No. 1762006·sludge-metal·4 blocks
The Wolf Is Loose
The 173-BPM gallop that opens Blood Mountain — a tighter, faster cousin of Leviathan's Marshall attack. Bill Kelliher and Brent Hinds tracked it with producer Matt Bayles at Robert Lang Studios and Studio Litho, Seattle, in D standard. The documented Blood Mountain amps are a Laney VH100R alongside a 2-channel Marshall JCM800 — NOT the Diezel VH4, which only entered Hinds' rig years later — boosted with a Chandler Tube Driver into Seymour Duncan-loaded Silverburst Gibsons. Dry, aggressive, and articulate.
Blood MountainSignal path · input → output · 8 blocksLive values · Neural DSP Quad Cortex
Guitar
Gibson Les Paul Custom Silverburst (Kelliher) / Flying V (Hinds)
Pickups
HH
Tuning
bridge
Strings
D Standard (D-G-C-F-A-D)
Noise Gate
Studio Comp
Tube Driver
Brit 2203
4x12 Greenback
Room Reverb
Tilt EQ
Noise Gate
← Input noise gate
Threshold
-52dB
Decay
0.3s
Level
0
Studio Comp
← Light tracking compression
Threshold
-30dB
Ratio
2:1
Attack
40s
Release
180s
Mix
25
Level
0dB
Tube Driver
← Chandler Tube Driver
Drive
4
Tone
6
Level
7
Brit 2203
← Laney VH100R / Marshall JCM800
Gain
8
Bass
5
Mid
6
Treble
6
Presence
5
Master
6
Sag
4
4x12 Greenback
← Marshall 4x12 (V30/Greenback)
LowCut90Hz
HighCut8000Hz
Level
0dB
Room Reverb
← Studio room ambience
Decay
0.5s
Predelay
12ms
Mix
6
Level
0
Tilt EQ
← Global brightness EQ
Tilt
5
CenterFreq
1000Hz
Level
0
Engineer's note
File 176
The 173-BPM gallop that opens Blood Mountain — a tighter, faster cousin of Leviathan's Marshall attack. Bill Kelliher and Brent Hinds tracked it with producer Matt Bayles at Robert Lang Studios and Studio Litho, Seattle, in D standard. The documented Blood Mountain amps are a Laney VH100R alongside a 2-channel Marshall JCM800 — NOT the Diezel VH4, which only entered Hinds' rig years later — boosted with a Chandler Tube Driver into Seymour Duncan-loaded Silverburst Gibsons. Dry, aggressive, and articulate.
— Bill Kelliher
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