	Burning at Both Ends	Epitaph Records
2011	Balance and Composure	Separation	No Sleep Records
2011	Fireworks	Gospel	Triple Crown Records
2011	Insite	Ahora Soy Yo Contra El Mundo	Movic Records
2011	Polar Bear Club	Clash Battle Guilt Pride	Bridge 9 Records
2012	I Am Empire	Anchors	Tooth and Nail Records
2012	División Minúscula	División	Universal Records
2012	Pinsky	Weekends	Sinking Ship Records
2012	ADALIE	Actions	Notlit/Vessel Recordings
2013	Senses Fail	Renacer			[13]
2014	FURY	Demo	Moshers Delight Records
2014	Angel Du$t	A.D.	REACT! Records
2014	Emarosa	Versus	Rise Records
2014	Diamond Youth	Shake	Topshelf Records	EP	[14]
2015	Turnstile	Non-Stop Feeling	Reaper Records
2017	Have Mercy	Make The Best of It	Hopeless Records		[15]

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