The winters in Scandinavia are dark, just like the metal that comes out of that part of the world. And sometimes, in capturing a tone suitable for such blackness, guitarists need something with even more grime and aggression the right balance of mids, treble and bass to instantly go from annihilating riffs to articulately cutting solos. Three large ceramic magnets and a special wind produce a distortion that is crushing with aggressive saturation in the mids and high-end.