Dead or dying guitar trends, styles or brands...

[samdaman87]

Originally Posted by Konfyouzd

Anyone remember when you had to wait til damn near the end of a song for a breakdown? And it actually WAS the heaviest riff in the song?

Yeah its funny because I have seen bands actually start off as a breakdown in the beginning of a song and end it with that same break down. Like I said there are no good leads these days. No soulful anymore that make a song unique.

[FrancescoFiligoi]

Long hair

[Konfyouzd]

Blasphemy!

[Bloody_Inferno]

Originally Posted by Konfyouzd

Anyone remember when you had to wait til damn near the end of a song for a breakdown? And it actually WAS the heaviest riff in the song?

Example: "I'll Cast a Shadow" - Pantera

Better examples:

[nickgray]

Originally Posted by makeitreign

They're always 00-0000-00-0-000-00-000000-000-00-0-0-0-0.
THAT makes me want to punch babies.

Makes me think of these kinds of riffs:

--10-9---12-10-9-9/10/9
00--0 000--0-0--0--

Every time I hear a thousandth variation on this sort of riff I just wanna shoot myself. I mean you have all these frets, all these strings, and this is the best you came up with?

[Bloody_Inferno]

Originally Posted by nickgray

I mean you have all these frets, all these strings, and this is the best you came up with?

Yes because clearly you have to use every note in the fretboard to make a memorable riff.

[Konfyouzd]

Don't need all the strings all the time. Not even on a 6.

[nickgray]

Originally Posted by Bloody_Inferno

Yes because clearly you have to use every note in the fretboard to make a memorable riff.

Sarcasm. I even put the smiley face after the sentence.

[ESP_]

Riffs using pinch harmonics and still sounding good, and exception is Huge Hammers.

[Konfyouzd]

What?

[LamaSabachthani]

actually, is Bulb/Periphery's popularity on here dying? in terms of how often it gets discussed. Way before the self-titled came out, I know we talked about Periphery very, very often, but since they became a bit more 'mainstream' (i.e. didn't just exist on paper rather than as a real band) we don't seem to talk about them very much on ss.org anymore ...

... although I have admittedly not visited the 'mega' thread in some time.

[LamaSabachthani]

Originally Posted by ESP_

Riffs using pinch harmonics and still sounding good, and exception is Huge Hammers.

isn't zakk wylde still alive?

[MFB]

I can't wait for this whole "liking music" trend to be over, I mean Jesus Christ! It's been like, HOW many years you've been listening to it? Just let it go man, music is dead don't you know?

And don't get me STARTED on when people started listening to the same bands as ME. I strived to find unique and fresh artists and then they come up and they're all like "Do you know this band Metallica?" and I'm all "...I did. Until now. Thanks."

Pfft. Posers.

[highlordmugfug]

Originally Posted by bulb

Did it really die, or is it just a lot easier to buy an Axefx?
Haha i kid i kid.

Hahaha, excellent point.

We'll just say, at the very least it's slightly less obvious now.

[niffnoff]

Originally Posted by linchpin

Standard E tuning.









Ps. nu metal still rules.

Sylosis

[decypher]

Originally Posted by Joeseffel

Metal without screamed vocals is going away. It's still there but all of the young up and coming bands seem to have vocals with screamed parts, if not screams exclusively.

yeah that did make metal pretty boring if not annoying. another angry, yelling kid.. yay...

[Don Vito]

Originally Posted by Xaios

You forgot 000000-7---8-7-8-000000-7---8-PICKSQUEAL!

He also forgot the most important:
1
0 chord.

[rainbowbrite]

power metal. and black metal. the world will be a better place.

[TheGrimRiffer]

Baritone guitars! I can't find hardly any production model baritones out there right now. I'm sure companies still make them (I know of the PRS Mke Mushok for instance), but why aren't they more popular, especially for rhythm guitar players in bands that tune super low. You don't need more strings, all you need is a longer neck!

[oompa]

I can't wait for the "pop" metal genres to die out, like djent, nu metal, screamo, all the -core stuff etc. and I believe it will happen.

These are all just my opinions - they're not my kind of tea (the genres) since I like weird and experimental stuff but there is another reason I'd like em to lose ground. I remember growing up a music nerd and around the age of 16 suddenly jocks everywhere popped up wearing black hoodies, metal was suddenly cool and I had to discuss In Flames (who just started sucking) with people who last year had the personalities of mannequins That's when I kinda realized that we were going into an era where popular culture would raid the sh*t out of metal and it would take a while for it to go away

The following years all these housebroke metal bands who polished their prada caps and went on stage and yelled like they hmm.. "sorta" meant it, made metal "ok". This has many benefits but the negative side of it is that well, a lot of music that is so boring to me as a musician took shitloads of space. They get the record deals, they get the publicity and so on, but more importantly the things about music that I like were sidelined for other characteristics.

As a guy who feel that the Linkin Park guy and the Dismember guy yell for completely different reasons and that difference is important to me I would love for metal to go back out of fashion again.. Most of my youth metal has been "pop" and now I'd like "pop" to go nuts on some other genre, like reggae or something

I want to see where metal goes next with less of the commercial influence it has had the past 10-15 years. I don't want record companies to sign Slipknot 2 because they know they'll sell, I want them to sign a new act that sound like nothing else because they also happen to sound really good

Again just my 2 cents, comfortably aligning with my interests <3

[Stealthdjentstic]

Metal was popular where you lived? Literally, two other kids in my high school grad class listened to metal.

[oompa]

Originally Posted by Stealthdjentstic

Metal was popular where you lived? Literally, two other kids in my high school grad class listened to metal.

Haha I'm from northern Sweden though might be why, I don't know lol

[flint757]

Originally Posted by oompa

Haha I'm from northern Sweden though might be why, I don't know lol

Yeah in the western hemisphere faux metal, rock, pop and rap are what's popular. (not in any order)

Metal as a whole here is left for the minority. there may be some metal heads who consider separate areas like core more mainstream, but it is still the minority.

[Slunk Dragon]

Either it's just me or NOT incorporating arpeggios into solos seems to be dying. Maybe it's just most of the music I wind up hearing, but it seems 90% of guitarists can't shy away from doing nothing but arpeggios until they're just a can of hairspray away from being another Malmsteen. Granted I also hear plenty of awesome uses of arpeggios and many different takes on how to use them stylistically, but I'm talking about just the straight octaves of nothing but the same damn pattern and just moving it up and down. Too many arpeggioed solos sound the same to me.

Or maybe I'm just a whiny dude with nothing but time who complains, idk. [/2cents]

[rainbowbrite]

the pentatonic scale--i think kirk hammet has depleted all reserves of pentatonic scales along with his wah abuse.