hey guys, I wanna know more about actually writing chord progressions for guitar. I know about writing standard I-IV-V-I kind of major/minor triad chord progressions, but doing this on the guitar sound kind of... how do you put it... gay. The problem is that there's way too much of an aural effect on major minor chords, that is to say that whole thing about major chords sounding happy and minor chords sounding sad. I listen to mainly metal, and I want to write some really 'hard' chord progressions to put solos over, without so much of an emotional effect (but a kind of gloomy/evil/heavy aura would be quite nice).

Also, I'm pretty tired of this whole 'power chord' buisness. Anyone got some good alternatives for this over-used chord? I like the inversion with the fifth on the top, it sounds very 'evil.' Anybody know anything like that?

Thanks alot!