PLX can play, though, definitely - he has good command of/and decent lead technique
I don't get most of his clips, though, musically
it sounds like alot of "meh" ideas, with a really good riff or chord progression once in a while, at least to me
I respect the hustle recording and posting all the clips but I think he'd be better served spending more time arranging and focusing his ideas instead of noodling. There's some really cool things sprinkled here and there but it's never really polished as a cohesive idea
His recordings sound like they're recorded well, and with good technique on getting the sounds
Similarly, Chugg can play rhythm well
but has riff-salad itis where it sounds like he bolts a bunch of ideas that barely work together, and never lets anything repeat or breathe enough for it to have any impact
if you're going for that tech-death style of 140 riffs a song, you have to milk a theme even if you're changing the riffs constantly to make anything stick - otherwise it sounds like a pre-demo "riff tape"
like where you're playing all the riffs you have of a specific key and tempo, with a generic drumbeat, to see if you can arrange them and make them fit together
If you don't spend time on how the riffs evolve and coalesce, and arrange them carefully, it ends up not sounding like an actual song with an idea