Michael Wagener
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Michael Wagener is a music producer, mixer, and engineer from Hamburg, Germany, best known for his work with many top hard rock and heavy metal bands in the late 80's. Wagener's works have sold over fifty million albums worldwide. [1] Wagener began working as an audio engineer in Hamburg in 1972, after leaving the band Accept. Through a friendship with singer Don Dokken, began doing live sound. Wagener moved to Los Angeles in 1979 to produce the first Dokken album, and would go on to produce such seminal albums as Skid Row's self titled debut, which sold five million copies in the US alone, and Ozzy Osbourne's No More Tears, which sold seven million in the US. Wagener also mixed Metallica's 1986 classic Master of Puppets.
Wagener has produced or mixed platinum selling albums by Mötley Crüe, Overkill, Accept, Great White, Stryper - Soldiers Under Command, Poison, Keel - Keel, Alice Cooper, Extreme, Megadeth, and Janet Jackson, and multi platinum albums with Ozzy Osbourne, Dokken - Under Lock and Key, Metallica, White Lion - Pride & Big Game, and Skid Row - Skid Row & Slave to the Grind.
