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Pepper Keenan got his first guitar after a tragic accident
By Janelle Borg published
The Down and Corrosion of Conformity guitarist has looked back at the unlikely origins of his career in rock

Tailgunner are flying the flag for old-school metal (with a little help from K.K. Downing)
By Amit Sharma published
Tailgunner’s new album, Midnight Blitz, is a love letter to the '80s, Yngwie, Priest, and all things shred – and it's produced by a bona-fide Metal God

Ill Niño part ways with new guitarist just weeks before tour
By Phil Weller published
Xander Charles has parted ways with the nu metal outfit just before a run of tour dates

Gary Holt once gave himself clinical-grade whiplash because he headbanged to his riffs too hard
By Phil Weller published
The guitarist says he “dodged a bullet” by avoiding surgery

Witch Fever’s Alisha Yarwood on superhero stompboxes, dream tours with IDLES, and why ‘That Great Gretsch Sound’ was doom-punk all along
By Janelle Borg published
Raw, feminist, fiercely unrelenting, Witch Fever have taken their sound from clubs to arenas. Here, Yarwood talks tonal epiphanies, starting on drums, and finding freedom on bigger stages

Kiki Wong on how a cheap Yamaha and a Metallica classic changed her musical trajectory
By Janelle Borg published
Wong went from playing piano and classical music – to shredding, metal and Metallica

Seymour Duncan goes toe-to-toe with Fishman with its triple-voiced MortalCoil active pickups
By Phil Weller published
Offering three distinct voices in one package and promising fast, dynamic response and long battery life, these might be SD’s most modern pickups yet

Dave Mustaine reveals the life-changing hand condition behind his decision to retire Megadeth
By Phil Weller published
The band’s album will be their last, as his plight with Viking Disease has forced his hand
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