Me And My Guitar - Tor Oddmund Suhrke Leprous

The Norwegian progateer’s Aristides fan fret eight-string is not for the faint of heart

- Rob Laing

1 “I have been using Aristides guitars now for a couple of years. it’s a Dutch guitar company and they make guitars out of their own secret formula, a synthetic material called Arium. it’s something they made to resemble all the best acoustic qualities of organic materials. Their guitars have a lot of sustain, something that I think comes through in my eight-string.”

2 “Ihsahn from emperor introduced me to Aristides. He told me, ‘You’ve got to try these guitars’. we’ve known him for a long time – we were his [solo] backing band for a lot of years. He’s the guy who introduced me to eight-string guitars in general. I had to buy my first eight-string guitar when I played with him. I’d never had an endorsement with a guitar brand before and it turned out [Aristides] were big leprous fans – so that was ideal for me!”