The SS.org Tunings Thread

[Fzau]

I sometimes tune to A#C#G#C#F#A#D#, which is just Drop C# with a low A#.
Great to play Arusha Accord stuff with as well

Nice thread by the way!

[vhmetalx]

Job for a cowboy did drop a# with their sixes im pretty sure..
salt the wound is in drop a# in their old album (not sure if its on 7s or not though)
chelsea grin is drop a (im dead positive)

[ry_z]

Boris use 6s in Eb standard and Bb standard.

[Necris]

Abysmal Torment:
6 Strings: Album/ Epoch of Methodic Carnage: G#,C#,F#,B,D,#,G#/ Omnicide: G#, C#, F#, B, A#, B.

The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza : E,B,E,B,E,F#,B,E

Portal (Aus):
Album/ Seepia: D# Standard, A# Standard/ Outre: 7-Strings A# Standard/ Swarth: 8-Strings EADGCFAD

Edited: To make it more readable.

[thraxil]

Godflesh used C# standard and B standard: Godflesh's Gear & TA babble

Jesu uses A-standard on 7 strings with occasional drop G. Some songs may have been written/recorded with a 6-string in A-standard, but live it's always 7 strings afaik.

[S-O]

Reflux and AAL used Drop D on a seven on some songs too.

BDADGBE

[MFB]

Electric Wizard use G standard for their early stuff like Dopethrone but Witchcult Today was D standard

Sleep uses C standard

[scottro202]

Ken, I didn't realize a lot of the list was wrong. Most artists I listen to tune to standard

I'll be sure to edit everything that needs to be tomorrow, when I'm not half asleep

[Metal Ken]

Originally Posted by scottro202

Ken, I didn't realize a lot of the list was wrong. Most artists I listen to tune to standard

I'll be sure to edit everything that needs to be tomorrow, when I'm not half asleep

Its cool. its definitely a cool idea for a thread.

BTW, Here's a couple more:
Testament - Also used C# during the mid 90s albums.
Arsis - Tunes to Drop D and Standard on some newer material on "We Are the Nightmare".
Exodus - Uses Drop C on newer albums, on some songs (Architect of Pain, Forward March, etc.)
Sodom - Plays in D Standard now, with occaisional songs in C# std.
Judas Priest - Now plays in Eb
Iced Earth - Tuned to Bb on their re-release of the something wicked trilogy
Deicide - Also tunes to D now

[Malacoda]

Here's the list from Rivers of Gore (may be some repeats of previously mentioned bands):

ABORTED:

RECORDINGS

"Purity of Perversion"

"Split With Christ Denied"

"Engineering the Dead"

D-G-C-F-A-D

"Goremageddon"

"The Archaic Abbatoir"

B-E-A-D-F#-B

ABYSMAL DAWN:

ALL RECORDINGS

C-F-A#-D#-G-C

ABYSMAL TORMENT:

ALL RECORDINGS

G#-C#-F#-B-D#-G#

AEON:

ALL RECORDINGS

B-E-A-D-G-B-E

AGIEL:

ALL RECORDINGS

D-G-C-F-A-D

ALARUM:

ALL RECORDINGS

B-E-A-D-G-B-E (Right Guitar)
E-A-D-G-B-E(Left Guitar)

ANATA:

ALL RECORDINGS

C#-F#-B-E-G#-C#

ARSEBREED:

ALL RECORDINGS

D-G-C-F-A-D

ATHEIST:

ALL RECORDINGS

E-A-D-G-B-E

BEHEADED:

G-C-F-A#-D#-G-C

"Ominous Bloodline"

ALL OTHER RECORDINGS

C-F-A#-Eb-G-C

BENEATH THE MASSACRE:

ALL RECORDINGS

A-D-G-C-F-A-D

BLOODBATH:

ALL RECORDINGS

B E A D F# B

BLOOD RED THRONE:

ALL RECORDINGS

B-E-A-D-F#-B

CANNIBAL CORPSE:

Eb-Ab-Db-Gb-Bb-Eb

"Eaten Back to Life"
"Butchered at Birth"
"Tomb of the Mutilated"
"The Bleeding"

C#-F#-B-E-G#-C#

"Mummified in Barbed Wire", "Disfigured", "Absolute Hatred", "Eaten from Inside", and "Orgasm Through Torture" from "Vile"

Bb-Eb-Ab-Db-Gb-Bb-Eb

"Perverse Suffering", "Puncture Wound Massacre", "Relentless Beating", "Monolith", " Bloodlands", and "Devoured by Vermin" from "Vile"

"Gallery of Suicide"

"Bloodthirst"

"Gore Obsessed"

Bb-Eb-Ab-Db-Gb-Bb

"Worm Infested"
"The Wretched Spawn"
and most of "Kill"

Ab-Db-Gb-B-E-Ab-Eb

"The Time To Kill Is Now", "Death Walking Terror" and "Infinite Misery" from "Kill"

CAPHARNAUM:

A-D-A-D-G-B-E

"Fractured"

CAPTAIN CLEANOFF:

ALL RECORDINGS

C#-G#-C#-F#-A#-D#

CARCASS:

ALL RECORDINGS

B-E-A-D-F#-B

CROTCHDUSTER:

ALL RECORDINGS

A-D-A-D-G-B-E

CRYPTOPSY:

ALL RECORDINGS

B-E-A-D-F#-B

DEATH:

ALL RECORDINGS except for "Painkiller"

D-G-C-F-A-D

D#-G#-C#-F#-A#-D#

"Painkiller" from "Sound Of Perseverance)"

DECAPITATED:

D-G-C-F-A-D

"Winds Of Creation"

"Nihility"

C#-F#-B-E-G#-C#

"The Negation"

"Organic Hallusinosis"

DECREPIT BIRTH:

ALL RECORDINGS

D-G-C-F-A-D

DEEDS OF FLESH:

ALL RECORDINGS

D-G-C-F-A-D

DEFEATED SANITY:

C-F-A#-D#-G-C

"Prelude To The Tragedy"

"Psalms of the Moribund"

ALL OTHER RECORDINGS

C#-F#-B-E-G#-C#

DEFLESHED:

ALL RECORDINGS

C#-F#-B-E-G#-C#

DEICIDE:

D#-G#-C#-F#-A#-D#

"Self-Titled"

"Once Upon The Cross"

"Serpents Of The Light

"Scars Of The Crucifix"

"Stench Of Redemption"

E-A-D-G-B-E

"Legion"

D-G-C-F-A-D

"Insineratehym"

"In Torment In Hell"

DEPRECATED:

ALL RECORDINGS

C-F-A#-D#-G-C

DESPISED ICON:

ALL RECORDINGS

B-E-A-D-F#-B

DESPONDENCY:

ALL RECORDINGS

C-F-A#-D#-G-C

DEVOURMENT:

DISAVOWED:

ALL RECORDINGS

D-G-C-F-A-D

DISGORGE:

C#-F#-B E-G#-C#

"Cranial Impalement"

C-F-A#-D#-G-C

"She Lay Gutted"

"Consume The Forsaken"

"Parallels Of Infinite Torture"

DISMEMBER:

ALL RECORDINGS

C-F-A#-D#-G-C

DYING FETUS:

ALL RECORDINGS

C#-F#-B E-G#-C#

EMETH:

ALL RECORDINGS

Bb-Eb-Ab-Db-Gb-Bb-Eb

EXHUMED:

ALL RECORDINGS

B-E-A-D-F#-B

FLESHLESS:

ALL RECORDINGS

B-E-A-D-F#-B

.... I'M DEAD:

ALL RECORDINGS

B-F#-B-E-G#-C#

GORE ROTTED:

ALL RECORDINGS

D-G-C-F-A-D

GORGASM:

ALL RECORDINGS

B-E-A-D-F#-B

GORGUTS:

C#-F#-B-E-G#-C#

"Considered Dead"

"The Erosion of Sanity"

C-F-A#-D#-G-C

"Obscura"

"From Wisdom to Hate"

HATE ETERNAL:

ALL RECORDINGS

C#-F#-B-E-G#-C#

IMMOLATION:

ALL RECORDINGS

C-F-A#-D#-G-C

IMPALED:

ALL RECORDINGS

B-E-A-D-F#-B

INIQUITY:

ALL RECORDINGS

B-E-A-D-F#-B

INHERIT DISEASE:

"Procreating An Apocalypse"

INTERNAL SUFFERING:

ALL RECORDINGS

B-E-A-D-F#-B

ION DISSONANCE:

ALL RECORDINGS

G#-C-E-A-D-G-C

KATAKLYSM:

ALL RECORDINGS

B-E-A-D-F#-B

KRISIUN:

ALL RECORDINGS

B-E-A-D-F#-B

LUST OF DECAY:

ALL RECORDINGS

C-F-A#-D#-G-C

LYKATHEA AFLAME/LYKATHÉ:

ALL RECORDINGS

C#-F#-B-E-G#-C#

MISERY INDEX:

ALL RECORDINGS

C#-F#-B-E-G#-C#

NECROPHAGIST:

ALL RECORDINGS

D-G-C-F-A-D

NILE:

ALL RECORDINGS

A-E-A-D-F#-B

ODIUS MORTEM:

ALL RECORDINGS

C#-G#-C#-F#-A#-D#

ORIGIN:

ALL RECORDINGS

B-F#-B-E-G#-C#

PROSTITUTE DISFIGUREMENT:

ALL RECORDINGS

D-G-C-F-A-D

PSYCROPTIC:

C#-G#-C#-F#-A#-D#

"Isle Of Disenchantment"

D-A-D-G-B-E

"Scepters Of The Ancients"

"Symbols Of Failure"

SEVERED SAVIOR:

C F A# D# G C

"Forced To Bleed"

ALL OTHER RECORDINGS

C# F# B E G# C#

SKINLESS:

ALL RECORDINGS

B-E-A-D-F#-B

SPAWN OF POSSESSION:

ALL RECORDINGS

B-E-A-D-G-B-E (Right Guitar)
B-E-A-D-F#-B (Left Guitar)

SUFFOCATION:

D-G-C-F-A-D

"Reincremated Demo"

C-F-A#-D#-G-C

"Human Waste"

"Effigy Of The Forgotten"

C#-F#-B-E-G#-C#

"Breeding The Spawn"

"Pierced From Within"

"Despise The Sun"

"Souls To Deny"

"Self-Titled"

THE DAY EVERYTHING BECAME NOTHING:

ALL RECORDINGS

A-E-A-D-F#-B

THE KILL:

E-A-D-G-B-E

"The Soundtrack To Your Violence"




THEORY IN PRACTICE:

ALL RECORDINGS

Eb-Ab-Db-Gb-Bb-Eb

UNMERCIFUL:

ALL RECORDINGS

B-F#-B-E-G#-C#

VEHEMENCE:

ALL RECORDINGS

B-E-A-D-F#-B

VILE:

Switch Between A-D-G-C-E-A and D-G-C-F-A-D

"Stench Of The Deceased"

A#-D#-G#-C#-F-A#

"Depopulate"

"New Age Of Chaos"

VISCERAL BLEEDING:

ALL RECORDINGS

B-E-A-D-F#-B

VOMIT REMNANTS:

C-F-A#-D#-G-C

"Supreme Entity"

B-E-A-D-G-B-E

"Indefensible Vehemence"

"Supreme Vehemence"

WORMED:

ALL RECORDINGS

B-E-A-D-F#-B

YATTERING:

D-G-C-F-A-D

"Humans Pain"

"Murder's Concept"

G#-D#-G#-C#-F-A#

"Genocide"

[lucasreis]

I remember that I asked for a thread like this and I was criticized back in the day because there were a lot of tunings and stuff, but I think it's a very neat idea and I'm happy to see it. I'll contribute with some stuff I know later.

[meisterjager]

Didn't see Chimaira? Their first album was most likely Drop A on 7 strings, and newer stuff is Drop C on 6's.

[Thin_Ice_77]

Drop C-

Killswitch Engage
As I Lay Dying
Architects (Only Nightmares)
The Devil Wears Prada
August Burns Red
Bullet for my Valentine

Drop Bb-

Bring Me The Horizon

Drop B-

Parkway Drive

C# standard-

Architects (Ruin and Hollow Crown)

[Scar Symmetry]

Originally Posted by omgmjgg

well no one actually knows the REAL ion dissonance tuning, so I'd take that off imo.

An also danza's tuning from low to high E B E B E F# B e (8 string) and 7 strings tuning were A E A D G B e for the first album and A E A D G B e (with hipshots set to f# or e for the 2nd album)

False ID have confirmed their tuning a few times, but even so it's worth keeping for the kids who ask.

[vhmetalx]

Im so glad i know beneath the massacres tuning now! make me a happy puppy
So me and my friend found out the new band on the block (upon a burning body) uses 6 string tuned to drop a# if we're right. and so does dirge within.

[MikeH]

And Hell Followed With - Drop A on 7s.

[ittoa666]

I tuned to ABCDEF once. Interesting to say the least.

You could have ABCDEFGA on an eight.

[Antimatter]

I believe Panic Attack by Dream Theater is in Bb Eb Ab Db F Bb

Also Pig Destroyer is in Drop A on six strings

[Jtizzle]

I forgot where I saw it, but it was some time ago. This jazz guitarist was on his website talking about how he came up with this new tuning in thirds and something else, instead of fourths. Apparently it made sight-singing easier, improv, since you could stay in one actual position, and different chord voicings were easier to make too. He listed out his current tuning for 6, 7, and 8 string guitars, but he's still working on trying to perfect it. I don't know, it seems interesting. I'd like to try it sometime.

[Antimatter]

Originally Posted by Jtizzle

I forgot where I saw it, but it was some time ago. This jazz guitarist was on his website talking about how he came up with this new tuning in thirds and something else, instead of fourths. Apparently it made sight-singing easier, improv, since you could stay in one actual position, and different chord voicings were easier to make too. He listed out his current tuning for 6, 7, and 8 string guitars, but he's still working on trying to perfect it. I don't know, it seems interesting. I'd like to try it sometime.

Thirds from E?

EG#CEG#C

[bigxboss7]

http://www.sevenstring.org/forum/pic...ml#post1951967

[Joel]

Defeated Sanity tune to C standard.
Fleshgod Apocalypse tune to B standard.
Hour Of Penance tune to A# standard (7 string).

[Jtizzle]

Here's the major third tuning guy. It's pretty interesting.
The Major 3rd Tuning

[omgmjgg]

Originally Posted by Scar Symmetry

False ID have confirmed their tuning a few times, but even so it's worth keeping for the kids who ask.

really? when and where was this? I haven't heard anything about it

[gatesofcarnage]

Architects also played in Drop B on some songs on Ruin and C# with a low Ab on somes songs on Hollow Crown