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Posted 09/29/2008 at 4:23pm | by Alan Di Perna

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Posted 09/29/2008 at 3:07pm | by Chris Gill

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As rivers rise and civilization falls, Slipknot guitarists Jim Root and Mick Thomson find a patch of dry land and talk about their group's apocalyptic new release, All Hope Is Gone.

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Posted 09/25/2008 at 4:48pm | by Alan Di Perna

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With his brand-new signature model Randall amplifier, Kirk Hammett makes the key amp tones from his career available to guitarists everywhere. In this GW exclusive, the Metallica axman tells how Randall’s engineers did right by his collection of vintage amps.

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Posted 09/23/2008 at 5:56pm | by John Petrucci

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In this personal lesson, John Petrucci celebrates the forthcoming Dream Theater retrospective and shares the tips, tricks and techniques that helped him ascend to the prog-metal pantheon.

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