Chris Tsangarides

Christopher Andrew Tsangarides (17 August 1956 – 6 January 2018) was a British record producer, sound engineer, and mixer of Greek Cypriot origin. He was best known for his work with many heavy metal artists, including Gary Moore, Thin Lizzy, Judas Priest, Helloween, Anvil, Angra, Anthem, Yngwie Malmsteen, and Tygers of Pan Tang. Tsangarides worked with many pop and alternative artists as well, including Depeche Mode, Tom Jones, Concrete Blonde, and The Tragically Hip.

Chris Tsangarides learned to play piano as a child and studied trumpet at the Royal Academy of Music, before studying economics at college. He started his career in the music business in 1974, as an apprentice at Morgan Studios in London, one of the major independent recording studios in the UK at the time. Initially, he worked there as a tape operator and his first job as sound engineer was on Judas Priest's second album Sad Wings of Destiny in 1976. He engineered the British hit single "Naughty Naughty Naughty" in 1977, a pop song by Joy Sarney, whose success gave him much more work as engineer at the studio. Tsangarides continued working with Moore on live albums and produced Back to the Blues in 2001. When Morgan Studios 3 and 4 were acquired by Zomba Management in 1980 and rechristened Battery Studios, Tsangarides was hired by the new owners as part of a team of "in house producers" which included Robert John "Mutt" Lange, Martin Birch, Tony Platt and Nigel Green. and the Grammy nominated Painkiller by Judas Priest in 1990. He worked in those years with Black Sabbath,

Beside his work with metal bands, Tsangarides recorded songs for artists of other musical genres, In 1999, Tsangarides collaborated as a performer and songwriter with Shin Hae chul in the techno/metal act Monocrom. They made one album and did an arena tour in Shin's native Korea. Among others, New Model Army, Leanne Harte, Winters Bane and Glyder recorded there. Tsangarides is featured in Sacha Gervasi's documentary film Anvil! The Story of Anvil, released in 2009, while at work on the album This Is Thirteen, which Anvil recorded at Ecology Room Studios. The first release on the new label was Normalityville Horror by Spit Like This on 21 May.