Vox Realis has already starred on The Kelly Clarkson Show, amassed thousands of social media followers and jammed with a ...

A pick-style player who leans “heavily on the guitar side of the bass guitar,” Campbell gets his tone by cranking his ESP ...

Metallica‘s Kirk Hammett named one particular guitar riff that he believes “shifted heavy metal.” In anew feature with ...

And of course, Hammett says Black Sabbath’s first three albums “are like gospel” to metalheads. Specifically, the Exodus co-founder lists the 1975 song “Symptom of the Universe” as one that changed ...

Sheet metal. Beer cans. Pieces of chain. Not items you’ll typically find on the BOM for a custom guitar. But nobody told [Maarten van Halderen] that, and so he threw them all together into a ...

Metallica legend Kirk Hammett shares his exclusive list of 11 albums he thinks every guitarist should own as part of ...

Rudy Sarzo is one of the most respected bassists in all rock and heavy metal. He’s also of the kindest, and busiest, players in the biz. As bassist with Quiet Riot and Ozzy Osbourne, Sarzo worked — ...

The Who and Jeff Beck tried adding feedback to their music, and many drummers started to play louder to compete with the guitars. A brief history of rock music: part one The first heavy metal acts ...

Bassist Steve Harris founded Iron Maiden in the mid-1970s, but was waylaid for years playing ... guitar front line). Now a sextet, Iron Maiden quickly regained their status atop the heavy metal ...