Gregory Adams

Gregory Adams

Gregory Adams is a Vancouver-based arts reporter. From metal legends to emerging pop icons to the best of the basement circuit, he’s interviewed musicians across countless genres for nearly two decades, most recently with Guitar World, Bass Player, Revolver, and more – as well as through his independent newsletter, Gut Feeling. This all still blows his mind. He’s a guitar player, generally bouncing hardcore riffs off his ’52 Tele reissue and a dinged-up SG.

Latest articles by Gregory Adams

Courtney Cox and Romana Kalkuhl of Burning Witches. Cox holds her slime green Caparison, while Kalkuhl has a yellow Jackson Soloist.
How former Iron Maidens shred icon Courtney Cox found her own identity bringing malevolent riffing to the coven of Burning Witches

By Gregory Adams Published

Burning Witches' new album finds co-founder and rhythm guitarist Romana Kalkuhl and Cox following in the great tradition of dovetailing guitars. As Kalkuhl sees it, it's a sisterhood of metal

Guitarists
Sammy Boller is photographed in front of some foliage with a red Gibson ES-335.
Fresh off his stint in the Goo Goo Dolls, Sammy Boller has a new EP – featuring two-handed tapping and an 8-string he borrowed from Tim Henson

By Gregory Adams Published

The Detroit instrumentalist phenom's new solo EP comes straight from the heart, with wide-range dynamics and Boller's typically audacious style

Guitarists
Big Wreck's Ian Thornley pictured with his trusty Suhr electric guitar
Big Wreck’s Ian Thornley on channeling Eric Johnson and Steve Morse – and why he’s called a guitar the “Jungle Gym”

By Gregory Adams Published

Cutting loose on his Suhr electrics, Ian Thornley is officially enjoying himself on the Canadian rockers latest LP, The Rest of the Story. He discusses his intro to metal, pinch harmonics, and wrestling with producers

Guitarists
Troy Van Leeuwen and Josh Homme of QOTSA perform on Saturday Night Live with Will Ferrell on the cowbell.
From David Bowie going rogue to George Harrison x Paul Simon, EVH and SRV – the 50 greatest guitar moments in SNL history

By Gregory Adams Published

Saturday Night Live has presented some of pop-culture's most iconic moments in musical history. We document its legacy in guitar

Guitarists
Wolfgang Van Halen leans against a gas pump at a desert service station during golden hour. He is holding his signature EVH semi-hollow and wearing a leather jacket.
Anxiety, wildfires, slap guitar… How Wolfgang Van Halen made the monster guitar album of 2025

By Gregory Adams Published

With his third album (and a bit of his dad’s Frankenstein), Wolfgang Van Halen and Mammoth are taking the world of rock guitar by storm once again

Guitarists
Barry Stock of Three Days Grace performs at Circolo Magnolia on June 21, 2023 in Milan, Italy
Why Three Days Grace’s Barry Stock is embracing the Ibanez Iceman – and picking his trusty Quad Cortex over a 7-string

By Gregory Adams Published

Alienation finds Three Days Grace reinvented as a quintet, and exploring the destructive power of super-low tunings. Onstage, meanwhile, Stock has been having fun with a Porsche GT Silver-themed Ibanez...

Guitarists
Bass legends Steve DiGiorgio and Jeroen Paul Thesseling pose with their fretless basses in this promo pic for new fusion project Quadvium
Two legends of fretless bass, one whip-smart genius shredder – how a mind-blowing Testament x Pestilence fusion project came together

By Gregory Adams Published

When Steve DiGiorgio and Jeroen Paul Thesseling found Boston shredder Eve, they had found their ace in the hole. And she was a fretless bass player. Three on fretless!? DiGiorgio and Thesseling explain all

Bands
Greg Mackintosh plays his 7-string Habas live onstage with Paradise Lost, on a stage lit in pale blue and green lights.
Sleigh bells in doom metal? How Paradise Lost’s Greg Mackintosh is rewriting the gothic metal rulebook

By Gregory Adams Published

Ascension is another work of magisterial gothic doom from the English metal stalwarts, who are still chasing new ways to articulate melancholy in the infinite sadness

Guitarists
Colin Malony and Joe Reinhart of Algernon Cadwallaer
Yvette Young-backed emo icons Algernon Cadwallader are back – and as giddy and technically dazzling as ever

By Gregory Adams Published

Reunited double-lead guitarists Joe Reinhart and Colin Mahony on writing complex songs on drugs, the album’s secret ska song and connecting with next-gen rippers at Guitar Center

Guitarists
Laura Pleasants
Kylesa guitarist Laura Pleasants on stripping back her tones for trippy but sinewy post-punk solo project the Discussion

By Gregory Adams Published

All the Pretty Flowers presents a different side to Pleasants’ playing, stripping back her tones for trippy but sinewy post-punk

Guitarists
Mark Webber of Pulp performs on stage with a red Gibson ES-335 during day three of Leeds Festival at Bramham Park on August 28, 2011 in Leeds, United Kingdom
Pulp’s Mark Webber explains the happy accidents, thefts and uncontrollable pedals behind the Britpop indie icons’ guitar sound

By Gregory Adams Published

The fan-turned-bandmember on how More came about, why he’s glad four of his guitars were stolen, and why he’s retired the Crybaby from his pedalboard

Guitarists
Ty Segall headbangs as he performs live with a Fender Jazzmaster. He wears a purple Dr. Pepper T-shirt.
The true confessions of Ty Segall – his blasphemous SG mod, exploding a vintage Gibson and why a “dying dinosaur” fuzz is one of his holy grail pedals

By Gregory Adams Published

The always-surprising SoCal garage rocker talks fuzz, SG-based blasphemy and the peculiar benefits of not writing songs on guitar

Guitarists
Lari Basilio with her Ibanez lB-1 signature guitar in the studio.
Lari Basilio is finding redemption and joy in motherhood and guitar – and wants to share it with you

By Gregory Adams Published

The Brazilian instrumental phenom is on fire on Redemption, embracing her rock side and finding a new equilibrium as she plays for her biggest – and smallest – fan

Guitarists
Adam Hann plays his Ernie Ball Music Man John Petrucci signature model with the Jackson Pollock-inspired finish onstage with the 1975, as the band play Grant Park, Chicago, on the 2023 Lollapalooza tour.
“When it came out, going by the comments on our social media, people were like, ‘What is this?’” How The 1975’s Adam Hann took a “jokey heavy riff” and turned it into the band’s first proper rock song

By Jonathan Horsley Published

Hann looks back on the making of The 1975's sleazy, greasy protest anthem, People

Guitarists
Ty Segall performs at The Roundhouse on June 28, 2024 in London, England
That time Ty Segall accidentally smashed his beloved ’60s Gibson

By Janelle Borg Published

We’ve all got at least one broken gear anecdote, and if you think yours is a horror story, think again...

Guitarists
Josh Fore and Diamond Rowe of Tetrarch pose with their weapons of choice. Fore holds white ESP singlecut, while Rowe has her signature Monarkh from Jackson
Tetrarch on the joy of handing out signature models to their heroes and designing metal’s gnarliest tones

By Gregory Adams Published

The Ugly Side of Me is an utterly crushing exercise in 21st-century riffs and tones, and if you're wondering how they get these sounds, well, Josh Fore and Diamond Rowe take us behind the scenes and tell all

Guitarists
Diamond Rowe and Christian Andreu
That time Diamond Rowe saw her signature guitar on stage with one of her biggest influences

By Phil Weller Published

Fellow Jackson artist Christian Andreu took Rowe’s history-making axe for a trip with French metal heavyweights Gojira during their joint tour with Korn

Guitarists
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Pigs x7 on happy accidents, hip-hop collabs, and the riff that's so heavy they can't play it live

By Gregory Adams Published

Death Hilarious finds Pigs x7 in full-on destroy everything mode, splitting the atom with low-end guitar. As Sam Grant and Adam Ian Sykes admit, this sonic maximalism is not without risk

Guitarists
King Diamond and guitarist Andy La Rocque: The King is in his traditional stagewear, undertaker's hat, crossbones mic stand, totally morbid corpsepaint. La Rocque frets a chord on his signature ESP.
Andy La Rocque on why he is no longer a 120mph soloist – and we can expect from the long-awaited King Diamond album

By Gregory Adams Published

La Rocque has been the King's six-string courtier for 40 years now. Here he tells us how it all began, how his style has evolved, and yes, the new stuff is coming...

Guitarists
A black-and-white action shot of Sergeant Thunderhoof perform live: [from left] Mark Sayer, Dan Flitcroft, Jim Camp and Josh Gallop
Sergeant Thunderhoof may have toned down the self-indulgence, but their 10-minute epics still get medieval on your eardrums

By Gregory Adams Published

Guitarist Mark Sayer doesn't make it easy for himself – but we get the impression he wouldn't have it any other way

Guitarists
Mark Tremonti performs in Birmingham with his solo project, he is show from below on a stage lit up in orange and red and plays his PRS signature guitar.
Mark Tremonti on finding an outlet for his metal cravings and why nothing beats PRS and Dumble amps

By Gregory Adams Published

The busiest man in rock, metal and crooning checks in to talk solo speed metal adventure, big riffs, and update us on his up-coming pedal brand

Guitarists
Mark Tremonti is road-testing his highly anticipated pedal line on tour with Creed

By Jenna Scaramanga Published

Tremonti has shared an update on his pedal range, and touted five potential future releases

Effects & Pedals
Max Keyes of Spiral XP sits on top of the world—at least a sculpture of it. The picture is grayscale black-and-white and he plays an offset guitar.
Spiral XP’s Max Keyes on his unorthodox guitar education and the pursuit of fresh shoegaze sounds

By Gregory Adams Published

Open tunings, full-chord pitch bends and all kinds of weird tricks – and yet still Max Keyes is paranoid he might sound like his friends...

Guitarists
Dario Lorina poses with a Wylde Audio electric guitar
How Zakk Wylde’s sparring partner Dario Lorina started a new chapter – with the help of a holy grail Les Paul

By Gregory Adams Published

Dario Lorina – who has split Black Label Society’s guitar duties with Zakk Wylde since 2014 – delivers some serious fuel-injected moto-metal fury on Dark Chapel’s Spirit in the Glass

Guitarists
Jerry Cantrell poses with his Gibson Flying V. He wears a long black t-shirt and silver pants.
Jerry Cantrell opens up on his missing guitar fears, pushing beyond his limits – and why AI could never do AIC

By Gregory Adams Published

The Alice In Chains icon took his abilities to new heights on I Want Blood, chasing new tones, going hard with the riffs, and even digging out the bass guitar and getting coached by Duff McKagan

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