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Nail my torn flesh to the cross.
Thrust a spear deep in my side.
I carried my cross long enough.
I wear my love like a crown of thorns.

The Thorn is our collaboration with post-metal powerhouse Amenra - an attempt to distill the unmistakable voice of Lennart Bossu into a form that can live on any stage, in any rig, anywhere in the world.

A bit of history: for years, Lennart’s sound has been defined by an old and rare Providence Stampede SDT-1 - discovered through recordings from Kurt Ballou’s God City Studios (famed for its use on Converge records and beyond). That one battered unit became his weapon of choice across Oathbreaker, Amenra, Predatory Void and Living Gate, shaping not only his voice but an entire Belgian scene orbiting around Amenra and its members.

The original SDT-1 has a singular, organic roar - but also some inconvenient baggage: a massive enclosure, direct wall-voltage power, a fixed boost, and a few other quirks. Later Providence revisions solved some of those problems, but at the expense of its unique sonic fingerprint.

So we set out to reverse-engineer Lennart’s exact unit and reimagine it for the modern stage. The result: a faithful recreation with a few critical evolutions. We added a 1 kHz mid control for surgical presence-shaping. We made the footswitchable boost adjustable. We kept the soul of his exact unit in the SDT-1 mode, but added an SDT-2 mode for the more compressed, saturated tones Lennart leans on in Living Gate. And, true to our nature, we couldn’t resist adding a third, proprietary voicing - laerm - more open, louder, and more direct than any Stampede ever was.

We kept the EQ bypass that was present on the original unit but got lost in later revisions: lifting the tone stack completely from the circuit for an even more immediate connection between guitar and amp. In Lennart’s own setup, the Thorn feeds straight into an Ampeg V4 with EQ bypassed, turning it into an extension of the amp’s own voice rather than an overlay.

With the Thorn, you hold not only the sound of Amenra, Oathbreaker and countless others but a distortion that stands on its own: direct, transparent, and articulate, yet massive and organic. It’s a voice you won’t find anywhere else.

Features:

• Lichtlaerm Audio Smart Relay technology

• Lennart Bossu signature distortion

• the sound of Amenra, Oathbreaker, Living Gate, etc.

• direct, transparent yet huge and organic sound

• bypassable 3-band active EQ

• footswitchable boost

• SDT-1, SDT-2 and proprietary laerm modes

• high headroom design with charge pump

• standard 9V center-negative power