Amit Sharma

The Tedeschi Trucks Band’s resident slide master on how David Gilmour stamped his musical identity all over Pink Floyd’s earliest recordings, and why no one can replicate it

Few have done more to expand the popularity of the extended-range electric guitar. Here, Hagström and Abasi talk techniques, tones, and epiphanies, and have some advice for guitarists looking to expand their repertoire beyond six strings

The latter-day prog rock superstar tells us how he first came to hear the 1973 Pink Floyd classic, and what makes David Gilmour a player beyond compare

The Trivium frontman discusses his new signature Epiphone Les Paul Custom Origins series, explains how Ihsahn empowered him to subvert black metal, and teases more signature gear...

These budget electric guitars offer fantastic tone and great playability, all within a more wallet-friendly price range

The Scottish bruisers' new album, Shrine, is a vulgar display of pyrotechnic metal guitar, all recorded with plugins. Here the twin-guitar tag team pick us off the canvas and explain why

The virtuoso's virtuoso on his supergroup's unexpected orchestral collaboration, and his continued sonic experiments with the legendary composer

Méndez explains how the pandemic gave his new project White Stones some room to expand, and talks signature Sandbergs and the serious business of picking the right note

How to find the perfect Fender Strat for you

Figure out which is the best Telecaster for you - we pay homage to Fender's iconic electric guitar

Get them something to remember with our pick of the best guitars, accessories, and gadgets for every budget

Tom S. Englund and Henrik Danhage on the liberal writing process behind their new album, and what the pickups in Danhage's new Charvel signature and Caitlyn Jenner at the Olympics have in common

The Quicksand bassist reveals why his time with the alt-metal titans had run its course, and details his plans to work with guest musicians including Every Time I Die's Keith Buckley

Ghost’s Impera is a feast of multi-layered guitars and big melodies, and Tobias Forge couldn’t do it alone – when he hired Åkesson, it made for one of the guitar records of the year

No lyrics, no problem. These are the instrumental guitar trailblazers you need to listen to now, and some of them were even good enough to share their advice...

From studio headphones and noise cancelling cans, to headphones that ARE the amp - these are the best headphones for guitarists, from Boss, Audio-Technica and others

Inspired by ABBA and ’80s hair metal, the new Ghost album is a modern rock masterpiece. In this track-by-track interview, Forge reveals how he did it – and why he needed a better guitarist than himself for the solos...

Ahead of the release of his band's new album, Order Out of Chaos, the guitarist discusses his unique picking method, balancing theory with freedom and how he adjusted his technique to forge his guitar path

Guitarists Harvey Geraghty and Itay Shachar wax lyrical on the stompboxes that fuel the tones on their self-produced and self-recorded debut, SongBook

The Northern Irish blues-rocker talks taking on one of rock's biggest gigs, shaking up his tones on new album The Fighter, and the one thing every guitarist needs to consider when writing guitar solos

Masters of the seven-string, architects of nu-metal, Korn return with Requiem, and guitarists Munky and Head are still finding new ways to play heavy...

The Behemoth frontman walks through the gear behind the necro tones on the Polish extremists' latest face-ripper, In Absentia Dei

He plays heavy with Black Label Society and Ozzy, but Zakk Wylde is inspired by the emotion in blues and “pentatonic insanity” of jazz fusion

With Bettencourt, Marty Friedman, Alex Skolnick and Cradle of Filth’s Richard Shaw onboard, Goodman went to town on one of the most cinematic and trippy guitar albums in recent years

We take a closer look at a shredder’s dozen from the Japanese guitar giant’s eye-catching 50th anniversary range