The six-string origins of DZ Deathrays

DZ Deathrays
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With their riff-heavy new album Positive Rising: Part 2 on the horizon, DZ Deathrays’ two guitarists look back on their first days behind the fretboard – and give three budding players the chance to make their own shreddiest dreams come true (head to the bottom of this page to find out how you can be one of them).

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Ellie Robinson
Editor-at-Large, Australian Guitar Magazine

Ellie Robinson is an Australian writer, editor and dog enthusiast with a keen ear for pop-rock and a keen tongue for actual Pop Rocks. Her bylines include music rag staples like NME, BLUNT, Mixdown and, of course, Australian Guitar (where she also serves as Editor-at-Large), but also less expected fare like TV Soap and Snowboarding Australia. Her go-to guitar is a Fender Player Tele, which, controversially, she only picked up after she'd joined the team at Australian Guitar. Before then, Ellie was a keyboardist – thankfully, the AG crew helped her see the light…