Atreyu's Dan Jacobs and Travis Miguel
Mar 01, 2010
ATREYU BLITZKRIEGED THEIR WAY TO THE TOP OF THE ORANGE County metalcore scene in the late ’90s, largely on the strength of Dan Jacobs and Travis Miguel’s dual-guitar onslaught and the fervid vocals of charismatic frontman Alex More...
Geoff Pesche on Abbey Road Online Mastering (with mp3 audio)
Feb 27, 2010
We covered Abbey Road's Online Mastering service in the March 2010 issue of Guitar Player. Here, Abbey Road engineer Geoff Pesche talks about his approach to mastering in general, and specifically about mastering GP’s test track, More...
Dethklok
Jan 01, 2010
“TV SHOWS CAN GET CANCELED, BUT THERE’S always music, games, and print,” says Brendon Small, co-creator of Adult Swim’s animated Metalocalypse series (now in its third season) and real-life guitarist, producer, and More...
Def Leppard
Jan 01, 2010
THERE’S NOT MUCH THAT CAN BE SAID about Def Leppard that hasn’t already been said on a Behind the Music or Classic Albums episode. For anyone who hasn’t turned on a TV or radio in the past 25 years, their saga goes something More...
Shadows Fall
Dec 01, 2009
YOU’D THINK A BAND WOULD BE PRETTY MUCH SET BY THE TIME IT ROSE FROM THE trenches of a self-produced debut to become one of the most celebrated new metal bands of the decade—and to then ink a deal with the bigwigs at Atlantic. More...
Megadeth
Nov 01, 2009
IN HIS BOOK THE 100 GREATEST METAL Guitarists, Joel McIver reserved the top spot for Dave Mustaine. Such lists always spark hot debate, but the person most surprised about McIver’s choice was Mustaine himself, who expressed More...
Interview Outtakes: Tony Iommi Discusses Sabbath’s Occult Past
Oct 20, 2009
ON THE FIRST BLACK SABBATH ALBUM there were overt references to Lucifer and Satan, and there was an inverted cross image on the British version. After that the references were less specific, and songs like “The Wizard” are almost More...
Rodrigo Sanchez of Rodrigo y Gabriela on the Dimebag Darrell Tribute “Atman” Featuring Testament’s Alex Skolnick
Oct 16, 2009
 Rodrigo Sanchez of Rodrigo y Gabriela on the Dimebag Darrell Tribute “Atman” Featuring Testament’s Alex Skolnick“Dime was a hero to both Gab and I. When Pantera’s Cowboys from Hell album came out in 1990, it was very important More...
Drop Dead Gorgeous’ Kyle Browning on Hot ’n’ Heavy Tone
Oct 01, 2009
Post-hardcore stars Drop Dead, Gorgeous can be pretty tough on gear (check out the equipment-destroying video on their Myspace page for evidence). Here, guitarist Kyle Browning talks about what gear made the cut in the studio More...
Small Talk
Sep 04, 2009
Grind editor Deirdre Jones recently sat down with metal renaissance man Brendon Small, who spilled about Dethklok's latest, Dethalbum II, Metalocalypse season 3, and hosting this weekend's Guitar Player Guitar Superstar More...
Sunday With Tony Iommi
Aug 10, 2009
THE BLACK TOWN CAR CARRYING HEAVEN & HELL BLACK SABBATH GUITARIST TONY IOMMI and his manager Ralph Baker arrived at the GP offices precisely on time.  They’d come directly from SFO after flying in from Seattle, where Heaven More...
Jason Becker
Aug 01, 2009
“I was definitely slowing down by then,” says Becker, who, five years prior to that session, was a 16-year-old wunderkind lighting up the shred scene alongside Marty Friedman in Cacophony. And just one year before that More...
Emotional Rescue: Mastodon Channels Adversity, Anxiety, And Tremendous Riffs Into Crack The Skye
Aug 01, 2009
IT’S A ROCK AND ROLL STORY, AND IT AIN’T TOO PRETTY. MASTODON GUITARIST BRENT Hinds parties hardy at the 2007 Video Music Awards, goes a few rounds with System of a Down bassist Shavo Odadjian and a friend outside Las Vegas’ More...
Yngwie J. Malmsteen
Feb 01, 2009
YNGWIE J. MALMSTEEN DOESN’T DO anything halfway. If he drives a car, it’s a classic Ferrari. When he wants an amp, he lines up a dozen vintage Marshall full-stacks. When he flicks a guitar pick in concert, he launches it to More...
Slipknot
Feb 01, 2009
Looking at them now, it may be hard to imagine the them as children, but Thomson— along with co-guitarist Jim Root, or Number Four—have worked intensely for more than a decade to become key ingredients in the menacing recipe of More...
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