Koichi Fukuda

Quick Facts

Intro

Japanese musician

Places

Japan

Musician Guitarist

Work field

Music

Gender

Male

Place of birth

Ōsaka

The details (from wikipedia)

Biography

Koichi Fukuda (born July 1, 1975 in Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese musician, and former lead guitarist, programmer, and keyboardist for the industrial metal band Static-X, and was the lead guitarist from Drugstore Fanatics.He is currently the lead guitarist of Bellusira.

Biography

He was present on Static-X's debut album, Wisconsin Death Trip, but left the band prior to the recording of their second album, Machine, citing personal problems due to excessive touring. However, he did still contribute keyboards to the record. He rejoined Static-X after the firing of their then-current guitarist, Tripp Eisen, at the end of the recording process of the 2005 album Start a War, and was present to record their fifth album, Cannibal.

Between his stints in Static-X, he formed another, less aggressive band called Revolve. Drawing comparisons to Tool and Pink Floyd, they were very successful locally and played several concerts in and around the Los Angeles, California area. They released several demos as free downloads on their website, and released one EP containing several reworked versions of previously released demos, as well as a few new tracks.

On Koichi Fukuda's rejoining into the band, frontman Wayne Static said:

As of February 10, 2010 Koichi joined Drugstore Fanatics while Static-X since broke up. [1]

Koichi contributed to the KMFDM album, WTF?!, playing guitar on the song "Come On – Go Off".

Koichi also contributed to Wednesday 13's 2011 Remix EP, "Re-Animated". The tracks from the EP were re-released as part of Disc 4 for Wednesday's "Dead Meat: 10 Years of Blood, Feathers & Lipstick" box set under the Disc title: "Re-Animated Resurrected". The disc also featured extra remixes by Koichi.

Koichi is now in the Australian rock band Bellusira (currently working out of Los Angeles) as of 2015.

Equipment

ESP Guitars and Ibanez Guitars (particularly favoring the RGR models, with reverse headstock)
Fernandes Monterey Deluxe and Revolver Elite Ltd.
EMG 60AX, 81X, 89X, SAX, EXG, and SPC pickups and tone controls
Seymour Duncan Distortion and Custom bridge pickups, with a Cool Rails in the neck position.
Hughes & Kettner Switchblade heads.
Digitech GSP-1101 effects unit.
Electro-Voice digital wireless system. (the same one Wayne Static used)