Given the question: What type of details about matt bachand can be gathered from the following bio? Bio: matt bachand is an american guitarist born on april 29 , 1977 . he has very strong death metal and thrash metal influences . he is guitarist and backing vocalist for the heavy metal band shadows fall . he is known for his deep growls or death growl which is often heard in death metal genre . in shadows fall , he can also be heard using a clean vocal style , such as in the song '' what drives the weak . '' in his earlier days around the early through the mid-1990s he was a guitarist for the death metal band exhumed -lrb- not the deathgrind band -rrb- and briefly was part of another death metal band ; perpetual doom . matt and jon formed shadows fall in late 1995 and released their first album '' somber eyes to the sky '' in 1997 , which was released through matt bachand 's self-produced label lifeless records . he also played guitar and sang in a band called empty , who released an 11-song cd , '' before the sunrise '' , through wilderness records in 1996 . the band 's music is a far cry from heavy metal , and features matt and jeff kukucka 's harmonizing vocals together and playing acoustic guitars throughout . he will be the touring bassist on times of grace 's upcoming european and north american tours . bachand will be filling in for daniel struble who is unable take part in the tour due to personal matters . bachand recently signed on as bass player for act of defiance , which also features former megadeth members chris broderick and shawn drover and vocalist henry derek bonner . he uses a custom ibanez prestige rga series guitar -lrb- mbm1 matt bachand signature model -rrb- and two custom ibanez sz guitars . one sz has a red finish and the other has a natural finish with a five piece neck . all of his guitars feature active emg pickups , an 81 in the bridge position and a 60 or 85 in the neck position . he also uses engl amplifiers .
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