Category: Playthrough

Playthrough: “Epidemic” from New Year’s Day!

Representing Municipal Waste, the latest episode of Guitar World’s Sick Riffs series sees New Year’s Day guitarist Nikki Misery pick up his axe and show us how to play the title track of their 2015 EP “Epidemic” with a healthy dose of tongue in cheek humour from his how in California.

Playthrough: “Ghosts Of War” from Hatebreed!

The lead single from the Hatebreed covers album “For The Lions” was “Ghosts of War” by Slayer, which has also become a live favourite. Drummer Matt Byrne not only hammers out a playthrough but also gives us a bit of history behind their recording. They’ve teased a part #2 on social media in the past, they

Playthrough: “Human Target” from Thy Art Is Murder!

A Tama Starclassic maple drum kit with a Tama bell brass snare drum, drum heads by Remo, Zildjian cymbals played with Vic Firth drum sticks is the rig that Thy Art Is Murder drummer Jesse Beahler uses on the regular. Here’s an unedited performance playthrough video for the title track of their current album “Human

Playthrough: “Ostrich Dynasty” from The Dali Thundering Concept!

Bassist Steve Treguier from The Dali Thundering Concept has shown off his home studio setup with this bass playthrough video for “Ostrich Dynasty” from their 2018 album “Savages“. A favourite of Kinkshamer, whose entry in our Under The Influence series is a must read, it’s performed on his signature Basti Bass STM from Vola Guitars.

Playthrough: “The Haze” from Thornhill!

Intriguingly Australian Progressive Alternative Metalcore act Thornhill have 1st May pencilled in for the release of an instrumental version of their debut full length album “The Dark Pool” via label UNFD. Some might say minimum effort, maximum satisfaction but it will mean that a number of vocal covers should materialize shortly thereafter, which is all

Playthrough: “Rail.Grit.Line” from Faces Of Eve!

Faces Of Eve bassist Owen Morris has been making the most of lockdown and having debuted not one but two Nothing But Thieves bass playthrough covers last week, he’s now picked up his Ibanez Dark Glass X Ultra once again. The bands 2018 self titled album and single “Rail.Grit.Line” is the subject of this new

Playthrough: “Fully Automatic” from Annisokay!

German Metalcore act Annisokay dropped the impressive “Arms” via Arising Empire in 2018. September will see them return to Wiesbaden where footage of drummer Nico Vaeen performing “Fully Automatic” was captured on drum cam. New vocalist Rudi Schwarzer will be appearing at those shows and you can expect new single “STFU” to be in the

Playthrough: “Abandoned” from Unprocessed!

Celebrating the release of a new t-shirt emblazoned with the single “Abandoned” logo, German Progressive Metallers Unprocessed have filmed an impromptu guitar playthrough of the track with Manuel Gardner Fernandes assigned the task. The track is taken from their 2019 Long Branch Records released “Artificial Void“. Those t-shirts are available here.

Playthrough: “Orphan Soul” by Infected Rain!

Keeping their stock high in the absence of any touring activities, Moldova’s finest export Infected Rain have set to task creating an array of playthrough videos. This latest offering to the Metal Gods sees guitarist Sergey Babich hammer the fretboard to play through “Orphan Soul” from their album “86“, the one which brought them to

Playthrough: “Chrysalis” from UnCrowned!

St. Albans UnCrowned released their self titled record back in December and have let drummer Luke Goodchild record a quirky playthrough video for “Chrysalis” from that using his practice rig in his living room. It does the job, even if the cat is turning a blind eye. We reviewed the album back when it was