Timeless, iconic, yet also indisputably a product of the era in which it was designed, the Stratocaster was shaped in huge part by a few oft-overlooked players – one of whom suggested the whammy bar s ...

It just makes it a little easier to adjust the hardware. The individual saddles found on many Fender guitars like our old Squier Strat below require a small hex/allen key to adjust the string ...

Black metal has its share of legendary guitarists and, here, we go especially deep to name the subgenre's 11 best.

If you’re familiar with the Revocation guitarist’s taste in instruments, you’ll know what to expect. The Pro Series David Davidson Warrior WR7 is all sharp edges, a hyper-aggressive X-style ...

Unsurprisingly, music lessons were a struggle but, when he was about 17, he saw a strange guitar hanging in a pawnshop window in Downtown Los Angeles. “I had never seen anything quite like it ...

Here is your 2025 hard rock + metal album release calendar and all of this week's newest albums! Each week is loaded with new rock and metal releases and keeping track of it all can be pretty ...

Wind up the hate machine, all you folks that don’t like fun in your metal — Japanese kawaii-metal band Babymetal announced this morning that they’re releasing a new album on June 13 titled Metal Forth ...

The band is a kind of Lord of the Rings pantomime act with a hobbit and elf shredding on guitars, and it is here, a mere hour after watching Bristolian thrash metal band Onslaught that I have a ...

There are many on the market, but which are the best audio interfaces for guitar? Even if you don’t have designs on becoming the next Eric Valentine or Jack Antonoff, you still stand to benefit ...

Electricity? Overrated… ‘Real’ guitarists know that a guitar’s genuine excitement is best earned via the more personal connection of the player plus the resonant wooden body of an acoustic. Decades ...

Meanwhile, we delve into the fangtastic history of Cradle Of Filth, uncovering the murderous tourmates and wanking nuns that gave them a reputation as Britain's most outrageous metal band. Guitar ...

Acoustic guitars aren’t very metal. That is, until you hear the intro of Metallica’s Fade to Black, or till Black Sabbath’s Planet Caravan sparks a compulsion to turn the overdrive down and jam the ...