Adam Jonathan Dutkiewicz was born on April 4,1977 and is an American musician and record producer.
17 Facts About Adam Dutkiewicz
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Adam Dutkiewicz is the lead guitarist of the metalcore bands Killswitch Engage, Aftershock and Times of Grace, as well as the guitarist and co-lead vocalist for the melodic death metal supergroup Serpentine Dominion.
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Adam Dutkiewicz has produced and engineered albums for several other metal bands.
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Adam Dutkiewicz later attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, studying production, audio engineering, and bass guitar.
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Adam Dutkiewicz was the drummer of Killswitch Engage, until the release of its second album, Alive or Just Breathing, when he moved to guitars, and Tom Gomes became the band's drummer.
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Adam Dutkiewicz has assumed the role of producer on all of Killswitch Engage's records, except on their second self-titled album Killswitch Engage, which was released June 30,2009.
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Adam Dutkiewicz has been compared to Ross Robinson, producer of many nu metal albums, because of his influence on modern metal and shaping the sound of melodic metalcore.
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In 2016, Adam Dutkiewicz formed Serpentine Dominion consisting George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher and Shannon Lucas.
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Adam Dutkiewicz has been a longtime player of Caparison Guitars mostly using the Caparison PLM-3, a discontinued model, with EMG pickups and DR Tite-Fit.
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Adam Dutkiewicz uses the Caparison Dellinger, Horus, TAT, and Angelus models.
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Adam Dutkiewicz previously used Parker Guitars for their light weight so as to avoid worsening his back problems, but ended his endorsement due to quality issues after getting his signature model.
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Adam Dutkiewicz has since then switched to EVH Wolfgangs full-time.
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Adam Dutkiewicz uses his signature model, the Caparison Metal Machine.
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Adam Dutkiewicz left out the neck pickup for more wood mass in the guitar.
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Adam Dutkiewicz is currently endorsed by Laney Amplification, used their Ironheart series of amplifiers and currently using Tony Iommi's signature amplifier TI-100.
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Adam Dutkiewicz gets up there and calls the crowd 'pussies' and all this stuff.
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On February 10,2015, Adam Dutkiewicz was a contestant on the CBS game show The Price Is Right, where he won $51,832 in prizes, including a 2015 Honda Fit, a 2015 Nissan Frontier, a small trailer, and a trip to Borrego Springs.