26 Facts About Dan Lancaster

Dan Lancaster is a producer, mixer, songwriter and artist from the UK.

Dan Lancaster is best known for his mixing and production work in contemporary rock music, and has worked with prominent global acts such as Blink-182,5 Seconds Of Summer, Bring Me the Horizon, One OK Rock, Lower Than Atlantis, Don Broco, Muse and A Day to Remember.

Dan Lancaster is a three-time Grammy nominee for his work with Bring Me the Horizon and Blink-182, and he has twice been nominated for "Best Producer" at the Heavy Music Awards.

Dan Lancaster has cited Proceed as the inspiration behind his career in production, as he began self-producing their material which eventually led to producing for other artists.

In 2012, Dan Lancaster worked with Don Broco, co-writing, producing and mixing their debut full-length album Priorities.

The success of this album lead to Dan Lancaster starting to collaborate with acts from outside the UK.

Dan Lancaster contributed mixing to Blink-182's seventh album, California, which reached number one in both the UK Albums Chart and US Billboard 200, and is certified Gold in Australia, the United States and United Kingdom.

Dan Lancaster received his first Grammy Award nomination for his work on California when it was nominated for "Best Rock Album" at the 2017 Awards.

Between 2016 and 2017, Dan Lancaster worked with a number of artists, branching out into more mainstream music than his traditional clients in rock music.

Dan Lancaster co-wrote and produced Nina Nesbitt's "Chewing Gum" single from her Modern Love EP, then contributed production to the Good Charlotte albumYouth Authority, as well as co-writing and producing three tracks for Fenech-Soler's third album Zilla.

Dan Lancaster then worked with Don Broco for the third album running, recording, co-writing, producing, and mixingTechnology, released 2 February 2018.

In 2019 Dan Lancaster grew a particularly close relationship with Bring Me the Horizon.

When Bring Me the Horizon were commissioned to write a song for the soundtrack to Hideo Kojima's video game Death Stranding, Dan Lancaster was again drafted in to provide additional production and mixing to "Ludens", all of which was completed in a mixture of a studio and hotel room in Bologna, Italy while the band were on tour, with a deadline of just a few hours at times in the mixing stage.

Dan Lancaster continued to work with Don Broco by mixing the standalone single "HALF MAN HALF GOD" as well co-writing, producing and mixing their super-group single "ACTION" which featured Takahiro Moriuchi, Tyler Carter, Caleb Shomo and Tilian Peason.

In 2020, Dan Lancaster began his year by working with Bring Me the Horizon, this time mixing the lead single "Parasite Eve" from their October 2020 EP Post Human: Survival Horror.

Dan Lancaster was the subject of an episode of a documentary that the band filmed to showcase the challenges of making music remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown measures put in place in the UK.

In June 2020 Dan Lancaster worked with Oli Sykes of Bring Me the Horizon and Brazilian model Alissa Salls to produce and mix "Like", the debut single of Salls' artist project Alissic.

Me and Dan Lancaster are totally in understanding of each other.

Since the end of his previous project with post-hardcore band Proceed in 2012, Dan Lancaster began posting clips of his own solo music on his Instagram in 2016.

Dan Lancaster followed "Move a Mountain" with single "Wild Life" in September 2018, before his debut solo headline show at Oslo in London in October 2018.

In May 2019, Dan Lancaster embarked on his first tours as a solo artist.

Dan Lancaster supported Lower Than Atlantis' on their farewell UK tour, with performances at Manchester Academy, Birmingham O2 Academy and Brixton Academy in London.

At the Birmingham leg of the tour, Dan Lancaster was brought in by the group to be their emergency stand-in vocalist for the show, after singer Mike Duce had lost his voice at the show in Manchester the night before.

Dan Lancaster followed this tour immediately by supporting long-term collaborators One OK Rock in mainland Europe on their May 2019 tour with fellow support act Anteros.

Dan Lancaster often appeared on stage with the band during their performances to perform songs he'd co-written with the group, such as "Taking Off".

In May 2021, Dan Lancaster signed a new publishing deal with BMG, to allow him to continue to write and produce for other artists as well as continue to work on his own music.