In Flames maestro Björn Gelotte has revealed the rationale he selected an Epiphone signature guitar over a Gibson regardless of how “extraordinarily flattering” it was to be approached by the latter.

For many years, Gibson has been related to the manufacturing of high-end, American-made guitars, incessantly wielded by legendary musicians and commanding premium costs – Take Slash’s $15,000 signature Gibson mannequin as an illustration. Epiphone, alternatively, caters to gamers with smaller budgets, typically by providing extra inexpensive variations of traditional Gibson designs.

Explaining his determination to go along with an Epiphone Les Paul and skip the entire Gibson shebang, Gelotte says (through Premier Guitar): “They requested me, and it simply match so completely. I like the guitar.”

“Each Gibson and Epiphone have been placing out loopy great things all through the years, and it’s been my mannequin alternative in any state of affairs. So for me, it was simply good timing and the blokes are actually cool, they let me do precisely what I needed with it, and so they made it inexpensive, the one huge urgent level.”

Gelotte provides that he prefers having a guitar that the typical individual can work their approach in the direction of shopping for, saying: “It’s extraordinarily flattering, to be sincere, to get requested to do considered one of these excessive high-end signature fashions that so few individuals would purchase.”

“It’s very area of interest, but when you may get it all the way down to round a thousand bucks, or perhaps barely above that, individuals can truly work for it. Children can work a summer time and afford a fucking correct guitar.”

Launched in 2015, the Björn Gelotte Les Paul Customized by Epiphone encompasses a mahogany physique and neck building, in addition to EMG MetalWorks energetic pickups and an ebony fretboard.