List of Bands that use 8 String Guitars!

Bands that use 8 String Guitars

Are you looking for a little eight string inspiration for your playing? One of the best ways to learn the 8 string guitar is to listen to your heroes and to emulate their playing. During this learning process, you will also begin to develop a unique style that is all your own and may even inspire others!

Below is an alphabetical list of bands that use 8 string guitars in some or all of their playing:

♦ All Shall Perish

♦ Anchorhead

♦ Animals as Leaders

♦ Asesino

♦ Brujeria

♦ Charlie Hunter

♦ Chimp Spanner

♦ Cry for Silence

♦ Deftones

♦ Divine Heresy

♦ Fear Factory

♦ Fredrick Thordendale’s Special Defects

♦ GWAR

♦ Ion Dissonance

♦ Kieth Merrow

♦ Meshuggah

♦ Monuments

♦ Muffgoat

♦ Out World

♦ PDP

♦ Periphery

♦ Portals

♦ Rusty Cooly

♦ RXYZYXR

♦ Scale the Summit

♦ Scar Symmetry

♦ Tesseract

♦ The Acacia Strain

♦ The Special Purpose

♦ Torror House

♦ Unearth

♦ Uneven Structure

♦ Vildhjarta

♦ Volumes

♦ War from a Harlots Mouth

♦ We are the Illusion

♦ Whitechapel

Have some other bands that we should add to the list? Leave a comment below and we’ll get them added to the list of bands that use 8 string guitars!