Country music legend Charlie Daniels dies aged 83 By Richard Bienstock The Devil Went Down to Georgia singer, songwriter, guitarist and fiddle player also recorded with Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen and many others over his long and varied career
Sick Riffs: Kevin Dye teaches you the inventive, effects-heavy solo of Gates’ Shiver By Michael Astley-Brown Set your pitch-shifter to work with this synth-like lead line
Diezel's new VHX head knows when it's been profiled By Michael Astley-Brown What does this surprising new feature mean for the future of amp profiling?
Harley Benton’s ST-Travel guitar offers full scale-length playability at an insanely low $74 price tag By Richard Bienstock Basswood body, maple neck and fretboard and a trio of single coils round out the impressive package
Allan Holdsworth's "secret" scale is one of the ultimate examples of 'outside' playing - here's how to use it By Richard Bienstock Instructor Juan Antonio shows you a cool “tension-building concept”
Darkglass’s Element aims to conjure cab sim magic with the touch of a finger By Richard Bienstock New offering boasts touch-sensor sliders for sleek, knob-less operation
Hamstead Soundworks’ Ascent is a pure clean boost pedal built by techs for AC/DC, Guns N' Roses, Queen and more By Richard Bienstock Profits from the hand-soldered stompbox will go to the techs who built the pedals
Neural DSP rounds up “the best clean amps in the industry” for Archetype: Cory Wong plugin By Michael Astley-Brown The Vulfpeck funk machine joins Plini and Tosin Abasi in the signature plugin ranks
Sick Riffs: Adam Bell and Ross McLennan teach you the fiendishly brutal verse riff of Viscera's Obsidian - with tab! By Sam Roche Grab your seven-string - extreme metal calls...
Subscribe to Australian Guitar to win a Line 6 HX Stomp, valued at $1,099! By Australian Guitar Thanks to our good mates at Yamaha Music, we’ve got one of the incredible new Line 6 HX Stomp units to give away.
Country duo Striking Matches burn it up in this smoking Fender Acoustasonic Strat jam By Richard Bienstock Percussive knocks and fiery slide licks highlight the incendiary performance
Kiesel offers a new headless guitar hope with the highly customizable Leia single-cut electric By Richard Bienstock New model is available in six and seven-string configurations, with a 24.75-inch scale length option
From protest riff bombast to drop-tuned metal grind: here are this week's essential guitar tracks By Michael Astley-Brown, Jackson Maxwell, Sam Roche The hottest new guitar jams, from Tom Morello, Zakk Wylde, Emma Ruth Rundle, Spiritbox and many more
David Gilmour shares first new track in five years, Yes, I Have Ghosts By Richard Bienstock The acoustic ballad features the Pink Floyd guitarist's daughter on harp and background vocals
Slash reveals he’s writing new music and recording demos for Guns N’ Roses By Richard Bienstock “I've been jamming with Duff and I've been jamming with Axl,” the guitarist says
Sick Riffs: Brandon Ashley teaches you the grunge-meets-hard-rock main riff of The Dark's Where's Your God By Sam Roche Drop A# tuning and attitude required
Online Music Exams’ first-of-its-kind platform enables accredited music learning during COVID-19 crisis By Richard Bienstock Fully-automated system allows students to take all elements of practical music exams
Get IK Multimedia's $100 AmpliTube Metal for free for a limited time By Richard Bienstock Collection boasts 14 stompboxes, five classic and modern amp models, 13 cabs and more
Hear Zakk Wylde's Zakk Sabbath cover band’s raging version of Black Sabbath By Richard Bienstock Vertigo, Zakk Sabbath’s re-recording of Black Sabbath’s 1970 debut album, is due in September
Tom Morello teams with Imagine Dragons' Dan Reynolds, the Bloody Beetroots on “slamming” new song, Stand Up By Richard Bienstock Incendiary new protest anthem combines big riffs with colossal electronic production
