Jon Wiederhorn

The UK got its guitar mojo back in the ’90s with a new generation of rock and indie bands. This is the story of how it all got consumed by the rivalry between Blur and Oasis, and the catch-all category of Britpop

The original “Sinner” takes you behind the scenes of his dramas in and out of Priest and their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction – and why his turbo-charged new album is “about the fight and the victory”

With Broderick's virtuoso seven-string dovetailing with Gelotte's downtuned six-string, Foregone is the sound of In Flames taking their sound faster, heavier, and wherever the ideas took them

Hunt-Hendrix thinks of Liturgy as “orchestral music created with the tools of a metal band“, and with violin-inspired guitar parts and avant-garde classical influences, she’s more than nailed the brief

Is it a reunion or a tribute? If you ask Zakk, it’s simply a celebration of the music, spirit and legacy of his fallen brother. In this exclusive interview, he shares his fondest memories of Dimebag Darrell and reveals the challenges of mastering his iconic guitar parts

“They said I ruined the band”: Michael Amott looks back on his days with Carcass and recounts the creation of Arch Enemy’s explosive new album, Deceivers

The NJ modern masters of psychedelia want to take you on a cosmic, riff-packed joy ride, with Johnny Scarps as your six-string guide

The Iowa bruise brothers of metal address the guitar with contrasting styles, but as they explain here, they know what the other is about to do before they do themselves

Recorded live in the studio, Omens finds Morton and Adler tag-teaming on irresistible grooves, grist for the mosh-pit’s mill, and one of the standout metal guitar albums of 2022

The End, So Far was borne of depression and anxiety: it's the triumphant sound of the Iowa metal institution picking themselves off the canvas, turning the guitars up loud and digging in

Hagström takes you inside the Swedish extreme metal masters’ punishing new album, Immutable, and the triumphant return of co-founding guitarist Fredrik Thordendal

From the fastest song Megadeth have ever recorded, to calling in Ice-T for tactical support, Megadave goes track by track and unpacks the story behind the band's 16th studio album

In this exclusive interview, the state-of-the-art metal guitar duo unpack a story of sickness and recovery, and reveal how their opposing styles yielded some of the heaviest riffs and solos of the thrash titans' career

On September 26, 2021, while onstage with Judas Priest, Faulkner came incredibly close to dying. Miraculously, he’s here to tell the tale – and what a tale it is...

Some of the biggest names in guitar look back on the era of big solos and even bigger hair to share their favorite riffs, shredders and, yes, haircuts of the decade

Gary Holt on life after Slayer, making a triumphant return with Exodus on the ferocious Persona Non Grata, and why you'll reap the rewards if you record song ideas as you go

On their blazing new EP, Let the World Burn, Phil Demmel and co. capture the aggression of the thrash stalwarts’ early work

Lzzy Hale and Joe Hottinger on how dialing up the volume for the hard-rock therapeutical Back from the Dead roused them from pandemic inertia and restored their equilibrium

Servant of the Mind finds the Danish/American rock-metal stalwarts engage their mindset of the early days for an album of instinctive, heavy and therapeutic energy

The guitar icon unpacks the legacy of a band that helped define heavy metal as we know it, opens up on the rift with K.K. Downing and reveals how punk gave them a kick up the backside

The Swiss-American iconoclast on why he had to expand his sound beyond black metal and draw in influences from across underground music and beyond

Stylistically divergent – yet undoubtedly compatible – Mastodon guitarists Brent Hinds and Bill Kelliher unravel Hushed and Grim, the band’s first double album

The Pretty Reckless leader and guitarist Ben Phillips discuss how a series of tragedies left the band's future hanging in the balance, before they channeled their heartache to create their most powerful album to date, Death by Rock and Roll

The Metal God opens up about his Judas Priest exit and rebirth in KK's Priest, and explains why he is a Priest for life

A taste for the surreal sees the band dial down the freakouts for a hypnotic, krautrock-inspired sound