Quote Originally Posted by Jimi75 View Post
To be honest, I've never seen someone play palm muted powerchords with alternate picking. As long as you are not playing high speed paml muting like for modern Metal, you can easily downstroke your chords which also sounds much better.
Ahh, but that is precisely what I'm trying to do. I've been watching some videos to try and figure out if these fast metal chugs are alt-picking but they're so fast I can't tell! :-)