Actually Simon, I think the Canadian had a gut full of young kids coming into his 'Pro studio' with tiny practice amps to record Metal sessions, so in disgust and in a release of frustration put out a video of him destroying a Line6 spider using actual explosives at a firing range. He has since done similar to a Marshall Code25 by throwing it off a building and then taking to it with a sledge hammer. All done under the banner that neither is worth of being in a Metal type song....
The essence of the German dude was to rebut the Canadian and make a (pretty good) Metal type track mostly only using the Line6.
I will say that the videos were entertaining though at the same time very annoying... Anyone with nil brain can destroy something, but it does take a little of that something special to be able to truly create something. And in creating it if other people wonder and guess in how it was done then you certainly have something special in your grasp. There are few with ears so Golden that they through listening alone can tear apart any musical track and then advise the world the specifics on how each sound within that track came into existence. Most just listen and indulge in the experience....