Manson Guitar Works releases Supermassive Black Fuzz, its first fuzz pedal
October 31, 2025 · 3 sources
Manson Guitar Works released the Supermassive Black Fuzz, its first fuzz pedal, on 31 October 20251. The pedal was co-designed with Matt Bellamy, Muse frontman and majority shareholder of Manson Guitar Works, and Adrian Thorpe of Thorpy FX collaborated on the project, with each unit built in the UK1.
The Supermassive Black Fuzz is a dual-footswitch pedal. Peak turns on what the maker describes as "dynamic band-pass emphasis and boosted tones," and Power engages and disengages the effect, with LEDs indicating status1. The controls are four knobs named Magnitude, Warp, Dimension and Gravity; Guitar.com describes them as volume, tone, filter Q and gain respectively2. A heavy-duty toggle switch selects between a classic fuzz voicing and what Guitar World calls modernistic sci-fi neo-fuzz sounds1. Manson says the control knobs are made from 6082T6 aluminum1. Guitar World reports the pedal is designed to sound equally at home going into a guitar amp or straight into a mixing board1.
Guitar.com reports the pedal is tonally inspired by the fuzz sounds on the Muse song Supermassive Black Hole, and that the core fuzz sound runs into an aggressive filter with variable Q, with the Peak footswitch engaging a boosted allpass/static phase filter2. The review describes the enclosure as double-sloped engraved aluminum with a black hole design extending over the back edge2.
Two editions are offered.
"I usually find most fuzz pedals to be a little bit too full-range. Especially in how they sit in relation to the bass, drums and vocals."
Bellamy first discussed the pedal in 2022, saying he was developing a fuzz with an EQ curve that could slide from left to right or invert to create more of a scoop3. In its February 2026 review, Guitar.com rated the pedal 8 out of 10, praising its "Powerful and varied fuzz sounds" and "Faultless build quality," while calling it "Very, very expensive" and noting the lack of an expression input2.