r/metalguitar

So many modern metal bands rely on plugins and mix the fuck out of their guitars. Everyone's so OCD about getting the perfect sound. Whatever happened to a little mud? A little clipping? A little electrical interference that makes you wonder if your house is up to code? Bring back the danger XD

Sounds fine enough for low-tuned whammy nonsense, but you need some actual riffs and erm notes in between the shenanigans or it just sounds like a five-year-old having a tantrum.

Nobody has their own tone anymore. Same amps, same pedals, same pickups, same tunings, same plugins, same seven-string guitar with the same fucking string gauge. And then they wonder why people are getting bored. Apparently I'm the fucking idiot because I want 300 bands to sound different 😂

I got into metal in 2009–2013, back when I was still a basic bitch rock/blues guy, and even then I could tell the difference between a riff and a minor inconvenience happening to a washing machine.

Now it's just chug chug chug squeal dissonant chord pinch harmonic chug chug chug. The pinches and dissonant chords used to be the fills. Now they automate a wah and an octaver for a one-note fill without even using their fucking foot. Where's the craftsmanship? Where's the man physically stomping on a pedal at precisely the wrong moment?

Give me more real music. More human music. More bands with character. Like Thy Art Is Murder. Beyond Creation. Conquering Dystopia. Within the Ruins. Mick Gordon. Bloodshot Dawn. Currents. Invent Animate. Shokran. Rings of Saturn. Arch Echo. Vitriol.

You know, bands that sound completely different from each other.

Maybe try something different instead of spamming cheesy thall riffs. How did we evolve from needlessly complex and technical djent-style guitar playing to this one-note, boring nonsense?

Honestly, man, I wish djent and thall would just die already. Melodic metalcore was a mistake.

Anyway, djentslop hell yeah.

Within the past year or so I picked up the guitar again after not playing for almost a decade (Since high school really). I was pretty good back then, but not out of this world good. When I would play in HS, I would almost always just practice playing Bullet for my Valentine, or Avenged Sevenfold songs (to the best of my ability) and never really wrote much of my own stuff.

Since I started playing again, I have mainly been focusing on writing original songs and riffs as well as playing a lot of the same songs from artists I liked back then. One thing I noticed is that I can’t really play super advanced songs that well when it’s another person’s music, however with my own stuff I can write pretty intricate/advanced riffs and play them perfectly pretty quickly. I reckon there is no way in hell I’d be able to play these riffs if I was reading tabs off of a website or something.

I’m guessing it has a lot to do with me spending more time on my own stuff this go around, but I still find it interesting. Anyone else experience this? Does anyone have any tips on how to get better at covering riffs? I have a metronome coming in the mail and hopefully that helps me hone in my skills.