Juan 'Punchy' Gonzalez

Media:Juan "Punchy" Gonzalez is a record producer/artist who has worked with many talents including, Morbid_Angel, Christian_Death, Lover of Sin, Nile, and many others. He was also the guitarist/producer of his own band, Diet of Worms official site .

Juan Carlos Gonzalez was born in Tampa, FL and is of Spanish decent. His family figures prominently in the history of Ybor City, Tampa’s Latin Quarter founded by Cuban, Spanish, and Italian immigrants. His father, Rene Gonzalez, is director of the Spanish Lyric Theatre: the oldest theatrical organization in Tampa Bay.

Juan “Punchy” Gonzalez was raised in the theatre and became a stage manager by the age of 13. Gonzalez then became an audio engineer and started touring full time in his mid-twenties. Punchy is a member of the International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employees (IATSE) Local Chapter 321 and has worked with a range of artists from Broadway to Norwegian Death Metal acts.

Gonzalez has been the owner and operator of D.O.W. Studios in Mango, FL since 2003. In 2005, Gonzalez married Tampa socialite Jennifer Jolly in Ybor City. The wedding garnered press because of the unusual guest list which included generations of Tampa socialites, business leaders, and numerous Death Metal musicians, including known Satanists who attended the Catholic service.1

DOW Studios expanded in 2006 to include video production. The first music video treatment for Nile’s “Papyrus Containing the Spell to Preserve its Possessor from He who is in the Water”2 was written by Jennifer Jolly Gonzalez and produced by Punchy Productions. Punchy Productions went on to produce a yet unreleased video for King’s X and several live videos filmed for Alexa Ray Joel.