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![[L-R] Zakk Wylde and Dario Lorina of Black Label Society](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/u9rbaMW9LCwSNbpJyGJU9B-840-80.jpg.webp)
Black Label Society: “When you rehearse too much before recording, you take away all the spontaneity, all the magic, all the fire. You suck the life out of the thing”
Doom Crew Inc. is the first-ever complete Black Label Society album to feature a second guitarist. Here, guitar duo Zakk Wylde and Dario Lorina escort you deep into the temple of doom...
Mike Rutherford: “The Strat can be anybody – it covers all kinds of moods. Other guitars like Gibsons have a sort of one-sound thing, I think”
The Genesis guitarist and bassist talks the gear that's powered the band's sound over the years – including a lowly £120 Strat – and reflects on touring for what may be the final time
![[L-R] Matt Heafy and Corey Beaulieu of Trivium](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Q5QFJLyEWYdqdoeVMHeVNJ-840-80.jpg.webp)
Trivium: “We wanted to capture lightning in the bottle rather than plan too much. There were no constraints, limitations or boundaries”
Matt Heafy and Corey Beaulieu on how they produced the band's shreddiest album to date, In The Court Of The Dragon
Brandy Zdan: “To me, this ended up being a guitar record, because of the range of emotions in the instrument. It's a vehicle for my grief and anger”
The Canadian singer-songwriter channels her experience dealing with miscarriage, grief and postpartum depression on her new full-length, Falcon
Man With a Mission's Jean-Ken Johnny: “I’m not really a technical guitar guy: it’s all about the emotion – how you descend your soul into the sound”
The wolf-headed Japanese guitar-slinger on his love of '90s rock, and digitizing AC/DC's Thunderstruck with some howling Whammy-flavored leads on new album Break and Cross the Walls I
Maybeshewill: “On this record, we tried to lean less heavily on powerchords for the energy and find other ways to employ the guitars”
Guitarists John Helps and Robin Southby talk writing their latest album, No Feeling is Final, via Skype and Dropbox, the gear that played into its creation and how Robert Smith helped them reunite five years after calling it quits
Creeping Death's Trey Pemberton: “It used to be, ‘Let’s write a bunch of riffs, throw ‘em together, and go hard.’ Now we think about how it flows together”
The Creeping Death guitarist on why the band opted to re-record tracks from their 2016 EP for this year's The Edge of Existence, and how Muay Thai has amped up his stage presence
![[L-R] Dimebag Darrell and Nick Norton](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/GP3VJYJxLrFR4GfHhvzxYD-840-80.jpg.webp)
Meet the local shredder who became the last guitarist to play the Walk solo on Dimebag Darrell's guitar, less than 24 hours before the Pantera legend's tragic death
Nick Norton shares the incredible tale of how his bandmate's likeness to Vinnie Paul led to the pair playing with their idols at Damageplan's penultimate show
Nashville Pussy's Ruyter Suys: “Simple is not my playing style. Most of the time, my erratic side gets the best of me”
Suys talks channeling Malcolm Young with her single-pickup Gibson SG, and the band's explosive new live album, Eaten Alive
Khemmis: “If our riffs sound like Iron Maiden trapped in a tar pit, then we’ve done them right!”
Phil Pendergast and Ben Hutcherson of the Denver Doom metallers talk honing their tone, covering Alice in Chains and a moment of pedal “divine inspiration” that occurred while recording new LP, Deceiver
