Favorite recorded guitar tones?

[gunch]

Wormed - Krigshu and Exodromos
Sarpanitum - Despoilment of Origin
Cryptopsy - None so Vile
Nevermore - Politics of Ecstasy and Dreaming Neon Black
Disincarnate - Dreams of the Carrion Kind
Psycroptic - (ob)Servant
Suffocation - Despise the Sun
Disgorge - She Lay Gutted
Defeated Sanity - Passages into Deformity
Nile - Black Seeds of Vengeance
Born of Osiris - The New Reign
Glass Casket - Desperate Man's Diary
Car Bomb - Centralia
Burnt By the Sun - The Soundtrack to Your Personal Revolution
Pig Destroyer - Prowler in the Yard and Terrifyer
Meshuggah - None EP, reNothing and Chaosphere
Stoort neer - en glad titel på en sorglig skiva
Vildhjarta - Thousands of Evils

Adding A Celebration of Guilt. It's quickly becoming one of my favorite sounding albums. So much that the albums after from Arsis do absolutely nothing for me. Psycroptic's first album is more fun than I remembered too.

 

[Hoss632]

Green Day- Dookie and Insomniac albums
Godsmack- Faceless Album
Tremonti- Marching in Time album
311- Self titles album
Avenged Sevenfold- Hail to the King album
Bullet for my Valentine- Fever album
Metallica- Black album
August Burns Red- Guardians Album
Periphery- Hail Stan album
Angel Vivaldi- Synapse album
I Built the Sky- The Zenith Rise album
Distant Dream- last 3 albums

 

[youngthrasher9]

Cannibal Corpse - any of them
Knocked Loose - Laugh Tracks
Nile - any of them
Behemoth - Evangelion
Whitechapel - Kin, Our Endless War, The Valley
Arch Enemy - War Eternal
Carcass - Heartwork
Meshuggah - Future Breed Machine
Nails - any of them (especially Endless Resistance)
Gatecreeper - Deserted
Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
Havok - Time is Up
Exodus - Tempo of the Damned
Testament - The Gathering, Dark Roots of Earth
Entombed - any of them
Temple of Void - Lords of Death
The Black Dahlia Murder - Nightbringers
Mastodon - Leviathan, Crack the Skye
Blood Red Throne - Affiliated with Suffering
Sleep - Dopesmoker
Pantera - Far Beyond Driven
Metallica - Am I Evil?
Slayer - Reign in Blood, South of Heaven
Dissection - Storm of the Lights Bane
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality, Paranoid, Self Titled
Black Tongue - I’m so Tired of Sighing
Power Trip - Nightmare Logic

 

[Blytheryn]

So so many, but the tone on Bodom’s Hatebreeder is everything I want.

 

[wheresthefbomb]

Absolutely sublime. Carlson's best work since Bees Made Honey IMO.

 

[syzygy]

Hard question, but here are a few tones that I've been super into:

Meshuggah - pretty much any album by them, but I'll give the nod to Destroy Erase Improve and Chaosphere
Periphery - again, pretty much any album by them, but I think their tones were the best on PII and on Juggernaut: Alpha/Omega
Gojira - The Way of All Flesh, From Mars to Sirius, Magma
Mastodon - Remission, Leviathan, Crack the Skye
Mick Gordon - DOOM 2016
TTDTE - Danza IIII: The Alpha - The Omega
Deftones - Diamond Eyes
Loathe - ILIIAITE
Polyphia - NLND
Dance Gavin Dance - Acceptance Speech, Instant Gratification, Artificial Selection
Plini - Other Things, Handmade Cities (all of his albums have good tone, but these stand a cut above imo)
The Contortionist - Language
Pat Methany - all his stuff, but I particularly like the sound of Bright Size Life and One Quiet Night
Killswitch Engage - The End of Heartache, As Daylight Dies
Attack Attack - Self-titled (Say what you will about that band, but they had some mean guitar tone on that album)
Architects - Holy Hell
Muse - Absolution, Black Holes and Revelations
Rage Against the Machine - Self-titled
The White Stripes - Elephant
Devin Townsend - his live albums (I legitimately think he sounds better live)


And on a slightly different note, I'll throw in Weezer's Pinkerton. I don't think the guitar tone on that album sounds good, but given the lyrical content of the album, and the overall nasty vibe the album has, I think the trashy guitar tone actually works really well in the context of the album.

 

[CanserDYI]

One I recently got back into was the Acacia Strain's Dead Walk, man the tones on that album were just aggressive as shit and thick and wooly. Love it.

Just started listening to END as well and love their HM2 blend sound.

 

[Bodes]

I'm going to go for some left-field choices for this forum.

Cradle of Filth - Midian
Fuel - Sunburn (although let's face it, they are just going for a Metallica Load sound, which is also awesome!)
Godsmack - Awake
The Offspring - for the albums Smash through to Conspiracy of One.

 

[Dooky]

Metallica - And Justice For All

 

[estin]

Marilyn Manson - Lunchbox. Especially on the chorus when layered with that OSC-sync analog synth line. So well done.

Minute of decay is also great, sounds like 7 gauge strings - tubescreamer - old radio.

 

[AMOS]

George Harrison's slide tone in this song

 

[MrBouleDeBowling]

My favorite is the album Kill by Cannibal Corpse. It's just so heavy, huge and rich

Close second is Mr. Patate by the french parody band Ultra Vomit when they were still purely a brutal death/grind band.

 

[BurningRome]

Left field here...

Smashing Pumpkins - Song: Aeroplane Flies High

When the song kicks into distorted guitars the gain structure for the band is not something you'd ever expect them to use. So glad it was used. Made that song pretty rad.

I've assumed it was an Orange, but I have no idea.

 

[onefingersweep]

Allan Holdsworth - Wardenclyffe Tower
Andy Timmons - Resolution
Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality
Brett Garsed - Dark Matter
Dream Theater - Image & Words
Dream Theater - Awake
Gojira - From March To Sirius
Iron Maiden - Killers
Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time
Iron Maiden - Brave New World
Jimi Hendrix - Little Wing
Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze
Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Child
Joe Satriani - Surfing With The Alien
Joe Satriani - Satch Boogie
Joe Satriani - Echo
Meshuggah - Everything, especially the 8-string stuff.
Metallica - Kill em All
Metallica - Ride The Lightening
Metallica - Master Of Puppets
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Shawn Lane - Powers Of Ten
Shawn Lane - The Tri Tone Fascination
Sybreed - Slave Design (I actually think it was recorded with a Line 6 POD, but I'm not sure. Either way they make it sound super heavy and awesome).
Van Halen - Everything
Yngwie Malmsteen - Rising Force
Yngwie Malmsteen - Marching Out
Yngwie Malmsteen - Odessey
Yngwie Malmsteen - Fire & Ice
Yngwie Malmsteen - Magnum Opus
ZZ Top - Everything. One of those bands, just like Van Halen, who doesn't change their sound much, it's basically the same and it's always killer.

 

[amonb]

Kings X - Dogman
RATM - self-titled
AIC - Three-Legged Dog
Down - NOLA
Crowbar - self-titled
Carcass - Swansong

 

[amonb]

Left field here...

Smashing Pumpkins - Song: Aeroplane Flies High

agree 100%

 

[SixStrings_Monk]

Without putting much thought on it,
Dark Clouds and Silver Linings - Heavy tones here might be what rings in my head (cleans suck tho lel)
Master Boot Record, Interrupt Request
Gojira - anything by them sounds huge, also a big fav
Animals as Leaders - Meanwhile, their clean tone might be my favorite, I wish I can sound half as good one day
Chords of Orion, Wood - acoustic and echoes equals awesome

 

[pahulkster]

Marilyn Manson - Lunchbox. Especially on the chorus when layered with that OSC-sync analog synth line. So well done.

Minute of decay is also great, sounds like 7 gauge strings - tubescreamer - old radio.

Daisy was such a cool player. Manson never got anybody that could replace him imo.

 

[Guamskyy]

The Contortionist’s first album “Exoplanet.”

Super saturated & thicccc but still clear

 

[rikwebb]

Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
Terror - Keepers Of The Faith
The Cure - Disintegration
Isis - In The Absence Of Truth
Van Halen - 5150
Metallica - AJFA
Killswitch Engage - Alive Or Just Breathing
Sikth - Death Of A Dead Day
AC/DC - Powerage
Alice in Chains - Dirt