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Michael Amott (Born July 28, 1970) is a Swedish guitarist. He has been a heavy metal musician for many years, playing guitar in a number of prominent bands, recently being officially sponsored by Peavey Electronics. His metal career started with the pre-Dismember band Carnage. After that band split up, Amott was asked to join British grinders Carcass. He started his own heavy rock band Spiritual Beggars when he departed from Carcass. Later on he formed Arch Enemy with his younger brother Christoffer Amott. In the meantime, he had also recorded the guitars for a Candlemass album as a session player. He recently performed a guest guitar solo on the latest Kreator record, 2005's "Enemy Of God", for the song "Murder Fantasies".

Equipment

Amott is endorsed by Krank Amplification and ESP Guitars, and has his own signature series with the latter. His guitars are built in the ESP Custom Shop in Tokyo, Japan. He has Seymour Duncan humbucker pick-ups in both the bridge and neck position. In 2006 Michael's signature ESP-Ninja guitar became a member of the ESP-USA signature series family, with a LTD model, the Ninja-600 also becoming available.

ESP-Ninja (Michael Amott signature series) (Previously AV-395 Ninja)
Various other ESP guitars from the ESP Custom Shop in Tokyo
Krank Revolution One Series Amps
Peavey 5150 Amps
D'Addario Strings (11-59 custom set)
VOX Wah Pedal
MXR – Phase 90
DIGITECH – Digidelay (Digital Delay)
BOSS "TU-2" Chromatic Tuner
ROCKTRON "Hush – The Pedal" (Noise gate)

Bands

Arch Enemy (Lead Guitar, 1996-) (founding member)
Spiritual Beggars (Guitars, 1992-) (founding member)
Candlemass (Guitars, 1998-1999)
Carcass (Guitars, 1990-1993)
Carnage (Guitars, 1989-1991)

Discography

Carnage - Dark Recollection (1990)
Carcass - Necroticism -- Decanting the Insalubrious (1991)
Carcass - Tools Of The Trade (1992, EP)
Carcass - Heartwork (1993)
Spiritual Beggars - Spiritual Beggars (1994)
Arch Enemy - Black Earth (1996)
Spiritual Beggars - Another Way To Shine (1996)
Arch Enemy - Stigmata (1998)
Candlemass - Dactylis Glomerata (1998)
Spiritual Beggars - Mantra III (1998)
Arch Enemy - Burning Bridges (1999)
Arch Enemy - Burning Japan Live (1999, live)
Spiritual Beggars - Ad Astra (2000)
Arch Enemy - Wages Of Sin (2001)
Spiritual Beggars - On Fire (2002)
Arch Enemy - Anthems Of Rebellion (2003)
Arch Enemy - Dead Eyes See No Future (2004, EP)
Spiritual Beggars - Demons (2005)
Arch Enemy - Doomsday Machine (2005)

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