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Daron Malakian
System of a Down's guitarist and primary songwriter, whose lurching, drop-tuned riffs and Armenian-folk-inflected melodies defined the band's sound. On 2001's Toxicity he played an Ibanez Iceman in drop C through a blend of Mesa/Boogie and Marshall amps — Mesa for the teeth, Marshall for the body — tracked dry and pedal-free under Rick Rubin's direction for a brutally immediate tone.
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