There probably is a thread about this already, but who cares?

I would like to start off with Tommy Vetterli for the album R.I.P. by Coroner and Alex Skolnick for the albums The Legacy and The New Order by Testament. Also you can't forget about Frank Blackfire for the album Persecution Mania. It's a good album if you like early black metal like Bathory, Kreator, and such. Nuclear Winter kicks ass.

It's David Gilmour. Amazing he is. His vocals were cool as well as Rogers.

Paul Gilbert is good, but he's not really my style. Like Jason Becker kicks ass and so Does Marty Friedman during Cacophony and Megadeth

Don't mention Gilmour in the context of metal =(

I'm not a great fan of most metal guitarists, since the vast majority seem to substitute music with any sort of feeling or inspiration with speed and distortion. The guy from Sonata Arctica is VERY good, though, as is Buckethead, imo.

A lot of metal has a lot of feeling. It has as much feeling as any other music out there.
I thought someone would say Chuck Shuldiner already. That guy is a genius. All of his albums are great. Also I think Zakk makes any Osbourne song kind of annoying to listen to with hius overuse of the pinched harmonics which he does them high all the time. They don't have to be high.

yep. pinch harmonics will always be high, i'm afraid.

As for the feeling thing - yes, there is a lot of very well composed and well played music that fits into the genre. However vast amounts of death/grind/power/thrash have killed a big part of metal for me. I'd say that metal is one, if not the worst sufferer of speed over quality.

For me, any metal guitarist who knows when to play slow, when to play fast, and how to play with soul is impressive for me. Most shredders do not fall into this category =(

A pinch harmonic is always going to squeal. You're never really going to get a "low" pinch harmonic, it's just the nature of how the string vibrates when you do that to it.

respectfully, no. A natural harmonic works by "splitting" the vibrations of the string, which is what you seem to be talking about. Say you play a harmonic at the 12th fret on say, the d string, the result will be two separate d's being played on both halves of the string, at a higher pitch,due to the shortened area of string that each "d" is vibrating on.

An artificial harmonic will always be squealy and abrasive if you do it right- in fact, that's the point of the technique. Why? say you fret another d, this time at the 7th fret of the g string, pluck the string, and then create the pinch harmonic over, say the middle pickup - you're just cut that note up into a shitload more pieces than you could manage to anywhere on the fretboard - the result, with a bit of filth on the channel, is going to be one squealy creation regardless of how loudly you play it. If it isn't, then you havent created a "clean" artificial harmonic.

Of course, you can get softer harmonics on the fretboard with more "classical" techniques, which can be softer and lower in pitch. But we're not talking natural harmonics, lol.

As for checking the string with your pick - i assume you're doing these off the pick and not the flesh, yes ?


edit: the real point, other than the tl;dr above, is that pinch harmonics have a time and a place to be used in music. If you want a low harmonic, natural harmonics are probably easier and better suited to the music.

Pinch the first fret then bend a step then slowly release. It may take practice, but it's a very heavy artificial harmonic. Also I don't think anyone is taking about natural harmonics because that is a completely different technique used with the fretting fingers.

Also Qourthon from Bathory the one man band.

can you upload a recording of this? i don't get exactly what you're trying to say here?

And that guy is talented indeed.