Is the PRS Custom 24 SE good for metal?

Hello,
I've never owned a PRS and now looking around for one. I really love the looking of them, and people said the finish and playability are also good. The clean and lead tone are good from what I see on Youtube. I just wonder if they are ok for metal play? (I just like the Custom form, don't like the 245/Tremonti ones)
Questions for both:
- Normal PRS SE Custom 24 with 85/15 "S" humbuckers
- 35th Anniversary ones with TCI "S" humbuckers
For the comparison, now I have a LP copy with Seymour Duncan 59/JB pickups which sounds nice. The JB pickups is good enough for my metal rhythm
And I don't have any guitar shop near my area to check by myself. I would buy it online

Thanks much,
B

It works for Opeth....so why not?!

Those pickups wouldn't be my first choice but they'll still do fine with the right amp. They're good overall guitars so if you like them is say go for it.

IIRC Metallica used the producers 50's tele on the black album,,,,,so you'll be ok

I bought a Custom 24 in 1995 thinking it would be the ideal blues/jazz/classic rock guitar for the band I was in at the time. I was disappointed. I could never get it to sound right in that context. It took me 15 years of owning that guitar before I figured it out.

Go back to 1986. Fender and Gibson were pretty much nowhere. Kramer was the biggest selling manufacturer, and all you saw on MTV were Ibanez, Jackson, Charvel, ESP, and BC Rich guitars. THAT is what the Cu24 was born into, and in my opinion, was born to compete with. At its heart, the Cu24 is a Superstrat Shredder, just without the Floyd.

The more recent models have tamed down pickups, but the original HFS/VB set into a Mesa/Boogie Mark series is a thing of Hair Metal beauty. OP, it might take a pickup swap, but yes, your PRS can do metal.

Absolutely yes. As others have said... Opeth! But, also a PRS SE is what my friend uses to record his death/extreme death metal project

They can jazz. So yes, they can metal.

Mark Holcombe from Periphery uses a PRS, as do Opeth. Of course, Tremont as well.

IMO any quitar can be used for metal, and I've seen pretty much all of them used for this, in one way or another, over the years. OK, its more noise rock, but Chris Spencer from Unsane has used Teles for decades, including ones with that b-bend thingy, so anything is possible.

I have a S2 Standard 24 Satin I use for metal, as well as other styles. I've also seen a guy on YT using the same guitar for black metal.

In my view everyone tries to use what other people are using: personally, I think its best to use what works for you, and make it work for the style you want to play. It will help give you your own identity.

Personally, I think it has more to do with the player than the guitar.

I mean put the JB in and it will definitely do metal.

In my view everyone tries to use what other people are using: personally, I think its best to use what works for you, and make it work for the style you want to play. It will help give you your own identity.

I mean put the JB in and it will definitely do metal.

My SE Custom 24 is almost exclusively a metal guitar. Had it tuned to drop-B last week, in fact!
Mine had the SE version of the HFS/Vintage Bass set, which I changed for the USA versions a few years ago - the HFS in the bridge puts me in mind of a JB quite often, and the SE pickup wasn't a million miles away from the USA version, being totally honest.
Get some locking tuners and let rip, I say.

I think the PRS SE HFS (Hot Fat Screams!) pickups are very good quality and stack up competitively against the after-market Seymour Duncans in many of my guitars. I think they’re awesome, hot pups that work great for rock and can definitely do metal. Maybe not ideal for 60’s / 70’s rock. Also they’re pretty decent split coil. Not vintage strat tones by any means, but get the job done in a pinch.

I bought a se standard 24 the other day. Cheapest POS ever. They really **** the bed with the move to cor-tek imo.

FWIW The only differences between the standard & custom is a maple cap, veneer, gig bag, and $400.

Buy a used Korean model.

It's got dual humbuckers and 24 frets, so.... no. Absolutely not.