Steven Roger Terreberry (, born September 30, 1987), also known as Stevie T, is a Canadian

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and musician based in

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, Ontario. He is known for his comedic videos involving music and for being a notable player of the

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subgenre.

Career

Terreberry created his YouTube channel on January 7, 2008. His first video was a guitar cover of "

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". He began to gain popularity on the site in 2011. In 2014, Terreberry signed on with music label

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. Terreberry's debut album, ''Album of Epicness'', was released in 2015 with the

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"Djenstrumental". He also collaborated with

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on his 2015 project ''

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''. In 2019, Terreberry started a competition with

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to play the guitar with the most strings. The competition ended after Terreberry received a custom 20-string guitar. Terreberry and Dines later sold their instruments for charity. That year, Terreberry was invited to tour with

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as a replacement for bassist

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. Initially agreeing to the tour, Terreberry swiftly dropped out due to anxiety attacks. Afterwards, he was given a cameo appearance in the music video for the song " Razorblade Meltdown". On May 7, 2021, Terreberry's YouTube channel was hacked, resulting in all of his videos being set to private, as well as his channel's name and photo being changed. The hacker was identified as a

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employee impersonator. During the hack, a

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involving Binance was public on his channel until it was terminated shortly after a mass report. When Terreberry's channel was recovered, the livestream was removed, and his channel's name and photo were reset. Three days later, all of his videos were reset to public. On March 30, 2022, Terreberry played a guitar solo on stage with

during the band's live show in

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Discography

Albums

Non-album singles

List adapted from

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on December 16, 2022. * "Metalcore Song" 2013 * "Online Lover" 2014 * "

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Djent" 2014 * "Man Bun Song" 2016 * "Halloween Core" 2016 * "Negative Comments Song" 2016 * "Shredding National Anthems" 2017 * "Yu-Gi-Oh! Guitar Battle" 2017 * "Uku-Djent" 2017 * "Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2 (In Major)" 2017 * "Fidget Spinner Metal" 2017 * " Breakdown" (

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cover) 2017 * "Life in Virtual" 2018 * "Canada Bumps" 2018 * "Jurassic Park Guitar Cover" 2018 * "Acoustipop" 2020 * "Jojo" (" In Managua" cover) 2020 * "Punk Rock God" 2020 * "Song Using ALL of My Guitars" 2020 * "Somebody's Watching Me METAL" (featuring Anthony Vincent) 2021 * "Cowboy Boots & Beers" 2022 * "Rebounding" (featuring Anthony Vincent) 2022 * "Subliminal Tie" (featuring Tokyo Speirs) 2022 * "Stand Up" (

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cover) (featuring Anthony Vincent and Joey Izzo) 2022 * "Knipslot" 2022 * "Mr. Bridghtside" – In the style of

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(

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cover) (featuring Anthony Vincent) 2024

Other appearances

Personal life

Terreberry resides in

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, where he was also born and raised. He was given the middle name "Roger" in tribute to his uncle, who died at 17 from

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before Terreberry was born. Terreberry's grandfather, Leo Daudlin (1934-2022), was the accordion player for the band Sundown Jim and the Willoughby Ramblers. After Daudlin's death, his accordion was passed down to Terreberry, who used it to cover one of his band's songs as a tribute. Terreberry often says his favorite guitar riff is from

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's hit song,

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; and that his favorite solo is from

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. His other influences include

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(particularly

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), and

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(particularly

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). Terreberry has owned a number of different guitars, with many coming from

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. One of his Kiesel guitars was designed in tribute to his late producer Carmen Sorge, and was stylized after a

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used by

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. He also owns a Solar guitar that was gifted by

Ola Englund Ola "The Swede" Englund (born 27 September 1981) is a Swedish guitarist, YouTuber, record producer, and the owner of Solar Guitars. He is a founding member of the band Feared, plays lead guitar in the Swedish Heavy metal band, heavy metal band T ...

Footnotes

References

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