Player No. 085sludge-metal
Bill Kelliher
Mastodon's rhythm-and-riff architect, Kelliher built the band's Leviathan-era wall of sound on his own Marshall JCM800 — modded with 6550 power tubes just before the 2004 sessions and boosted with a BK Butler Tube Driver — alongside Brent Hinds' Marshall JMP. Tracked in D standard by producer Matt Bayles at Seattle's Robert Lang Studios, the 'Blood and Thunder' gallop is dry, aggressive, and Gibson-into-cranked-Marshall to the core.
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