Here's an example of how a Fender Strat and a Fender P-Bass can seriously rock out.

Iron Maiden - - - The Trooper
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=354MU3l-25M

Iirc Kirk Hammet also used S/S/S strats on the early Metallica days. I keep hearing the fenders are not metal nonsense.

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"Music is what feelings sound like"

very early, very heavy metal
Blackmores Strat, Hughes P-Bass

Deep Purple - Burn

http://youtu.be/pfzv3bf9-OY

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you can save the world with your guitar one love song at a time it's just better, more fun, easier with a fender solid body electric guitar or electric bass guitar.

Mick Mars does pretty good with a strat also

If it has humbuckers it can play metal. SIngle coils tend to be ab it iffy for it, but they can work.

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Favorite bands:

Melvins
The Jesus Lizard
Cows
Big Business
R***man
Minutemen
Flight
Minor Threat
Big Black
Shellac
Karp
Scratch Acid
Wipers
Pixies

I have been playing Metal on Strats for years. SSS, HSS, and for now I have a HH about to become a HSH. Once I finish my Blacktop modification, I am going to return my Highway1 back into a SSS. I am most likely going for the CS 69s.

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RK

2007 Fender Highway 1
2012 American Deluxe
2015 MIM Dave Murray HHH
2010 Fender Blacktop
1987 Fender Avalon Acoustic
2012 Marshall DSL 15 watt head

I play my metal with my pawn shop 51.That enforcer pick up can get pretty heavy.

The Scorpions are more hard rock than metal but anyway Matthias Jabs has used Strats, and a Fender Prosonic amp. Also Fast Eddie Clarke from Motorhead uses a Strat.

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Fender American Series Stratocaster
Marshall JTM612
Marshall JTMC12
Gibson Vintage Reissue strings
DiMarzio pickups
Souldier guitar strap
Spectraflex cables

Single coils are fine for heavy music as long as you use enough distortion. My single coil Tele is a great metal guitar when I play it through my Digitech RP5 pedal. Dropped D tuning, palm muting: it can do it all.

He kills it. I was not a big MM fan until seeing him live. Great use of trem, and playing tasteful solos. He is quite under-rated, really.

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Laughing out loud with fear and hope, I have a desperate plan ...

i use my lone star strat for all kinds of music. with a sd sh-4 in bridge pos. no problem to play metal.

cheers

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It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting - paulo coelho

Obituary, John 5, and Sepultura, come to mind also.

Has Dave ever played a Fender other than a Strat? Has Adrian ever played a Fender? I know the Live after Death album has their gear listed but I don't have the CD anymore.

jim root from slipkot/stone sour plays a tele
and the blacktop telecaster can do metal pretty damn good

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B.C Rich Body Art Warlock "The Fly"--Blacktop Telecaster--ESP LTD EC-100--IbanezRG420EX--into A Fender Mustang III

For the two weeks he was in the band.

Martin Barre used Strats and Strattish things quite a lot here and there on the Tull repertoire though. As much as I love them, which I do, I'd never call Tull heavy metal, despite what the Grammies thought back in '89.

I actually prefer single coils for metallish things these days - never really saw the point in taking a big, midrange heavy humbucker then sucking all the mids out of it when you can start with something which doesn't have those mids in the first place and just use a bit more woof from the amp.