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Justin Lyons and Machine Gun Kelly perform during the 2022 Bonnaroo Music & Arts festival on June 19, 2022 in Manchester, Tennessee.
Justin “GuitarSlayer” Lyons on designing a glow-in-the-dark guitar to bring session players into the limelight and the guitar lesson he learned from Machine Gun Kelly

By Ellie Rogers Published

He got his start in K-pop, and now “GuitarSlayer” has worked in just about every genre under the sun – he shares his tips on how to go pro, why he watches videos of Prince, Hendrix and SRV before he hits the stage, and how he divided up guitar parts with Sophie Lloyd in MGK's live band

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Matt Heafy and Sophie Lloyd
Sophie Lloyd recruits Matt Heafy for Fall of Man – the heavy-riffing second single from her first-ever studio album

By Matt Owen Published

Lloyd serves up bruising riffs and a suite of searing shred runs while the Trivium frontman delivers parts he wrote and recorded live on Twitch in the latest preview of Imposter Syndrome

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Machine Gun Kelly and Sophie Lloyd perform during 2022 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival on June 19, 2022 in Manchester, Tennessee.
What the Sophie Lloyd and Machine Gun Kelly non-scandal reminds us about how society views women who play guitar

By Pauline France Published

It took nothing more than a Instagram comment to send the rumor mill into overdrive – and the baseless controversy is emblematic of a bigger problem facing the guitar world

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[L-R] Nita Strauss, Steve Vai, Sophie Lloyd and John Frusciante
The 10 best guitar solos of 2022

By Jonathan Horsley Published

As voted for by you, and featuring the lead guitar skills of Nita Strauss, Sophie Lloyd, John Frusciante, Polyphia, Steve Vai and more, here are the solos that lit up your year

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Sophie Lloyd
Sophie Lloyd announces first-ever studio album, shares fiery lead single, Do or Die

By Matt Owen Published

The track, which features Inglorious frontman Nathan James, previews Imposter Syndrome, which is expected to arrive next year

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Sophie Lloyd on covering Pink Floyd
Sophie Lloyd on learning Pink Floyd’s Comfortably Numb: “It’s the precision of those bends that always blows me away”

By Total Guitar editors Published

Lloyd on Floyd! The shred whizz discusses the nuances of David Gilmour’s masterful performance

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[L-R] Sophie Lloyd and Machine Gun Kelly
YouTube guitar phenom Sophie Lloyd joins Machine Gun Kelly's live band

By Sam Roche Published

The British shred sensation will join MGK for his upcoming Mainstream Sellout tour

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Sophie Lloyd and Matt Heafy
Sophie Lloyd and Matt Heafy tease collaborative track

By Matt Owen Published

The Instagram shred sensation and heavy metal maestro have been hard at work in the studio

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Sophie Lloyd and Cole Rolland
Sophie Lloyd and Cole Rolland join forces for monstrous, shred-heavy reinvention of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony

By Matt Owen Published

The two Kiesel-endorsed social media shred sensations serve up Beethoven like you’ve never heard it before

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Sophie Lloyd
Watch Sophie Lloyd turn Britney Spears' Toxic into a certified shred-a-thon

By Sam Roche Published

The Kiesel-wielding social media shredder trades Spears' iconic vocal melodies for an array of two-hand tapping lines and alternate picking runs

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