Awesome guitar recording! Absolutely brutal. Love it! Impressed by the quality of the production. What's you recipe for such a sound?
Good question..the recipe..well let me try to answer that:
As an Amp I use a EVH 5150 III profile on my Kemper Amp.
Bass Amp is an Ampeg SVT Blueline.
Guitar is a Jackson Randy Rhoads Custom (Seymour Duncan Bridge Pickup)
Bass Guitar is Ibanez BTB 06 LTD with active pickups, I think they are stock.
Mic is a SE Electronics 2200 going into a distressor into my UAD Apollo Twin device.
Drums are a mix of perfect drums, but there I am mainly using the Cymbals. The shells are a bit mixed from indy libraries. I performed the drums over my midi controller, well lets most of the time.
Keys are all over the place, part of it from my Ensoniq TS 12, but also some synth plugins. Nothing really super special I would say.
I think the performance, mix and production is a lot what makes the sound in the end. So..yeah, using eq, using rooms, delays, compression etc. I think most time I spent for the guitar sounds here, as I wanted really some buttkicker guitar sound but without a quadtracked approach, so there are just one guitar left, one right.
I think also that it helps to have reference sounds, so in my case I am having quite a couple references which I like and I think: Ok from this reference I like the drums sound and from the other I think the guitar sound is something for me and so on. I am afraid, this production is just a result of many years mixing experience. I mean its not the first song in that genre I mix, so, in any case you have more specific question, then let me know. Good referencs are old Dimmu Recordings for instance.