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Listen: Down Premiere New Song, "We Knew Him Well"

Posted 03/17/2014 at 3:28pm | by Guitar World Staff

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Down have premiered a new song, "We Knew Him Well," and you can check it out below. The track is from their upcoming EP, Down IV Part Two, which will be released May 12 via Roadrunner Records.

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Gus G Releases Track-by-Track Preview Video for New Album, 'I Am the Fire'

Posted 03/17/2014 at 11:58am | by Guitar World Staff

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Ozzy Osbourne/Firewind guitarist Gus G has posted a new track track-by-track preview video for his upcoming solo album, I Am The Fire. The album will be released tomorrow, March 18, via Century Media Records. The video, which you can check out below, features clips of every album track plus an exclusive interview with Gus G.

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Zakk Wylde's Pelham Blue Bullseye Gibson Les Paul Custom Guitar Stolen from Tour Bus

Posted 03/17/2014 at 11:11am | by Guitar World Staff

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This past Friday night, a custom-made, $10,000 Pelham Blue Bullseye Gibson Les Paul Custom was stolen from Zakk Wylde's tour bus outside the Chicago Theatre. Wylde, the Black Label Society frontman, was in town as part of the Experience Hendrix Tour, which also features Buddy Guy, Jonny Lang and more.

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Video: Metallica Perform New Song, "The Lords of Summer," in Bogotá, Colombia

Posted 03/17/2014 at 10:30am | by Guitar World Staff

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Metallica performed a new song, the eight-minute-long "The Lords of Summer," in Bogotá, Colombia, Sunday night. It represents the band's first new original song since the tracks found on their 2012 EP, Beyond Magnetic.

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Metallica to Premiere New Song in South America this Weekend

Posted 03/14/2014 at 4:37pm | by Guitar World Staff

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Earlier today, the band posted a photo, which you can check out below, to their Facebook page, along with the caption: “Working out the kinks in the new song that we’ll be debuting in South America in a couple days.”

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Video: Sample Guitar World's New 'Rock Guitar 101' DVD with Andy Aledort

Posted 03/14/2014 at 4:14pm | by Guitar World Staff

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The Rock Guitar 101 DVD is available now at the Guitar World Online Store for $14.99. Rock Guitar 101 is an incredible one-stop DVD providing over 70 minutes of instruction on all the basic skills you need to play rock guitar.

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The Ultra Zone: Steve Vai's Course In Ear Training, Part 2

Posted 03/13/2014 at 1:38pm | by Steve Vai

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GuitaWorld.com is revisiting Steve Vai's classic mag column, "The Ultra Zone," for this crash course in ear training. As I mentioned last time, a valuable method of training your ear is to practice singing the notes that you play on the guitar. I’d like to elaborate on this fun approach and offer you some specific advice on how to go about doing this on your own.

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Gene Simmons Talks About Setting His Hair on Fire and Convincing Eddie Van Halen Not to Join Kiss

Posted 03/13/2014 at 12:44pm | by Richard Bienstock

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Rock and Roll Hall Nite: In celebration of their upcoming Hall of Fame induction, Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons take off the makeup for a pair of revealing interviews about their 40 years in Kiss.

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Guitar World's 10 Essential Classic Metal Albums

Posted 03/13/2014 at 12:16pm | by Dan Epstein

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This list of Guitar World's 10 essential classic metal albums is part of a much larger feature — Guitar World's 100 Essential Guitar Albums — much of which you'll be seeing in the weeks ahead.

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Wild Stringdom with John Petrucci: Recognizing Repetitive Fretboard Shapes on All String Groups

Posted 03/13/2014 at 11:19am | by John Petrucci

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Hello, and welcome to my new Guitar World instructional column. In the coming months, I’ll share with you some of the guitar-playing concepts and approaches that have helped me develop my technique and overall playing style. I’d like to start off with an examination of ascending scalar shapes that, by design, cover the majority of the fretboard.

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