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

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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 ...

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 ...

When it was announced late last week that Mastodon and guitarist/vocalist Brent Hinds were splitting up after 25 years, it shocked the metal community. What would happen to Mastodon? Why was this only ...

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While employees at the Nashville headquarters of Gibson Guitars were ordered to stay home starting last week, the company is forcing more than 300 factory workers to continue reporting for duty ...