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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...

Chris Kreutzfeldt of CABAL

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

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

Sisters of Suffocation's Emmelie Herwegh: What's on My Playlist

By Guitar World Staff published

The Eindhoven-based death-metal rhythm guitarist names her favorite tracks

Rivers of Nihil Premiere "A Home" Guitar Playthrough

By Guitar World Staff published

Exclusive: Stream Abysmal Dawn's Newly Reissued Debut Album, 'From Ashes'

By Josh Hart published

Top 15 Most Essential Death Metal Records

By Al DiPerna published

Be thou wary! Here lie the 15 albums that have made death metal one of rock’s most lethal subdivisions.