Who inspired you to play seven?

[Guitarman700]

For me, it was jack Owen's playing in Cannibal Corpse, specifically the Vile Album, that got me interested in 7's. Vile was the first death metal album I ever bought, cause' I thought the cover art was cool. Popped it in my stereo. Blew my fucking mind.

 

[Nile]

Keith Merrow at first blew my godamn brains out, then Jeff Loomis came along with a swift kick in the nuts
Never knew that Jack Owen or Pat O' Brien (said he never really liked them) had 7's so now im going to add them too
and Trey Azagthoth too, HUGE fucking sound

 

[Guitarman700]

Ihsahn's 7 string work on Prometheus was incredibly inspiring too.

 

[Jii-Ro]

Must have been the Finnish band called Stam1na.

 

[MarkoZed]

Keith Merrow, Pertucci, Loomis, TesseracT, Bulb, Periphery, Haunted Shores, etc.
I play in standard (BEADGBE), but plan to drop it...

 

[Vostre Roy]

Nergal from Behemoth, several friends who own a seven strings.

I'll have the cash in about a month, can't wait to buy my first seven strings!

 

[rythmic_pulses]

Fredrik Thordendal and Marten Hagstrom from Meshuggah, not because of the way they used them but they way they described them in the songwriting process, "opening up new doors and possibilities" as Hagstrom once said.

 

[Ntbillie]

Jeff Loomis and Stephen Carpenter were mainly the ones who inspired Me to go out and buy a Seven. But later on obviously Meshuggah,Korn and Wes Borland kinda influenced my playing style and approach to a seven string.

 

[mikomiko]

korn/vai/petrucci

 

[Alcmiller]

Actually it was Dave Weiner- a guy who play(s/ed) with vai. I'd never seen one until I saw his and for some reason the concept just enchanted me.

 

[darkraneman]

KoRn... Pathetic I know. But now I'm into better stuff. Tosin Abasi, wee bit 'o Loomis, other metal bands.

 

[Defi]

Korn and Limp Bizkit turned me off of 7-strings for a LONG time.

Same, and that power is still in control. HOWEVER, I have always loved Emperor's Prometheus album but assumed it was downtuned and never bothered to learn it. Lo an behold I found out it was a 7 string endeavor. Now I can't shake the desire to get one, and it will probably not disappear until I try it out.

Ihsahn's After is pretty damn good too, but I can't for the life of me see going beyond 7 strings.

 

[izdashit]

It was Nevermore and Morbid Angel that tempted me to get a 7 back in 2005, but I said "naaah, I wouldn't play the low B that much anyway (yes I was a noob)". Then I got into Meshuggah, tempted again and once I was considering again "naaaah my band's tuned to D anyway".

Fast forward a few years later. Muhammed started using them and I said "fuk it Im gonna buy one nao!!!". That was the last straw lol.

Now my band uses 7's strictly haha.

 

[Rob_Ec]

for me it was Fredrik Thordendal mainly and fell silent/monuments/Tesseract for the most part they use the seven and 8 lol as it should be used in a better approach to writing music.I dont really see the point of shredding on them like a six string **cough**not gunna name any lol but in a way of it being used better for song writting than for just all these idiot 6 string scales with 2-4 added notes lol thats retarded but it is what it is! thats what made me do the *switch* lol

 

[ittoa666]

Trey Azagthoth and Unearth.

 

[nothingleft09]

Steve Vai in the 90's, then Jeff Loomis, and now a whole bunch of people. lol

 

[Abhimanyu]

Per Nilsson, Jeff Loomis, Chris Broderick & Buz McGrath!

 

[nostealbucket]

Petrucci, Tosin Abasi, After the Burial, DJENTDJENTDJENTDJENT...., and a random band called Tangaroa.

 

[fps]

Oooo tricky. Dream Theater's Awake album and The Glass Prison, Steven Carpenter's tones, Fredrik Thordendal and the Meshuggah boys, Jeff Loomis and Nevermore, Cannibal Corpse.

Haven't actually used it in a fully functioning metal project so far, just got my hard rock thing going, but all that is changing in the next month as we start a Death Metal project

 

[Shanster695]

First time I even heard of a seven-string was the Steve Vai 7-string demo video that I'm sure everybody has seen.

I went through life saying "ahh there's no such thing as a left-handed seven string..." then one day...BOOM

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