Favorite 8 string metal bands?

[goat violator]

Motherfuckin Portal

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Redefining Metal...

 

[Dehumanize]

Meshuggah. IMO, every other band mentioned is horrible.

 

[Customisbetter]

Burial
Chimp Factory
Divine Fear
Leaders Heresy

I'd probably throw in After The Spanner and Animals As Meshuggah too.

This is honestly how i read this...

 

[heyimdallas]

This is honestly how i read this...

+1 for dyslexia

 

[simonXsludge]

-meshuggah is the classic
-the new ion dissonance record makes good use of 8 strings
-portal is interesting and challenging, i wish they would write more actual riffs and go for a good sounding production though
-animals as leaders is some real good and versatile stuff [/edit]

everything else...i mostly don't care about. too many meshuggah riff-offs, not enough bands trying something different. sadly, because i love the lowest of the low tunings a lot.

 

[i_love_tazzus]

Meshuggah and Animals as Leaders. There are a few others such as the ones mentioned in this thread, but otherwise my fave 8 string sounds are non metal.

I could imagine the guys from serpents rise using 8's though. I'm not sure if there were even any 7's on the album...?

 

[vampiregenocide]

This is honestly how i read this...

Leaders Heresy and Divine Fear are pretty sick band names.

 

[goat violator]

-portal is interesting and challenging, i wish they would write more actual riffs and go for a good sounding production though

There are riffs a plenty, you just have to work harder to discern them!
The production is lo-fi on purpose, I dont think it will ever change somehow.
Music is best suited to vinyl and a dark room with headphones or Live!

 

[DethCaek]

Ihsahn
Agoraphobic Nosebleed
TTDTE

 

[Necrophagist777]

Meshuggah, Chimp Spanner, Scale the Summit, After the Burial, Animals as Leaders, TDTDE

 

[darkinners]

Meshuggah \m/

 

[Elijah]

Meshuggah. IMO, every other band mentioned is horrible.

Shame on you Tosin is a great guitarist and his music is a perfect representative of how versatile and creative he is!

But hey, at least no one said Suicide Silence

 

[Tirell]

This is honestly how i read this...

You just made my day

 

[Xanithon]

Meshuggah, After the Burial, Animals as Leaders, Ihsahn also.

Thats it really for me.

 

[Laxdude67]

animals as leaders, and not metal, but Scale the Summit!!

 

[KoenDercksen]

Animals as Leaders, Meshuggah.

 

[terminus]

Pestilence

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Ihsahn is pretty rad too

 

[Dehumanize]

Shame on you Tosin is a great guitarist and his music is a perfect representative of how versatile and creative he is!

But hey, at least no one said Suicide Silence

He's a good guitarist and those EMG videos posted around here were great, but I can't sit and listen to his band, or any of these other 'djent' bands that are getting popular. I'm not into the prog metal/metalcore sound coming from these bands, but I'm keeping an eye open for something my style comes along on an 8-string.

 

[Ishan]

That's funny, most of the time I feel like an alien listening to this stuff but here, I'm like everyone else
Current favorite : Ion Dissonance, Periphery, Ihsahn, a few Danza songs I heard were hella cool, Whitechapel (not technically 8 strings but pitch shifted 7 LULZZ!!!1!11! )
All time favorite : No lie here, It'll always be Meshuggah for me

 

[SD83]

Chimp Factory

I like that name

Ihsahn, by far. Then Fear Factory. I'd say Deftones, too, but I only know their older stuff. Sometimes Meshuggah.