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...

Military Metal Five Finger Death Punch Rock the Troops

Nov 1,2010
Five Finger Death Punch was founded by Hungarian-born guitarist Zoltan Bathory in 2005, and the band’s kick-ass-and-take-names approach has endeared it to not only fans of heavy music across the globe, but also to More...

Jeff Loomis

Nov 1,2010
Nevermore’s Jeff Loomis is shaping up to be one of the leading lights of a new generation of metal shredders. He can not only play crushingly heavy riffs and blazing solos, but he can also throw in bluesy bends, interesting More...

The Scorpions

Nov 1,2010
Auf Wiedersehen. In America, we take this German phrase to mean “goodbye,” although a more apt translation might be “until we meet again.” Scorpions fans will surely hope for the latter definition, but the current album, 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...

Drew Goddard And Mark Hosking Of Karnivool

Jan 1,2011
By Damien Castaneda  Goddard (left) and Hosking wielding their workhorse PRS guitars.“I think about guitar sounds like a soft rubbery ball covered in glass, frilly bits hanging off of it and all,” says Karnivool’s Andrew More...

Yngwie Malmsteen

Feb 25,2011
“ONE DAY I TOOK MY SON TO BEST BUY TO BUY HIM A video game,” says neo-classical metal shred god Yngwie Malmsteen. “Well, the guy who works there recognized me and he pulls out this little plastic guitar and starts playing “Smoke More...

Five Pivotal Shows

Feb 1,2011
BY KIRK HAMMETT1) THIN LIZZY OCTOBER 1, 1977 I was 14 years old and a huge Lizzy fan. When my friends and I found out they were coming to town we literally ran to our local music store to buy tickets. Thin Lizzy were touring More...

Stone Sour

Feb 1,2011
‘‘For this album I wanted to push us in a bit of a different direction than we had been going,” explains Stone Sour guitarist Jim Root. “We spent so much time trying to do the opposite of Slipknot, we started losing sight of what More...

Rob Arnold and Matt Devries Of Chimaira

Dec 1,2010
ANY METAL BAND WORTH ITS WEIGHT IN GRIT, GROWL, AND GRIND SPENDS a lot of time on the road, and Cleveland, Ohio’s Chimaira is certainly no exception. They’ve proven their, er, mettle, over a decade chock-full of More...

Zakk Wylde

Dec 1,2010
IT’S INTERESTING TO LOOK AT ZAKK WYLDE AS ONE OF THE ELDER statesmen of metal, but think about it: He got his gig with Ozzy over 20 years ago. In the decades in between, he has created a recognizable style characterized by a huge 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...

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