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Mar 01, 2010
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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
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Feb 27, 2010
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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,
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Jan 01, 2010
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“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
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Jan 01, 2010
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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
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Dec 01, 2009
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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.
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Nov 01, 2009
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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
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Oct 20, 2009
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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
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Oct 16, 2009
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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
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Oct 01, 2009
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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
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Sep 04, 2009
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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
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Aug 10, 2009
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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
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Aug 01, 2009
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“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
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Aug 01, 2009
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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’
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Feb 01, 2009
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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
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Feb 01, 2009
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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
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