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Vomitory was formed in 1989 by guitarist Urban Gustafsson during the birth of the brutal Swedish Death Metal scene. Ever since, they have constantly and brutally delivered straightforward grinding Death Metal. While being a part of the phenomenon that was the Swedish Death Metal scene, the early and most important influences were spelled Sodom, Slayer,…

Today, we are announcing our sponsorship of the Frets of Fury tour. Greek metal band Firewind is going on tour on October 9th with Arsis, Nightrage & White Wizzard. Firewind features Gus G. fresh off his tour with Ozzy Osbourne and ready to provide a show to remember for his fans. Gus G. states: “We couldn’t…

I was in search of tone/feel for playing in studio sessions and for concert/live environments. My first guitar pickup was changed around 1985/86. I installed a JB Humbucker!

The John Butler Trio (“JBT”) are one of the most respected and successful bands on the world music scene. Over the years, JBT have been fortunate enough to open shows for several international artists at the incredible Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado. In June, 2010, John and his band mates Nicky Bomba and Byron…

Seymour Duncan Artist and Their Pickups Lukas Previn – Thursday Lukas Previn is one hard working musician. As the touring bassist for Thursday to touring and recording with The United Nations and Acid Tiger, and soon embarking on La Dispute’s October/November tour, Lukas needs versatility in his tone and chooses the Seymour Duncan SH-4 in…

After a long hiatus, the unique stylings of Primus has returned with the release of “Green Naugahyde”. In support of the album, Primus will go back on tour starting September 23rd, in Boston, Massachusetts. The band has announced that they will be playing two sets during their tour and the US portion will conclude with an all…

Face it: at the outer edges of high performance, we’ve come to expect specialists. We don’t expect the hoops star who can slam dunk from the free-throw line to be able to return a 120 mile per hour tennis serve. We don’t expect the racecar that does zero-to-sixty under four seconds to get 40 miles…

Taka Hirose began playing bass at the age of 14 and played in several jazz and metal bands during his school years. Taka moved to Tokyo and worked for guitar manufacturing specialists ESP and played music at night. After performing for Tokyo Yakuza bosses, Taka moved to London where he joined a new band, which…

When we made the decision to create a new blog that would cover a host of tone oriented topics, we knew that it would all come down to finding the right individual to take on the task. We found that in Joe Gore, an individual who has played for Tracy Chapman, Tom Waits, Les Claypool,…

Embracing a lot of the players that he has listened to such as Al DiMeola and Vinnie Moore, Glen Drover worked hard to hone his guitar playing and his craft. Glen Drover began playing guitar as a child, and was joined at age 10 by his brother Shawn on drums. Influenced by Tony MacAlpine, Al…