good bands that tune to c# (standard or dropped)

[mutantllama]

Iommi plays in C#

 

[steve.h]

Iommi plays in C#

Which would explain why so many metal bands do as well: the guy's inspired a lot of people!

 

[waif]

Tbh Iommi played all over the place. All the Sabbath classics are in E afaik.

 

[steve.h]

Tbh Iommi played all over the place. All the Sabbath classics are in E afaik.

I'm 99% sure he tuned down, as he didn't have any real finger tips.

 

[Episteme]

Pretty sure Psycroptic's first album The Isle of Disenchantment is in C#, however all stuff after that is in Drop D.

 

[divine_torture]

I'm 99% sure he tuned down, as he didn't have any real finger tips.

The first two Sabbath were in E, Master of Reality was in C#.

Napalm Death uses C# quite a bit.

 

[mutantllama]

Most of post Paranoid stuff is tuned in C#

 

[waif]

I don't think the Dio-era stuff is tuned down.

And really, the first four and H&H are all I care about.

 

[mutantllama]

Listen to Sabotage you faggot.

And Heaven and Hell are tuned to C# a lot of the time.

 

[A1a23]

Doesn't Opeth often do this as well? I may be wrong.

 

[waif]

Sabotage is really mediocre. A couple good songs.

 

[mutantllama]

Your face is mediocre.


Sabotage is awesome.

 

[waif]

See, now if you said "Oh WAIF, it's not just the first four, you forgot to mention that Sabbath Bloody Sabbath is awesome" I wouldn't be calling you a faggot right now.
Faggot.

 

[mutantllama]

Shit, that's what I forgot.

Your still a faggot though for not liking Sabotage.

 

[waif]

Hole in the Sky and Symptom of the Universe are good.
The rest are just filler.

 

[tagradh]

Doesn't Opeth often do this as well? I may be wrong.

Mostly all E standard, some drop D and some open Dmin I think.

 

[mutantllama]

Hole in the Sky and Symptom of the Universe are good.
The rest are just filler.

Lies.

 

[Nightmare_Heaven]

Gorguts and Saturnus, I believe. probably plenty of others I listen to but not sure off the top of my head

 

[harmonic_minor_shred]

Interesting thread! This is all I can think of at the moment:

Between the Buried and Me - they use C# standard on all their albums.
Dark Tranquillity - use standard C# all the time also.
Deftones - dropped C# (at least on the album 'Around the Fur'), but not a good band.
Slayer - from 'Diabolus in Musica' onwards, a lot of their songs are in dropped C#.
Pantera - the album 'The Great Southern Trendkill' is in this tuning.
Machine Head - I've only heard the album 'The Blackening', and most of the songs on that are in C# standard.
Nevermore - they have a couple of songs in this tuning: The Psalm of Lydia, and Seed Awakening.
Nirvana - the song 'Heart Shaped Box' is also in this tuning.

Nevermore and BTBAM are the only ones from that list that I actually recommend you check out.

 

[tagradh]

Dark Tranquillity - use standard C# all the time also.
Nevermore - they have a couple of songs in this tuning: The Psalm of Lydia, and Seed Awakening.

Pretty sure the newer DT songs are mostly drop B or something and I thought Nevermore had always used 7 strings? :0