What inspired you to go 7

[Chris D]

Hehe... who else here is on metal-archives.com??

 

[strychnine]

dunno
in my band one im the one all the way to the right that some girls said I looked anorexic

 

[bostjan]

I didn't know Emporer used seven strings...hmm.

I think 1994/1995 were big years for seven string guitar, with Korn and Dream Theater. Keep in mind, though, there were a lot of Jazz players who had been using sevens before Head, Monkey, and John Petrruci were even swimming around in their dad's nutsacks.

 

[strychnine]

hehe im getting my masters done in jazz ;D

me know dat

 

[bostjan]

You're 20 years old getting a MMus?! Holy crap, dude!

 

[strychnine]

^.^

 

[Pauly]

I didn't know Emporer used seven strings...hmm.

Only for the last album, Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire and Demise. You can see them playing Ibby 7's on the Empty video:

http://www.youtube.com/w/Emperor---Empty?v=lgZzim9Sfrk&search=emperor

Tis a tune, btw!

 

[strychnine]

probably the best work they put out was the prometheus album...im not a fan by any means but some good stuff...gets cheesy...but good.

 

[Pauly]

probably the best work they put out was the prometheus album...im not a fan by any means but some good stuff...gets cheesy...but good.

Yeah, the 'tr00' lot might not think it's that great, but as a 'metal' album, it's AWESOME. It's one of those albums that's feels too short even though it isn't because it's so good it leaves you wanting more...well for me anyway. I smell no cheese in it!

 

[strychnine]

the orchestration is poor and the keys make it cheesy for me. doesnt mean anything, just to me that is.

 

[zimbloth]

Couldn't agree more folks. Emperor's last album was completely amazing... one of my all-time favorite albums. Brutal but with oodles of melody, atmosphere and dissonance. I wish more black metal bands would try the whole "quality production" thing like Emperor did on this album. Dimmu/Old Man's Child have definitely benefited from it, as have Cradle and the like. Most black metal is like, a metal zone pedal through some awful solid-state amp. Emperor's use of Mesas with Ibanez 7s sounded great on Prometheus.

It's a damn shame Emperor disbanded before they could make more albums with their new sound.

PS: The sound quality on that video is a disgrace, if I had never heard Emperor before and watched that I'd be like, ACK!

 

[eaeolian]

Hehe... who else here is on metal-archives.com??

Well, us, for one. I need to get them to update the picture, though - there's only two guys left in the band from that one!

 

[Metal Ken]

Hmm.. weird chain of events i think. I kinda just thought it'd be a cool idea. Lots of reading at the jemsite 7 string forum before this place existed. sounded really cool. And i like death metal.. So i gave it a shot. Also,i read a bit about Rusty Cooley and francesco fareri. So that kinda influenced me too.

 

[anarchistwar]

i wanted a baritone guitar with the extended scale lenghth originally (Damien EX Baritone), and was trying out different guitars and really didn't like the schecter neck,
I really like standard tuning (i.e. no drop D)
and the other guys in my band love to do Drop D stuff
so i tried a 7 string cuz it had the low B and i could reach the D they had,
tried a stephen carpents from ESP and fell in love with the widder neck and the low B sound....

so i found one within my price range and bought it (WG 587)

 

[7stringninja]

i wanted a baritone guitar with the extended scale lenghth originally (Damien EX Baritone), and was trying out different guitars and really didn't like the schecter neck,
I really like standard tuning (i.e. no drop D)
and the other guys in my band love to do Drop D stuff
so i tried a 7 string cuz it had the low B and i could reach the D they had,
tried a stephen carpents from ESP and fell in love with the widder neck and the low B sound....

so i found one within my price range and bought it (WG 587)

Stephen Carpenter's switch to a 7-string caught me by total surprise.

In my last REAL band, we covered Deftones songs from time to time, and those were the only songs I used my 6-string for (in standard tuning none-the-less).

Then when "Around The Fur" came out, he was down-tuned by 1/2-step PLUS the drop D (D-flat really) on the 6th. That totally threw me off. I thought maybe Chino was losing some range, and they had to accomidate for a new vocal range.

 

[zimbloth]

No, he was just being influenced a lot by bands with very low tunings like Meshuggah and Fear Factory so he switched. It's funny if you look at the tuning progression on their albums.

Adrenaline: E-->Around the Fur: C#-->White Pony: C-->Deftones: Ab

 

[Vince]

What inspired me to go to 7?

Lie
The Mirror
Caught in a Web
A Change of Seasons
Just Let Me Breathe

Then when the Korn fad hit and 7s got uber-popular, I decided to pony up the cash and get a really nice one. My first 7 was the RG7CT, and I loved it. I've been a 7-string guitarist ever since. IIRC I bought it either in late 1999 or early 2000. Before then, sometimes I had a guitar in B-B tuning with some heavy strings, and I had written two songs on the 7 before I ever got my hands on one. One of those songs was an early version of a piece that eventually became "Trail of Light" from my solo album.

I 7-string guitars.

 

[omentremor]

I was just drawn to the extra range for writing, sorry, forging metal

 

[Pauly]

No, he was just being influenced a lot by bands with very low tunings like Meshuggah and Fear Factory so he switched. It's funny if you look at the tuning progression on their albums.

Adrenaline: E-->Around the Fur: C#-->White Pony: C-->Deftones: Ab

Next album is going to be F# or something silly, the Meshuggah worship continues.

 

[strychnine]

well, hed have to get an 8 string first