Rig Rundown: Will Putney and Greg Thomas of END

There's heavy music…and then there's End. Formed in 2017, the band consists of vocalist Brendan Murphy (Counterparts), guitarist Will Putney (Fit for an Autopsy), guitarist Gregory Thomas (formerly of Shai Hulud and Misery Signals), bassist Jay Pepito (Reign Supreme) and by drummer Billy Rymer (Dillinger's escape plan). The supergroup was created to push the extremes of hardcore music. And, as you will soon discover in this Rig Rundown, mission accomplished.

From day one, guitarists (and producers) Putney and Thomas strived to create a signature calling card. They wanted a monstrous, monolithic tone that would crush listeners. “It’s quite aggressive [laughs],” Putney concedes. “When we started the band, Greg and I talked about finding an identifiable tone that felt like us and sticking to it.”

And the roots of their hammer sound? “We're very influenced by the Nordic metal of Entombed, and then, later, by Rotten Sound and the American delineations of Trap Them,” Thomas explains. “A lot of these bands rely on the Boss HM-2 or clones to get their squeaky distortion. We actually opted for the Way Huge Swollen Pickle fuzz because it is more articulate for our canter picking and offers more control.

Even as the band continues to challenge its consistently crushing sound, the Pickle still satisfies. “Every time we record something, we try other pedals instead of the Swollen Pickle, but we always come back to it,” Putney admits. “It became the one. It's us."

Hours before End's sold-out show at Nashville's The End (fitting coincidence), PG's Perry Bean took the stage to explore the (almost) mirrored, merciless setups of guitarists-turned-producers Putney and Thomas. Thomas details how three octave pedals and two noise gates coexist in his setup. Putney pulls back the curtain on the development of its Tones Tonality STL package. And both prove that heavy fuzz paired with heavy pitch-shifting in a 5150 is the way to part the seas and spark moshing madness.

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00:00 – D'Addario XPND Crankset
00:15 – END Introduction
00:51 – Introduction by Grégory Thomas
01:40 – Gibson Marauder by Gregory Thomas
05:45 – Peavey 5150 by Gregory Thomas
08:22 – A huge swollen pickle
09:46 – Atlas cabinets
10:45 a.m. – Pedalboard by Gregory Thomas
5:17 p.m. – Introduction by Will Putney
6:06 p.m. – Will work with STL tones
20:28 – Cyclops of Dunable
10:05 p.m. – Will Putney’s 5150 II
23:26 – Will Putney's pedal board

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