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Matt Pike
Matt Pike: “I wanted this album to sound different to my previous work. But everything I play on is going to sound like me, in a weird way, shape or form”

By Amit Sharma Published

The Sleep/High On Fire guitarist on his love of Les Pauls, and recruiting the likes of Brent Hinds, Todd Burdette and Jeff Matz for his debut solo album, Pike vs The Automaton

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Wallows
Wallows: “There's that fine line of ‘I want to know where the guitar can take me’ and ‘I don't know where it can take me’”

By Bruce Fagerstrom Published

Dylan Minnette, Braeden Lemasters and Cole Preston on why the guitar is their "comfort instrument", their favorite six-strings and the tracking secrets on new album, Tell Me That It's Over

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Venom Prison
Venom Prison: “The whole ‘aggressive, nonstop assault of riffs’ approach isn’t really a thing on Erebos – this album is about the songs”

By Gregory Adams Published

Ash Gray and Ben Thomas on expanding the UK death-metallers' horizons, their mutual love of the EVH 5150III, and the art of balancing the heavy with the light

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[L-R] Zakk Wylde and Dario Lorina of Black Label Society
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”

By Richard Bienstock Published

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...

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Mike Rutherford
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”

By Jamie Dickson Published

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

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[L-R] Matt Heafy and Corey Beaulieu of Trivium
Trivium: “We wanted to capture lightning in the bottle rather than plan too much. There were no constraints, limitations or boundaries”

By Amit Sharma Published

Matt Heafy and Corey Beaulieu on how they produced the band's shreddiest album to date, In The Court Of The Dragon

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Brandy Zdan
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”

By Alison Richter Published

The Canadian singer-songwriter channels her experience dealing with miscarriage, grief and postpartum depression on her new full-length, Falcon

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Jean-Ken Johnny of Man With a Mission
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”

By Gregory Adams Published

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

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Maybeshewill
Maybeshewill: “On this record, we tried to lean less heavily on powerchords for the energy and find other ways to employ the guitars”

By Alex Lynham Published

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

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Creeping Death
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”

By Gregory Adams Published

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

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