Chris Shepard is an American recording engineer and general manager at the Chicago Recording Company

Chicago Recording Company

Chicago Recording Company, or CRC, is a recording studio in Chicago, Illinois, founded in 1975.Boasting twelve studios and a DVD authoring suite, CRC is the largest recording company in the midwest...

. He is best known for his work with KMFDM

KMFDM

KMFDM is an industrial band led by German multi-instrumentalist Sascha Konietzko, who founded the group in 1984 as a performance art project...

, having engineered some of their most popular albums. He also worked on some of Sascha Konietzko

Sascha Konietzko

Sascha Konietzko , also known as Sascha K and Käpt'n K, is a German musician and producer. He is the founder, frontman, and "anchor" of industrial rock band KMFDM. Konietzko jokingly purports himself to be the father of industrial rock...

's side projects. In addition, he has worked with many other bands, including PIG, Treponem Pal

Treponem Pal

Treponem Pal is a French industrial metal band formed in 1986. Early tracks such as "Embodiment of Frustration" mix together the relentless hypnotic heaviness popularized by Swans and bursts of thrash metal and hardcore...

, Prong, Kidneythieves

Kidneythieves

Kidneythieves is an American alternative and industrial rock band led by Free Dominguez and Bruce Somers . Also present in the band are Chris Schleyer , Christian Dorris , and Sean Sellers .- History :...

, Wilco

Wilco

Wilco is an American alternative rock band based in Chicago, Illinois. The band was formed in 1994 by the remaining members of alternative country group Uncle Tupelo following singer Jay Farrar's departure. Wilco's lineup has changed frequently, with only singer Jeff Tweedy and bassist John...

, Smashing Pumpkins, Peter Murphy

Peter Murphy (musician)

Peter John Murphy is an English rock vocalist. He was the vocalist of the rock group Bauhaus, and later went on to release a number of solo albums, such as Deep and Love Hysteria...

, and Incubus

Incubus (band)

Incubus is an American rock band from Calabasas, California. The band was formed in 1991 by vocalist Brandon Boyd, lead guitarist Mike Einziger, and drummer Jose Pasillas while enrolled in high school and later expanded to include bassist Alex "Dirk Lance" Katunich, and Gavin "DJ Lyfe" Koppell;...

.

With KMFDM

• Angst (1993)
• Naïve/Hell To Go (1994)
• Nihil
  Nihil
  Nihil is the eighth album by the German industrial rock band KMFDM, released in 1995. It was recorded in Seattle, Washington. It sold over 120,000 copies....
  
  (1995)
• Xtort
  Xtort
  Xtort, sometimes written XTOЯT, is the ninth studio album by industrial rock group KMFDM. It was released June 25, 1996 on Wax Trax!/TVT...
  
  (1996)
• Rules
  Rules (song)
  -1996 release:-2009 7" reissue:-Personnel:*Sascha Konietzko - vocals, programming*Gunter Schulz - guitars*Dorona Alberti - vocals *Chris Connelly - vocals *Mark Durante - guitar *Bill Rieflin - drums *Cheryl Wilson - vocals...
  
  (1996)
• Symbols
  Symbols (album)
  The tenth KMFDM album is titled with a string of five unpronounceable, non-alphabetic symbols , but usually cataloged as Symbols. Another title used on the KMFDM website, circa 2001 was Anger...
  
  (1997)
• Agogo
  Agogo (album)
  Agogo is a rarities album by KMFDM. Agogo comprises numerous tracks either previously unreleased, released on other compilations, or otherwise not widely available.-Track listing:...
  
  (1998)
• Adios (1999)
• Attak
  Attak
  Attak, the first KMFDM album following a three-year hiatus, was released in 2002 on Metropolis Records and is the group's twelfth studio album overall. It was recorded in Seattle, Washington...
  
  (2002)
• WWIII
  WWIII (album)
  WWIII is KMFDM's thirteenth studio album. It follows the common KMFDM practice of naming albums with five-letter words. This is KMFDM's only release on Sanctuary Records. Lyrically, the album is very political. The songs primarily attack George W. Bush's presidency, various US wars in the Middle...
  
  (2003)
• Blitz
  Blitz (album)
  Blitz is industrial rock group KMFDM's sixteenth studio album. It was released on March 24, 2009, on the band's record label KMFDM Records and Metropolis Records. It also marks the first use of five letter song titles and a five letter album title since WWIII. "Bait and Switch" contains lyrics from...
  
  (2009)

Other work

• Excessive Force
  Excessive Force
  Excessive Force is a musical side project started in 1991 by Sascha Konietzko of KMFDM and Buzz McCoy of My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult.-History:...
  
   – Gentle Death
  Gentle Death
  Gentle Death is a 1993 album by Excessive Force, a KMFDM side project. On November 6, 2007 this album was re-released with remastered audio as well as the Blitzkrieg single as bonus tracks.-Track listing:-Personnel:...
  
  (1993)
• Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
  Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
  Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness is the third album by American alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins, released October 24, 1995 on Virgin Records. Produced by frontman Billy Corgan with Flood and Alan Moulder, the twenty-eight-track album was released as a two-disc CD and triple LP...
  
  (1995)
• Wilco
  Wilco
  Wilco is an American alternative rock band based in Chicago, Illinois. The band was formed in 1994 by the remaining members of alternative country group Uncle Tupelo following singer Jay Farrar's departure. Wilco's lineup has changed frequently, with only singer Jeff Tweedy and bassist John...
  
   – Being There
  Being There (album)
  Being There is the second album by Chicago-based rock band Wilco. Despite its release as a nineteen-song double album, Being There was sold at a single album price due to a deal between lead singer Jeff Tweedy and Reprise Records...
  
  (1996)
• MDFMK
  MDFMK
  MDFMK was an industrial rock band formed by two members of KMFDM, Sascha Konietzko and Tim Skold. Lucia Cifarelli, formerly of the band Drill, later rounded out the trio.-History:...
  
   – MDFMK
  MDFMK (album)
  MDFMK is an album released by industrial rock band MDFMK on March 28, 2000. It was the only studio album released by the band before it was discontinued and reformed once again as KMFDM.- Track listing :...
  
  (2000)