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    NEW GUITAR DAY Dan Brown’s

    Sep 05, 2018 4 minutes
    BY PETER HODGSON.

    The Amity Affliction know who they are. There’s a definite thread that links each album sonically, and while they do drift outside their established sound a little bit on each record, there’s a very essential, identifiable quality to their recorded output. You hear a chorus, and it could only be Amity.

    Even counting the line-up changes that have occurred over the years, there’s a consistency to the band’s songwriting and identity. It’s on the fringes that they shake things up, and in the case of new album Misery (their sixth in total), you can hear it in longtime guitarist Dan Brown’s guitar tone.

    It’s a little rounder and warmer than on

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