Black Tide Brings It

Sep 19,2011
Black Tide under the wire (left to right)—Garcia, drummer Steven Spence, Diaz, and bassist Zakk Sandler.“BLACK TIDE SOUNDS LIKE FOUR PISSED OFF TEENAGERS who listen to too much good music,” says the band’s bassist, Zakk More...

Tosin Abasi and Javier Reyes

Sep 15,2011
Animals as Leaders on stage (left to right)— Javier Reyes, Navene Koperweis, and Tosin Abasi.WITH A TIDY, GREEN LAWN EXTENDING TO THE SIDEWALK AND pleasant looking floral drapes hanging inside the living room window, More...

Mark Tremonti and Myles Kennedy

Oct 21,2011
“The more we toured and the more Myles played guitar onstage, we began to realize how good of a guitarist he actually is,” says Alter Bridge guitarist and mastermind Mark Tremonti about the band’s lead singer and co-guitarist More...

Megadeth's Dave Mustaine

Mar 22,2012
“I could have been the biggest guitar player in the world, if only I had been able to handle my fists—and my thirst,” wrote Dave Mustaine near the close of his 2010 autobiography, Mustaine: A Heavy Metal Memoir. It’s a clear More...

Cradle of Filth's Paul Allender

Jun 14,2011
“I DON’T WANT TO JUST CRAM A MILLION NOTES INTO an available space,” explains Cradle of Filth guitarist Paul Allender. “I’d much rather play some meaningful notes in the right places. It’s all about having the music More...

Dave Mustaine on Playing with Metallica at the Band’s 30th Anniversary Celebration

Jan 3,2012
Metallica played series of shows at San Francisco’s Fillmore Auditorium to celebrate the band’s 30th anniversary. Once-upon-a-time Metallica lead guitarist and ever-since-then Megadeth maestro Dave Mustaine performed with More...

Russian Circles' Mike Sullivan

Feb 8,2012
Chicago-based instrumental trio Russian Circles takes its name from a hockey maneuver that involves skating in circles—a fitting moniker considering the band’s combination of brute muscularity and fleet dexterity, and the key More...

Max Cavalera

Feb 3,2012
“I love riffs,” states metal icon and Cavalera Conspiracy namesake, Max Cavalera. “I’ll sit there and hammer out riff after riff after riff, record them all, and save them for later. It’s amazing to me that, after all of More...

Brev Sullivan Re-Animates the ’80s

Feb 14,2012
MIAMI-BASED BREV SULLIVAN IS ON A COLLISION course with the 1980s. The son of legendary jazz trumpeter Ira Sullivan, he was already playing in the ’80s metal tribute band Lazy Bonez when through a fortuitous Facebook More...

Paul Gilbert's Big Shred

Feb 14,2012
Back in the blazing ’80s, it seemed like so many long-haired kids with guitars could play so damn fast that it was often difficult to tell them apart. Mike Varney saw something different in a 15-year-old from Greensburg, PA, More...

Omar Rodriguez Lopez

Feb 13,2012
Omar Rodriguez Lopez keeps his creative throttle set to interstellar overdrive. He doesn’t bask in the achievements of his previous band, At the Drive-In, his ten-years-and-counting blockbuster the Mars Volta, his production More...

Anthrax

Feb 13,2012
“It’s obviously not normal to take so long to make a record,” says Anthrax’s Rob Caggiano. “But I think we used those four years to our advantage. We were able to live with the tunes for a long time and push them as far as we More...

Glen Drover's "Metalusion"

Aug 17,2011
“I had been out of Megadeth for a few months, and I started to get a little antsy,” says shredder extraordinaire and former Megadeth and King Diamond guitarist Glen Drover. “So I figured, I have a full studio in my house, I may More...

Five Finger Death Punch

Apr 17,2012
“I arrived in the United States with one guitar, a bag of clothes, and no idea how to speak English,” says Hungarian-born Zoltan Bathory. “After starting about 35 bands, I finally threw everything I love about heavy More...

Guitar In Pictures

Apr 16,2012
Guitars have always played a role in film and television music. From George M. Smith’s pioneering work for Paramount Studios in the ’30s and ’40s to Bob Bain’s radical riffing on Henry Mancini’s Peter Gunn theme in 1958 to More...

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