Dan Lancaster
Dan Lancaster is a London-based producer, songwriter, artist and mixing engineer. A former lead singer and guitarist of British post-hardcore band Proceed (which broke up in 2012), he is mostly self-taught and active in music production since the late 2000s. According to Lancaster, the band gave him inspiration to start working as a producer and audio engineer. He is notable for working in metal, rock aswel pop genres.
Lancaster has worked with artists which include Don Broco (producing and mixing most of their albums), Bring Me The Horizon (mixing songs on That's The Spirit & Amo and Post Human: Survival Horror & Music To Listen To... EPs), One OK Rock (producing and mixing their single Broken Heart Of Gold), Blink 182 (mixing songs California & Left Alone), Enter Shikari (mixing songs on Nothing Is True & Everything Is Possible) and Polyphia (mixing The Most Hated EP), amongst others. He also mixed Ed Sheeran's song, made in collaboration with Bring Me The Horizon, Bad Habits.
Lancaster has mixed Muse's Won't Stand Down off of the album Will of the People.
Touring with Muse
In 2022, Morgan Nicholls announced on his Twitter that he would not be part of the Will Of The People tour, wishing the band, the crew and the fans all the best.[1] As a result, Lancaster was utilised as Morgan's replacement on keys and synth, with his first show being on May 9th, 2022 at London's Eventim Apollo.
Like Morgan, Lancaster takes care over certain keyboard and vocoder parts, aswell as percussion and guitar. He also sings additional backing vocals, like the line "We can save you", audible on Compliance's live version, aswel as backing vocals on Assassin's Grand Omega Bosses edit, which were formerly sung by Wolstenholme. Additionally, he also plays two electronic drum pads on Map of the Problematique and Uprising, and does beatboxing during the solo on Compliance.
Lancaster seems to be handling more of the high range vocal parts for most songs compared to Wolstenholme but mostly sings in the mid range when Wolstenholme is singing in the higher ranges. For example in Time is Running Out, Lancaster sings the lows when Wolstenholme is singing mid range. Lancaster seems to have a higher vocal range than Morgan thus being more flexible. An example of this can be heard during Knights of Cydonia during the Chorus.
See also
Go back to Muse
Go back to Will of the People