Yes, it's a positively crushing metal tone. It's so heavy and yet so musical.
I have been listening to a lot of demos here and I am aware that recording technique is a very separate thing from what a rig actually sounds like in a room. I find that all my recordings end up sounding muffled or lacking high end brilliance and I wonder if part of it is simply how I hear tone vs how a mic hears tone. I also find that recordings sound very 2D compared to how 3D things sound live, and that the sound of recording equipment and a reduced bit rate can make things sound much more similar than they really are in person.
Caveats aside, this recording sounds awesome. I'm just curious what else is in the signal chain. My guess would be either a boosted cranked high gain head of some flavour, or AXE FX or some high end digital modeling software. (Or maybe a Torpedo Live) If it was cheap gear, well, I'll be very surprised.
