Deftones guitarist Stephen Carpenter recently got his heavy on with his band’s new album Ohms – in fact, the video for the alternately crushing and soaring (very Deftones-esque, eh?) title track showed off Stef’s newest toy: an ESP nine-string electric guitar.
Now Carpenter has upped the distorto guitar riffage with A Reason for Being, a new track from his side project Sol Invicto.
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