[exafro]

I always wanted a seven, but never really needed one until my bassist purchased a six string and I wanted to have the instruments match up on the low strings. The day after he got his new bass, I bought my seven and I've never been happier. My sixes have been neglected ever since.

[Ishan]

For me it was the first Korn album WAY BACK (no one ever heard of them at the time) then nu-metal came along and I was sick of it (always been a death metal guy) but still wanted a damn 7 string then I got into Vai and Meshuggah and was sold for good. I still don't own one but I think I'll be going from 6 to 8

[s7eve]

Like most young kids, when I was at school I thought it would be cool to play guitar, but it was Vai on passion and warfare that first got me serious about wanting to play, I had no idea he played a seven, I never looked at how many strings the guitar had.

As keen as I was back then it never happened.

My mates all played guitar and every now and then I would ask them to show me something, some of them played in drop D occasionally, mate I loved the low sound but I wanted lower, my mates thought I was crazy back then when I suggested that it would be cool if the guitar had an extra string so you could go lower and still have normal tuning on the other six. I still had no idea there were seven string guitars.

This year I decided that I would finally buy a guitar and learn, a whole 15 years later. I stumbled upon this place when I was researching what guitar to buy and then did further reading at wikipedia. Wow, I thought when I realised that the guitar sound that I loved in certain bands was actually played on 7 string guitars.

So it was actually you guys that played the biggest part in me getting into 7 string. You could say that I would have realised soon enough and got one anyway but sevenstring.org saved me a lot of fucking around and money.

[wretchedspawn]

I think Cannibal Corpse originally inspired me to play sevens.

[8string]

I grew up listening to meshuggah, megadeth and metalica. fredrik and morten are the main reason I play 7's

Originally Posted by savageshredder

Id have to say korn,meshuggah,unearth...later on I found out about real wizards like rusty, jeff etc...

Like Fredrik Thordendal isn't a real wizard? Munky and Head are not wizards although they can sound cool from time to time.

[ZeroSignal]

Brad Delson from Linkin Park oddly enough...

[Rindgecore]

I gotta say that Cannibal Corpse & Morbid Angel were the first bands that made me realize you can apply 7 stringers to brutal death metal applications.

But what made me go 7 is that my last band was tuned to B with our 6 strings, so I decided to do the jump and go 7.

[Scarve]

I always knew that Korn used 7's... But, indeed, Meshuggah really did the trick for me!

I've been a user of 7's since fuckin' Futur Breed Machine

[st2012]

Vai and Rusty Cooley.

[Rick]

Originally, it was Korn and Limp Bizkit but once I heard Fear Factory, that was pretty much it, I knew I was gonna play 7s.

I tune to ADGCFAD as well.