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Guitar World
Guitar World
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Phil Weller

“My riff writing started to do well after I changed my perspective… I don’t listen to a bunch of heavy music anymore”: Meet Clayton King, the riff machine using EDM and nature shows to wring fresh savagery from his custom Ibanez monstrosity

Clayton King poses with a custom Ibanez RG model.

Since becoming a full-time musician last year, Clayton King has kept himself incredibly busy. From touring with Nothing, Nowhere and working with Jacob Unmansky, Austrian Death Machine and Hellena Pandora, to writing enviably viscous and grooving riffs for his socials, his stock is on a meteoric rise.

Now he’s signed as an Ibanez artist – a brand he’s played and loved since he was 12. Inspired by his 2007 reissue RG550, the first Ibanez he owned, the 27” seven-string “monstrosity” has been brought to life with help from Kevin Proctor of Iconic Guitars, the only other brand he loves.

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