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NAMM 2024: “Our master builder had a huge smile on his face stringing up the prototype”: Aristides brings EverTune stability to multiscale guitars for the first time with new signature bridge system

By Phil Weller published 15 January 24

Aristides and EverTune have collaborated to bring the super-stable bridge system to multiscale guitars, with its signature result set to be on display at NAMM 2024

Mike Stringer of Spiritbox with his new Jackson Surfcaster electric guitar

“My goal was to make a modern, metal take on a vintage Jazzmaster shape… I never thought the first track I would use it on would be with Megan Thee Stallion”: Spiritbox’s Mike Stringer on 2023’s most talked-about offsets – and the collab no-one saw coming

By Gregory Adams published 13 December 23

Recently nominated for a Grammy, Spiritbox are now one of modern metal’s biggest success stories. Their production-savvy guitarist details how he tackled their viral hip-hop crossover, why bridges are key to his unique tracking approach, and the fervor surrounding his custom Jackson Surfcasters

Mike Stringer's 7-string Jackson Custom Shop Surfcaster

Mike Stringer shows off two Jackson Custom Shop seven-strings that reimagine the lost Surfcaster offset as a metal guitar – and it’s got big name players in a hot mess

By Matt Parker published 20 October 23

The Spiritbox guitarist has posted pictures of a truly stunning custom build – and we’re not alone in thinking it needs to become a production model right away

Mike Stringer of Spiritbox playing guitar

“It was right before doors, so we moved fast”: Mike Stringer lays down a ferocious 7-string playthrough of Spiritbox’s heaviest track yet in an empty arena – just minutes before fans storm the venue

By Matt Owen published 16 October 23

Armed with a Fishman-equipped Jackson Pro Plus and his signature plugin, the metaller gives Guitar World an exclusive playthrough of a track said to be heavier than 2020's Holy Roller

Live Review: Knotfest, Sydney 25/03/23

By Australian Guitar published 27 March 23

"Knotfest is home for the maggots who never felt that they had a home anywhere else"

Spiritbox release surprise new three-track EP, Rotoscope

By Sam Roche published 23 June 22

Mike Stringer's guitar adds heft to a serious groove on the title-track as the ascendent Canadian metal band look to capitalize on their triumphant performances on their European tour

Spiritbox part ways with bassist Bill Crook

By Sam Roche published 23 May 22

Former As I Lay Dying bassist Josh Gilbert will assume low-end duties for the band's upcoming tour dates

Spiritbox’s Mike Stringer: “I try to keep the chords as simple as possible and push things in the layering”

By Jim Beaugez published 30 March 22

How the Canadian seven-stringer struck a balance between brutal riffs and ambient bliss on the acclaimed metal outfit's debut album, Eternal Blue

Spiritbox’s Mike Stringer on the high-tech modelling solutions and innovative guitar behind the band's breakout album, Eternal Blue

By Ellie Rogers published 17 January 22

The modern metal man waxes lyrical about the Neural DSP Quad Cortex and his Aristides axe, and reveals how he used both to record Eternal Blue in an Airbnb kitchen

Christian Andreu, Myles Kennedy, Mark Tremonti and Alexi Laiho

The 10 best guitar riffs of 2021

By Jonathan Horsley published 20 December 21

The riffs that induced the most involuntary – and voluntary – head-banging over the past 12 months, as voted for by you

Spiritbox's Mike Stringer offers up a series of mind-bending 7-string lines in new Secret Garden playthrough

By Sam Roche published 22 November 21

The track appears on the band's debut album, Eternal Blue

Andrew Savage of Parquet Courts performs during 2019 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival on June 14, 2019 in Manchester, Tennessee.

From certified ragers to haunting, meditative fretboard excursions: here are this week's essential guitar tracks

By Michael Astley-Brown, Jackson Maxwell, Sam Roche, Matt Owen published 23 September 21

Breathe some life into your fall playlist with new songs from Parquet Courts, Tom Morello and Bring Me The Horizon, Volbeat, Weakened Friends, Ariel Posen, Alt-J, Unprocessed and more

Tom Morello of Prophets Of Rage performs at Champions Park on October 1, 2017 in Louisville, Kentucky.

From stunning acoustic reinventions to shred-heavy melodic death-metal: here are this week's essential guitar tracks

By Michael Astley-Brown, Jackson Maxwell, Sam Roche published 6 May 21

Fresh, guitar-heavy cuts from Tom Morello x Pussy Riot, Billie Eilish, Modest Mouse, At the Gates and more await

From returning goth-rock titans to space-age prog epics: here are this week's essential guitar tracks

By Michael Astley-Brown, Jackson Maxwell, Sam Roche published 10 December 20

Turn up the volume and plug into new songs from Sophie Burrell, Smith/Kotzen, Evanescence, Gabriel Cyr, Julia Jacklin and more

Spiritbox's Mike Stringer delivers a furious, pick scrape-laden playthrough of Holy Roller

By Sam Roche published 9 July 20

Marvel at the chug and seven-string dissonance

From protest riff bombast to drop-tuned metal grind: here are this week's essential guitar tracks

By Michael Astley-Brown, Jackson Maxwell, Sam Roche published 3 July 20

The hottest new guitar jams, from Tom Morello, Zakk Wylde, Emma Ruth Rundle, Spiritbox and many more

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