“What’s Japanese for shameless?” Tosin Abasi's Animals As Leaders bandmate lambasts Ibanez's new Alpha guitar design

Javier Reyes with Ibanez's Alpha guitar, and Abasi Concepts Larada.

Ibanez’s all-new electric guitar model, the Alpha, is gunning for the currently bustling progressive and metal guitar markets.

Yet one of the scene’s biggest players, Javier Reyes of Animals as Leaders, has taken issue with the design, as comparisons to two other guitars – both designed in collaboration with his bandmate, Tosin Abasi – intensify.