Dear Guitar Hero: Michael Schenker Talks Scorpions, Influences, Early Gear, Gibson Flying V's and More —with Video By Guitar World Staff last updated 4 November 22
Nile’s Karl Sanders talks new guitar partnerships, the key to heaviness and what all tech-metal bands can learn from The Beatles By Jonathan Horsley last updated 28 October 22 Sanders has composed some of death-metal’s most pulverizing arrangements, but “people go ridiculously nuts over” his most simple songs
How the Stars Aligned for A Perfect Circle and Their New Album, 'Eat the Elephant' By Jon Wiederhorn last updated 6 September 22
Hero's End: Judas Priest Legend Glenn Tipton Speaks Candidly About His Struggle with Parkinson's Disease By Jon Wiederhorn last updated 6 September 22
August Burns Red's JB Brubaker and Brent Rambler Talk New Album, 'Phantom Anthem' By Jon Wiederhorn last updated 6 September 22
Eddie Van Halen revisits Van Halen's landmark '1984' album By Chris Gill published 6 October 20 EVH tells GW how Van Halen's Diamond-certified blockbuster came to be
Stevie Ray Vaughan opens up in his first Guitar World interview from 1984 By Bill Milkowski published 27 August 20 "He doesn't go in for the leather-and-studs macho posturing of popular heavy metal bands and he's not particularly adept at crowd manipulation as many of the top rock bands are"
*repeat repeat's Jared Corder: "College only offered jazz or classical guitar, and the guys in classical were all metalheads, so I chose that" By Mark McStea published 31 January 20 The guitar playing half of the US-based duo talks Glazed, *repeat repeat’s guitar-packed (and catchy-as-hell) new album
Dylan LeBlanc: "Certain guitar moments can sound like poetry if you get ’em right" By Joe Bosso published 29 January 20 The American guitarist and singer-songwriter on the influence of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers on his writing style
Turkish metal guitarist Demir Demirkan on how writing in English shaped his latest album, Elysium in Ashes By Jeff Kitts published 27 January 20 The hard-rocking shredder by way of Istanbul looking to make a name for himself on American Shores
Stephane Wrembel: "When you cut out string noise, you’re left without the physical aspect of what a musician does" By Joe Bosso published 8 January 20 Stephane Wrembel’s annual The Django Experiment albums are mind-blowing odes to the music, legacy and influence of the late, great Django Reinhardt
Sam Kiszka: hard rock is alive with Greta Van Fleet By Freddy Villano published 8 January 20 The fast-rising band's bassist talks influences, gear and what he thinks of those Led Zeppelin comparisons
Tim Commerford: "My tone is always a work in progress, and the stage is my laboratory" By Jon D’Auria published 8 January 20 The Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave bassist talks Prophets of Rage, songwriting and his practice regimen
Guthrie Govan: "I don’t see how it’s possible to have too much technique or knowledge" By Joe Bosso published 16 December 19 He of the mad, mad skills talks dinosaurs, blind alleys and the Aristocrats’ quirky-as-hell new album, You Know What...?
Laura Cox on being a leftie playing right-handed and why she'd take a high-end Epiphone over a cheap Gibson By Jonathan Horsley published 16 December 19 The maverick French hard-rocker talks Burning Bright, chicken pickin’ and why the YouTube comments section is not as terrifying as being onstage for the first time
Stone Sour's Josh Rand on how he changed from bass to guitar by accident and what's next for the band By Amit Sharma published 13 December 19 The hard-rock guitarist gives GW the lowdown on the group's surprise live album Hello, You Bastards: Live in Reno
Joe Bonamassa: "It’s easy to play marginally good blues. It’s very difficult to play great blues" By Richard Bienstock published 13 December 19 The best living blues guitarist - as voted by you - shares soloing advice and the inside scoop on his next album
Gov't Mule's Warren Haynes: "When I switch to my ’59 Les Paul, there’s something magical there that you just can’t replicate" By Mark McStea published 10 December 19 Warren Haynes dishes on how he's kept Gov't Mule together for 25 years, and offers an interesting take on the regime of self-improvement as a guitarist
Christone 'Kingfish' Ingram: “I can’t be the kid wonder forever” By Alan Paul published 10 December 19 Christone 'Kingfish' Ingram is the future of the blues. Here, he discusses his fiery debut album
The Underground Thieves' Nick Perri on ignoring directives from Eddie Van Halen, and why he's more satisfied with his tone than ever before By Jeff Kitts published 6 December 19 The former Silvertide man discusses his new band, and how he learned to stop worrying and love a simple guitar rig