-------Artist Spotlight
----------------------------Mike Wead

Mike Wead

Mike Wead is a Swedish born guitar player with a professional career spanning over two decades. Over the years Mike has been contributing to some of Scandinavia's finest metal acts such as King Diamond, Mercyful Fate, Candlemass and The Project Hate, just to name a few. Mike is currently the main composer and producer of the Swedish metal act bibleblack, which was nominated for "Best New Band" at the 2010 Swedish Metal Awards. He also received a 2008 Grammy nomination for his work on King Diamond's "Never ending Hill" in the “Best Metal Performance” category.

He has been working numerous times as a session guitarist and special guest both live and in the studio. Aside from his own guitar works he also makes a living as a recording/mixing/mastering engineer for both local and international acts. Wead at the moment is hard at work in the studio finishing the next bibleblack album as well as working on his first album as a solo artist, both due for release in late 2011.

We at Jarrell Guitars are proud to announce that Mike Wead has joined our family of talented endorsers. He is playing two models, the Jarrell JZS-2 Flamz with 3 single coil blackouts and the JZS-1 Zebra (M). He and his band mate, Simon Johansson, have made the JZS-1 Zebra the official guitar for bibleblack.

Mike had this to say about his Jarrell Guitars: "These guitars have great craftsmanship which you can tell even before you open the case, because the case itself is a work of art! The instrument has outstanding tone, amazing playability, and a cool touch of retro looks that catapults the Jarrell guitars a step above the rest! With these guitars you'll be able to play anything from the smoothest of jazz tothe blackest of metal...I know I will." To find out more about Mike Wead and his music please visit www.myspace.com/bibleblackofficial .

Check out his Discography below.
Mercyful Fate - Dead Again - 1998
Mercyful Fate – 9 - 1999
King Diamond - Abigail II The Revenge - 2002
King Diamond - The Puppet Master - 2003
King Diamond - Deadly Lullabyes Live - 2004
King Diamond - Give Me Your Soul... Please - 2007
Hexenhaus - A Tribute To Insanity - 1988
Hexenhaus - At The Edge Of Eternity - 1990
Hexenhaus – Awakening - 1991
Hexenhaus – Dejavoodo - 1997
Candlemass – Nightfall - 1987
Candlemass - As It Is, As It Was - 1994
Leif Edling - The Black Heart Of Candlemass - 2002
Memento Mori - Rhymes Of Lunacy 1993
Memento Mori - Life, Death And Other Morbid Tales - 1994
Memento Mori - La Dance Macabre - 1996
Memento Mori - Songs for The Apocalypse - 1997
Abstrakt Algebra - Abstrakt Algebra - 1995
Bibleblack - The Black Swan Epilogue - 2009
Bibleblack – In Sanguis Veritas - TBA 2011
Selected Guest Appearances: Memory Garden - Verdict Of Posterity - 1998
Edge Of Sanity - Crimson II - 2003
Notre Dame - Demi Monde Bizarros - 2004
In Aeternum - Dawn Of The New Aeon - 2005
Elvenking - The Scythe - 2007 Her Whisper - The Great Unifier - 2008
Sinners Paradise - The Awakening - 2009
The Project Hate MCMXCIX - The Lustrate Process - 2009
The Project Hate MCMXCIX - Bleeding The New Apocalypse - 2011

Other Links:
itunes.com
Rhapsody


Mike Wead & Kacper Rozanski of bibleblack

Jarrell Guitars Home page with Mike Wead

September 2011 Mike Wead and Simon Johansson were the first ever artist to appear on the home page of Jarrell Guitars. Mike Wead had earlier in the year anointed the JZS-1 Zebra to be the official tour guitar for bibleblack 2011.

 
 
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