Arctic assault

Just when you thought a formidable heavy music tool of choice should be black, then there is the LTD Arctic Metal range of guitars. These are essentially the white version of the Black Metal series. I really wish the fretboard was maple instead of this dark ebony, ditto the hardware, to keep in line with aesthetic uniformity. Nevertheless, it's the performance & tone that should matter, not the nitty gritty details but showing effort to details would certainly win potential buyers over. Note how the white covered pickup looks flushed against the white body to understand this consideration. The M-HT you see here is now available at Davis GMC (List: $1,550).

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LTD 2021

The LTD camp did a Black Metal series featuring all black (no surprises there) instruments sporting a single bridge pickup in 2020. 2021 will see the Arctic Metal series unleashed unto the metal masses with white being the finish of choice for all things frosty & merciless.

There are a few models in the series, I'm just showing two here. Seeing these guitars in the LTD 2021 catalog implies a certain degree of success in terms of numbers. Players in general do not look forward to owning an instrument with a single pickup, it's a niche demand. LTD must have done something right along the way so the single pickup iteration is now riding on a colour variant. 

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