Necrophagist 20% Faster? On an Acoustic Guitar? With Overdrive? Sort Of! Epitaph on 120%

Finally another Necrophagist song! And of course, no less than 120%, but with a twist !!!
So the backstory of this is, after having released the Diminished To B faster thing, I was not motivated enough to continue doing those. Main reason doing them in the first place was getting clicks. There was no musical reason. (And there still is none). Well except for the very first Stabwound video. My personal reason was to get my strict alternate picking up to that speed, so back then it was a very valid reason for me.
I'm not sure if I said this before but Stabwound was never the only Necrophagist song I practiced at 120%. I actually practiced all of them that way, except for Ignominous & Pale and Symbiotic In Theory, as those feature heavy tremolo picking and you can't really go much faster than that. At least not 20%. I played them all at the same time with Stabwound being my main focus. But there was an order, and that was something like Stabwound - Diminished To B - Epitaph - Seven - Only Ash Remains - The Stillborn One. I didn't have the motivation to get all of them up to "filming clean" so I never recorded another one after Diminished To B.
Then came this guitar. It's a Harley Benton Custom Line Nashville-Steel. I didn't plan on buying it for shenanigans like this. I was sort of looking for a living room acoustic guitar, nothing more. One day at work I had this one in my hands and it just felt right. Had nice action, a nasal sound that was still nice and not too loud, and both a pickup and piezo. Which meant I could go into an amplifier for acoustic sounds. Perfect as my go-to living room guitar.
But I was still really curious what kind of gnarly sounds I could get out of it. Especially with that pre-amp that has a 3 band eq and the option to blend piezo and lipstick pickup. (Or just use either exclusively). And boy, while I'm not a fan of active pickups in guitars, it would be great if they all would feature 3 band eq's. That's like a built-in Tubescreamer. Only bassists get that, man. Anyway, so the settings you see in the short intro are the settings I also used. So treble and mids on max, bass completely down and the pickup engaged with no piezo. You could argue that it's cheating, because that makes it an electric guitar but hey, that's why there's a "sort of" in the title, haha. (Also didn't Ola Englund recently do a "will it chug" video with a similiar fender? Saw something like that in my recommendations) Though this guitar is technically an acoustic guitar with electric capabilites, not the other way around (like hollow-body electric). The bridge is an acoustic bridge and overall dimensions are also more in line with acoustic guitars.
The tone was my original practice tone that was good for that purpose because it had that trebly clank, where you have to play tight to sound good. I just kept that tone in the end, with a bit more gain. It's not that it's the best and fitting tone for this song, but you know, I find it super gnarly, and it blends well in a way. At least that's what I think and why I didn't change it. Gives me that "8 string guitarists with single coils on steroids" vibe.
That brings me to the solo. I had to transpose it down an octave. While the guitar has a cutaway, up to a certain point it's not really playable without stretching really hard and making yourself prone to injury. Hell, transposing it down gave me akward stretches in that tapping part, where I had to be really careful to not over-do it. And since the solo goes beyond the 21st fret I had to change some things anyway. My original idea was to add an octaver to make up for the missing octave, but that didn't sound too good. So I just kept it at the lower octave, and that way it has a nice blend with original solo in the background. It also adds difficulty in its own way haha. As you might have noticed, I have a mistake in that solo. Oh yeah, it happens. But I liked the take so much, and with all that octave thing, I don't think it's that bad.
So if you've read this far you're probably one of my regulars. And for my regulars there's a secret at the end of the video haha. Having a YT-Channel for 10 years and never saying a single word? (Except that meh in the Archspire video lol) I'm currently re-thinking doing "spoken" content. At least for stuff I find worthwhile. I sketched some ideas and I came up with my personal 5 guitar myths thing. I've come across some super popular opinions lately that just annoy me, so I definitely have something to say about some topics. Like "if you injure yourself you're doing it wrong" or "good/fast playing is not fast, it's just efficient", or "you should play relaxed", or "you need a warm-up routine". And I've recently seen two of guitar player friends who freaked out because they injured themselves from playing. Which happens, it's no big deal, and that's why I think I could say a thing or two about it.
Anyway, enjoy the video!