In recent years, Polyphia have established themselves as virtuosic disruptors of everything the music world thought it knew about genre classifications. Over the course of their first three albums, the Texas-based shredders have brought metal, trap, rock, funk, and a slew of other influences together to spectacular effect.
And now, having recently added nuevo flamenco to their list of stylistic conquests on Playing God - the band's first new song since 2019 and their first ever to feature nylon-string guitars - Polyphia's Tim Henson has not only gone unplugged, but he's taken his nonconformist approach straight into Ibanez's workshop to develop a bespoke new tool for the job. Cue the TOD10N: a prototype nylon-string signature model for Henson.
Angelic sonics collide with devilish aesthetics in this head-turningly modern electro-acoustic, but the event that sparked the whole creative process happened back in 2019, when Henson found himself standing in a pawn shop somewhere in Europe, holding a forgotten relic from Ibanez's catalogue: an electric-nylon hybrid called the SC500N. "I'd never seen anything like it before, so I texted Ibanez and was like, 'What the f*ck is this?"" he laughs. After a brief noodle, he realised he could play much of his Polyphia repertoire - bends excluded on the guitar, and decided to drop 800 bucks to liberate the curious late-90s design experiment and bring it home.
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