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Greta Van Fleet's Jake Kiszka: “I work very hard to articulate chords and notes. All of that sensitivity and technicality gets lost when you have too much overdrive“

By Joe Bosso

Can one of rock’s most polarizing young bands silence critics with their cinematic new album, The Battle at Garden’s Gate?

Harakiri for the Sky's Matthias Sollak talks amplifier worship, pandemic blues and picking up the black metal torch from Bathory

By Jeff Kitts

With their fifth album, Mære, the Austrian metallers hope new music will wipe out the bleak nothingness of 2020

How to incorporate the string bending mastery of Albert King in your playing

By Greg Koch

The Gristle King (aka Greg Koch) doffs his cap to another King in this essential blues lesson

Classic gear: Fuzz Faces

By Rod Brakes

The classic '60s fuzz that hasn’t stopped smiling since the Summer of Love

Reb Beach: ”When I was a kid, I took an aptitude test, and it basically said I had no aptitude for anything except music”

By Joe Bosso

The guitar legend on re-learning his solos, juggling Winger and Whitesnake and his new solo album, A View from the Inside

Bass speaker cones explained

By Dan Veall

Everything you need to know about the different speakers found in bass amps

Five Finger Death Punch’s Zoltan Bathory and new recruit Andy James on new beginnings and shred in the era of Covid

By Joe Bosso

Augmenting the FFDP sound with seven-string shred, James' arrival marks a new chapter for the perennially touring metal juggernaut

The Commander in Chief: ”Metal was polarizing. People loved it or hated it. Classical music is the same – I get the same reaction”

By Adam Kovac

This sedulous seven-stringer puts a completely new spin on classical-inspired guitar music

DryBell Unit67 review

By Chris Gill

A 1176-style compressor, boost, and a tweakable EQ makes for a powerful all-in-one tone sweetener

Calexico’s Joey Burns: “Dynamic range is something I think about a lot as a guitar player. It can be really emotional“

By Rod Brakes

From Bartók to bossa nova, Burns talks about the diverse styles that keep him interested and inspired

Plini: ”The biggest thing is writing music I think is interesting... Once I’ve done that, I find room to put guitar on it”

By Joe Bosso

The Australian guitar phenom on the perils of “guitar fame,” the challenges of modern prog and his stunning new album

Dave Grohl: ”We were doing the things we’re not supposed to do. The galloping flange guitar... the Abba beat!”

By Richard Bienstock

Early-'80s David Bowie, Eye of the Tiger, single coils? Here's how the Foo Fighters got “weird” for Medicine at Midnight

Lairat Stega Deluxe review

By Stuart Clayton

Player-friendly design plus precision-engineered components makes for a winning contemporary bass

How Brazilian guitarist Prika Amaral rebuilt her Nervosa thrash-metal juggernaut from the ground up

By Gregory Adams

New blood and aggressive riffs put Amaral back on the path to ‘Perpetual Chaos‘

Total Guitar created a scientifically perfect guitar solo – here’s what it sounds like and how to play it

By Total Guitar editors

We've followed the science. It's time to shred. Are you ready for Franken-solo?

This thing can sound pretty damn epic as it adds a cinematic backdrop to your playing; one played note or chord can summon an extended shimmering cloud of spacey sound.

Strymon NightSky review

By Trevor Curwen

Venture to the outer reaches of reverb with this soundscape workstation

Gorillaz' Noodle and St. Vincent on animating a modernist sound in which the unconscious mind speaks through guitar

By Richard Bienstock

Gorillaz' Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez showcases some of the most inventive collaborations of the internet era

Glenn Hughes: “People talk about my vocals, but I’ve never, ever felt this good about playing bass“

By Joel McIver

The ‘Voice Of Rock’ and Deep Purple icon speaks candidly about his bass playing over the decades, why he should have never left Trapeze, and how the Dead Daisies reignited his four-string fire

Phil Jones Bass Cub II BG-110 Combo review

By Mike Brooks

Small, tidy, elegant – and fully featured. Does the new PJB combo achieve the lot?

How creating chains of dotted-eighth syncopations can revolutionize your rhythm playing

By Jimmy Brown

It's time to go against the grain with some tricky rhythmic phrasing