Its funny how the "Bunch of lil shredder wanna be metal posers" have a more expanded respect for music than you do. Good you think some failed punk band from the 80's 90's is "style". That don't mean all other music sucks, Face it your just a punk with no real musical knowledge. You try and get by with your crappy off beat riffs, and that makes you think you're superior to everyone who has ever uttered the word axe. All of these metal heads have a vastly larger musical knowledge than you, and that just puts your panties in a twist.
I figure that you just can't get that sweep picking technique thats used largely in metal down, that pisses you off and you immediately dismiss it as "shredding" and associate that with the word axe.
Here is a tidbit of info for you pertaining to how ax came to be a musical term, and no it wasn't some metal head shredding his guitar calling it that, no it wasn't KISS with their axe guitar.
The use of axe as slang for a musical instrument dates back to 1955, i.e., in the edenic pre-Kiss days. The instrument to which axe was first applied, however, was not the guitar, but the saxophone. The logic may have been simply the sax/axe rhyme, but another theory ties axe to the swing of a jazz sax player in full stride. Axe was also later applied to the trumpet before becoming accepted as slang for the guitar, a use which has probably persisted in part because of the instruments resemblance to an actual axe.
It was used as a term pre-metal, and will continue to be used as a term for as long as music stays alive; which you seem to be killing it, please stop.
That being said, I'm gonna go jam out some jazz riffs on my "AXE"
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