Reference albums for Guitar Tone

[Rex Rocker]

As I Lay Dying - Shadows Are Security is by far my top one

Killswitch Engage - The End of Heartache is also a good one.

 

[Dylan S]

Decapitated - Organic Hallucinosis

You beat me to it man. This album sounds immaculate.

Marcus beat me to The Apostasy too.

Also...

Cannibal Corpse - Evisceration Plague
Edge of Sanity - Infernal
Nevermore - This Godless Endevour and DHIADW (as Lasse pointed out already).
Testament - The Formation of Damnation

 

[Ermz]

Killswitch Engage - The End of Heartache is also a good one.

Ah crap, dunno how I forgot that one. Big +1

Also, Meshuggah's 'Chaosphere' would be in if we were counting bass grit as part of the 'guitar tone'.

 

[ulverine]

Neurosis - A Sun That Never Sets
Jesu - Silver EP
Abandon - In Reality We Suffer
Battle Of Wolf 359 - The Death of Affect
Taake - Hordalands Doedskvad

 

[slayercannibalsuffohead]

For death metal - Cannibal Corpse KILL
For thrash metal - Exodus THE ATROCITY EXHIBITION
For heavy metal - Machine head BURN MY EYES
For rocky metal - S.O.D SPEAK ENGLISH OR DIE

 

[P-E]

For thrash metal - Exodus THE ATROCITY EXHIBITION

AMEN.

 

[GarethSE]

Jesu - Silver EP

YES
seeing material from Silver played live was ridiculous too, crushing

 

[TMXXX]

burn my eyes

 

[16S]

Gorefest: LaMuerte or Rise to Ruin
Walls of Jericho: Devils Amongst Us
Cannibal Corpse: Eviseration Plague

 

[arv_foh]

I'm a fan of the guitar tones on Parkway Drive's "Killing With A Smile."

 

[MetalJonesy]

I'm probably going to get crucified for this...but Metallica: Load/ReLoad has some pretty good rhythm tones

Ive always dug the rhythm tones on those two albums, really big and warm!!

For me id go with

DevilDriver: These last kind words
As I Lay Dying: Shadows are Security
Chevelle: Wonder Whats Next
Breaking Benjamin: Phobia
KSE:As daylight gies (for some reason i love the mids on it)

infact i love quite alot of gtr tones, its hard to really narrow it all down!

 

[id3alism]

i absolutely love the guitar sound on BMTH's Suicide Season

oh, and I almost forgot: the new black dahlia murder

 

[The Unavoidable]

Damn, I wanted to be the first to post Evisceration Plague. My dream tone, pretty much. Other than that:

Arch Enemy - Doomsday Machine
ATG - Slaughter Of The Soul
Bloodbath - everything, but The Fathomless Mastery in particular.
Black Label Society - The Blessed Hellride (great Marshall crunch)

and of course, The Way Of All Flesh. Kinda grainy when solo:ed (like Wolf Down The Earth), but so perfect in the mix.


EDIT: And hell yes to the Load/Reload guitars! Great production all around there.

 

[lekteri]

Megadeth - Youthanasia

 

[Mikaël-ange]

For me:

Cannibal Corpse: Kill and EP
Decapitated: OH
Trauma: Determination and Neurotic Mass
Lost Soul: Chaostream and Immerse in Infinity
Aeon: Bleeding the false and Rise to dominate
Exodus:TAE A
Testament: The gathering
Caliban: The awakening
Nevermore: DHIADW
Watain-Sworn to the dark (for BM of course)

 

[plague_rider]

In Flames - Clayman
The Absence - Riders of the Plague
Lamb of God - Wrath/As the Palaces Burn
At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul
The Haunted - rEVOLVEr
Gojira - From Mars to Sirius
Arch Enemy - Doomsday
Parkway Drive - Horizons

 

[Jaymz]

Nevermore - DHIADW
Arch Enemy - Doomsday Machine
Chimaira - Chimaria
Daath - The Concealers
Megadeth - Endgame
Testament - TFOD
Gojira - TWOAF

 

[KillDivision]

I'm probably going to get crucified for this...but Metallica: Load/ReLoad has some pretty good rhythm tones

+1.

 

[006]

Metallica - St. Anger

 

[Sweetnothing]

Metallica - St. Anger

I love it for referencing drum mixes