Cradle of Filth, Hatebreed, Bring Me the Horizon, First Signs of Frost, Dismember, Dethklok, Suffocation (on Effigy of the Forgotten), Immolation, Hypocrisy (1992-1997), High on Fire, Cold, Dream Theater, Arch Enemy (since the Angela Gossow era), Entombed, Amaranthe, Nails, Nekrofilth, Cataract, Porcupine Tree on the songs Anesthetize, Way Out of Here and Cheating the Polygraph, and The Smashing Pumpkins.B tuning - B-E-A-D-G-B / B-E-A-D-F-BTwo and a half steps down from standard tuning. Used in Swedish death metal by bands such as At The Gates, Dismember, Hypocrisy (1994-2004), Edge of Sanity, Entombed (on Left Hand Path), Amon Amarth, and Arch Enemy (during the Johan Liiva era), as well as Fear Factory (first two albums before Dino Cazares switched to 7-string guitars), Carcass, Type O Negative, Cathedral, John Prine (on live performances of "Fish and Whistle" from 1998 to 2020), Seventh Void, Five Finger Death Punch, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Sepultura, Soulfly, Within Temptation, Hatebreed, Triptykon (as well as Celtic Frost's last album Monotheist), and guitarist Kirk Windstein of Crowbar, Kingdom of Sorrow and Linkin Park on the songs "With You" and "Runaway" from Hybrid Theory.A/B tuning - A-D-G-C-F-A / B-E-A-D-F-BThree full steps from standard tuning. Used by Adema, Hypocrisy (since Virus), Dream Theater on some songs with baritone guitars, Arch Enemy (on some songs), The Black, Boris, Cannibal Corpse, Linkin Park (A#D#G#C#F#A#) on the songs "Somewhere I Belong" and "Easier to Run" from Meteora (both songs performed live in Eb standard), Morbid Angel (on several songs starting with their album Covenant), Father Befouled, Sepultura, Jeff Hanneman of Slayer (on "Here Comes the Pain" from God Hates Us All and "Not of This God" from World Painted Blood. Kerry King used a 7-string for those songs), American Head Charge,Nickelback (on "This Means War" and "Gotta Get Me Some" from Here and Now) and Nevermore (when band switched to seven strings, though a six-string acoustic in this tuning was used on the song "A Future Uncertain").A tuning - A-D-G-C-E-A Three and a half steps down from standard tuning. Used by Demilich, Soulfly, Themes, Taproot, Xibalba, Yob, Wind Rose, John Prine (on live performances of "Quiet Man" from 1998 to 2020), Dream Theater on some songs with baritone guitars, Hypocrisy (on Osculum Obscenum and the song "Buried"), Bolt Thrower (on Realm of Chaos album), Dystopia, Arch Enemy on a few songs and on live performances of A tuned songs and their cover of "Symphony of Destruction".