Avast! Recording Company

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2022}} {{Short description|Music recording studio in Seattle, Washington}} {{Infobox record label  | name = Avast! Recording Company | image_name = | image_size = | image_bg = | parent = | founded = {{Start date|1990}} | founder = Stuart Hallerman | status = Active | distributor = | genre = Rock, grunge, hard rock, metal | country = | location = Seattle, Washington, U.S. | url =  }}

'''Avast! Recording Company''' is a music recording studio in Seattle, Washington.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.avastrecording.com/|title=Home|website=Avast! Recording Co.}}</ref><ref name=to>[https://books.google.com/books?id=foViXo_JV9YC&pg=PA154 "Stuart Hallerman: Avast! Studio"], ''Tape Op, Book 2'', {{ISBN|0977990303}}, 2010, pp. 154-155</ref> It was established in 1990 by producer Stuart Hallerman,<ref>{{Cite web|title = Stuart Hallerman {{!}} Credits {{!}} AllMusic|url = http://www.allmusic.com/artist/stuart-hallerman-mn0000921318|website = AllMusic|accessdate = November 10, 2015}}</ref> who was soundman for Soundgarden and involved in the grunge movement coming out of Seattle at the time.<ref>{{Cite book|title = Everybody Loves Our Town: A History of Grunge|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=TggJYMdDaPkC|publisher = Faber & Faber|date = September 8, 2011|isbn = 978-0-571-27650-9|language = en|first = Mark|last = Yarm|page = 56}}</ref> The first CD released by Avast! was ''Crime Pays When Pigs Die'' by Nate Mendel and Eric Akre's Christ on a Crutch project,<ref name=to /> and the company has since worked with a number of other artists, including Screaming Trees, Soundgarden, Built to Spill, Steve Fisk, Bikini Kill, and Supersuckers.

The so-called "Avast! Classic" studio, located at 1325 N 46th St., operated through 2008,<ref>{{Cite web|title = Best Escape From A&R Reps: Stuart Hallerman|url = http://www.seattleweekly.com/2007-08-01/diversions/best-escape-from-a-r-reps-stuart-hallerman/|website = Seattle Weekly|accessdate = November 10, 2015|date = July 31, 2007|first = Aja|last = Pecknold|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160130134914/http://www.seattleweekly.com/2007-08-01/diversions/best-escape-from-a-r-reps-stuart-hallerman/|archive-date = January 30, 2016|url-status = dead}}</ref> and the present studio was set up in 2005 at 601 NW 80th St. and features two separate units: Studios A & B. The use of this building as a studio dates back to 1978, and some rooms are still as they originally were, while others have been modernized.

== Recording history == *1990: ''Crime Pays When Pigs Die'' by Christ on a Crutch *1990: "Gravity Bill" by Supersuckers *1990: "Room A Thousand Years Wide" b/w "H.I.V. Baby" by Soundgarden *1990: "Rest In Pieces" by R.I.P. *1991: "Rusty Cage" by Soundgarden *1992: ''Steel Mill'' by Willard *1992: ''Pussy Whipped'' by Bikini Kill *1992: ''Frenching the Bully'' by The Gits *1992: ''Chow Down'' by 7 Year Bitch *1993: ''Earth 2: Special Low Frequency Version'' by Earth *1994: ''New Plastic Ideas'' by Unwound *1994: [https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Vulgaris/Vulgaris/1087914 Vulgaris] by [https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Vulgaris/3540515117 Vulgaris] *1995: "Fell On Black Days" by Soundgarden *1996: ''The American Fadeout'' by Stuntman *1997: ''The Lonesome Crowded West'' by Modest Mouse *1997: ''Perfect from Now On'' by Built to Spill *1998: ''The Hot Rock'' by Sleater-Kinney<ref>{{Cite AV media notes |title=The Hot Rock |author=Sleater-Kinney |date=1999 |type=CD booklet |publisher=Kill Rock Stars |location=Olympia, Washington |id=KRS #321}}</ref> *2001: ''Space Country'' by Neo *2003: ''Transatlanticism'' by Death Cab For Cutie *2005: ''Plans'' by Death Cab For Cutie *2006: ''Everything All the Time'' by Band Of Horses *2007: ''Cease To Begin'' by Band Of Horses *2007: ''Fleet Foxes'' by Fleet Foxes *2008: ''We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed'' by Los Campesinos! *2008: ''The Lucky Ones'' by Mudhoney *2012: ''The Heist'' by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis *2014: ''Primitive and Deadly'' by Earth<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.factmag.com/2014/05/30/earth-recruit-mark-lanegan-for-tenth-album-primitive-and-deadly-two-reissues-also-on-the-way/ | title=Earth recruit Mark Lanegan for tenth album Primitive and Deadly, two reissues also on the way | publisher=Fact | date=May 30, 2014 | accessdate=August 30, 2014}}</ref> *2015: ''Twelvefour'' by The Paper Kites *2020: ''Making a Door Less Open'' by Car Seat Headrest *2023: ''Routine For Now'' by The Whags *2024: ''Rose Peak'' by Rose Peak

== See also == *Grunge

== References == {{reflist}}

== External links == *[http://www.avastrecording.com/ AvastRecording.com]

Category:Recording studios in Washington (state) Category:Companies based in Seattle