Bought it a day ago for a 10, just also got an acoustic g120h for 50. Playing it using a Jagmaster through the Acoustic head with a whole made 1x12 cab. I am not an expert when it comes to metal tones as I play blues, fusion, classic rock, classical occasionally metal of differing types, but it my opinion it sounds pretty convincing. I can't complain, for what I paid. You can get a heavy djent sound and the 'scooped' sound. It has eqs so you can sculpt a metal sound to your liking. The eq knobs are stacked the up eqs are higher freq while the lower half of the knobs are lower freq. You also have the usual gain and level knob. I feel it does it's job, tone purist may snub it but I have heard far worse distortion. It can sound bad as any pedal can if it is set up wrong, has inadequate power or is in your signal chain in the wrong place.