Byron Stroud

Byron Stroud and ESP LTD B-206 6-String Bass Guitar (Spalted Maple)

Byron Stroud (February 12, 1969 in New Westminster, BC, Canada) is best known as the bassist for Fear Factory and Strapping Young Lad.

Current Bands

• City Of Fire
• Fear Factory
• Zimmers Hole
• Ani Kyd
• Tenet

Previous Bands

• Caustic Thought
• Front Line Assembly (Drum Tech - Hard Wired tour)
• Punky Brüster
• Unit:187
• Devin Townsend (Physicist project)
• Strapping Young Lad

Discography

• 1994 - Caustic Thought – Caustic Thought
• 1996 - Punky Brüster - Cooked on Phonics
• 2000 - Devin Townsend – Physicist]
• 2005 - Ani Kyd – Evil Needs Candy Too

Fear Factory

• Archetype (2004) (Stroud is listed as a band member even though guitarist and ex-bassist Christian Olde Wolbers recorded the bass tracks.)
• Transgression (2005) (Again, listed as a band member but did not record due to Christian handling not only the guitar, but also the bass on the record)
• Mechanize (2010)

Strapping Young Lad

• City (1997)
• No Sleep Till Bedtime (1998)
• Strapping Young Lad (2003)
• Alien (2005)
• The New Black (2006)

Unit 187

• Unit 187 (1995)
• Loaded (1998)

Zimmers Hole

• Bound By Fire (1997)
• Legion of Flames (2001)
• When You Were Shouting at the Devil...We Were in League With Satan (2008)

Guest appearances

• Terror Syndrome (Terror Syndrome, 2008)

equipment

Fender Custom Shop 5 String Basses

Fender Heartfield 5 String Bass

Fernandez Tremour Basses

ESP Horizon 5 String Basses

Fender Strings

DR Strings

EMG pick ups

Bill Laurence pick ups

Ampeg 1968 SVT

Ampeg SVT 2pro

Ampeg SVT 4pro

Ampeg BSP pre amp

Mesa Boogie M-Pulse 600

Ampeg 8x10 classic speaker cabinets

Mesa Boogie 8x10 speaker cabinets

Sans Amp-Bass Driver DI

Line 6 Bass Pod Pro

Digitech effects pedals

• Byron recently signed with Ashdown Amps for equipment comprising of the ABM range.