I think I roughly remember a local mag interview right after they went to Jackson and Gibson. Might have been the honeymoon period for the new endorsements or just bad blood between them and corporate, but they were trashing Dean hard over the how many problems they had with the guitars.
If Grindcore counts, then Nasum was mostly a DS-1 into a Dual Showman until their last album, which was Mesas + some HM-2 sprinkled on top. Not sure if we want to discount Doom/Stoner bands plugging a fuzz into a clean amp because it's a more oldschool sound, but then again, what's the...