Lastgasp Art Laboratories Devil Tail Deathtortion

The Lastgasp Art Laboratories Devil Tail Deathtortion is a high-gain distortion pedal from the Australian builder. Guitar Pedal X's Stefan Karlsson describes it as "a chunky, percussive high gain distortion" with medium-to-blistering gain, a thick texture, and a cutting sear similar to the maker's Lluna Feedback Oscillation Fuzz¹. It sits in the same family as the Lastgasp Art Laboratories 88 Super Oscillo Fuzz, another of the maker's fuzz-adjacent designs.

What it sounds like

Karlsson's review frames the gain range generously: "It has a wide range of gain from medium to somewhat blistering high gain distortion." He compares it to the Lluna Feedback Oscillation Fuzz, calling the Devil Tail "a sort of cousin" to that pedal, with a similar cutting sear but a thicker, chunkier distortion character of its own¹.

On tightness, he sets it against a well-known high-gain benchmark: "It's not as tight as the Fortin Meshuggah (I'm not sure anything is!). But its output is wondrous in its own way." His verdict on the overall character is that the output is thick, juicy and punchy in its tightness and output¹. The pedal clearly made an impression on him beyond the review: he counts it as the 7th Lastgasp pedal to enter his reference collection¹.

Controls and rear trimmers

The top panel carries two foot-friendly controls, Level and Gain. The EQ lives on the back of the pedal as three trimmers labeled Mid, High and Low, set through apertures in the back plate so they can be reached with a tool without opening the enclosure².

Guitar Pedal X describes the arrangement as "accessible trim-pots through the back plate - via strategic apertures", a three-band EQ trim system rather than the usual tone knob².

Karlsson's own settings give a sense of how the pedal is meant to be run: Level between 1 and 3 o'clock, the Gain cranked fully into what he calls the Hell portion of the dial, the Low trimmer at maximum, and the Mid and High trimmers left on their factory defaults¹.

Price and availability

Guitar Pedal X's 2025 roundup of new distortion pedals lists the Devil Tail Deathtortion at AUD $388 / $256 USD². In the UK, Joe's Pedals listed it at £199, and Karlsson reported that the first batch sold through very quickly, with more ordered in¹. For US players, Lastgasp pedals are available from Perfect Circuit in the USA, alongside Effekt Boutique in Germany and direct from Lastgasp in Australia¹.

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