Player No. 077nu-metal
Mick Thomson
Slipknot's #7 and the band's lead riff architect, Thomson built his sound on tight, percussive down-tuned rhythm playing through a rotating cast of aggressive high-gain heads — a VHT Pitbull on Iowa and Vol. 3, a Marshall JCM800 with a Maxon boost on All Hope Is Gone, and later his Rivera KR-7 signature. He favors fixed-bridge guitars with hot active pickups voiced for a controlled low end, because the band's drop-B and drop-A tunings turn loose bass into mud.
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