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Michael Gallagher (Isis guitarist)

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Instruments
  
Guitar

Role
  
Isis guitarist

Name
  
Michael Gallagher

Years active
  
1994 – present


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Genres
  
Post-metal, experimental, post-rock, progressive metal, sludge metal, avant-garde doom

Associated acts
  
Isis Cast Iron Hike MGR

Record labels
  
Ipecac Recordings, Hydra Head Records

Albums
  
Panopticon, Wavering Radiant, In the Absence of Truth, Oceanic, Oceanic Remixes/Reinterpretations

Music groups
  
Isis (1999 – 2010), MGR

Michael Gallagher is an American guitarist, best known for his work with post-metal band Isis. He joined them in 1999 for their debut LP Celestial, having previously been a member of Cast Iron Hike. He has an ambient project known as MGR (Mustard Gas & Roses); under this moniker he has released two albums and scored one film.

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He plays a '78 Les Paul Custom, which he bought on eBay, through a Fryette Sig:x Amplifier. While playing in Isis he normally tuned his guitar down to Dropped B (B-F#-B-E-G#-C#), like his bandmate Aaron Turner.

He hails from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

With Cast Iron Hike

  • Watch it Burn (1997)
  • Cast Iron Hike (1998)
  • With Isis

  • Sawblade (1999)
  • Isis / Pig Destroyer (2000) (Split with Pig Destroyer)
  • Celestial (2000)
  • SGNL>05 (2001)
  • Oceanic (2002)
  • Panopticon (2004)
  • Oceanic: Remixes & Reinterpretations (2004)
  • In the Fishtank 14 (2006) (Split with Aereogramme)
  • In the Absence of Truth (2006)
  • Wavering Radiant (2009)
  • As MGR

  • Nova Lux (2006)
  • Wavering on the Cresting Heft (2007)
  • 22nd of May [OST] (2010)
  • References

    Michael Gallagher (Isis guitarist) Wikipedia