Matt Bachand has very strong Death Metal and Thrash Metal influences and is a guitar player and backing vocalist for the Metal band Shadows Fall. He is known for his deep growls or Death Growl which is often heard in Death Metal. In his earlier days around the early through the mid 1990s he was a guitarist for the Death Metal band Exhumed(not the Deathgrind band) and did play in another Death Metal called Perpetual Doom for a little while.He also played guitar and sang in a band called Empty,who released an 11 song cd,"Before the Sunrise", through wilderness records in 1996.

Let's look at some of the gear and equipment that has been seen in Shadows Fall guitar player Matt Bachand's guitar rig.

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Guitars

- Ibanez Matt Bachand MBM1 guitar 

- Ibanez SZ
- IBANEZ SZ320MH
- IBANEZ SC420
- Ovation 1778 LX Elite Acoustic-Electric Guitar

- EMG 81 EMG 60 pickups

Amps and Cabinets

- ENGL Fireball 100 amp (2009)

- Krank Krankenstein Dimebag Darrell Signature Head

- Krank Chadwick amplifier heads

- Krank Krankenstein 4X12" cabs

- Roland Jazz Chorus amp (for some clean electric work in the studio)

Effects and More
- Zoom H4 and H2 recorders (Matt endorses Zoom)
- MAXON OD808 Overdrive

- Boss Noise suppressor NS-2 pedal

- Planet Waves cables

- BBE sonic Maximizer

- Dimarzio Straps

- Calzone Road Cases
- Sennheiser G2 Wireless

- Rocktron gainiac 2

- Rocktron hush super c

- Rocktron xpression

- BBE Acoustimax DI (A/B switch run to it for cleans)

Strings and Picks
- DR Extra Life 11 to 50 gauge strings

- Dunlop .88mm Tortex Sharp picks