r/Music • u/imatmydesknow Concertgoer • 6d ago

music Slipknot enters Spotify's 1 Billion streams club with "Duality"

https://lambgoat.com/news/49390/slipknot-enters-spotifys-1-billion-streams-club-with-duality/
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u/sup3rdr01d Spotify Metal 6d ago

I'm a big fan of all types of metal, extreme metal, modern metal, etc

But something about those early/mid 2000s metal guitar tones is just brutal in a way newer bands aren't.

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u/R_V_Z 5d ago

Steven Wilson talked about this better than I can, but it has to do with how guitars are produced. Modern metal guitar recording is about stacking a ton of tracks, which can create too much of a wall of sound. Wilson essentially said it turns the guitars into a synth pad. When the production is a bit more stripped down the guitar's distortion has more granularity to it.

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u/sup3rdr01d Spotify Metal 5d ago

Yep. I record metal guitars and this is true.

The biggest reason I've seen besides multi tracking guitars (they've always been double tracked, for decades) is actually using real micd amps/cabs vs using amp sim plugins. The plugins don't sound as good unless you tune the instrument REALLY low, in which case the plugin actually handles the super low tuning better than a physical amp would.

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u/R_V_Z 5d ago

Yeah, double tracking is one thing, but some of these people are upwards of six (which I guess is sex tracking).