Simon Efemey
Simon Efemey is an English record producer and sound engineer, most noted for his work with metal and hard rock groups, including Napalm Death, Paradise Lost, Obituary, Amorphis, Deceased and The Wildhearts. He has also provided live sound mixing with bands including The Wonder Stuff, Jesus Jones, Diamond Head, Orson, Obituary and Napalm Death.[1]
Efemy was instrumental in setting up the recording studio and rehearsal rooms in Stourbridge known as Wreckless and later on The Icicle Works, providing a local source of affordable practice space and recording facilities for local amateur bands. During this time Efemey also participated in musical performances, fronting acts such as Stinkin’ Fish.
Efemey was the cover star of the withdrawn sleeve design for The Wildhearts' 1993 single "Greetings from Shitsville", on which he was depicted defecating into a pita bread held by the four band members.[2]
Dead Wretched – No Hope For Anyone EP(Inferno Records)
Ned's Atomic Dustbin – The Ingredients EP (1990, Chapter 22, 12")
The Sand Kings – Circles (1990, Longbeach, Single)
The Wonder Stuff – Will the Circle be Unbroken from Welcome to the Cheap Seats EP (1992, Polydor)
Paradise Lost – (1993, Metal Mind Records/1994, Music For Nations) (producer, engineer, mix)
Icon
– Massive Noise EP (1993, Bronze)
Wolfsbane
Paradise Lost – Seals The Sense (1994, Music For Nations)
– Transfusion (1995, Music For Nations)
Apes, Pigs & Spacemen
Cancer – Black Faith (1995, EastWest)
Dearly Beheaded – In A Darkened Room (1995, Music For Nations)
Paradise Lost – (1995, Relativity/Music For Nations) (producer, mix)
Draconian Times
Paradise Lost – "The Last Time" (1995, Music For Nations)
The Wildhearts – Five tracks from (1995, EastWest)
P.H.U.Q.
The Wildhearts Just In Lust EP (1995, EastWest)
The Wishplants – Coma
Hardware – Race,Religion & Hate (1996, Bulletproof/EMI Records)
The Wildhearts – Two tracks from (1996, Round Records) (mix)
Fishing for Luckies
– Snapshot (1997, Music For Nations)
Apes, Pigs & Spacemen
Entwined – Dancing Under Glass (1998, Earache Records) (producer)
Paradise Lost – Eight tracks from Reflection (1998, Music For Nations)
– Evolution, Devolution, Revolution (1998)
RAMP
Meathook Seed – Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth (B.I.B.L.E.) (1999, Dreamcatcher Records) (producer, mix)
– Foreshadow (1998, Uniao Lisboa)
INHUMAN
– Enslaved + Condemned (2000, Hall of Sermon) (producer, mix, mastering)
Love Like Blood
Napalm Death – (2000, Dreamcatcher Records)
Enemy of the Music Business
Area 54 – No Visible Scars (2000, Dreamcatcher Records) (mix)
Amorphis – Alone (2001, Spinefarm Records)
Amorphis – (2001, Spinefarm Records) (producer, engineer)
Am Universum
– One Inch God (2001, Dreamcatcher Records)
Defenestration
Napalm Death – (2002, Feto Records/2003, Spitfire Records)
Order of the Leech
Amorphis – Six tracks from Chapters (2003, Relapse Records)
The Wildhearts – Tracks from Riff After Riff (2004, )
Gearhead Records
Deceased – Supernatural Addiction/Behind the Mourner's Veil (2005, Relapse Records)
Skullshifter – Here in Hell (2005, self-released) (mix)
Orson – "Everything" and "Jesse" from No Tomorrow EP (2006, Universal Records)
Blacklight Pioneer – Tracks (2012) (producer)
The Arbour Doves – Album (2013) (producer)
The Wonder Stuff – 30 Goes Around the Sun, Album (2016)
The Wonder Stuff – Upstaged, Album (Mix) (2018)
Cancer – Shadow Gripped (Peaceville Records) Album (2018)
The Wonder Stuff - Better Being Lucky, Album (2019)