Victory Amps and Bill Kelliher

We were excited to sit down with Victory artist Bill Kelliher from American Metal Titans Mastodon to discuss his current live touring rig. Bill is using the Super Kraken and Super Duchess to get a breadth of tones and sounds.

"The Victory Super Kraken lives up to its name, a super tight articulate amp with plenty of gain, and Clean tones for days. versatile midi controls allows multiple combinations in sound."

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0:00-0:19 - Intro and 'High Road'
0:20 -1:53 - First Time He Saw A Victory Amp
1:54-2.46 - 'Iron Tusk' Sample Playthrough
2:47-3:36 Why the Super Kraken
3:37-3:54 - 'The Last Baron' Sample Playthrough
3:55 -5:08 - The Features of the Super Kraken
5:09-6:01 - "More Than I Could Chew"
6:02-7:20 - The Super Duchess
7:21-8:03 - Outro

[AidenCantrell]

They need to give bill a Signature amp so they can call it the Victory Leviathan

[waynetowers]

'How many companies sponsor you, Bill?'

Bill: 'Yes.'

[jasonpitts]

Hi my name is Bill and I write the sickest, heaviest riffs that have ever existed. In fact my riffs have their own number on the periodic table.

[foxyfoxtrot]

"Hi, my name is Bill Kelliher and I have a PhD in riffing."

[mertmermerci]

I can watch this guy jam out Drop A riffs for hours.

[youpeopl_music]

George Lynch said, anybody can dial in a decent distortion tone. It's the clean tone that is the challenge. Nice work, Victory! 🤌🏾

[orcapodmedia]

Bill seems to be the businessman of that Mastodon posse.

[andyw]

Amazing!! Cheers to you, Martin and crew for the wonderful accolades by the Mastodon fellas!

[itieknots]

I pair my Super Duchess with the Super Kraken V4 Preamp... a great pedal platform with the crystal cleans of the Duchess, and then you can switch to the Kraken preamp to totally bypass the Duchess for the Kraken's articulate high gain.

[LambChopper]

Such a kickass amp! Those riffs are the best 🫶🏻

[guitar_mileage]

Victory amps sound incredibly heavy. Especially that Super Kraken🤘🎸

[iwillnevergetone]

Dave F. is gonna be in his feelings that the Butterslax has to share the camera shot with the Helix and now the Victory lol

[Buica-]

Super kraken owner here. Love my amp ❤ I just use a empress paraeq deluxe in the look sometimes, depends on the cabinet. Super kraken with engl pro 4x12 is extremely tasty.

[Bottomfeederonfire]

My super kraken is an absolute destroyer of worlds.

[juanvaldez]

He goes 4 cable with the helix into a victory . Good setup . I go 4 cable into a PRS MT15 . I think 4 cable is best way to use a helix

[AlexanderTVolt]

I love Bill's style. Such a great player. I need to try some Victory amps for shop demos.

[setok.]

I love victory amps! I wish the amp heads were a bit wider, I think the aesthetics would look better on 212 vertical cabs.

[bedboy]

Think about how fat and low Mastodon used to be. Their tone keeps needing to get higher and clearer with every iteration, like it’s in line with ageing hearing loss or something haha. Coming from someone with a similar issue. Always loved the dry Kraken tone though and tried to fake it on my helix. Still waiting and hoping for them to add an official one in there.

[ensignofindustry]

V30 owner here. Underrated amp for sure.

[fixpedalboards]

The only thing wrong with the Victory is I don’t make their chassis’. Time to open that UK manufacturing facility I guess😉