He additionally labored with French band Gojira and thrash icons Slayer throughout his profession at Rick Sales Entertainment Group.
Longtime music supervisor Nick John died on Saturday, following a battle with pancreatic most cancers.
John had labored at Rick Sales Entertainment Group for greater than 20 years, the place he labored with Slayer, Mastodon and Gojira.
“Thank you in your steerage, your knowledge, your by no means ending laborious work and dedication to Mastodon, all the time pushing and reaching turning over each stone to verify we had been all the time protected and all the time had each alternative any of us may dream of,” wrote Mastodon on Facebook. “Thank you for making your self out there morning midday and evening to deal with each disaster or state of affairs that ever got here up. Thank you for being so passionate and believing in us with such enthusiasm that we thought-about you a part of the band. Thank you in your calm demeanor, your stage head and your sharp humorousness. Thank you for displaying all of us the right way to work our telephones and computer systems with unbelievable persistence by way of NJ options. Thank you in your smile and your infectious snort however most of all, thanks in your unconditional love and friendship, we love you very a lot and are going to overlook you greater than we all know. We love you Nick John. RIP.”
Gojira additionally shared a press release on Facebook, saying, “We misplaced an distinctive human being this morning. Our supervisor and expensive good friend Nick John. We carry him in our hearts. Our ideas go to Colleen John, his spouse and to all who cherished him.”
John started his profession within the music enterprise within the early 1990s as an intern at Rick Rubin‘s Def Jam Recordings. Working with Slayer, he earned government producer credit for the band’s God Hates Us All, War on the Warfield and Soundtrack to the Apocalypse albums, in addition to the Still Reigning DVD.
He signed Mastodon in 2006, serving to the band go on to 5 Grammy nominations and a finest steel efficiency win this yr for Sultan’s Curse. In 2012, he began working with the French steel band Gojira, who landed two Grammy nominations in 2016.
Late final month, Mastodon canceled its tour with Dinosaur Jr. “on account of a vital state of affairs of a member of the Mastodon household,” in keeping with a press release launched by the group. The tour had been scheduled to begin final Saturday.
See some social media remembrances from Brann Dailor and Brent Hinds of Mastodon, Gojira and others within the steel group beneath.
Rock in Peace Nick John. Together with Rick Sales you made many many steel desires come true. Life definitely might be terribly unfair. My heartfelt condolences to your loved ones and @mastodonmusic + all at RSE Group previous + current — https://t.co/QikQSeuTvy
— Sebastian Bach (@sebastianbach) September 8, 2018
