Ad Sluijter

Ad Sluijter (born 29 November 1981) is a Dutch guitarist who is mostly known for his work with the Dutch symphonic metal band Epica. He also contributed to other bands like Delain.

Work with Epica

Ad is the previous lead guitarist of Metal band Epica. He played on the first four studio albums, the live album 'The Classical Conspiracy' and the studio DVD 'We Will Take You With Us'.

Gear

Ad can be seen on DVD We Will Take You With Us playing an Ebony Gibson Les Paul Custom. He is also to have said to have used an Epiphone for the solo work on the album The Divine Conspiracy and a Mesa Boggie Mark IV. This information however is no longer available after Epica made a new website to make way for their new album The Quantum Enigma.

Tuning

In Epica Ad uses a Six string but uses B tuning as seen bellow B E A D G B This can be heard in all albums as the pitch of the lowest notes are B1 for the guitar.

Departure

It was announced on Epica's website that Ad and Epica would part ways on the 16th of December 2008 although still played for the live album The Classical Conspiracy in 2009 He was replaced with guitarist Isaac Delahaye.


Discography


Studio

The Phantom Agony (2003) Consign to Oblivion (2005) The Divine Conspiracy (2007)

Live Albums

The Classical Conspiracy (2009)

DVD

We Will Take You With Us (2004)

External links