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If the death metal/rockstar thing doesn’t work out, Tom Brown has a respectable fall back career — building custom guitars.

The lead guitarist from Sydney death core thrashers Thy Art is Murder plays a seven-string Ibanez he made himself by taking bits and pieces from here and there.

“That’s the best way to describe it, I changed an old guitar into something new and made it a bit cooler,” Brown said.

“I made it a bit more suitable for the kind of things we do in the band.

“That’s the one I’m rocking at the moment. Apart from making his own machines and playing speed metal onstage, Brown also works in a music store, so when it comes to guitars he knows his stuff. He is upping the custom guitar ante with his latest project, an axe he has built from scratch.

“My mate has a huge workshop where he makes ukuleles and three string guitars, which are big here on the Sunshine Coast,” he said.

“I told him what I wanted to do and he let me use his tools and materials, which was cool. “I just winged it, but it worked out really well.”

“Guitars are so expensive, doing it this way worked out infinitely cheaper and it’s not that much worse than a super-expensive guitar.”

Brown and the rest of the band are headed to Bunbury next week as part of their Hate Across Australia tour, named for their second full length album, Hate, which debuted at No. 36 on the ARIA charts — a mean feat for a band which prides itself on “not toning it down for the masses.”

“That was awesome,” Brown said.

“We worked really hard on it, so to get positive feedback like that is great.”

Thy Art is Murder will be going homicidal at the Prince of Wales Hotel with special guests King Parrot and Aversions Crown next Friday, May 31.