Rig Rundown - Meshuggah’s Fredrik Thordendal, Mårten Hagström, & Dick Lövgren [2016]

Article & photos: Enter to win an Ibanez RG8: Premier Guitar’s Perry Bean hung out with Meshuggah’s tech, Kent Eriksson, who walks through the bone-crushing, cabinet-free rigs of Fredrik Thordendal, Mårten Hagström, and Dick Lövgren, the three Viking warriors of the extreme prog-metal apocalypse. Fredrik Thordendal’s newest addition to his arsenal is this 2016 Ibanez LACS (Los Angeles Custom Shop) Stoneman with three Lundgren M8 pickups and a push/pull coil-split option. This Stoneman, like all of Thordendal’s axes, is strung with DR Tight Fit (.) strings and is tuned F–Bb–Eb–Ab–Db–Gb–Bb–Eb. Hagström’s main guitar is his Ibanez LACS M8M with an alder body and one mighty Lundgren M8 pickup. This one is tuned a half-step down with a foam mute and strung with DR Tight Fit .) strings. To continue learning about the band’s gear, visit: