Timotei00125
Prog Man
What are some cool 7 and 8 string bands? Like with some unique features... ambience, clean guitar, idk just weird. I'm not in the mood for shred stuff lately so I wanna find some cool other stuff(btw no deathcore please)
Some odd 7 and 8 string bands?
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Estradasphere is pretty odd and at least used to play sevens.
vampiregenocide
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Check out M.A.N, they use 11 string guitars and 7 strings with microtonal frets (48 frets).
Black_tear
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Would be interesting to hear it with less distortion to percieve the microtones better, like this doesn't sound that much different.
I'd give that guitar to Tosin but we might all kill ourselves before, it would be the end of all hope for guitarists
I'd give that guitar to Tosin but we might all kill ourselves before, it would be the end of all hope for guitarists
This could be interesting if some stuff came up. I am in the club of not interested in a 7 for chugga chugga (I want to see how I can extend chords ,*evil rubbing together of palms*)
Timotei00125
Prog Man
M.A.N. sounded pretty good but I agree that would be so much cooler with clean guitars. At least have a little clean guitar part thrown in. But otherwise sweet idea.
And yeah I'm just done with Chugs and Shredding. I mean AAL is one of very few 8 and 7 string bands I listen to anymore. MEshuggah got old to me and bands like Textures or Periphery just aren't the same anymore.
Sikth is pretty cool. I guess I'm looking for more unique bands or something. Too bad 7 and 8 strings seem to always be bound to a certain genre(first it was nu metal and shredding, now it's djent and more shredding lol)
And yeah I'm just done with Chugs and Shredding. I mean AAL is one of very few 8 and 7 string bands I listen to anymore. MEshuggah got old to me and bands like Textures or Periphery just aren't the same anymore.
Sikth is pretty cool. I guess I'm looking for more unique bands or something. Too bad 7 and 8 strings seem to always be bound to a certain genre(first it was nu metal and shredding, now it's djent and more shredding lol)
paintkilz
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that was hilarious. Bands that have "matching dress-code" are funny. Especially when its a cross between goth,nu-metal and a 14yr old girls hottopic garter collection.
JohnIce
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Leave it to the japanese then 
JohnIce
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This one is pretty sick aswell:
LOGfanforever90
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It's even funnier when they're "trying to look rock n roll" (Nickelback, or any commercial rock band), but they end up looking like an Abercrombie catalog.
statics
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Definitely +1 for STS. One of the guys uses an 8.
But I guess they might come under the category of 'shred'. Either way, they're sick.
Kaos-G
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Try Chaos Venture. It's a band I play guitar in. We play a mixture of instrumental ambient, electronic progressive with 3 keyboard players and of course 7 string guitars. Only 2 songs out for now, but the album is coming soon.
Here's the page with the streaming (we're on Spotify, iTunes, Amazon etc. aswell):
Chaos Venture on Napster
Here's the page with the streaming (we're on Spotify, iTunes, Amazon etc. aswell):
Chaos Venture on Napster
The Hiryuu
Dot dot dot.
Not odd in the sense you're looking for, but odd in the sense of "WTF...THEY use 8-strings?"...apparently GWAR uses 8-strings now...at least for the song Sick of You. And it seems to be an incredibly recent development...I found a video from October 2nd and they didn't, but they did when I saw them on the 15th.
JohnIce
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Here's John Mayer playing a Novax 8-string.
Charlie Hunter (who I think was the one who hooked Mayer up with said Novax):
Not actually a 7-string, but a creative use of the low B... Joe Bonamassa with a JP6 tuned to B standard. Seems like it would be easy enough to adapt to a 7
Charlie Hunter (who I think was the one who hooked Mayer up with said Novax):
Not actually a 7-string, but a creative use of the low B... Joe Bonamassa with a JP6 tuned to B standard. Seems like it would be easy enough to adapt to a 7
Leave it to the japanese then
Dude, I love when you post the japanese stuff here, although I'm a fan of rock made in Japan I'm a little behind the times it seems. Can you recommend some more stuff like this? Although I know High and Mighty Color I don't know too many songs and all of the bands you showed in the other threads are also kickass.
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JohnIce
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Dude, I love when you post the japanese stuff here, although I'm a fan of rock made in Japan I'm a little behind the times it seems. Can you recommend some more stuff like this? Although I know High and Mighty Color I don't know too many songs and all of the bands you showed in the other threads are also kickass.
Glad to be of help, mate!
High & Mighty Color (who recently disbanded, unfortunately) used 7-strings for everything, always have (to my knowledge), so you can just check them out on youtube. Their earlier stuff is more Korn-like and heavier, sometimes with power metal influences, whereas the new stuff is overall a little more like standard J-pop. They changed their singer in the end and I haven't listened too much but they seemed to get heavier with the new singer.Old stuff:
Then it went to this
Not even remotely heavy but damn catchy on the other hand:With the new singer:
Bloody_Inferno
Silence is Violence
Since John's already posting Jrock/Jpop stuff, some more unexpected:
