Mike Davis (guitarist)
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Mike Davis is an American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 metal
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...

 guitar
Guitar
The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

ist. He is best known for his work in the progressive
Progressive metal
Progressive metal is a subgenre of heavy metal originating in the United Kingdom and North America in the late 1980s...

 death metal
Death metal
Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....

 band Nocturnus
Nocturnus
Nocturnus was an American progressive death metal band formed in Tampa, Florida in 1987 by drummer/vocalist Mike Browning . They were known for their science-fiction themed lyrics and use of keyboards, both of which were virtually unknown in extreme metal...

. He joined the band around 1988, and eventually became the bands' standout lead guitar
Lead guitar
Lead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure...

ist. He joined the band when he was just 18 years old and is widely regarded as an underrated guitarist. After the second breakup of Nocturnus in 2003 he formed the band Tiwanaku with Emo Mowery and Richard Christy
Richard Christy
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, but quit early on http://www.metal-rules.com/interviews/Tiwanaku-Oct2003.htm
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