Boss HM-2

"No sooner had Boss discontinued the HM-2 Heavy Metal in the early 90s than it was adopted as the de facto standard distortion box for Swedish death metal bands such as Entombed, Dismember and Grave. The bands’ producer Tomas Skogsberg, father of the ironically-named “Sunlight Sound”, repeatedly called upon the HM-2’s brutal, ripping distortion to create some of the darkest-sounding records ever made. In acknowledgement of its legacy, Boss released the Waza Craft HM-2W Heavy Metal in 2021."

"Coming from the depths of hell... Actually, it comes from the 1980s, but that's pretty much the same thing. As the culture and music were changing, everyone was trying to be so extreme in whatever they were doing. So that's pretty much how extreme forms of metal came to be. And Boss HM-2 was every metalhead's biggest ally. Unless they were into glam metal. In that case, spandex was their biggest ally."