Tom Five

{{Use American English|date=September 2023}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2023}} {{Short description|American guitarist}} __notoc__ {{Infobox musical artist | name = Tom Five | image = | caption = | birth_name = Thomas Neil Guay | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1965|10|11}} | birth_place = Bridgeport, Connecticut, U.S. | alias = Tom Guay, Tom 5 | background = solo_singer | occupation = Musician | instruments = {{hlist|Guitar|vocals}} | years_active = 1987–present | genre = {{hlist|Doom metal|noise rock|sludge metal|stoner metal}} | current_member_of = Triple T | past_member_of = {{hlist|White Zombie|Angel Rot|Sonic Medusa|Yidhra}} }}

'''Thomas Neil Guay''' (born October 11, 1965), more commonly known by his stage name '''Tom Five''' (or '''Tom 5'''), is an American guitarist who joined heavy metal band White Zombie<ref>http://metalstorm.ee/bands/bandmember.php?member_id=14097 Metal Storm</ref> while studying art at Parsons School of Design which he attended from 1985 to 1989. Guay is more widely known as Tom Five, reportedly because his style "sounded like five guitarists playing at once".<ref name="allmusicbio">{{cite web |first=Eduardo |last=Rivadavia |url={{Allmusic|class=artist|id=mn0000035235/biography|pure_url=yes}}|title=Angel Rot > Biography |publisher=AllMusic |access-date=August 3, 2020}}</ref> He played guitar for the metal band Angel Rot from 1988 to 2003, releasing the album ''Unlistenable Hymns of Indulgent Damage'' in 1999.<ref name="impactpress">{{cite journal|url=http://www.impactpress.com/articles/junjul99/musicr6799.html |title=Angel Rot: ''Unlistenable Hymns of Indulgent Damnage'' |journal=Impact Press |publisher=Loudmouth Productions, Inc. |date=July 1999 |access-date=August 3, 2020}}</ref> He was also performed in the band Sonic Medusa and in the Black Sabbath tribute band Rat Salad. He currently plays guitar for the Los Angeles band Triple T.<ref name="heavyplanet">{{cite journal|last=RegR |url=http://www.heavyplanet.net/2010/08/new-band-to-burn-one-to-sonic-medusa.html|title=New Band to Burn One To-Sonic Medusa |journal=Heavy Planet |publisher=Awesome Inc. |date=August 17, 2010 |access-date=August 3, 2020}}</ref>

== Discography == === With White Zombie === * ''Psycho-Head Blowout'' (1987) * ''Soul-Crusher'' (1987)

=== With Angel Rot === * ''Unlistenable Hymns of Indulgent Damage'' (1999)

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