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Positive Grid is launching its groundbreaking Spark 2 desktop amp with a live premiere event featuring Nuno Bettencourt and Periphery's Jake Bowen – watch now
By Jackson Maxwell last updated
Hosted by Guitar World's own Paul Riario, the star-studded event will give viewers an early look and listen to the already-lauded amp

DiMarzio partners with Periphery’s Jake Bowen for Mirage signature pickups – a “super-saturated” set that has been tailored to his picking technique
By Matt Owen published
The pickups were previously found in Bowen's Ibanez JBM9999 signature guitar, and are said to be the next step in his quest to “push his progressive metal sound forward”

Misha Mansoor, Jake Bowen and Mark Holcomb on how they lost sleep and cast aside some of the best riffs they’ve ever written to make Periphery V “as awesome as possible”
By Ellie Rogers published
Periphery V: Djent Is Not a Genre finds progressive metal's most daring trailblazers rediscovering analog, rejecting perfection and producing their most ambitious album to date

NAMM 2022: Fresh Nita Strauss, Tom Quayle and Jake Bowen signatures headline Ibanez’s new-for-2022 artist model lineup
By Matt Owen published
New models for Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Kiko Loureiro and George Benson have also been unveiled

How to use drop tunings, octave effects and layered tones to create a deep, huge sound
By Jake Bowen published
In his latest GW column, Jake Bowen walks us through the massive intro riff for Periphery's Follow Your Ghost

Periphery’s Jake Bowen shows you how to layer multiple guitar parts to create a lush soundscape
By Jake Bowen published
In his inaugural instructional column, Bowen explains how a clean tone, some sweet chord shapes, reverb and delay can conspire to create something huge and magical

Misha Mansoor, Jake Bowen, Plini and Jakub Zytecki go deep on gear, technique and the future of djent
By Amit Sharma published
It's a tech-metal round table! The Periphery axemen are joined by two of today's leading virtuosos to wax lyrical on all things tech-metal

Periphery: "Even though we all have our own signature guitars, when we record we like to pass them around quite a bit"
By Richard Bienstock published
Misha Mansoor, Mark Holcomb and Jake Bowen go deep on the making of the heavy and experimental Periphery IV: Hail Stan
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