Help with Les Paul Custom pickups

[UseOnceandDestroy]

Greetings everyone, I've done a lot of reading posts in this forum. I've watched a ton of YouTube stuff. I figured I'd make a specific request here as I believe this forum will most likely best help me find what I'm looking for.
I have a Les Paul Custom I bought without any pickups. I intended to replace the pickups anyway as I usually do that with all my guitars.
I go for a "garage" "punk" "somewhat metal" sorta sound. I play through my dual rectifier mostly with the gain set around 11oclock. I go for a high output edgy sound. I try and steer clear from pickups that sound shrill and "tinny" ...if that's even a word.
I have a painkiller in my other Les Paul and that does get, at times, a little to shrill nail on a chalkboard sounding.
I like to have something that suits the garage punk high output thing for me while playing in E standard
Any recommendations would be highly appreciated.
Thank you much!!!!

[darrenw5094]

Garage punk and somewhat metal could be alnico 5 Nailbomb dude.

[UseOnceandDestroy]

Thanks for the recommendation. I was heavily considering a Nailbomb then I couldn't decide between the ALNICO and the Ceramic. Mahogany body, ebony fretboard. I saw the EQ between the 2 versions and the Ceramic had a much lower mid range than the ALNICO. Usually I like ceramics but the EQ of this made me think twice.
I'd say it's def between the 2 versions of the nailbomb. I just need to figure out what one will shine better in my Les Paul for the sound I'm looking for.

[UseOnceandDestroy]

UPDATE
So I put a bridge ALNICO nailbomb in my strat and It wasn't what I thought it would be. I guess it was in terms of playing chords or single notes etc etc.... palm muting just didn't have that liquidy, squishy saturation to it. Downstroke palm mutes sounded great but if I did an up and down sweeping rhythm kinda thing I feel like the mids died out. Sounded like a SD Custom 5 at that point. ...which I'm not a fan of.
Would a Ceramic NB be "edgier" "Hairier" than the ALNICO?
I guess I'm now realizing that I do like the nailbomb outside of how it sounds when I throw that muting style into our songs. If a Cbomb isn't the cure I'll just stick with Painkillers. I tried the NB because the PK seems just to much over the top metal saturated treble for the strat body.
Anyhoo...seems like I'm just talking to myself but if anyone can give me another recommendation or a Cbomb Abomb comparison in terms of the muting issue I've spoke of.....please chime in. Thanks

[JJretroTONEGOD]

from my experience ceramic has more compression to the sound and maybe a bit tighter in the bass, alnico is more open sounding, normally more dynamic and can be warmer, it's probably best to talk to the guys at BKP they've always given me good advice.

[ericsabbath]

I'm primaly an alnico 5 guy, but I did like the ceramic version of the nailbomb and warpig a lot better than their alnico counterparts

[timmy_pix]

Bear in mind the difference in midrange response could be more a guitar thing than the pickup - I would never expect a Strat to have midrange equalling a Les Paul acoustically, and the pickup can only respond to what the guitar gives it.

I've got an alnico Nailbomb set in my Les Paul Custom atm, and yes it's a middy guitar to begin with, but I'd never describe it as feeling or sounding like an SD Custom 5 (a pickup I also dislike). I recently sold a Strat that I've never got on with because no matter what pickups it had in it, it sounded thin and twangy, which would be great if I were a country player but I'm not! Even Warpigs sounded thinner than they should in it.

So the moral is just because you didn't like it in your Strat doesn't mean you won't like it in a completely different guitar. I've had pickups respond very differently between different Les Pauls, let alone something as different as Strat to Les Paul.