Greek power metal band Firewind have just released a music video for their new song, "Wall of Sound," which can be seen below.

Zakk Wylde's new book, Bringing Metal to the Children: The Complete Berzerker's Guide to World Tour Domination, is out next month. Proving that the title to his book is quite literal, Zakk recently took part in a special video aimed at helping adults be more effective communicators with groups of children, particularly during story time. Check out the video below.

Hello there! Welcome to my first Guitar World column. I'm looking forward to sharing with you in these pages my thoughts on playing, equipment and the music business. Actually, this isn't the first time I've written a column — I used to do one many years ago for an English music magazine called Beat Instrumental. I did it for about eight months and it was great fun, and I'm sure this one will be too.

A week from today marks the 30th anniversary of the untimely death of guitarist Randy Rhoads, who tragically perished in a plane crash at the age of 25.