Randy Slaugh

Randy Slaugh is an American string arranger, record producer and composer based in Salt Lake City, Utah. He is known for his orchestration work with Periphery, Architects, Devin Townsend, TesseracT, Misery Signals, and Skyharbor, and as a member of the cross-continental music group White Moth Black Butterfly. 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 in 2004 and later went on to study communication and advertising at Brigham Young University - Idaho. While in Idaho, Slaugh connected with audio engineer Ken Dudley (Hollywood Undead, John 5) and started learning more professional levels of production. In 2010, Slaugh connected with the band Periphery at some of their early shows. 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. 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. Later that year, he went on to work with I Killed the Prom Queen, Devin Townsend, Architects, We Shot the Moon, and Intervals. 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. He co-produced the group's album Atone, as well as their Rising Sun (EP), which were released in 2017 and 2018 respectively via Kscope. Devin Townsend's Z², which Slaugh did orchestration and engineering on, won the Metal/Hard Music Album of the Year at the 2015 Juno Awards. The song "The Price is Wrong" from Periphery's Periphery III: Select Difficulty was nominated for Best Metal Performance at the 2017 Grammy Awards. Skyharbor's Guiding Lights was named Best Album: Critic's Choice in Rolling Stone's 2015 Metal Awards, and Architects' Lost Forever // Lost Together won Best Album in the Relentless Kerrang Awards.