Extreme Metal Bands Using Standard Tuning on Their Guitars

[nissan]

Does anyone know of any bands that use standard tuning on their guitars? That is E A D G B E.

I appreciate the help

 

[Life Sucks]

I'm sure plenty of black metal bands used standard tuning.

 

[Astrum]

plenty.

 

[genocide roach]

i do. i hate down tuning my basses, so when i write on guitar, its always in E or B (6 and 7 string)
~gR~

 

[Jreg]

Cattle Decapitation still plays in E I believe. The old death metal band Insanity did as well, as did Opeth until the last album. Can't think of many other death metal bands off the top of my head though. Not contemporary ones, anyway.

But yeah, standard tuning has definitely been bigger in black metal. Emperor kept to it until Prometheus, and Darkthrone only started tuning down on the last few records. Actually, pretty much any older black metal record considered a classic is probably in E.

Katatonia's first record is in standard as well, which has been pretty unusual in doom for a while now.

 

[Vacant_Planets]

the first 6 Immortal albums are in E standard. I use a B standard myself but there are still plenty playing in E.

 

[Narg n Lamb]

I'm pretty sure Wintersun used standard tuning for most of their songs, except for beautiful death.

their not too extreme though...

 

[Vacant_Planets]

If he means extreme as in all Black and Death metal than we can include Wintersun, and of course Atheist, I can't think of the rest at this time of night though. lol

 

[hibernal_dream]

Wintersun is downtuned significantly

 

[Sabin Frost]

Dimmu Borgir play in E, so do the Meads of Asphodel normally. Mostly a lot of black metal bands play in E, occasionally cutting out the mid-frequency in production leaving just the low and high end of the sound. Also if you consider thrash extreme metal, thrash music is usually in E tuning or only slighly lower (Eb or D)

 

[Vacant_Planets]

Dimmu uses A now. And Wintersun uses both E and D tunings.

 

[cookiecutter]

I was surprised to learn that Devourment, at least on the song Babykiller, uses standard tuning.

 

[Life Sucks]

Mourning Beloveth play with standard tuning. I know this because I was trying to learn several of their songs about a year ago, and my guitar was in tune with the CD, tuned to E.