Your Opinion on Holy Grail Modern Metal Tone(s)

[Nashville Riff Co]

I don't listen to any music by artists that started putting music out 2000 and onwards.

I want to know, in your view, what are some of the holy grail modern metal tones for the:

2020s
2010s
2000s

Tones that all the youngsters think of the way some of us think of VH1, Black Album...etc.

Bonus points if you can ID the amp used to achieve said tone

 

[Tone Monster]

Gonna be a tough one. IMO guitar tones peaked in the 90’s

 

[DanTravis62]

2000s is definitely the age of melodic death metal tones

In Flames, Children of Bodom, etc

 

[JackBootedThug]

Nothing from this millennium jumps out to me very much honestly. Hatebreed or kublai khan…. They are pretty simple and straightforward so that’s probably why I like them. The recto’s with prs or les Pauls is about the last kinda really new and interesting sound to hit imo…and that’s in the 90’s… it’s kinda like everything has been done at this point. 5150’s for death metal has been happening for ever. I don’t really think diezel had much impact either. With us guitar players of course but honestly how many big acts are using them. Tool? Limp biscuit? Everything is Marshall, Mesa or pv…. Or modeling. Sorry for my rambling train of thought….

 

[NorCal_Val]

 

[BeZo]

When Lamb of God used the Mesa Royal Atlantics on Resolution, and the Badlanders in the newer stuff. I was a big fan of the Mark Series tones they got too, but that's the best they ever sounded.

 

[BeZo]

Early Killswitch Engage with the tube screamer into a Peavey 5150 too. A lot of modern metal bands used that sound.

 

[Nashville Riff Co]

Gonna be a tough one. IMO guitar tones peaked in the 90’s

yea that's the world I've lived in! hoping to expand my horizons a bit!

 

[Nashville Riff Co]

2000s is definitely the age of melodic death metal tones

In Flames, Children of Bodom, etc

dude colony was released in late 90s and HateCrewDeathRoll while in 2003, CoB was a 90s band for me but yea killer tones on both!

 

[Nashville Riff Co]

what's the amp on this? its the one song of theirs I've listened to before per recommendations from friends and liked

hopefully not the Fortin Meshuggah

 

[DanTravis62]

dude colony was released in late 90s and HateCrewDeathRoll while in 2003, CoB was a 90s band for me but yea killer tones on both!

Neither of these are my favorites by the respective bands - I prefer the 90s stuff by both of them

But those tones WERE the tones of the 2000s

 

[Nashville Riff Co]

Neither of these are my favorites by the respective bands - I prefer the 90s stuff by both of them

But those tones WERE the tones of the 2000s

ah ok got it, in terms of people chasing tones in the 2000s those were the ones, that makes sense

 

[DanTravis62]

ah ok got it, in terms of people chasing tones in the 2000s those were the ones, that makes sense

particularly the In Flames Colony/Clayman tones are what Glenn Fricker and many like him are completely obsessed with - there's an entire generation of engineers who have obsessed over every tiny detail of that tone and those records, and they recorded all of the Lamb of God, Shadows Fall, Killswitch, etc etc Mallcore bands of the 2000s

 

[Nashville Riff Co]

particularly the In Flames Colony/Clayman tones are what Glenn Fricker and many like him are completely obsessed with - there's an entire generation of engineers who have obsessed over every tiny detail of that tone and those records, and they recorded all of the Lamb of God, Shadows Fall, Killswitch, etc etc Mallcore bands of the 2000s

wow I did not know that! wasn't the Colony/Clayman tone just a 5150? at least that's what I always though

 

[DanTravis62]

wow I did not know that! wasn't the Colony/Clayman tone just a 5150? at least that's what I always though

I believe the earlier ones are just 5150 and colony/clayman are 5150 and ENGL (similar to heartwork, which is also a big influence)

but the amp tones aren't the important part of the tone honestly - its the ubiquitous tube screamer, V30, 57 setup

which has become so common it literally IS the sound of distorted guitar to most people now

 

[RaceU4her]

 

[Nashville Riff Co]

I believe the earlier ones are just 5150 and colony/clayman are 5150 and ENGL (similar to heartwork, which is also a big influence)

but the amp tones aren't the important part of the tone honestly - its the ubiquitous tube screamer, V30, 57 setup

which has become so common it literally IS the sound of distorted guitar to most people now

super helpful, thank you!

thanks for this, I'll have to check em out, any thoughts on what amps were used?

 

[Brain Becker]

super helpful, thank you!



thanks for this, I'll have to check em out, any thoughts on what amps were used?

They use a blend of Marshalls I think.

 

[Mahlakuorrutus]

Late 90s and early 2000s was either Nu metal with obsession for Rectos or Melodeath and 5150s.

2010s and onwards has been fucking around with terrible ampsims and 8 string guitars in a pissing contest who gets the most soulless "chugging" djent-tone out there.

Personally good tones were no more after the early or halfway of the 90s.

 

[Nashville Riff Co]

They use a blend of Marshalls I think.

really?! damn I would not have guessed that in a million years although ultimate metals tones dude did just buy that Folkesson