ive been looking at new bands and realized, there arent many bands that use standerd tuniong anymore... what bands still uses it today? do any of you?

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opeth is all i can think of.

its because its not BRUTAL enough for metal!

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megadeth????

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oh yeah.
and slayer - show no mercy
most pantera off cfh and vulgar.

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OMC and Dimmu. Most black metal.

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Yes, when I first heard them and saw how heavy they were, I thought they de-tuned. Was surprised when I found out that almost all their songs are stanndard.

Wow... Opeth use standard? I'm really surprised.

Immortal used standard E tuning up until Sons of Northern Darkness, I believe. Standard tuning, like most BM bands. Einherjer also use standard.

I think standard is best for good old fashioned thrash, power, and heavy metal. King Diamond use standard, right? Manowar still write some songs in standard, but a lot of the recent stuff is in D or Eb

I think Immortal tuned up to F for Pure Holocaust.

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Martyr used it on the whole "Hopeless Hopes" album.
Testament
Annihilator
The Dillinger Escape Plan
Cynic
I think Quo Vadis does
Watchtower
Spastic Ink
Spiral Architect


Standard tuning rules, my main guitar is in standard.

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Seen 1 or 2 Zyklon tabs in E standard. Whether they're correct or not remains to be seen but they sound right enough.
You could technicaly count bands using 7 strings tuned BEADGBE (or AEAD...) as using standard tuning.

ditto

there are even LESS bands who tune in standArd




all black metal is usually in E, for whatever reason.emperor. old thrash...

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Me too.. well actually mine are 7 strings so I can get plenty low and also standard

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my main guitar is tuned to C# nowadays.

Old metallica is in E. The other bands I know off are already mentioned.

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you know the point of this thread was to promote NEW bands that use standerd...

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I think alot of new bands don't use standard tuning because they can't write a heavy sounding song in E. I personally like E tuning because when played right it sounds razor sharp.

Isn't Warp Zone entirely in E standard as well?

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nope they do drop D

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I can only think of Megadeth. Maybe Lamb of God can be an exception but they're in Drop-D.

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I think Megadeth is from youthanasia on in lower tunings (Eb it think)

Are you sure?

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Well, of course I just clasify standard tuning as tuning to the whole perfect fourth(except for that shitty B string). Anyways, a lot of bands use variations of standard tuning and the only reason I wouldn't classify it as standard is when they tune to a chord for like slide guitar or the whole dropping the lowest tone(only the lowest) by two half-steps which I classify as kind of lame, if you can't do it regularly then you don't need to be doing it. I fall victim to the "drop D" one finger power chords only when I'm really drunk. About Opeth they seem to me to tune to the whole D G C F A D on a few of their songs but I know they use E A D G B E plenty as well. They use of course Hungarian minor/Diminished/Harmonic minor/standard minor scales. And of course the occasional pentatonic. But I am from the same state as Rusty Cooley(Outworld) so eh. He insulted the dropping of the lowest tone about the same as I do. Anyways.

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Transient's correct...

Hmmm, oh well. It doesn't sound like he uses drop D, though - y'know how drop D power chords sound slightly more aggressive than standard power chords and all.

Interesting.

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goratory tunes to Eb i think thats close enough, and Al from goratory told me the dudes in cephalic carnage tune to Eb also. he said he doesnt like to tune down cause it has no clarity.

no, only on two songs.... the rest in e..... Warp Zone and Endless Vortex....

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only cowboys innit?

Vulgar is a step down.

Dillinger Escape Plan

Cephalic Carnage tune to B. Goratory certainly don't sound like they tune to Eb either.

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when i say standerd i mean standerd E just FYI...

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currently my main guitar is in E standard but there's only so many songs from certain bands you can play. I'm thinkin about tuning to B so I can play Cephalic Carnage, Cryptopsy, Carcass, Devolved and Drop A for Nile but then I can't play Opeth, Psycroptic and Martyr. It's a tough decision. This is why I want to get another 7-String that's of really good quality.

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I usually am tuned to B Flat..whether on a 6 or 7 string. I love having the standard tuned guitar though for a more (don't laugh) timeless feel I guess. Its just fun to rock out that way as well, because thats how I learned!!

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Ensiferum uses standard E tuning

Didn't read anything past the second page, but I tune normal. However, I have a seven string so I don't have to tune down.

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I like playing in standard. As soon as I get my other guitar in shape again, I might tune that into D or C#

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Personally my main guitar(ESP) I like to tune to D G C F A D. . . It gives a slightly lower tone of course and I stack it with .01 gauge DR strings(or GHS if I'm broke) the PRS(crappy PRS. . . until I get a Platinum VISA and in debt) I tune to E A D G B E with .009 gauge Fender bullets(give off that nice bluesy tone I want for it) and that seems to keep my sound the way I like it, plus as I've said before whenever I play on .009's I can do riffs that are slightly tougher(on the .01) with great ease. . . It helps to use heaver strings with lower tuning it adds more all in all but when I tune to E it gets a little bit tougher on the ESP. . . Opeth they do great things. . . sorry just finished listening to some of their stuff, they use mainly standard E A D G B E but at times I'm quite sure they drop tuning to D G C F A D, but eh, that's why rich pricks own so many guitars, because they are too lazy to retune during a session.

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Thank you for clarifying. . . Music isn't one universal language and doesn't have the exact same terms used to describe it or how it functions(Yeah I know I sound like the Guitar Grimoire guy) Anyways Thanks.

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anyone else notice how its changed to bands that use standard to people saying how they tune? but yea megadeth did tune i think a half step down on youthanasia.. great album

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