Whats The Best Guitar For Heavy Metal?

XxsavedguitaristxX

What do you people think is the best maker fro heavy metal guitars. I have a line 6 spider II and i can get good distortion out of it. Im looking for sound, look, and a comfortable guitar, Thanks! Laughing

Bates15 · Moderator Joined: 19 Feb 2002 Posts: 1084

I guess there are a milion options there.... Metal-rockers use anything from Ibanez to PRS and from Fender thru Charvel to Gibson! Any specifik sound you are looking for? Guitarists you like?

Metal usually depends on humbuckers for the extra output even tho Malmsteen uses singlecoil strats!

PunkStar · Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 7:32 pm Post subject:

It also depends on what you want to do with it. Rhythm or lead? Also, what type of metal do you want to play?

Looks is a hard one to judge as well because it relies too much on personal taste. But you probably shouldn't be basing your opinion on looks in any way. Unless you find something obscene (eg. some BC Rich designs), then it's looks probably don't matter too much. Very Happy

XxsavedguitaristxX · Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 4:43 am Post subject:

well, i prefer the metallica, children of bodom stuff. I Have EMG 81/85 on my guitar and those are great but i want something with a real crunch and stuff get me? I was thinking of getting this http://espguitars.com/guitars_alexi.html
Alexi Laiho's guitar. Hes my fav and it sounds great but i want something like this. [/url]

BJD · Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 5:42 am Post subject: metal

I would surely depend on Ibanez guitars or may be Charvel guitars for metal use. They are good and sounds good even if you use a cheaper one of them. But Ibanez guitars are highly recommended by me at the lower price range.

Shaggy · Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 10:48 pm Post subject:

Yeh i agree. I have an old Ibanez RG320 and i used that in metal bands and it was great. A nice amp helps too Razz

(which i did NOT hAVE) lol.
Jacksons are a goer too.
Yeh does depend what sort of metal though. Bands like Opeth for example use PRS (as far as i know) and thats great for their melodic metal etc. Prog Metal bands use a wide range too from Ibanez, to Jackson, to Parker.

But...in the end...you just gotta play what you feel comfortable with and enjoy....it really is a personal choice. But fun to explore and talk about nonetheless Smile

Goodluck!