Paul Gilbert's Big Shred

Feb 14 2012 12:00AM
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 12:00AM
Omar Rodriguez Lopez keeps his creative throttle set to interstellar overdrive. More...

Anthrax

Feb 13 2012 12:00AM
“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. More...

Brev Sullivan Re-Animates the ’80s

Feb 14 2012 12:00AM
MIAMI-BASED BREV SULLIVAN IS ON A COLLISION course with the 1980s. More...

Russian Circles' Mike Sullivan

Feb 8 2012 12:00AM
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 12:00AM
“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...

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

Jan 3 2012 12:00AM
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...

Mark Tremonti and Myles Kennedy

Oct 21 2011 12:00AM
“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...

Black Tide Brings It

Sep 19 2011 12:00AM
“BLACK TIDE SOUNDS LIKE FOUR PISSED OFF TEENAGERS who listen to too much good music,” says the band’s bassist, Zakk Sandler. More...

Tosin Abasi and Javier Reyes

Sep 15 2011 12:00AM
WITH A TIDY, GREEN LAWN EXTENDING TO THE SIDEWALK AND pleasant looking floral drapes hanging inside the living room window, the single-family North Hollywood home looks ordinary enough. More...

Glen Drover's "Metalusion"

Aug 17 2011 12:00AM
“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. More...

Cradle of Filth's Paul Allender

Jun 14 2011 12:00AM
“I DON’T WANT TO JUST CRAM A MILLION NOTES INTO an available space,” explains Cradle of Filth guitarist Paul Allender. More...

Yngwie Malmsteen

Feb 25 2011 1:00AM
“ONE DAY I TOOK MY SON TO BEST BUY TO BUY HIM A video game,” says neo-classical metal shred god Yngwie Malmsteen. More...

Stone Sour

Feb 1 2011 1:00AM
"For this album I wanted to push us in a bit of a different direction than we had been going,” More...

Five Pivotal Shows

Feb 1 2011 1:00AM
I was 14 years old and a huge Lizzy fan. More...

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