Who are the new guitar gods?

[jhale667]

JOHN 5 is way up there as far as "new" guys go....


Jeff Loomis.....

Mattias IA Eklundh.....SCARY good

Eklundh is indeed crazy good, not sure how old he is... I know Jeff Loomis auditioned for Megadeth after Marty Friedman left, IIRC (?) and was told he was "too young" at the time, so he might qualify...

[GAR]

... sometimes kind of got a quasi-Edge of U2 vibe they way he uses effects.

Spoken like someone who can truly appreciate butt-ramming edgy dance music, that happens to employ a pedal-monkey guitar player.

NOT God-like.

[GAR]

JOHN 5 is way up there as far as "new" guys go....

Gimme a break. This guy got notice with 2WO as Rob Halford's S and M guitar player: he sucked! AND it didn't sell, proving it sucked.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2wo

Band History

Halford and guitarist John Lowery aka John 5 formed the group in 1997, and were signed to Trent Reznor's Nothing Records label. Reznor produced their sole output, Voyeurs, which sold poorly. Halford disbanded the group two years later. Halford has recently expressed interest in releasing the early demos from Voyeurs, which he has described as "tougher and edgier" compared to the final album.^[1]
[edit] Discography

• Voyeurs (1998)

[edit] Videography

Halford hired porn director Chi Chi Larue to direct the video for the first single I Am a Pig. ^[2] This video featured grainy S&M scenes of the band and various porn stars, including a few brief glimpses of Janine Lindemulder, in a sex dungeon. It also incorporates some of the album's artwork into the concept. It was not widely shown for its content, but was not banned.

[Diamondjimi]

Coming from someone who couldn't even play the riff to Enter Sandman without arsing it up, your opinion of anything is cuntpletely irrelevant...

[GAR]

Know what? I don't even know how that fucking crap goes!

Slag on all you want - I'm cuntpletely ignorant of Metallica and glad of it.

I never owned one album. They were always the Iron Maiden coverband from Norwalk, just down Rosemead Blvd from me.. I am not a fan.

[jhale667]

Keep your ass-ramming fantasies to yourself, dude. Chicks dig Muse too, but like you'd know - Lefty probably has Molly Hatchet on infinite repeat...

[Panamark]

On the record, I think Orianthi is beautiful eye candy and does play her solo's
in an 80's vein. She is no Dimebag...
But for a young chick in her 20's I think she is awesome. I didn't see a thread for "goddesses"
so I whacked her in here, then whacked off after watching her unreleased masturbation
video that us Aussies can only get

[Hardrock69]

If YOU had never played guitar, perhaps your comments might mean something.

Oh, wait......you do not play guitar, and your comments will never mean anything anyway.


LOSER.

[VanHalenFan5150]

On the record, I think Orianthi is beautiful eye candy and does play her solo's
in an 80's vein. She is no Dimebag...
But for a young chick in her 20's I think she is awesome. I didn't see a thread for "goddesses"
so I whacked her in here, then whacked off after watching her unreleased masturbation
video that us Aussies can only get

What!? :O

[Hardrock69]

I could say that, where percussion is less than precision riffing, then yes "CFH" is a pretty awful example.

If Dimebag would have stuck with the bass, he'd still be alive woudln't he..

Below comment directed towards Garfuckle.

If YOU had never played guitar, perhaps your comments might mean something.

Oh, wait......you do not play guitar, and your comments will never mean anything anyway.


LOSER.

[binnie]

Know what? I don't even know how that fucking crap goes!

Slag on all you want - I'm cuntpletely ignorant of Metallica and glad of it.

I never owned one album. They were always the Iron Maiden coverband from Norwalk, just down Rosemead Blvd from me.. I am not a fan.

And yet your ignorance of Metallica didn't prevent you from espousing stern opinions on that band, their music, and bass players in the Rob Truijilo thread.....

Sad But True.

[Hardrock69]

"Holier Than Thou"?

[binnie]

Not too sure if this guy is under 35 - in fact I'm almost positive that he isn't. However, Adam Jones from Tool fits 'guitar God' for me. Not a shredder, but has a completely unique stlye, writes monster riffs and uses wacky time signatures to accentaute his music.

[jhale667]

Not too sure if this guy is under 35 - in fact I'm almost positive that he isn't. However, Adam Jones from Tool fits 'guitar God' for me. Not a shredder, but has a completely unique stlye, writes monster riffs and uses wacky time signatures to accentaute his music.

Adam Jones definitely qualifies as a "guitar god" - LOVES Tool - but they've been around since what, '90? So kind of out of the running as far as "new".

[binnie]

Yup, I know - it's amazing how a lot of bands I consider as 'new' have suddenly got five records. God I hate getting older.

Another guy I was thinking of whose stlye struck me when he first hit the scene in the late '90s was Daron Malakian. Again, not a shredder by any means but he had, like Dimebag, a huge metal tone, wrote big riffs and just brought it. Plus, all of the Easter European influences in the melodies of that band made for something unique, a voice that was theirs and only theirs. Is he a God? Maybe not - for all of their success, I don't hear much of System Of A Down in modern bands. A bit like Faith No More before them, perhaps they were just too 'out there' to be assimilated.....