“Tubes are overrated. And you never know what you’re going to get overseas. I can’t play through a Marshall JCM – they sound like crap”: Sludge titans Thou have never been afraid to tear up the rulebook – but they do need a spreadsheet for their tunings

Thou.

Inspired by Nirvana and Alice in Chains, Andy Gibbs and Matthew Thudium started playing in their teens on a humble thrift-store Squier and an Ibanez GAX series through a Rage 158.

Since forming Thou in 2005 they’ve released six studio albums, countless collaborations, two cover albums – one purely of Nirvana songs – and a video game soundtrack, while pushing the limits of sludge, doom, punk, drone and dark folk.