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Tailgunner's Rhea Thompson and Zach Salvini pose in heavily postered backstage area with Jackson and Framus guitars
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

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Ill Nino and Xander Raymond Charles
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

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Gary Holt of Exodus performs on stage at Sala Black Box on February 28, 2020 in Madrid, Spain.
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

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Alisha Yarwood on an arena stage, wielding a Jim Root Jazzmaster
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

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Kiki Wong of The Smashing Pumpkins performs onstage during a concert at Gunnersbury Park on August 10, 2025 in London, England
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

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Seymour Duncan MortalCoil Multi-Voiced Active Pickups
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

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Dave Mustaine of the American thrash metal band Megadeth performs in concert at Resurrection Fest Estrella Galicia 2024 on June 29, 2024 in Viveiro, Spain
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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Dave Mustaine
Dave Mustaine on the ill-fated guitar appointment that led Megadeth to Jeff Young

By Phil Weller Published

The thrash icons thought they’d found Chris Poland’s replacement, only for a bizarre moment in the studio to force a change

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Portrait of British Heavy Metal group Girlschool as they pose in a studio, Chicago, Illinois, mid April, 1982. Pictured are, from left, Gil Weston, Kim McAuliffe, Denise Dufort, and Kelly Johnson
Girlschool guitarist Kim McAuliffe reveals what touring with Lemmy was really like

By Janelle Borg Published

The two bands released a joint EP, St. Valentine's Day Massacre, which also made an impact on the UK charts

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Press photo of the Danish-Swedish band Vola
Danish prog-metal band suffers devastating loss after all their gear is destroyed in a fire

By Janelle Borg Published

A fire broke out at VOLA's storage facility in Copenhagen, leading to the majority of their gear being lost

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