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Shinedown’s Sonic Arsenal: Sweetwater Goes Full Rave Bunker

Sweetwater’s latest rig tour is a backstage pass to Shinedown’s relentless evolution, where genre boundaries get stomped and gear gets the royal treatment. Forget the usual polite pedalboard walk-throughs—this is a full-on deep dive into the band’s influences, songwriting chaos, and the kind of tech setups that would make a NASA engineer sweat. Zach Myers’s guitar collection is a wild ride, Barry Kerch’s drum rig is a fortress, and the band’s honesty about their legacy is as raw as it gets. If you think you’ve seen a rig rundown, think again—this one’s got attitude, banter, and enough gear to start

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