Best thrash / extreme metal tones ever

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Toni Kroos-ant said:
Carcass - Heartwork (5150 blended with 30th anni Marshall or SL-X, Marshall Guv'nor pedal and Valvestate micro-stack)
Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness/Blessed Are The Sick (Marshall 900, Rat pedal, Rane eq)
Exodus - Tempo of The Damned (Modded Marshall?)
Anthrax/SOD - Among The Living/SEOD (Marshall 2210, TC Electronic Line Booster+Line Driver & Distortion)
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I'm with you on 3/4 of that list. However I feel that Morbid Angel has always had crappy tone. Almost every album sounds like a "bad" Marshall with spent power tubes that's been mic'd from 30 ft away. Always so distant sounding.
 
thegame said:
I'm with you on 3/4 of that list. However I feel that Morbid Angel has always had crappy tone. Almost every album sounds like a "bad" Marshall with spent power tubes that's been mic'd from 30 ft away. Always so distant sounding.
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From Covenant onwards yes, BUT the tone always fit the music (murky/filthy)
 
Scott Burns should have produced Morbid from Covenant on. They should have used different amps/pedals.
Covenant and Domination were a step backwards guitar sound wise. Though they sounded way better live on those tours
 
I like most posted here.
I tend to like the old school amps boosted or modded:

- old in flames, machine head, carcass 90’s tones all 5150
- fear factory demanufacture: jcm 800 Jose mod?
- nevermore - this godless endeavor Mesa rackto
- a lot of Adam D productions (killswitch engage, unearth, parkway drive) peavey 5150 blended with a Framus cobra/dragon
- for HM-2 sounds I like Harms Way as they have perfected that tone imho: mix of HM-2 and clarity
- Earth Crisis - Gomorrah season ends: I think Mesa 2:90 with a triaxis
- most if not all Decapitated albums: mix of different amps but so agressive and direct sounding often a bogner uberschall, Mesa and Randall blended but also 2 x EVH 5150

Honorable mention:

- He is Legend: Adam T has such a great 5150 or Mesa dual rec sound and his riffs are awesome 😎 not extreme music but pretty heavy and grooving riffs
 
Michiel Kemper said:
- for HM-2 sounds I like Harms Way as they have perfected that tone imho: mix of HM-2 and clarity
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Entombed's Clandestine is another good example of this: way clearer than the tone on LHP but still crushing. Better songwriting also helped :cool:
 
I have heard it all and to my ears Adam's tone on "Pneuma" is the best sounding heavy tone I've ever heard.
Thinks It's a super lead combined with a VH4 yes?
 
I have a sweet spot for Mille Petrozza's tone on Kreator's Phantom Antichrist, I think he was using a 100 watts ENGL fireball. I know they're expensive rare birds in the US, but in europe, ENGL's are working man's amps you can snag on cool prices online. He had a custom model made called the ENGL Extreme aggression which sounded even more aggressive... I wonder if there's some used one floating around.
 
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