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Code Orange's Reba Meyers and Dom Landolina perform at Coachella 2022

“He had an acoustic guitar and he started playing this little melody for the bridge… It felt magical – like classic Smashing Pumpkins”: Code Orange on their spellbinding Billy Corgan collaboration and how simplification brought honesty to their playing

By Jon Wiederhorn published

Reba Meyers and Dom Landolina pull back the curtain and take us behind the making of their adventurous and aggressively iconoclastic new album, The Above – and explain why recording with Steve Albini isn’t like working with any other producer

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“Sometimes bad gear can give you a good idea! I’ll go with whatever’s around. There are no rules”: Code Orange’s Reba Meyers on writing “pure evil” riffs and why she’d rather play a guitar that “sounds a little sh**tier” than a studio classic

By Amit Sharma published

New album The Above finds the Pittsburgh metalcore crew pushing at the extremes – but just don't take those clean tones as some kind of '90s revival

Reba Meyers of Code Orange performs in studio

“If you’re wondering why I’m wearing just socks, it’s just much easier to tap-dance pedals like that!”: Code Orange guitarist Reba Meyers takes pedal demos to new heights in this tripped-out mega jam

By Matt Parker published

15 stompboxes, 3 expression pedals and only 1 Reba Meyers: hear the Code Orange guitarist take the pedal demo to massive new heights on this loop-laden mega jam

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Code Orange’s Reba Meyers: “Growing up, I never listened to guitar players other than myself. I just did my thing”

By Jenna Scaramanga published

Just because Code Orange's new album is a remix doesn't mean the guitars aren't front and center. Here, Meyers unpacks the amp worship and pedalboard iconoclasm behind her crushing sound

Jim Root of Slipknot performs in concert at the Ericsson Globe Arena on February 21, 2020 in Stockholm, Sweden

From effervescent funk to chaotic, full-throated nu-metal: here are this week's essential guitar tracks

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

Usher in the weekend with playlist-bolstering new songs from Slipknot, Foals, PUP, Nilüfer Yanya, Korn, Camp Cope, Rolo Tomassi and more

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Code Orange are Out For Blood as they debut savage new single

By Sam Roche published

While the track dabbles occasionally in poppier-style arrangements, guitarists Reba Meyers and Dominic Landolina are on hand to deliver crushing drop-tuned riffage

[L-R] Eric “Shade” Balderose, Billy Corgan, Jami Morgan and Reba Meyers

Code Orange tease collaboration with The Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan

By Sam Roche published

Social media clues point to a partnership between the Pittsburgh metal heavyweights and Chicago alt-rock icon

Reba Meyers of Code Orange

Reba Meyers reveals how she crafts some of modern metal's most innovative tones in new in-depth pedalboard tour

By Sam Roche published

The Code Orange guitarist shares her secrets to the band's groundbreaking glitchy guitar tones

Lzzy Hale and an all-star group cover Pantera

Watch Lzzy Hale cover Pantera's Mouth For War with members of Baroness, Code Orange

By Jackson Maxwell published

Playing Pantera on a Tele? The latest Two Minutes to Late Night quarantine video jam proves it can be done, and done incredibly well

Joe Goldman

Joe Goldman: “I use this piece-of-crap $25 guitar pedal that sounds like a rusted chisel for all the Code Orange stuff”

By Hywel Davies published

The hardcore metal bassist reveals the origins of one of the most intimidating tones ever conceived

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Code Orange: "We've taken guitar headstocks to the forehead, and broken fingers and toes onstage"

By Jon Wiederhorn published

Guitarists Reba Meyers and Dominic Landolina on their uncompromising approach to performance and the creation of their digitally influenced masterpiece Underneath

Reba Meyers: “I love evil sounds people wouldn’t necessarily know are played on guitar”

Code Orange's Reba Meyers: “I love evil sounds people wouldn’t necessarily know are played on guitar”

By Amit Sharma published

One of modern metal's most distinctive players on her self-taught style, the influence of hip-hop and music theory, and her studio gear

From thrash metal to nylon-string mastery from an unexpected source: here are this week's essential guitar tracks

By Michael Astley-Brown, Sam Roche published

These are the fresh tracks guitarists need to hear right now

Review: Reverend Guitars Shade Balderose Signature Model

By Chris Gill published