Category: Playthrough

Playthrough: “Join Us Beyond” from Archspire!

Technical Death Metallers Archspire have left their guitarist Tobi Morelli out of the basement to teach us the “Join Us Beyond” from their 2014 album “The Lucid Collective” courtesy of Guitar World. We had the pleasure of the bands crazy love set at Tech-Fest last summer playing a packed out Fireball Whiskey stage.

Playthrough: “Iron Strengthens Iron” from Dyscarnate!

Playing in C Standard tuning, Tom Whitty from Dyscarnate hammers through “Iron Strengthens Iron” from their forged in steel album “With All Their Might“. The Horsham Death Metallers guitarist is playing a Carillion Polaris 6 Custom with Bare Knuckle Juggernaut pickups with D’Addario NXYL 12-60 gauge strings. In order to achieve that tone you need a Neural

Playthrough: “Exile” from Your Last Wish!

Montreal melodic death metallers Your Last Wish unleashed their latest concept album “Eradicate” back in February, the full length beautifully exploiting post-apocalyptic themes with roots in classic death and thrash metal. Drummer extraordinaire Blake Lemieux has picked a pummeling assault of a playthrough for “Exile“, a track with old school thrash influences that also introduces odd-time signatures. Lemieux comments: “With the talents of

Playthrough: “Becoming The Enemy” from Imonolith!

Vancouver British Columbia Canada based Metal supergroup Imonolith (Devin Townsend Project, Threat Signal, Methods of Mayhem, Econoline Crush) may have been dropping a weekly full band playthrough running down their debut album “State of Being” but their side line videos are just as interesting. Drummer  Ryan Van Poederooyen (formerly of Devin Townsend Project) has laid

Playthrough: “We Stand As One” from Heart Of A Coward!

Capturing all the audio in one take and all the video on their phones before it was edited by Kev Hickman, Milton Keynes DJentlemen Heart of a Coward have joined the growing number of bands splicing together their own full band playthrough style rehearsal videos during lockdown with a version of “We Stand As One“.

Playthrough: “Enraged Despair” from Sentre!

At the end of March we reviewed the self titled EP from Belgian Metallers Sentre as they strived to resurrect a sound that falls neatly between In Flames and Killswitch Engage with the help of Matthijs Quaars Audio (Spoil Engine, Exhuminate) who recorded, mixed and mastered the effort. As all shows have been placed strictly on hold, the

Playthrough: “We Never Forget” from Imonolith!

Our weekly check in on “State Of Being” from Imonolith (Threat Signal, Devin Townsend Project, Methods of Mayhem, Econoline Crush) otherwise known as “The Quarantine Sessions” has officially reached week #9, which can mean only one thing. A full band playthrough video for “We Never Forget“. For those unfamiliar, the format is simple. Each band

Playthrough: “Retribution” from Bite The Goat!

After last week’s instrumental “Coronatime”, Saint Petersburg Russia based Deathcore Merchants Bite The Goat have returned to their EP “Goatacalypse” for a guitar playthrough video of “Retribution“. If you buy their merch, what have you got? A goat tee! OMG. Don’t give up the day job? Yeah. If only “Coronatime” was Mexican Beer time…

Playthrough: “Defender” from August Burns Red!

Yesterday saw August Burns Red join forces with We Came As Romans a week after For For A King did, but instead of a vocalist trade on each others tracks they dropped a split and unique Merch line. If that was good news, then a playthrough video for the brilliant “Defender“, a stand out track

Playthrough: “Reign Of Darkness” from Thy Art Is Murder!

It may not be a Jesse Beahler inked track but he sure as hell makes “Reign Of Terror” his own during this live show at The Meet Factory Club in Prague Czech Republic. The show took place on 13th February as Thy Art Is Murder smashed their way across Europe supporting their newest offering “Human