Witness VASA’s post-rock guitar heroics and ingenious pitch-shifter usage in this tonesome playthrough By Michael Astley-Brown Blaine Thompson tears through the Scottish instrumental rockers’ latest
Watch Virgil Donati guitarist Andre Nieri take jazz-fusion to its limits in this mind-bending guitar playthrough By Sam Roche The Brazilian virtuoso delivers a time-shifting display of six-string skills
Watch Lamb of God's Mark Morton play fingerstyle acoustic in this exclusive All I Had To Lose performance By Sam Roche The heavy metal guitarist ditches the amp gain and puts on an enthralling display of acoustic wizardry
Standards’ Marcos Mena blends cross-handed tapping and percussive styles into the fruitiest guitar playthrough you’ll see all year By Michael Astley-Brown Cult math-rock faves offer the first taste of Special Berry
Slaves blaze through their latest single, Bury a Lie, in this electronic-infused guitar playthrough By Sam Roche Guitarists Weston Richmond and Juan Felipe Sanchez put on a dazzling display of post-hardcore prowess
This Black Dahlia Murder guitar playthrough showcases the very best of modern extreme metal By Sam Roche Guitarist Brandon Ellis shreds his way through the band's latest single, Verminous
Four Year Strong weave infectious melodies into heavy breakdowns in this feel-good guitar playthrough By Sam Roche Guitarists Dan O'Connor and Alan Day play Crazy Pills from the band's latest album, Brain Pain
Watch Lamb of God's Mark Morton and Willie Adler blaze through Checkmate in this exclusive playthrough By Sam Roche The metal juggernaut's six-stringers deliver a fretboard-dominant masterclass
Experience some arresting art-rock with dreamy delay textures in this exclusive SPQR playthrough By Michael Astley-Brown Liverpool-based guitar duo ditch the distortion for this stripped-down performance of Just Sumfin
Dylan Mattheisen transforms Bruce Springsteen’s Born To Run into a two-hand tapping, altered-tuning midwest emo masterpiece By Michael Astley-Brown The Tiny Moving Parts frontman blows minds in this Guitar World exclusive
This prog-metal playthrough is a masterclass in pounding guitar riffs, shifting time signatures and melodic solos By Sam Roche Watch Scott and Simone from Aussie prog-metallers Voyager tear through Saccharine Dream from their latest album, Colours in the Sun
Ancient Roman death metal has arrived with this gladiatorial guitar playthrough By Sam Roche Fabio Palazzola tears through Imperator, taken from the ADE's Rise of the Empire
Watch Andy Gillion and Paul Wardingham unleash a menagerie of other-worldly lead lines in this exclusive playthrough By Sam Roche Hiraeth is taken from guitar virtuoso Gillion's debut album Neverafter
Pop-punk powerchords meet thrash-metal leads in this searing Bayside guitar playthrough By Michael Astley-Brown Watch lead guitarist Jack O’Shea rip it up on Bury Me
Is this guitar-playing cyborg from Japan the future of heavy metal? By Michael Astley-Brown Watch Ediee Ironbunny shred to save rock ’n’ roll in this ‘23 - twenty three’ playthrough
