Bolt Thrower - Ritual - Guitar Cover w/Solo (+Tabs)

Hello everyone,

After months getting ready, here is the second of two covers of Bolt Thrower’s seminal The IVth Crusade LP. Here again some mostly mid-tempo syncopated riffs and the signature heavy as hell break, and the harmonic minor solo, perfect for new guitar players to play some old school death metal!

For the tone, The guitars are quad-tracked. Gavin’s part is played on the neck pickup to provide a darker tone while Barry’s part uses the bridge pickup for a clearer, sharper tone. I once more tried to emulate the studio sound using STL AmpHub’s JCM 800 boosted by a Boss SD-1 (I believe BT used a Boss DS-1 however) into a Marshall 4x12 loaded with G12H, mic’d with a single SM57 slightly off center. Then the magic happens by removing an absolute ton of mids and some careful notching. To finish it off, I used Ghost Note Audio's magical (and free) Spectrum Thief plug-in which analyses and then applies some more minute EQing to the guitar tone to make it match the original.

Only three more songs before the entire LP is covered!

And as always, the tablatures!
Tabs: https://www.soundslice.com/slices/zWkJc/

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Tuning: C# Standard

Gear used:
B.C. Rich “Stranger Things” Warlock
Focusrite Scarlett 6i6 USB
Cubase Elements 12
STL AmpHub
Fabfilter Pro Q-4
Ghost Note Audio Spectrum Thief
Recorded with a GoPro Hero 8
Edited with DaVinci Resolve 20