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Question:(im posting this in preforming arts and rock and pop, so if you see it twice, thats why) im looking for sounds like Job For A Cowboy and Dethklok...not A7X(no offence to them)....got anything for me that i could try out? thnx
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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: (im posting this in preforming arts and rock and pop, so if you see it twice, thats why) im looking for sounds like Job For A Cowboy and Dethklok...not A7X(no offence to them)....got anything for me that i could try out? thnx
-peace

metallica's --for whom the bell tolls or crazy train

Oh, yeah! Metallica and Sabbath are great to start. I'd say "Enter Sandman" or 'Paranoid" are great to start out with, since both are easy to play and sound cool. Some other great Metallica stuff is Harvester of Sorrow (from And Justice for All) which is heavier stuff than the Black Album and that will lead to getting you into the more extreme metal. "Harvester" isn't too crazy fast, and if you try to play their faster stuff like "Master of Puppets" when your pick hand isn't up to the task it will not happen.

Try some older kiss stuff, or motley crue, deep purple,

If you're creative enough...I agree w/ the above. Try some older stuff, and improvise, improvise, improvise!

The cord changes in the older, original "metal' are slower, but can be speeded up to suit your needs.

Deep Purple, AC/DC, Sabbath.

Music is all about recreating what others have done before you. There once was only one melody, thousands of years ago...it morphed into all that is music today.

Black Sabbath are where you need to go. Led Zeppelin songs are too delicate, Deep Purple are too difficult. ('You Fool No One' off Purple's 'Burn' album is probably my favourite metal song of all time, but the riff is incredibly hard to play cleanly.)

Check out the first four Sabbath albums. 'Supernaut' is an incredible song, great riff, not hard to do at all, but you need to tune your low E down to D and learn dom7 chords in that position. It's also a lesson in not turning up the fuzz too much. Tony Iommi sounded incredibly heavy on those records, but the guitar isn't nearly as fuzzy as some of the stuff being made now.

Alternatively, if you don't mind getting a bit soaring and romantic and melodic, try the classic Thin Lizzy albums from the 1970s - 'Jailbreak', 'Fighting', 'Bad Reputation', 'Black Rose', 'Live and Dangerous'. Most of these albums are truly serious, especially the last one.