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D-flat/C-sharp tuning. D♭ , also called C♯ guitar tuning . Each string is one and one half steps lower than in standard tuning , or one half step lower than D tuning . The resulting notes can be described as D♭-G♭-B-E-A♭-D♭ or (less often) as C♯-F♯-B-E-G♯-C♯ . "Extremely slack,"[ 1]
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A Pale Horse Named Death A Perfect Circle - nearly all of their songs are in this tuning.Abbath (album only; live performances are on D tuning)Akercocke Al's Band (on "My Bologna" and "Perform This Way")All That Remains (since Overcome Amorphis (on Tales from the Thousand Lakes An Isle Ate Her Architects (they also drop the low string to G♯ ♭ Behemoth Between the Buried and Me - nearly all of their songs are in this tuning.Black Sabbath [ 2] Master of Reality Sabotage Tony Iommi had two damaged fingertips).[ 1] Black Stone Cherry (On the song "Me and Mary Jane")Blink-182 (on the songs "Obvious" from their self-titled album , "Time to Break Up", and for live performances of "Adam's Song")Bolt Thrower Brutal Truth Candlemass Cannibal Corpse ("Mummified in Barbed Wire", "Disfigured", "Absolute Hatred", "Eaten from Inside", and "Orgasm Through Torture")Chevelle (on three songs from Wonder What's Next The Red ", and "Don't Fake This")Children of Bodom (on their first album Something Wild I Worship Chaos Coldplay (on their song "God Put a Smile Upon Your Face")Comeback Kid [ 3] Creed (on 4 songs from Full Circle ♯ ♭ Dark Tranquillity Decapitated Deftones (on most songs from Around the Fur Dimension Zero (on their Penetrations from the Lost World Down Dying Fetus Dream Theater (on the songs, "Along for the Ride", "New Millennium", "Vacant", and "You Not Me")El Caco Epica (on the songs "The Last Crusade", "Blank Infinity", and "Another Me in Lack'ech", from the Consign to Oblivion C tuning .)Eyehategod Falconer (on the albums, Northwind Among Beggars and Thieves Godflesh (Used from Slavestate Songs of Love and Hate Gorgoroth Gorguts The Grass Roots (on the song "Let's Live for Today ")Guns N' Roses (on "Jumpin' Jack Flash " and "I Don't Care About You")Hate Eternal Iced Earth (on most songs)Isis (band) I the Mighty Judas Priest (on "Jugulator", "Blood Stained", "Death Row", "Decapitate", and "Abductors")Kalmah (starting from For the Revolution and live performances since 2008)Kyuss (on Sons of Kyuss Las Cruces Machine Head (on some songs)Mark Tremonti (on "So You're Afraid" and "Doesn't Matter" from All I Was Metallica (on "Bad Seed" from ReLoad Garage Inc .The Thing That Should Not Be " since 1987)Monte Pittman [ 4] My Dying Bride (on all songs except "A Doomed Lover", "One of Beauty's Daughter's", and "The Blue Lotus", which are all dropped to Drop B.)Neil Perry Nirvana (On certain recordings of Old Age)Omnium Gatherum Orange Goblin Pianos Become the Teeth Portraits of Past Powerwolf (most songs starting from "Bible of the Beast ")Queens of the Stone Age (early live performances)Rains Reverend Bizarre Rotting Christ Scorpions (live performances of "Bad Boys Running Wild", "Coming Home", "Can't Get Enough" since 2017, on "Send Me An Angel (2016 Acoustic Version)")Sent By Ravens Shotmaker Sinergy (on the album Beware the Heavens Skillet (on some songs from the albums, Hey You, I Love Your Soul Collide Slash (on "Crucify the Dead")Slayer (on the song "Gemini" from Undisputed Attitude Diabolus in Musica God Hates Us All Christ Illusion Sleater-Kinney Slipknot (on "Snuff ")Sodom (in several songs from "'Til Death Do Us Unite " and "M-16 ")Stone Sour Stormlord Suffocation (on Pierced from Within )Superjoint Ritual Testament (since Low Therion (on most songs in every album from 1994–present and their death metal demos)Truckfighters Torture Squad (on the albums "The Unholy Spell" and "Pandemonium ")Vader (2002-present)Venom Woods of Ypres Within Temptation (on most songs from the album Mother Earth the Heart of Everything the Unforgiving
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