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Bluegrass hero Billy Strings swaps Martin for Charvel to shred with death metal band
By Phil Weller Published
At a festival he curated, Strings showed the darker side of his shredding

How Death overcame the odds to bring death metal to the world
By Phil Weller Published
In April 1995, Chuck Schuldiner looked back on how his ambitious style helped galvanize a movement that still resonates to this day

The Black Dahlia Murder guitarist Brandon Ellis leaves the band after 9-year stint
By Phil Weller Published
Ellis has thanked fans for the “mountains of support” he’s received during his time with the death metal outfit, and teased a new chapter in his career

Victor Brandt: “I’ve been happily surprised that, even with so much going in Dimmu’s music, I could squeeze in some nice bass parts”
By Bass Player Staff Published
The Dimmu Borgir bassist on satanic pickups, signature gear, and the cross-cultural exchange between Norwegian black metal and Swedish death metal

David Vincent: "I started on upright bass when I was nine. It was a beast to get on and off the school bus"
By David Vincent Published
The former Morbid Angel frontman has spent his career among the low frequencies. Here he explains how it all came to pass...

Sick Riffs: Chris Kreutzfeldt teaches you the brutal alternate-picking of CABAL's Tongues
By Sam Roche Published
The track is taken from the Danish death-metallers' 2020 album, Drag Me Down

Ray Suhy: "I used an Ibanez RG for a death metal tour, and a few months later I used the same guitar on a jazz album!"
By Alison Richter Published
The genre-fluid guitarist discusses technique crossover between two of music's most seemingly dissimilar styles
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