Editing Eight-string guitar (section)

===Metal===
The eight-string guitar is used by modern [[heavy metal music|heavy metal]] guitarists such as [[Fredrik Thordendal]] and [[Mårten Hagström]] of [[Meshuggah]], [[Dino Cazares]] of [[Fear Factory]], [[Stephen Carpenter]] of [[Deftones]], Greg Burgess of [[Allegaeon]], Simon Girard and Kevin Chartré of [[Beyond Creation]], Justin Lowe and Trent Hafdahl of [[After the Burial]], Josh Travis of [[Emmure]] (ex-[[The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza]] and ex-[[Glass Cloud]]), Per Nilsson of [[Scar Symmetry]] and Meshuggah as a touring member and others. The instrument is particularly associated with the “[[djent]]” sound popularized by Meshuggah, [[Vildhjarta]], and [[Periphery (band)|Periphery]], among others.

[[Tosin Abasi]] and Javier Reyes of [[Animals as Leaders]] primarily use a drop-E tuning (where the lowest string matches the E1 on a standard-tuned bass guitar) and incorporate "thumping," an adaptation of different bass guitar techniques — the term blankets all sorts of possible note groupings, but primary influences include a style á la funk bassist [[Larry Graham]] and [[Victor Wooten]]'s double thumping technique — as well as harp-like arpeggios extending across the full range of the instrument.

[[Ihsahn]] of the [[black metal]] band [[Emperor (Norwegian band)|Emperor]] began playing [[seven-string guitar]] in 1999 and first played eight-string guitar on his 2010 album ''[[After (Ihsahn album)|After]]''.

[[Rusty Cooley]] tunes his eight-string guitar like a standard six-string expanded in both directions. This tuning offers both deeper bass tones than a conventional guitar and extended range in the higher register for lead melodies.

Guitarist [[Justin Broadrick]] of the English industrial metal band [[Godflesh]] introduced his eight-string playing on the 2014 Godflesh EP ''[[Decline & Fall (EP)|Decline & Fall]]''.

Guitarists Lucas Mann and Joel Omans from the [[technical deathcore]] band [[Rings of Saturn (band)|Rings of Saturn]] also use eight-string guitars, with Mann primarily making use of a nine-string guitar for the band's 2019 album [[Gidim (album)|Gidim]]. Miles Dimitri Baker, one of their former members, also used one.

Chris Andrews of the [[death metal]] band [[Devourment]] uses eight-string guitars, starting with the album ''Obscene Majesty''.

[[John Petrucci]] of [[progressive metal]] band [[Dream Theater]] plays an eight-string guitar on the song "Awaken the Master", from Dream Theater's 2021 album ''[[A View from the Top of the World]]''.