At some point in the near future, I'm gonna snag myself a Tele to fiddle around with at home. The main Raison D'etre of a Tele in my home, is of course to play more clean type stuff, as a sort of break from the absurdly dissonant bollocks noisecore stuff I play in my fairly time-consuming band.
However, I know I'd like something to play more straightforward, "melodic" Black Metal in E standard on as well, so I might as well kill two Frostbitten Ravens of the Grim Mountains of the North with one stone.
Naturally, the first choice is the Piledriver, but I'm kind of thinking the Blackguard 50 would be useful too. The thing is just that the "metal" clips on those show a riffing style quite the opposite of what I need it for. We all know the Piledriver can djent with the best of 'em, but can it do tr00 kvlt blakk metal as well?
As for tonal references, I'm thinking newer Deathspell Omega, older Ulver, Krallice, Woe... I.e. the newer "hipster" black metal and not necessarily the first- and second-wave that intentionally sounded like arse. That can be achieved with more or less anything. I'm thinking more along the lines of something snarling, harsh and high-mid-ish that can have some amount of heft at lower(-ish) gain setting. Basically the guitar tone on "Si Monumentum Requires, Circumspice" by Deathspell Omega is the benchmark here.
That said, they should sound lovely on clean as well. Think Andy Summers here.
So what would you lads say?
