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Tetrarch on the joy of handing out signature models to their heroes and designing metal’s gnarliest tones
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
Steve Stevens on his Dave Friedman pedalboard, his fave klone and why he can't quit guitar synths
The effervescent Billy Idol guitarist reveals the secrets of his pedalboard
Jake E. Lee on his wild Ozzy Osbourne days and why Tony Iommi is harder to emulate than Randy Rhoads
Arthritis and the small matter of being shot didn't stop Jake E. Lee from honoring his old bandmate/boss Ozzy Osbourne and hero Tony Iommi at Sabbath's final show. And Tom Morello needed him bad
Scott Gorham on how his guitar partnership with Gary Moore came to a dramatic end
The Belfast-born virtuoso brought blues-rock fireworks to Thin Lizzy's sound and a muscular foil for Gorham who was always trying something different
Richard Dawson on writing melodies with the feel of a “newborn foal staggering around a barn”
Richard Dawson on balancing the mundane and profane, and the "unsteady" melodies of his staggering new album
The complete history of Black Sabbath – lineup by lineup, album by album
As Black Sabbath took a triumphant bow at Back to the Beginning, we reexamine their recorded works, from the riff that started metal through the Dio years, to the return of Ozzy Osbourne and 13
Up close with Fender Custom Shop’s ’59 Journeyman Stratocaster – a stunning vintage repro fresh out of the box
Eschewing the heavy relic work of many Custom Shop Strats, the Journeyman nails that ‘one careful owner’ vibe
Meet The Frst’s Mikei Gray, the virtuoso whose guitar is made out of a ’50s Buick hubcap
Mashing up genres comes easy to the Frst, especially when Mikei Gray is a play-anything virtuoso who not only made his own guitar but gave bluegrass star Ricky Skaggs a lesson
Jack Bruce’s final encounter with Jaco Pastorius
According to his brother, Rory Pastorius, Jaco was influenced by the late Cream bassist’s midrange sound and aggressive lead style
Back to the Beginning was Ozzy Osbourne’s night – but it was also a tribute to Tony Iommi’s singular impact on guitar music
Iommi’s world-altering riffs led to some of the all-star farewell show’s biggest singalongs – no wonder the supporting cast of guitar heroes had so much fun playing them
