As far as Les Pauls go, the body style and tone are more classic and a bc rich warlock body style and tone would probably be exactly what im looking for considering that i play metal. I've looked into les pauls in the past and they are great for blues but not SOO great when distorted. They are great guitars but still a little too classic for me.

B. C. Riches I have heard sound gritty when clean cuz the pickups are soo tailerd to metal that playing anything but metal just doesent sound too good. That SG looks nice so I think im probalby going to go with either gibson or jackson.