Most people pick up a guitar with the goal of playing lead. (Image credit: Gabe Ginsberg/Getty Images) He’s a very clean player, and he writes solos that have a flow, that have melodies and hooks."
"The big breakthrough is that I did the solos on the last record, and Chris is now a co-lead player doing really ambitious stuff. He’s so tight with that stuff, and I feel like I’m playing catch-up, because at the heart of what I do, I’m a thrash-metal guitar player and more of an old-school guy. He is technically incredible as far as rhythm. "I did more solos on this record than on the last one, and Doc has helped me with my technique and phrasing, while I’ve coached him and taught him ways to go about polyrhythms to make it sound tighter, so that we lock in better."Ĭoyle: "In many ways, Chris is the unheralded star of the band. Things like that make us balance one another out. At the same time, there are rhythm patterns that I play and it’s like a reverse effect: he wants to know how I do them. He does things that I can’t even comprehend. In many ways, Chris is the unheralded star of the band Doc CoyleĬain: "Doc smokes me on leads. How are your playing styles similar and different, and how do those elements make for a better guitar team? He also hosts his own podcast, The Ex-Man.Ĭhris Cain and Doc Coyle were in rehearsals for Bad Wolves’ U.S. He founded the band Vagus Nerve, whom he says “still exists but is not active at the moment,” and has contributed to other artists’ projects onstage and in the studio. That’s where he met Boecklin, and together they planted the seeds that became Bad Wolves.Ĭoyle, a New Jersey native, relocated to the West Coast in 2014, following a 15-year stretch with metal band God Forbid that included six full-length albums, impressive sales numbers, and a seemingly endless road life as headliners, support, and favored performers on festival stages worldwide. He also worked as a guitar tech before and after moving to California in 2013.
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