Latest articles by Sam Roche
“It's only taken 40 years for me to have my own strings – come on!”
Monsters is taken from the band's latest release, The Way It Ends
The track is taken from the band's latest album, Pressure
The track is taken from the band's recently released EP, The Other Side
Try your hand at this quintessential hard-rocker
Guitarists Dallas Dwight and Drizzle Silvera crank the gain and unleash riffs worthy of the Aussie rock gods
The track is taken from the band's recently released debut album, Eden
The brutal track is taken from the band's 2019 album, The Sea of Tragic Beasts
The unbelievably affordable TE-20HH SBK boasts a basswood body, maple neck and all-over Satin Black finish
The new incarnation of the shred classic is made in Japan, and comes in Emerald Green and Fluorescent Orange finishes
Guitarist Sean Hynes takes you through the track's heavy hooks
Dave Vanderlinde teaches the yet-to-be-released track, which will feature on the band's upcoming EP
Is this the most masochistic guitar learning device ever conceived?
The battered offset was used by the guitarist on every single Ramones album, as well as at almost 2,000 of the band's shows between 1977 and 1996
A new A7X album is on the horizon, at last. While you wait, feast your eyes and ears on this killer Minor Swing-inspired acoustic performance
The eye-catching Type E sports a pair of hot-wound Duncan Solar Alnico VIIIs. “These guys really sing,” the former Phil Anselmo riff maestro says
Bring some fresh heat to your playlist with new, guitar-led tunes from Jared James Nichols, Kings of Chaos, Pomegranate Tiger, Nita Strauss, Theory of a Deadman, Sgt. Papers, koleżanka and more
The limited-edition six-string boasts Magnetic Field Design pickups and comes in two colorways each limited to 50 units worldwide
Meet a trio of bands with huge potential – delivering frenetic alternate picking, über-melodic chord runs, speaker-rattling feedback and the inevitable barrage of brutal riffs...
The Rush and Doors guitarists traded smooth Latin-inspired classic rock leads at a recent benefit concert in California
The software looks to be Positive Grid's answer to Neural DSP, featuring three amps spanning “heavenly cleans to visceral heavy tone”, plus synth and polyphonic octave effects
![[L-R] Marco Puglisi and Andy Gillion](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ma9eMcHUtMBk4aXHx8TPjk-840-80.jpg.webp)
The seven-minute shred marathon features on the 2019 Guitarist of the Year finalist's latest Syndrone full-length, Neogenesis
“Right now I want to write the most unforgiving, obnoxious, defiant, f**k-off-to-the-pop-charts rock ‘n’ roll song we’ve ever made”
Fripp has some choice words for anyone who objects to his videos with wife Toyah Willcox
![[L-R] Nita Strauss and Alissa White-Gluz](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/DEYqqmPprjhhxMNB5axQNF-840-80.jpg.webp)
“Nita and I finally got to collaborate – something we have both wanted to do for years!” White-Gluz says of the track, which features weighty riffs and blazing leads aplenty
