Greatest Doom Metal Riffs: YOB - Ball Of Molten Lead Cover

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YOB - Ball Of Molten Lead.

There are no tabs of this song online and this one was particularly hard to figure out by ear. Luckily there is a good live video of YOB playing this song with good lighting and you can see Mike Scheidt's fretboard quite clearly. (link below) In that video, he plays in A standard. The string gauge on my guitar is too thin for that tuning, so I had to use a hybrid drop A tuning where the string tension was decent and it was still possible to play the song in A. This is my second YOB cover, and after learning these songs I have to say that my appreciation for Mike Scheidt's guitar work is even greater than before. He is one of the greatest and most unique Doom Metal guitarists in my opinion. That being said, the whole band is exceptional as well.

This video is provided for the purposes of educational instruction on how to play this song.

Album Version:

YOB Live performance:

Gear Used:
-Schecter JL-7 FR (EMG 707 pickups, 54 Gauge strings)
(Hybrid Drop A tuning. A-E-A-D-E-A)
-ProCo RAT 2
-Black Arts Toneworks Pharaoh Fuzz
-Katana 50 MK1
-Ownhammer Impulse response (Heavy Hitters 2)

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