"Wrest" Jef Stuart Whitehead

"The first Leviathan stuff I did was with a Gibson Sonex, which I traded for a tattoo."

"Tim Lehi, who I [tattooed] with, is an incredible guitar player. Really inspirational. We both fell in love with black metal around the same time. He helped me get my first good guitar, which was a 1995 neck-through Paul Reed Smith."

In an interview with Guitar World, Jef "Wrest" Whitehead of Leviathan mentions borrowing a 1969 Gibson Les Paul from Tim to achieve heavier guitar tones for the track "Lurker," using it directly through a POD and a four-track recorder.

"On the following album, True Traitor, I used [engineer/producer] Sanford [Parker’s] Gibson V for most of that."

"And Scar Sighted is all Stevie’s custom Monson [Morningstar], and my neck-through Gibson Explorer that I used for the clean tones".

"And Scar Sighted is all Stevie’s custom Monson [Morningstar], and my neck-through Gibson Explorer that I used for the clean tones."

"Yeah, Stevie got me one for my birthday in July. It’s called the Redemption and has a maple neck, ebony fingerboard with my “Freezing Moon” inlays and a set of custom Lace Drop & Gain pickups. But yeah they’re beautiful guitars and Brent [Monson] is a super nice guy. I’d like to have him build me another guitar."

"You’ll also mix things up by adding acoustic passages, such as in “Dawn Vibration” and “Within Thrall.” - Stevie has a plug-in Chet Atkins nylon-string classical guitar that I used. Now I have a nice Takamine acoustic, but I didn’t have it when I was recording"