Ryan Knight now with PRS

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MaxOfMetal

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Who is he? What band?

Black Dahlia Murder from 2009 (Deflorate) and on, formerly of Arsis (We Are The Nightmare) and tons of other guest spots with folks like Christian Muenzner.

Really awesome player and by all accounts a good dude on top of it.
 

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The abundance of NAD's and NGD's in this predominantly metal guitarist community prove otherwise. :wavey:

The same community where people post metal guitar covers of Taylor Swift and Miley Cyrus songs? You can't conflate people that play metal music or buy metal guitars to necessarily following the metal lifestyle. I'm here, I like metal music, but I'm admittedly not very metal.

But yea, regardless of if PRS is buying their way into these genres, when they put out a guitar to Ryan's specs I'm quite confident it will play metal better than a gretsch, so it's a bit of a moot point. I wasn't heavily agreeing with Chris's point, just reiterating.
 

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Lol. A year from now all the kids will be talking about how "totally metal" PRS is.

I love it when corp. marketing machines demonstrate that members of "individualistic subcultures" are absurdly easy to manipulate and sell to.

Be actual rebels kids, pick up a Gretch or a Dano or a G&L Comanche or any other guitar that people swear you can't play metal on and then kick their ass with it.

When did we forget that it isn't the instruments that make music? It's the musicians.


There's a band called Opeth who has played PRS for a while, and they're very metal, and kind of popular.

I think PRS has been distinctly genre-defying for a long time.
 

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The new TBDM album has the PRS logo in the liner notes, so I'm gonna say he's still playing PRS guitars with the band.

They come here on Monday, and after our first utilities bill I'm not sure I can go. I was looking forward to this for months :(

Take monday off work, come to toronto sunday and I'll buy your ticket.
 

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Dude could use a First Act WalMart special and I wouldn't care.

He'll always be my favorite guitarist. He brought so much life to TBDM's solos (compared to John).

I was so stoked the first time I heard he joined TBDM (coincidentally my favorite death metal band for quite some time), and I'm stoked he's now using PRS. Fantastic guitars for a fantastic musician.
 

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Still waiting to see Brian get some love too, I would snap up a Ryan Night or Brian Eschbach signature immediately if they would drop one. Even if like Lee Malia's Epiphone it wouldn't look like the go to instrument for sick azz TBDM tunes it would still slay.
 

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Still waiting to see Brian get some love too,

:agreed:

Brian's flat top eclipses are the best. :yesway:

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I think Brian's Eclipse guitars are pretty dull, they're nothing exciting, I much preferred his custom Vs. This is the only pic I can find of it now:

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Cockstock, traditional flying V style but with a Rhodes style shortened lower horn, super cool. I headbutted that guitar when I was headbanging in the front row of a tiny venue on their Miasma tour. He had a read one of these too.

John had the nicest BDM custom guitar imo, visually the same as this one but his had a FR. You can see it in the pic above, not sure what pickups he has in there but he was using EMGs when I saw him using it live.

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Also, lol@ PRS "getting into extreme metal", John was using PRS in TBDM about 10 years ago

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I don't think "rebel kids" can afford PRS guitars anyway. Unless they rebel between 5 and 7 PM after classes and before the family dinner.
 

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Matt Heafy from Trivium has a signature 7 string Epiphone Les Paul and I'd argue that PRS is more metal than Epiphone. Arguing over whether X guitar can do Y style is pretty silly in my opinion, especially when talking about signature guitar, aside from in some extreme cases like if you show up to your grindcore gig with a White Falcon. I mean, look at Mark Holcombs PRS, he basically just told PRS to make a guitar specced like an Ibanez RG, any guitar builder worth their salt can build a guitar that's suited to every style.
 

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:agreed:

Brian's flat top eclipses are the best. :yesway:

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To be fair, the top on the guitar he's playing in that first picture looks like my floor. I still think he would do something cool though if they wanted to make him a custom. I don't know, they've given the guys at whitechapel signatures and I don't think that they are that much more popular. Also, since I'm guessing they have dropped Roope Latvala (miss him) there is a slot...
 

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John played "solos"

That he did. Very memorable ones too. He definitely doesn't have the Ryan Knight chops, but lets not devalue the guy's work - great guitar player.

He also helped pen a lot of incredible tracks. What A Horrible Night to Have a Curse just slays as does the rest of that album.
 

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I would've loved to see an Ibby sig based on his blue FR, but it looks like that's out the window now haha.
 
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