Michael Gallagher is an American guitarist, best known for his work with post-metal

Post-metal

Post-metal is a music genre, a mixture between the genres of post-rock and heavy metal.Hydra Head Records owner and Isis frontman Aaron Turner originally termed the genre "thinking man's metal", demonstrating that his band was trying to move away from common metal conventions...

 band Isis

Isis (band)

Isis was a Los Angeles, California-based post-metal band, founded in Boston, Massachusetts, with a career spanning from 1997 to 2010...

. He joined them in 1999 for their debut LP Celestial, having previously been a member of Cast Iron Hike

Cast Iron Hike

-History:Cast Iron Hike was formed after the breakup of Worcester hardcore band Backbone, and featured that group's drummer and guitarist . They began by playing shows on the East Coast before releasing material in the mid and late 1990s in rapid succession, including EPs on Big Wheel Recreation...

. He has an ambient

Ambient music

Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality.- History :...

 project known as MGR (Mustard Gas & Roses); under this moniker he has released two albums and scored one film.

He plays a '78 Les Paul Custom, which he bought on eBay

EBay

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, through a Fryette Sig:x Amplifier. Whilst playing in Isis he normally tuned his guitar down to Dropped B (B-F#-B-E-G#-B), like his bandmate Aaron Turner

Aaron Turner

Aaron Turner is a musician, singer, graphic artist, and founder of label Hydra Head Records. He is most widely known for his role as guitarist and vocalist for the post-metal band Isis, while also participating in several other bands and projects such as Old Man Gloom and Lotus Eaters.Though raised...

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He hails from Philadelphia, PA.

With Cast Iron Hike

• Watch it Burn (1997)
• Cast Iron Hike (1998)

With Isis

• Sawblade (1999)
• Isis / Pig Destroyer
  Isis / Pig Destroyer
  Isis / Pig Destroyer is a split EP by the bands Pig Destroyer and Isis. The EP features the two bands playing cover songs.-Track listing:#Isis – "Streetcleaner" #Pig Destroyer – "Exhume to Consume"...
  
  (2000) (Split with Pig Destroyer
  Pig Destroyer
  -Biography:The band formed in 1997 with vocalist J. R. Hayes , guitarist Scott Hull , and drummer John Evans. Evans was later replaced by Brian Harvey...
  
  )
• Celestial (2000)
• SGNL>05
  SGNL 05
  -Personnel:Band members* Jeff Caxide – bass guitar* Aaron Harris – drums* Michael Gallagher – guitar* Bryant Clifford Meyer – electronics* Aaron Turner – guitar, vocals, art and graphic constructionOther personnel...
  
  (2001)
• Oceanic
  Oceanic (Isis album)
  Oceanic is the second full-length album by American post-metal band Isis, released on September 16, 2002 by Ipecac Recordings.On July 23, 2006, Isis performed Oceanic in its entirety at KOKO, Camden Town, London as part of the All Tomorrow's Parties curated Don't Look Back series. This performance...
  
  (2002)
• Panopticon
  Panopticon (album)
  Panopticon is the third full-length album by Los Angeles, California based post-metal band Isis, released by Ipecac Recordings in 2004. The album's title is derived from philosopher Jeremy Bentham's panopticon prison ideal and philosopher/historian Michel Foucault's later allegorical appropriation...
  
  (2004)
• Oceanic: Remixes & Reinterpretations (2004)
• In the Fishtank 14
  In the Fishtank 14
  In the Fishtank 14 is a collaborative EP from Isis and Aereogramme. It is the fourteenth installment of the collaboration project by Konkurrent, and was released in September 2006...
  
  (2006) (Split with Aereogramme
  Aereogramme
  Aereogramme were a Scottish alternative/post-rock rock band from Glasgow, consisting of Craig B. , Iain Cook , Campbell McNeil and Martin Scott...
  
  )
• In the Absence of Truth
  In the Absence of Truth
  In the Absence of Truth is the fourth full-length studio album by Los Angeles, California-based post-metal band Isis, released by Ipecac Recordings on October 31, 2006...
  
  (2006)
• Wavering Radiant
  Wavering Radiant
  Wavering Radiant is the fifth and final full-length album by American post-metal group Isis, released by Ipecac Recordings in 2009 and produced by Joe Barresi. It stands as Isis' last full-length album, as the band split just over a year after its release...
  
  (2009)

As MGR

• Nova Lux (2006)
• Wavering on the Cresting Heft (2007)
• 22nd of May
  22nd of May
  22nd of May is a 2010 belgian thriller film directed and written by Koen Mortier. The film won one award and was nominated for five with all awards going to Koen Mortier.-Cast:*Sam Louwyck ... Sam*Titus De Voogdt ... Nico Degeest*Wim Willaert ... Wim...
  
  [OST] (2010)

External links

• Creative Eclipse interview with Gallagher
• Interview with Gallagher at PopMatters
  PopMatters
  PopMatters is an international webzine of cultural criticism that covers many aspects of popular culture. PopMatters publishes reviews, interviews, and detailed essays on most cultural products and expressions in areas such as music, television, films, books, video games, comics, sports, theater,...
  
  
• Interview with Gallagher at Punknews