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Tom Morello performs at Lucca Summer Festival on July 06, 2024 in Lucca, Italy

“Unapologetic, fearless with their own musical and personal style and really able to challenge the conventions of what hard rock music is”: Tom Morello reveals his two favorite contemporary hard-rock bands

By Janelle Borg published

Morello also states that he thinks the place for women in the future of rock music is “at the front”

Polyphia's Scott LePage and Tim Henson

“We're gonna ask him, give him a three-minute long session and let him rip”: Tim Henson reveals the surprising collabs Polyphia are eyeing up for their next album

By Phil Weller published

The band have already started looking ahead to their fifth album, which will once again include some big-name stars

Emily Wolfe performs onstage at the Haute Spot in Cedar Park, Texas on June 26, 2021

Gossamer tremolo picking and the stuff of Phrygian nightmares: This week's essential guitar tracks

By Matt Owen published

Unmissable new songs from Fiddlehead, HotWax, Guns N’ Roses, Emily Wolfe, Born of Osiris, Babymetal ft. Tom Morello, CLT DRP, and more

Taj Mahal performs onstage during the Experience Hendrix concert at City National Grove of Anaheim on October 9, 2019 in Anaheim, California

From evocative standards to the missing link between Dokken and Nine Inch Nails: here are this week's essential guitar tracks

By Matt Owen, Michael Astley-Brown, Sam Roche, Jackson Maxwell published

On tap this week are new projects from George Lynch, Graham Coxon and Mogwai's Stuart Braithwaite, plus fresh tunes from Last in Line, Taj Mahal, Ana Popovic, Babymetal and more

Black Belt Eagle Scout perform onstage at Co-Sign during SXSW 2019 on March 15, 2019 in Austin, Texas

From one of this year's heaviest riffs to technically dazzling collaborations: here are this week's essential guitar tracks

By Sam Roche, Michael Astley-Brown, Jackson Maxwell, Matt Owen published

A comprehensive compendium of all that's new and cool in guitar – featuring cuts from Enter Shikari, Black Belt Eagle Scout, Marcin & Ichika Nito, The Dead Daisies, and more

ESP just put out an impossibly heavy Babymetal 9-string

By Richard Bienstock published

Limited edition Japanese model boasts alder body, an EMG humbucker and many, many strings

Babymetal Guitarist Mikio Fujioka Dead at 36

By Damian Fanelli published

Babymetal Release Trailer for DragonForce Collaboration, "Road to Resistance" — Video

By Guitar World Staff published

This past Monday, Babymetal posted a trailer video for "Road of Resistance," their new collaboration with members of DragonForce.

Babymetal Perform Sold-Out Show in London —Video

By Damian Fanelli published

Japanese Schoolgirl Metal/Pop Trio Babymetal Release New Music Video

By Damian Fanelli published

The last time we shared a Babymetal video —October 28, 2011 —the Japanese metal vocal and dance group consisting of three girls had just released a video for a song called "Doki Doki Morning."

Video: Schoolgirl Japanese Pop Meets Metal in "Baby Metal"

By Josh Hart published

In the category of "WHY DOES THIS EXIST!?!," you can now check out the first video from a new group called Baby Metal, "Doki Doki Morning," below.