B tuning
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B Tuning or B Standard Tuning is the standard tuning for a seven string guitar, where the strings are tuned B-E-A-D-G-B-E. B tuning can also be achieved on a six string guitar, when the strings are tuned B-E-A-D-F♯-B, known then as Baritone Tuning. This tuning is popular among several different types of metal bands.
The following is a list of musical groups who use this tuning on a typical six-string guitar:
- Aborted
- The Absence
- Aeon (7 string guitars)
- Aghora (7 string guitars) (on the album Aghora (album))
- Allegaeon (7 string guitars)
- All Shall Perish
- Amon Amarth
- Anacrusis
- Anal Cunt
- Anathema on first two albums and first two EPs
- Angel Vivaldi (7 string guitars)
- Animals as Leaders On "Modern Meat" from the album Animals as Leaders
- Arch Enemy (albums: Black Earth, Stigmata and Burning Bridges)
- Arcturus on the album The Sham Mirrors
- At the Gates
- Attack Attack! on the album self-titled Album
- Audioslave
- Augury
- Avatar (from Black Waltz onwards)
- Bal-Sagoth
- Biomechanical (7 string guitars) on the album Cannibalised
- Black Label Society On "13 Years of Grief" from the album Stronger Than Death
- Bleed From Within
- Bloodbath
- Blood Has Been Shed
- Blood Red Throne on the album Altered Genesis
- Bongzilla
- Brutart
- Carpathian
- Carach Angren
- Cavalera Conspiracy (on the album Blunt Force Trauma and some songs on the album Inflikted)
- Carajo (B flat tuning)
- Carcass
- Cathedral on the albums Forest of Equilibrium, The Ethereal Mirror, Statik Majik, and The Garden of Unearthly Delights (album)
- Cephalic Carnage
- Coal Chamber (BEADGB, although some songs are dropped to A)
- Coheed and Cambria (Key Entity Extraction II: Hollywood the Cracked, Key Entity Extraction V: Sentry the Defiant)
- Crowbar
- Cryptopsy
- Dave Matthews Band (On "You Never Know")
- Despised Icon
- Devourment
- Dismember
- Divine Heresy (7 string guitars)
- DragonForce (7 string guitars)
- Dream Theater (7 string guitars) On "Lie", "Caught in a Web" and "The Mirror" from Awake, on "Scene Seven: I. The Dance of Eternity" from Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory, and on most songs from the Twelve-step Suite)
- Edenbridge (on their first five albums)
- Edge Of Sanity
- Electric Wizard on the album Dopethrone
- Eluveitie (on most songs)
- Emperor on the album Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire & Demise
- Entombed on their album Left Hand Path
- Epica on all albums except the Phantom Agony (D tuning) and Consign to Oblivion (C tuning (D-flat tuning on the songs, "the Last Crusade", "Blank Infinity", and "Another Me in Lack'ech"))
- Exhumed
- Fallujah (7 string guitars)
- Fear Factory (used B on a six-string prior to Dino Cazares' 1995 switch to Ibanez, from whom he began 7-string guitars)
- Five Finger Death Punch
- Fleshgod Apocalypse
- Grave
- Graveworm
- Hunting Humans
- Hypocrisy (On all albums up until Virus, from which they use A# Standard and on all albums after)
- I Killed The Prom Queen
- Iron Monkey
- Jungle Rot
- Kataklysm
- Kingdom of Sorrow
- Kenn Nardi
- Lacuna Coil (7 string guitars)
- Lead Belly was rumored to use this tuning in a 12-string variation.
- Linkin Park (used BEADGB tuning on "With You" and "Runaway" from 2003 concerts. They were originally recorded on standard tuned 7-string guitars.)
- Massacre
- Mnemic
- The Monolith Deathcult
- MyChildren MyBride
- Negură Bunget (7 string guitars)
- Nekrogoblikon (7 string guitars)
- Oomph!
- Otto Mann
- Pelican
- Pomegranate Tiger (7 string guitars)
- Pro-Pain
- Raintime (7 string guitars)
- Satariel (7 string guitars)
- Scar Symmetry (7 string guitars, on Symmetric in Design and Pitch Black Progress; have since switched to Drop A tuning)
- Seventh Void
- Sepultura (from Roots onward)
- Skinless
- Shadow Over Innsmouth
- Soilwork
- Soulfly
- Spawn of Possession (6 & 7 string guitars; Jonas Bryssling plays a 6 string, while Jonas Karlsson and Christian Muenzner's parts are written for 7 strings)
- Spineshank
- Stencher
- Textures (7 string guitars)
- Theory of a Deadman (on their song "No Surprise")
- The Project Hate MCMXCIX
- The Gazette
- Trivium (7 string guitars)(on some songs from The Crusade and all songs on Shogun )
- Type O Negative
- Underoath (on some songs from Ø (Disambiguation))
- Unearth (7 string guitars)
- Universum
- Unleashed
- Vehemence
- Warning
- Whitechapel (7 string guitars)(only on a few songs)
- Winterfylleth (also use Drop A)
- Within Temptation (on some songs from the Silent Force album; lead guitarist Ruud Jolie uses 7 string guitars, while Robert Westerholt downtunes a six-string to B)
- Yanomamo
