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Mark Holcomb plays a PRS as he performs live with Periphery
Mark Holcomb on how Periphery harnesses super-heavy guitars for a super-heavy album that takes djent to a dark place

By Joe Bosso Published

After burning the playbook and facing his demons on Periphery’s jet-black new concept album, A Pale White Dot, Holcomb tells us he owes a big apology to his guitar tech

Guitarists
Jake Bowen playing a Strandberg
Periphery’s Jake Bowen jumps ship from Ibanez and joins Strandberg

By Matt Owen Published

The move looks set to pave the way for a headless signature guitar for the progressive metal heavyweight

Guitarists
(from left) George Benson, Daron Malakian, Steve Vai, Marcin, and Yvette Young wield Ibanez guitars onstage
We chart 25 game-changing Ibanez guitarists

By Amit Sharma Published

While it’s easy to think of Ibanez as a company that’s solely at the cutting edge of metal machines for the modern age, they’ve also innovated much further afield, producing timeless acoustics, semi-hollows, and hollowbodies

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Guitarists
(from left) Carl Wockner, Jake Bowen, Nuno Bettencourt, and Paul Riario
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

Desktop Amps
Jake Bowen (left), and his DiMarzio Mirage signature pickups
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”

Guitar Pickups
Periphery
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

Guitarists
Ibanez 2022 signature electric guitars
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

Electric Guitars
Jake Bowen
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

Lessons
Jake Bowen
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

Lessons
Periphery's Misha Mansoor, Jake Bowen, Plini and Jakub Zytecki
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

Guitar Gear
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