Career
He is currently playing for the band Exorcism,, HolyHell and his solo project Stump plays in a style original to Yngwie Malmsteen and has released albums with his band, Reign of Terror, as well as with an earlier band from Boston called Trash Broadway, and as a solo artist. Stumps" musical influences derive from Yngwie Malmsteen, Ritchie Blackmore and Gary Moore.
On September 2012 it was announced that Joe Stump would join the multinational metal band
Stump endorses and uses Education Support Professionals Guitars, which feature scalloped fretboards.
He also uses Marshall Amplifiers, Rhino amplifiers and English amplifiers. He also uses the following pedals:
Department Of Defense 250 overdrive pre-amp
Dunlop crybaby wah-wah
Bob Gjika Hot Box tube preamp
Boss Nova Scotia-2 Noise gate.
Boss Doctor of Divinity-3 digital delay
Korg SDD – 2000 digital delay
Boss Civil Engineering-3 chorus
Boss CS-2 compressor/sustainer
Boss BF-2 Flanger
Boss octave box
Stump uses Ernie Ball strings, with gauge 008, 011, 014, 024, 032, 048 and 1.5mm Dunlop Delrin picks.