Extreme metal without extreme downtuning?

[Anders]

Immortal and Dark Funeral!!

[Sinistas]

Opeth until the last album.

[Zerberus]

IIRC Norther tune to E....most Slayer is Eb (though not Black or death, but..)

[Inazone]

Dare I say, Under Eden?

(If you can hear the guitars in the mix, that is.)

[Mordor]

First two Morbid Angel albums are in Eb iirc

[Nazgul]

Lot of Deicide is in Eb, aswell as early Cannibal Corpse.

[MegaMarty]

"iced earth" => Eb

early times of "Testament" => E

Annihilator => E

I'm not sure but manowar can be E

[MegaMarty]

wooaaaa destruction used E standard

[toejam]

Joe, shouldn't you just learn a few basic chords in E before you start messing around with alternate tunings? One step at a time bro.

I know, right?!? LOL I've got a couple guitars in E, a couple in Eb and one in D. I've got my 7-string for the B tuning. I was just wondering what bands out there today use E or Eb, since it seems there's very few that are now.

[toejam]

Dare I say, Under Eden?

(If you can hear the guitars in the mix, that is.)

You guys kick ass! I listened to one clip yesterday. I'll have to check out some more.

[P I K A]

I was actually surprised to read in Guitar World I think it was that they are in E Standard. Silnoz (?) I think his name was said they use all 3 notes in the chord (5th I believe) instead of just the normal 2 notes (1st & 3rd) in the power chord to give it that extra heavy sound

Normal 2 notes in a power chord would be 1st and 5th. Couldn't resist!

[Chad]

Diminished to b









sorry, had to

Say what? BTW, you're in my neck of the pond....I'm in Vincennes.

[Creepy]

Say what? BTW, you're in my neck of the pond....I'm in Vincennes.

Hey cool, I'm over there all of the time. Diminished to b is a Necophagist song. Damn, small world.

[jjw]

seems it would be easier to use a digitech and transpose that way for some...alto the tone may suffer with that on all the time. not to mention.. it's cooler to whip out another guitar..but rather a pain in the keister to carry 3 or 4 to the gig only to play for a few tunes out side the main tunings.

your right there but as the only guitarist in the band i also need the parker for acoustic tones and heavy overdriven tunes in some songs so i need at least two guitars for a majority if tunes.I have sorted out my tones now to a simple crystal clear clean and a verby overdriven voice that i can clean up with the volume pot on the guitar rather than mess around with floor pedals that keep me in one place all the time
I thought about doing the digital moddeling but the sound does suffer a hell of a lot mate,but then again it might work on some tunesworth thinking about if you only have a couple of tunes with dodgy tunings!or i spose i could get one of those fugly line 6 guitars!lol
yeahh pain in the arse to lug around 3 or more axes per gig and my main worry is them getting stolen!

[charvelguy]

Not to mention your break is pretty much shot in part or whole keeping the axes properly tuned if you do it yourself.

I've seen Musicman Axis with piezo bridge options...throw a D-tuna on a floyded one and half your battle is over with one axe .. makes me want to go find one!