When playing with Sumac he uses two distinct tunings being A-F#-B-D-F#-B and A#-F-A#-D-F#-A#. Turner prefers a Heil PR20 vocal microphone. Specifically, he runs a BOSS TU-3 Chromatic Tuner, a Death By Audio Apocalypse fuzz, a MASF fuzz, a Strymon BlueSky reverb (which he described as the one essential pedal in his rig), a TC Electronics Ditto Looper X2, and an EHX Forty-Five Thousand sampler (used to trigger preset samples during performance). Turner described using a variety of effects pedals in his live rig. While recording, Turner prefers to use a Fryette Pitbull Ultra Lead, an amp model he's used consistently since his work in Isis. Both heads drove Orange and Marshall cabinets, though Turner claimed to have no strong preferences for particular speaker cabinets. On a tour of the Eastern US, Turner was using an Orange Dual Dark 100 amplifier head with a slaved Fryette Two/Ninety/Two power amp. The newer of the two-a prototype for a signature model-has a slightly flatter fingerboard radius than the older instrument. Both have lucite bodies and aluminum necks, and custom-wound wide frequency range pickups. In 2016, Turner described the live rig he used with SUMAC as consisting of two custom-built guitars from the Electrical Guitar Company. They also used other tunings, though less frequently, such as F# (octave below)-F#-B-E-G#-B. When playing with Isis, Turner and his fellow guitarists usually tuned their instruments (low to high) B-F#-B-E-G#-B, to achieve a heavier sound. In the past, Turner has also used a Gibson Les Paul Standard, PRS CE24, and has played through Sunn, Mesa Boogie, and Mackie amplifiers. He has also acquired a custom guitar from the Electrical Guitar Company (as did fellow Isis guitarist Michael Gallagher). Touring with Isis in 2007, Turner used two different guitars: a 1976 Fender Telecaster Custom (black), and a 1975 Fender Telecaster Deluxe (brown), played through various effects (his pedalboard layout changed every gig depending on what songs the band decided to play that night), a VHT/Fryette Pitbull Ultra Lead, and two 4x12 Sunn cabinets. In mid-2009, Turner moved from Los Angeles, where both Isis and Hydra Head Records were based at the time, to Seattle with his then-girlfriend, Faith Coloccia they went on to wed in September of the same year. Isis was formed in 1997 out of a dissatisfaction with said bands' musical direction and Turner and Caxide's respective degrees of creative control. Īround 1997–99, Turner was living with future Isis bassist and co-founder Jeff Caxide until this point, he had been a member of the bands Union Suit and Hollomen. I guess just a combination of those factors is why everything got started so early. And music has always been a very very big part of my life. So there's not a lot of time taken up by my social life. Also, I've never been a really social person. So that was like a big reason for me, I suppose, to become really productive. Especially when I started to get interested in straight edge and wasn't doing drugs anymore, there was really nothing for me to do. I grew up in New Mexico, and there wasn't a whole lot as far as youth culture is concerned. Turner describes his early industriousness as being motivated in part by boredom:

By 1997, the Hydra Head label was becoming a respectable small record label. He later moved to Boston to attend art school at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, and in 1995 began releasing music. At age 17, he started a company that sold rare punk rock records via mail-order. Turner describes his upbringing, surrounded by his parents' writer, artist and photographer friends, as 'creatively nurturing'. His mother was a teacher 'who taught a progressive curriculum' and his father an author, 'mainly non-fiction'.

At an early age, his family moved to New Mexico, where he was raised. Turner was born in Springfield, Massachusetts on November 5, 1977. It has gone on to release material from his musical collaboration with Coloccia, Mamiffer. In partnership with his wife Faith Coloccia, Turner founded another record label, SIGE, in March 2011. Turner now resides in Vashon, WA which is also the base of operations for Hydra Head and his various other activities. In June 2003, Turner moved operations of both the band and label to Los Angeles, California. Raised in New Mexico, Turner moved to the Boston area, where he attended art school and formed Isis and Hydra Head. He is most widely known for his role as guitarist and vocalist for the post-metal bands SUMAC and Isis, while also participating in several other bands and projects such as Old Man Gloom, Lotus Eaters and Split Cranium, a collaboration with Jussi Lehtisalo of Finnish band Circle who toured with Isis in 2009. Aaron Turner (born November 5, 1977) is an American musician, singer, graphic artist, and founder of label Hydra Head Records.

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