Biggest Most Dangerous Guitar Sound

[Anomaly Design]

Everyone should go listen to the Great Southern Trendkill and then bow down to the sheer awesomeness that was ! the greatest guitar crunch invented. Thank you Dime!!!!

 

[Zed10R]

Carcass-Heartwork
Prong-Rude Awakening
Corrosion Of Conformity-Deliverance
Testament-The Gathering
Metallica-Blcak Album
Pantera-Far Beyond Driven
Kataclysm-anything by them
Hatebreed-Perseverance
Stuck Mojo-Pigwalk
My Dying Bride-Like Gods Of The Sun
Type O Negative-Bloody Kisses
In Flames-Reroute To Remain
Fear Factory-anything by them
At The Gates-Slaughter Of The Soul
Nevermore-Dead Heart In A Dead World
Mercyful Fate-Into the Unknown
Soilwork-Natural Born Chaos
Killswitch Engage-Alive Or Just Breathing
Demons And Wizards
Life Of Agony-The River Runs Red

These are all albums that have ballsy tone within their different styles of metal. Some of the bands i don't care for on here but they got that wall of sound going...but still Pantera reigns supreme.

I can't agree that Pantera reigns supreme, but I am thrilled that someone else (and metalhead and cellardweller) on this board recognizes Carcass, Type O , FF, and Soilwork for what they are - fuking awe inspiring, even just based the SOUND and TONE of their guitars. I could not AGREE with your list more.

 

[Zed10R]

too bad christian took up guitar for fear factory. that guy's a retard, thinking a reverse headstock on his jackson will give him more string tension. and i hate their fans too. a bunch of narrow-minded douchebags.

You sir, are the narrow minded douchebag just for making that statement and therefore also a hipocrite. According to you, because I highly praise FF, ESPECIALLY on their latest cd done WITHOUT Dino (egotistical fuker) that means that I am a narrow minded douchebag?? Who the F are YOU to tell ME what I am?? Especially if your only evidence is ONE band that I am a fan of?? Can you play guitar better than Christian? I'll answer that for you. No. Do you have a better sound? I'll answer that one too. HELL no. So STFU. If you despute my answers, prove me wrong. IMO, FF has evolved into a much better band BECAUSE Christian is playing guitar. And let's not forget their bassist is also a member of the worlds best metal band - Strapping Young Lad.

But I give props to Dino for his work with Brujeria. That's is some brutal (although in need of better production) stuff.

 

[aaroncomp]

Dangerous...hmm? That descriptor leaves much for interpretation. Just to comment on a few that have been mentioned.

Dimebag - I've enjoyed many Pantera and Damageplan tunes over the years, but I can't say his tone is that great. It's solidstate, and it shows. With his playing style, however, it does have some danger in it.

Meshuggah - as mentioned somewhere - can you say unnatural? Too many triggers and loops for my taste to enter the dangerous zone.

Metallica - I personally love the tone, albeit much attributed to the studio magic on the Black album. This is definately my pick for, "hey, I need a solid, consistent, fail-proof metal tone." As far as dangerous goes...maybe not? In fact, if I could only use one heavy tone, this would definately be it.

AC/DC - love the tunes, but never considered Angus extremely skillful. Definately one of the riff kings, although he often reuses them. Dangerous? Nah...the tone and playing is perfect for that style/genre, but not dangerous. Definately in-your-face though.

Korn - they've got their little snapping bass with spastic playing and whatever vocals that, I guess together, come across as somewhat dangerous. But guitar wise...negative.

Deftones - again, dangerous is an unusual descriptor, but...I voted on the 'Tones for who's on this list. This is purely studio, because I haven't seen them live, and have no idea how they can pull of their studio sound in a live setting. Album wise, those songs are a WALL of sound. I mean, it sounds like it's tracked 10x for each side. So I guess, for me, their tone is more like a danger of being drown in tone rather than aggressively attacked by it.

Other - for an actual, in-your-face-holy-shit that's scary dangerous tone and playing, I'm sure there are several darker breed of metal artists out there. Many, I'm sure, have been mentioned in this thread already. When mentioning artists of the classic rock era, while not dangerous in the modern sense, they do deserve more dangerous kudos than most give, especially on that raw and passion level.

 

[ibanezrocks]

How about Zakk Wylde's sound on the Ozzy song 'No more tears'? Thats the most dangerous sound I've heard.

 

[zrockisaddictin]

i voted with pantera, got some murderous sound right there

to the literal extent that unfortunately one of them went rogue on dimebag, poor guy, the worst way to die is by a pantera fan

 

[KaraokeKancer]

Hahahahahahahahahahaha

You sir, are the narrow minded douchebag just for making that statement and therefore also a hipocrite. According to you, because I highly praise FF, ESPECIALLY on their latest cd done WITHOUT Dino (egotistical fuker) that means that I am a narrow minded douchebag?? Who the F are YOU to tell ME what I am?? Especially if your only evidence is ONE band that I am a fan of?? Can you play guitar better than Christian? I'll answer that for you. No. Do you have a better sound? I'll answer that one too. HELL no. So STFU. If you despute my answers, prove me wrong. IMO, FF has evolved into a much better band BECAUSE Christian is playing guitar. And let's not forget their bassist is also a member of the worlds best metal band - Strapping Young Lad.

But I give props to Dino for his work with Brujeria. That's is some brutal (although in need of better production) stuff.

That's what I wanted to say, but I figured I'd go the less angry route just this once. Zed10R, will you be my friend?

 

[corban]

I voted for the Edge.

 

[guhlenn]

hmm... the guitar was triggered on the meshuggah album. That's a new one.

Next up; Meshuggah uses autoguitartunes. This magical box put's weird notes in weird timings, so you can produce your own meshuggah cd! buy now!

in other words; just cuz it isn't natural means it isn't dangerously sounding? Weird conclusion indeed, for the summum of natural guitar sound would be the acoustic guitar...

 

[Zed10R]

hmm... the guitar was triggered on the meshuggah album. That's a new one.

I've seen them live. They do not "trigger" the guitars. Process them heavily...yes. But the notes they play are the notes you hear. Triggered drums though....probly. But that's cool. I couldn't tell if they did or not. They are just too damn good to need much more than a drumset, guitars, and amps.

 

[metalhead28]

I've seen them live. They do not "trigger" the guitars. Process them heavily...yes. But the notes they play are the notes you hear. Triggered drums though....probly. But that's cool. I couldn't tell if they did or not. They are just too damn good to need much more than a drumset, guitars, and amps.

just to expand on that a little - the new meshuggah album drumwise is 100% samples (drumkit from hell superior).......cool I say, cause that is what I use

 

[Gorty]

How about Zakk Wylde's sound on the Ozzy song 'No more tears'? Thats the most dangerous sound I've heard.

Now we are talking, I love those trademark squeals (harmonic pinches, not quite sure), I think just about all of Zakks playing with Ozzy is getting pretty dangerous. "Blood Bath in Paradise" another choice song with Dangerous overtones all over it.

Here's one I haven't seen mentioned "MACHINE HEAD" now their sound on the "BURN MY EYES" album has just got to be DANGEROUS whether you like the band or not.

I am now changing my previous vote to ZAKK WYLDE.

ibanezrocks good choice!

 

[aaroncomp]

hmm... the guitar was triggered on the meshuggah album. That's a new one.

Next up; Meshuggah uses autoguitartunes. This magical box put's weird notes in weird timings, so you can produce your own meshuggah cd! buy now!

in other words; just cuz it isn't natural means it isn't dangerously sounding? Weird conclusion indeed, for the summum of natural guitar sound would be the acoustic guitar...

Just realized this was a response to me. Let me step back. I guess I didn't really address the Meshuggah's guitar. Honestly, I'm too distracted by the triggered, looped, etc. drums that I mentioned. Actually, however, nearly every Meshuggah song I've had to listen to does sound like a series of looped recordings. 1,1,1,1,1,2,2,2,2,2,2,3,3,3,2,2,2,2,2,1,1,1,1. They may have recorded it all, but would have saved time to just do it once and loop. But that's just me.

The unnatural thing? Poor choice of words by your strict view, I guess. Let's call it aurally unpleasant and artistically boring. The voice, however - that is unnatural. And, well, makes the singer sound like a joke (but, I'm not here to stomp on Cookie Monster music fans - really, I'm not)

 

[guhlenn]

well, ofcourse if you are not into music that steps outside the known path meshuggah is not for you. Sound however, (guitarsound in particular) in my book is unrelated to the composition. It is pretty obvious you are scared of meshuggah... Which you should be

And repetition is, well, one of the hallmarks of modern music. Not for everyone though.

 

[giraffe]

i voted pantera (cause they stomp ass)

but whatever you think about the music, i think godsmack should be discussed in any thread about distorted tone.

flame away.

 

[Tone Monster]

I didn't even vote. But to those who voted for AC/DC: What are you smoking. They have good tone and its perfect for what they do but I can think of 1000 worse bands with a BIGGER and more DANGEROUS GUITAR SOUND than them.

P.S. Using the word dangerous to describe a guitar sound is stupid and laughable. I think drugs are dangerous but lots of people don't.

 

[aaroncomp]

i voted pantera (cause they stomp ass)

but whatever you think about the music, i think godsmack should be discussed in any thread about distorted tone.

flame away.

Too fizy for my taste. By this I mean the top end sounds like it lacks tightness. Weak fizzy high end. However, I've only heard radio and MP3 versions.

 

[CarcPazu]

Pantera

If its about the guitar tone and nothing else it would have to be Pantera for me. Dimebag has his guitar just saturated with thick, solid distortion. Maybe I'm too young, but to me, when comparing the tone of Angus to Dimebag, its like comparing a McDonalds lamp heated rubbery thin beef patty to a 10 pound slab of grilled steak. Just my opinion.

I have to agree with the young one. I guess most people who voted AC/DC are oldschool types of people (no offence) and those don't really know most of the other bands listed.

You comparison is very precise I think. Dimebag's Guitar tone is without any doubt the best killer sound ever. Just listen to the song New Level from "Vulgar Dislplay of power" that's the shit! I saw both ACDC and Pantera live and Angus' sound is childs play compare to Dimebag's.

My second would have to be Metallica "... And Justice for All" reads very high in my book. They don't like this album because they had too much trouble playing them songs live, so I guess with time they started to bash this great masterpiece... anyway everything they've done after that is just pure boredom.

Also I have to agree with the dude who mentionned Prong, Beg to differ is a good sound, also the song Snap your finger snap your neck is a killer sound too.

The Fear Factory album "Demanufacture" got a really killer sound too. Of course it's way enhanced by the pounding bass and drum... Check this out.

That was my two cents...

CarcPazu

 

[CarcPazu]

lol

I voted for AC/DC. The question was who has the biggest most dangerous guitar sound, not who has the most distortion. Heavy distortion is relatively easy to attain, great tone, is something a little harder to achieve. I do like heavy guitar, and I do like the sound of the guitar on many of those "thrash" albums, but none of them rock like Angus. He could sound heavy playing a mandolin!

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I get your point but,... The poll is about the biggest and dangerous guitar sound, not about who could play heavy on a mandolin. I could agree that in the 70 AC/DC was the shit, but the poll been posted in the 21st century, so this is irrelevant. At the moment, even my mom (who know I listened to a lot of AC/DC in my younger time), could tell that Pantera's guitar sound is way more dangerous.

I think most people misread the poll's question with "Who's your favorite guitar player" or they just don't know know any other bands than AC/DC.



Also some people say Angus got a better sounding tone of guitar, more pure... what is that? We're talking about KILLING SOUND, DANGEROUS SOUND, not about who's got the more beautiful sound.

I could name about 300 bands who's sound is more dangerous than ACDC at the moment, we're not in the 80s anymore, Wake up people.

It's time to get an haircut you Mullets fans

Carcpazu

 

[CarcPazu]

My vote is for Carcass. If anyone cares enough to hear truly amazing guitar playing, tone, and overall heavy sound, check out Heatwork or Swansong.

My god yes! This is so true the sound on Hearthwork and Swansong is a real killer.

Some people mentionned Meshuggah and Strapping Young Lad this is also very good.

Anyway if you read the question very carefully, answering AC/DC is a total joke.

And about the guitar player attitude wich could count about the killer sound, what's wrong with you people? We're talking about Dangerous Sound, not Dangerous Attitude.

Anyway if someone makes a poll about who's got the most dangerous attitude, Dimebag win over Angus once again in my book. This guy's sound was so dangerous that someone had to shot him down on stage to stop him. (I'm joking about this but it's not funny at all... )

CarcPazu