Review: Line 6 Variax Shuriken Guitar By Chris Gill I probably didn’t have my morning cup of coffee when I first received news about the Line 6 Variax Shuriken.
Jeff “Mantas” Dunn on the Very Best of Venom By Jon Wiederhorn One day I came in with this riff and Abaddon started pounding the toms to it in a really tribal way.
Roger Waters Rails Against the Powers That Be and Asks, 'Is This the Life We Really Want?' By Brad Tolinski In 1979, the British songwriter wrote The Wall, a nightmarish rock opera he recorded with his former band, Pink Floyd.
Review: KHDK Electronics Abyss Pedal By Paul Riario The KHDK Electronics Abyss is a brand-new bass overdrive that provides warm, tube-like boost and a subtle crunchy overdrive.
Review: Martin Guitar D-15M Streetmaster and 000-15M Streetmaster By Paul Riario Made for working musicians, Martin Guitar introduces two new models in their solid mahogany 15 Series line with the D-15M StreetMaster and 000-15M StreetMaster.
Review: Boss Katana-Mini Amp By Paul Riario I used to have a girlfriend who carried her small dog everywhere in her purse. And man, that dog had a bark that would make larger dogs scatter.
Review: Gretsch Guitars G6128T-53 Vintage Select '53 Duo Jet By Paul Riario Some of the most highly regarded Gretsch guitar models were the ones released during the Fifties and Sixties, a time many guitar aficionados consider the company’s golden age.
Jon Schaffer Discusses Iced Earth's Latest, 'Incorruptible' By Richard Bienstock I just want to give you a head’s up, dude.
Chris Holmes Talks W.A.S.P., Eddie Van Halen, Touring with Metallica and More By Richard Bienstock He's best known as the guitarist from Eighties metal mavericks W.A.S.P. and for one particularly iconic drunk-as-a-skunk movie scene, but whatGuitar Worldreaders really want to know is...
Chris Robinson and Neal Casal Talk New Brotherhood Album, 'Barefoot in the Head' By Andy Aledort The real inspiration for this band is what I think of as roots music—which is everything: jazz, bluegrass, rock and roll, funk/soul/R&B, pop, country, blues, Appalachian folk.
Performing Fluid Arpeggios Using Two-Hand Tapping By Mike Orlando One of my favorite techniques involves two-hand tapping, wherein notes are sounded by tapping onto the fretboard with both hands.
'Metalocalypse' Warrior Brendon Small Unleashes Second Galaktikon Album By Jon Wiederhorn When Brendon Small released his first Galaktikon album in April 2012, he was frantically writing music and dialogue for his Adult Swim cartoon series,Metalocalypse.
Eight Questions with Riverdogs' Vivian Campbell By Randy Harward Guitarist Vivian Campbell—ofRiverdogsand Def Leppard fame—recently sat down for the "eight questions" treatment. It went a little something like this.
