B Tuning or B Standard Tuning is the standard tuning for a seven string guitar, where the strings are tuned B-E-A-D-G-B-E. B tuning can also be achieved on a six string guitar, when the strings are tuned B-E-A-D-F♯-B, known then as Baritone Tuning. This tuning is popular among several different types of metal bands.
The following is a list of musical groups who use this tuning on a typical six-string guitar:
Aborted
The Absence
Aeon (7 string guitars)
Aghora (7 string guitars) (on the album Aghora (album))
Allegaeon (7 string guitars)
All Shall Perish
Amon Amarth (on most albums)
Anacrusis
Anal Cunt
Anathema (This tuning and Drop A were used in on all albums until We're Here Because We're Here, where some songs are in C tuning, which became the band's primary tuning along with drop B-flat.)
Angel Vivaldi (7 string guitars)
Animals as Leaders (On most of their first album, 7-string guitars)
Arch Enemy (albums: Black Earth, Stigmata and Burning Bridges)
Arcturus on the album The Sham Mirrors
At the Gates
Attack Attack! on the album self-titled Album
Audioslave
Augury
Avatar (from Black Waltz onwards)
Bal-Sagoth
Biomechanical (7 string guitars) on the album Cannibalised
Black Label Society On "13 Years of Grief" from the album Stronger Than Death
Bleed From Within
Bloodbath
Blood Has Been Shed
Blood Red Throne on the album Altered Genesis
Bongzilla
Brutart
Cannibal Corpse (7 string guitars)
Carpathian
Carach Angren
Cavalera Conspiracy (on the album Blunt Force Trauma and some songs on the album Inflikted)
Carajo (B flat tuning)
Carcass
Cathedral on the albums Forest of Equilibrium, The Ethereal Mirror, Statik Majik, and The Garden of Unearthly Delights (album)
Cephalic Carnage
Coal Chamber (BEADGB, although some songs are dropped to A)
Coheed and Cambria (Key Entity Extraction II: Hollywood the Cracked, Key Entity Extraction V: Sentry the Defiant)
Crowbar
Cryptopsy
Dave Matthews Band (On "You Never Know")
Despised Icon
Devourment
Dismember
Divine Heresy (7 string guitars)
DragonForce (7 string guitars)
Dream Theater (7 string guitars) (used on many songs, including "Lie", "Caught in a Web" and "The Mirror" from Awake; the 1994 version of "To Live Forever"; "A Change of Seasons"; "Just Let Me Breathe" from Falling into Infinity; "Scene Seven: I. The Dance of Eternity" from Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory, and most songs from the Twelve-step Suite)
Edenbridge (on their first five albums)
Edge Of Sanity
Electric Wizard on the album Dopethrone
Eluveitie (on most songs)
Emperor on the album Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire & Demise
Entombed (on their album Left Hand Path)
Epica on all albums except the Phantom Agony (D tuning) and Consign to Oblivion (C tuning (D-flat tuning on the songs, "the Last Crusade", "Blank Infinity", and "Another Me in Lack'ech"))
Exhumed
Fallujah (7 string guitars)
Fear Factory (used B on a six-string prior to Dino Cazares' 1995 switch to Ibanez, from whom he began 7-string guitars.)
Five Finger Death Punch
Fleshgod Apocalypse
Godflesh (on the Streetcleaner album, and on a 7-string on Us and Them and Hymns)
Grave
Graveworm
Hunting Humans
Hypocrisy (On all albums up until Virus, from which they use A# Standard and on all albums after)
I Killed The Prom Queen
Illdisposed (All albums up until Burn Me Wicked)
Iron Monkey
Jungle Rot
Kataklysm
Kingdom of Sorrow
King's X (on the album Black Like Sunday)
Kenn Nardi
Lacuna Coil (7 string guitars)
Lead Belly was rumored to use this tuning in a 12-string variation.
Linkin Park (on the song "Runaway" from 2003 concerts, but it was originally recorded on standard tuned 7-string guitars.)
Massacre (on Back from Beyond)
Mnemic
The Monolith Deathcult
MyChildren MyBride
Negură Bunget (7 string guitars)
Nekrogoblikon (7 string guitars)
Novembre
Oomph!
Otto Mann
Pelican
Pomegranate Tiger (7 string guitars)
Pro-Pain
Profiles in Terror (7 string guitar and 6 guitar B tuned)
Raintime (7 string guitars)
Satariel (7 string guitars)
Scar Symmetry (7 string guitars, on Symmetric in Design and Pitch Black Progress; have since switched to Drop A tuning)
Seventh Void
Sepultura (from Roots onward)
Skinless
Shadow Over Innsmouth
Slipknot
Soilwork
Soulfly
Spawn of Possession (6 & 7 string guitars; Jonas Bryssling plays a 6 string, while Jonas Karlsson and Christian Muenzner's parts are written for 7 strings)
Spineshank
Stencher
Steve Vai (7 string guitars)
Sun Caged (7 string guitars)
Textures (7 string guitars)
Theory of a Deadman (on their song "No Surprise" and recent live performances of "Bad Girlfriend")
The Project Hate MCMXCIX
The Gazette
Trivium (7 string guitars, on some songs from The Crusade and all songs on Shogun)
Type O Negative
Underoath (on some songs from Ø (Disambiguation))
Unearth (7 string guitars)
Universum
Unleashed
Vehemence
Warning
Whitechapel (7 string guitars, only on a few songs)
Winterfylleth (also use Drop A)
Within Temptation (lead guitarist Ruud Jolie uses 7 string guitars, while Robert Westerholt downtunes a six-string to B)
Yanomamo
