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GUITARS
• Gibson Flying V90 with Lace Nitro-Hemi humbuckers
• Gibson SG Standard with Lace Nitro-Hemi humbuckers
• Fender American Standard Stratocaster HH with Lace Nitro-Hemi humbuckers
• Fender Limited Edition American Standard Telecaster HH with Lace Nitro-Hemi humbuckers
• Ampeg Dan Armstrong ADAG Lucite
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AMPS
• Orange Thunderverb 200
• Orange PPC412 cabs
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EFFECTS
• Dunlop Volume ( X ) DVP3
• Dunlop CBM 95 Cry Baby Mini Wah
• ��� Cus��� Ba�ass �����e� ����
• MXR M109 Six Band Graphic EQ
• MXR EVH90 Phase 90
• MXR M169 Carbon Copy Analog Delay
• MXR EP101 Echoplex Preamp
• �le��r���ar����� ����le B�� �u� ��
• Electro-Harmonix Micro POG
• TC Electronic Hall of Fame Reverb
• Boss TU-3 Chromatic Tuner
• Boss NS-2 Noise Suppressor
• Thermionic Culture Vulture plug-in
• Carl Martin Octa-Switch ���� ��e��s S����h��� Sys�e�
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STRINGS & PICKS
• Ernie Ball 2215 Skinny Top / Heavy Bottom (. 010 –. 052 )
• Dunlop Tortex . 88 mm
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Maciek Ofstad , at left , with his Gibson SG Standard , and
Vidar Landa control the chaos as singer Erlend Hjelvik lies down on the job during a Kvelertak concert . “ When it ’ s supposed to just go forward ,” says Ofstad , “ we all blast the same thing and it sounds huge .”
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Kvelertak ’ s music seems to pull from many different sources . Who were some of your early influences ? Rolland : I was a late bloomer . I ’ m one of the only guys in the band that didn ’ t really grow up with metal . As a kid , I was a big Michael Jackson fan . Then I moved on to Pink Floyd and from there to everywhere , including a lot of black metal — particularly Satyricon , Darkthrone , Stormcast , Burzum , Endstille . It ’ s a mix of all kinds of music , really . Ofstad : I started playing bass guitar when I was about 12 , because I was playing skateboard video games and thought the music was awesome . I found a lot |
of music through Tony Hawk video games . There was one really bad game — I can ’ t remember what it was called — but the Deftones were on it , and it was the scariest thing I ’ d ever heard .
Were there any particular guitar players you modeled yourselves after or tried to emulate ? Ofstad : My mom is a violinist and I played violin when I was younger , but when I got into skateboarding and punk , I wanted to play guitar . I come from Sandnes , Norway , where there ’ s a good hardcore scene , so I started going to
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shows when I was 13 or 14 , and I just wanted to play that music .
When I got better on guitar , I started to get influenced by guitarists . Death was the first band that got me into wanting to play good . Chuck Schuldiner was a great guitar player and a very good songwriter . But I started out just wanting to play fast . I played in hardcore and punk bands . Every Sunday I would sit in my room and learn all of the songs that I loved . I just ate everything up .
With the triple-guitar attack , one can ’ t help but detect a bit of Thin Lizzy — especially with the harmonies .
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Photo by Anita Lande |