General Info : This NY born, horror guitarist, plays a dark and heavy instrumental style. Bizarre compositions, creepy interludes and epic metal soundscapes drive his conceptually themed releases. Several of his CD releases were distributed thru Europe, Japan, and the USA in the 1990's. He also plays guitar in the metal band, SKULGRINDER.

Website : www.kmrecords.com

Guitar : I have two main guitars: My workhorse is a 1980 Jackson/Charvel, strat style with a Kahler tremelo system and Dimarzio humbuckers. I have the whammy bar set so it only goes down, not up. I keep this one tuned to standard A-440 tuning. It has a wide neck much like the first guitar I ever owned - a Gibson Explorer - which I like because I feel like I can really dig in and abuse the fretboard a bit - play with a heavy hand.

My other guitar is a black 1975 Gibson Les Paul Custom. I have this one tuned to drop-D tuning and is used in many of the Skulgrinder songs. I also use it while recording some of my solo stuff tuned to standard tuning when I want a deeper/darker guitar vibe like in "Necropolis" and "Mechanica Diablo".

Amplifier : I use a Marshall Valvestate Amp, solid state from the late 1980's. The thing has balls of thunder! yeah! It has reverb and presence and is all I would want in an amp. I use a Marshall a/b switch to change from clean to distorted channels if the song calls for it. I run it through two Marshall 4x12 Celestion speaker cabinets.

Effects : I use an Ibanez digital delay, The Tone Lok, and a Crybaby Wah-Wah. That is all I use. I get all the distortion and crunch I need out of the Marshall. Advice for striving guitarists; throw out those cruddy distortion pedals, they all cut the bandwidth of the natural e.q. of a guitar and amp set-up. They make the sound thin and the guitar gets lost when your playing in a live band situation.


Remarks : Come check out my new instrumental CD, ELECTRIC HORRORLAND, (release date July15th, 2007). The CD is a total shred-fest, with some really crazy chromatic stuff! The CD is also a tribute to some of my fave video games with song titles like, Twisted Metal, Quake, Resident Evil and Ghost Recon. I also have a book (chapbook) of short horror fiction stories called, The Clock Tower Black (Goblin Press). If you like to read tales of the macabre and horror (Poe, Stephen King, Lovecraft and Koontz) you may want to check it out.