Aurora DSP have released This Heavy Earth: Fleshrot for iOS users (previously desktop only), available for $89.99.
Producing extreme metal in the box is often a balancing act: you need an aggressive, high-gain tone that cuts through a dense mix without turning into a smeared mess of low-end mud. Doing this typically requires a chain of boutique drives, noise gates, high-gain amp heads, cab IRs, and surgical post-EQ.
Aurora DSP streamlined this workflow with This Heavy Earth – Fleshrot Suite, bringing the brutal, boutique sound of This Heavy Earth guitar pedals and custom high-gain circuits straight into your DAW.
1. Stompbox Section: Front-End Aggression
Great metal tone starts before the amplifier. The suite models boutique pedal circuits engineered to slam the front end with maximum precision:
- Grim3 Overdrive: Tightens up flubby low-end chugs and enhances pick attack clarity before hitting the gain stage.
- Spectral Gate: A fast, high-headroom VCA-style gate engineered to eliminate feedback for dead-silent stops.
- Crypt Boost: Delivers up to +26 dB of high-headroom gain with an integrated tilt EQ to balance pick attack.
- The Fuzz: A raw op-amp fuzz with dedicated Blend and Mass controls to stack thick fuzz over your high-gain amp.
- Crustifiction Distortion: Provides aggressive, raw distortion textures tailored for crust, doom, and black metal.
2. Amplification & Cab Engine
At the core of the plugin sits the FLESHROT high-gain amp section, engineered specifically for brutal rhythm tones, articulate leads, and extreme-metal production.
- SpeakerX Technology: Aurora DSP’s real-time modeling engine simulates non-linear speaker behavior—capturing spatial character, warmth, and cabinet dynamics beyond static IRs.
- Dual Cab Voicings: Quickly switch between tight, focused modern metal responses and dark, heavy doom textures.
- Graphic Output EQ: Post-cab stage equalizer for notching out harsh resonances and carving final mix-ready curves.
3. Post-Effects & Utilities
- Time FX Rack: Includes Sundrift Chorus (wide modulation), Oscura Tremolo (rhythmic pulsing), Paracusia Delay (stereo ping-pong), and Weeping Angel Reverb (spacious ambient decay).
- Transpose Control: Instant pitch-shifting to drop your tuning in software without touching your physical guitar tuning pegs.
- Integrated Tools: Includes built-in tuner, metronome, standalone audio recorder, preset manager, full MIDI support, and a Studio Environment monitoring option.
Features include:
- Complete Heavy Signal Chain: Stompboxes, high-gain amp, cabs, time-based effects, and mastering EQ inside one interface.
- Boutique Pedal Emulations: Includes Grim3 Overdrive, Crypt Boost, Spectral Gate, The Fuzz, and Crustifiction.
- FLESHROT 200 Architecture: High-gain amplifier engine tailored specifically for modern extreme metal, doom, sludge, and crust styles.
- Dynamic SpeakerX DSP: Real-time nonlinear speaker modeling for responsive, analog-like cabinet behavior.
- Dual Cabinet Profiles: Switch seamlessly between focused modern precision and dark, massive sludge responses.
- Post-Cab Graphic EQ: Built-in final-stage equalizer to carve out mix frequencies directly inside the plugin.
- Integrated Utility Suite: Real-time transpose pitch-shifter, GateMate noise gate, standalone recorder, tuner, metronome, and full MIDI control.
This Heavy Earth: Fleshrot is available to PC, Mac and iOS users (VST3, AU, AAX, AUv3 and standalone).
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