“This is going to sound really f**king strange”: Joe Bonamassa says his go-to BOSS dirt pedal is the Metal Zone – here’s why the blues ace rates the metal monster

Joe Bonamassa and the much-loved Boss MT-2 Metal Zone.

Joe Bonamassa has revealed his favorite BOSS dirt pedal is, somewhat surprisingly, a legendary high-gain distortion developed for metalheads, the MT-2 Metal Zone.

It’s fair to say that if you’d have asked us to predict Bonamassa’s favorite BOSS distortion pedal, the Metal Zone would not have been high up our list. And yet that is exactly the choice he makes when put on the spot in the new issue of Guitarist magazine.