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Best 7-string guitars 2025: budget-spanning picks for djent to nu-metal
By Jonathan Horsley last updated
Thicken up your low end with the very best 7-string guitars from Ibanez, Jackson, PRS and more

Charvel officially launches dazzling Sin City Sparkle-finished Pro-Mod Style 1 model
By Matt Owen published
The limited-edition six-string features a pair of Seymour Duncan humbuckers, a versatile control layout and one of the most eye-catching colorways of 2022

Charvel launches an EMG-loaded, progressive player’s dream of a signature model for James LaBrie guitarist Marco Sfogli
By Michael Astley-Brown published
The Italian virtuoso for PFM and Icefish has spec’d his guitar with a Purple Burst quilted maple top, Floyd Rose 1000 Series tremolo and much more besides

Phil Sgrosso: "When you listen to enough Pantera, it's hard to not want to just have fun dive-bombing here and there"
By Chris Schwarten published
The As I Lay Dying guitarist reveals how Iron Maiden, and his use of the Fender Jim Root Stratocaster during a brief tenure in Slipknot, led to his own shred-friendly signature Charvel

Frank Bello: 5 bass players who influenced me
By Joel McIver published
Anthrax bassist Frank Bello on Geezer Butler, Steve Harris, Paul McCartney and more

Charvel unleashes spec’d-up Silverburst signature shred machine for Phil Sgrosso of As I Lay Dying
By Michael Astley-Brown published
Sgrosso’s stripped-down Pro-Mod So-Cal Style 1 H FR E boasts a radically scalloped rear and multi-voice Fishman Fluence humbucker

NAMM 2020: Charvel unveils fresh signature models for Joe Duplantier, Angel Vivaldi and Satchel
By Jonathan Horsley last updated
Plus plenty more stunning high-spec'd and hot-rodded electrics in the Pro Mod series

Charvel Pro-Mod San Dimas PJ V review
By Joel McIver last updated
Loaded with DiMarzio pickups and tone-shaping power, the new five-string from Charvel is a hot-rodded bass ace with a strong '80s vibe

3 Eddie Van Halen-signed Charvel EVH Art Series guitars – and a Masterbuilt Bumblebee replica – hit the auction block
By Matt Owen published
The trio of stage-played six-strings come with certificates of authenticity and photographic evidence of Van Halen wielding them across various dates in 2007
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