The 10 Greatest Metal Guitar Tones of All Time!
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noooo, korn and slipknot both have albums with way better guitar tones imo… and why dont i see gary holt on this list?
No Wolverine Blues????
We are no longer friends.
Anybody pick Slayer's Reign in Blood guitar tone for their top ten?
crowbar sonic excess, time heals nothing, or s/t snubbed
What if you use a Mesa mark 2 with downtuned guitars?
Never share your opinion on metal. People will hate your takes.
Iowa was sick
Dude PLEASE tell me what guitar is in that thumbnail that thing looks absolutely gorgeous!!!!
The black album isn’t even my favorite metallica record and i have to agree the whole record was produced perfectly!
KoRn & Ross Robinson used a modded Marshall & modded Big Muff in the first 2 KoRn albums
Yes, the Black Album
AJFA > Black Album
demanufacture by fear factory, one of my favourites, and very unique, Dino still can't make that sound
Okay, the Heartwork tone is the pinnacle and it wasn't even computer processed.
Also, how the Rust In Peace guitar tone isn't in the top 10 here is strange.
Imo the remastered Human is a better tone than Symbolic.
The Cleansing is the heaviest tone I've ever heard.
for me Spreading The Disease
Chimaira – The Impossibility of Reason, still my favorite guitar tone.
Going back to hard rock and blues rock to early metal, the most popular guitar tones: Eric Clapton's "woman tone" guitar tone on Fresh Cream ("N.S.U." and "Spoonful"), Jimi Hendrix on Are You Experienced? ("Purple Haze" and "Red House"), Leslie West on Mountain: Climbing ("Mississippi Queen"), Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple: Machine Head ("Highway Star" and "Space Truckin'"), Ronnie Montrose of The Edgar Winter Group's They Only Come Out at Night ("Frankenstein"), Ronnie Montrose on Montrose ("Rock Candy"), Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath on Sabotage ("Symptom of the Universe"), Brian May of Queen: A Night at the Opera ("Bohemian Rhapsody"), and Eddie Van Halen's "brown sound" on Van Halen ("Eruption"). There are others, but I think these are the most desired tones from the mid-1960s to late 1970s.
How is Clayman by In Flames not even in honourable mentions? One of the greatest guitar tones ever recorded!
would’ve definitely put napalms death harmony corruption up there somewhere
I miss Monotheist.
I’d put knocked loose on here. Their tone is absolutely disgusting and never sounds supper muddy or too distorted.
No Fear Factory Demanufacture? Come on!
Gojira – The Way of All Flesh has a brutal guitar tone
Koloss was actually the steinberg vst amp rack in cubase. They talk about it in their documentary.
all the fucking mid and even lower tier tones got here. should've name this vid "top 10 worst tones", and previous, with hated ones – "top 10 best tones"
Maybe it’s not really metal but I don’t care, Core by stone temple pilots as one of the best guitar tone of the 90’s in my opinion. The bass carries tho
Decapitated – Nihility, Entombed – Wolverine blues, anything Bolt Thrower, Nile – Annihilation of the wicked, Necrophagist – Epitaph. Wild card picks – Iron Monkey – Spleen & Goad, Edge of Sanity – Crimson II.
I'm a huge thrash guy so I'll list some of my favorites in that genre.
•Epidemic of Violence by Demolition Hammer
•Time Does Not Heal by Dark Angel
•Alice in Hell by Annihilator
•Eternal Nightmare by Vio-lence
•A Shedding of Skin by Protector
•Weapons of Tomorrow by Warbringer
•Recollections of the Insane by Schizophrenia
Oh, and it's not technically Thrash but every single instrument on Youthanasia by Megadeth sounds incredible.
Here's a controversial one, Slayer's Diabolus in Musica.
No Van Halen, Sabbath, Scorpions nor UFO?
I mean, "Me-ahhl" wasn't born in 1990, in case you didn't know…
Korn werent using mesa on the self titled.
Lack of Opeth on this list hurts my soul, Ghost Reveries has one of the best guitar tones I've ever heard