As the budget gear market continues to make strides, I pitched my high-end live rig against the cheapest alternative rig to ...

The Alice In Chains icon took his abilities to new heights on I Want Blood, chasing new tones, going hard with the riffs, and ...

In an exclusive Q&A with Revolver, the Sword’s riff master discusses the “weird” path of isolation and loss that led to the ...

Everybody loves bass ... the heavy in heavy metal, For Whom The Bell Tolls is a Cliff Burton special. Metallica's original bassist wrote the song and played the famous intro (with heavy distortion), ...

Common wisdom holds that the bass player is the “quiet one” in a band, playing essential parts ... but as a speed-metal bassist, he found it absolutely necessary to play a whole lot more.

American heavy metal band, Nevermore ... but [drummer] Van Williams and me have decided to bring the band back and find a new bass player and a new vocalist. So that’s what we’re doing ...

Here are 11 rock and metal bands who've concurrently used two or more drummers! Usually, a band needs only one drummer to set the tempo; spice things up with tricky fills and solos; and dive into ...

Before we can dive into bands who are wrongly labeled hair metal, we must ask ourselves: what exactly defines hair metal? Is it the teased hair? The extravagant stage garb and makeup? Songs about ...

The Guitar Show returns to Birmingham’s Cranmore Park on 1-2 March, with the country’s largest guitar event set to feature a ...

Venue owners Ruzvelt Stevanovski and Krystle Dzajkovskalt said Monday they were blindsided by the nature of the metal show and abruptly halted it as the second of seven scheduled bands performed ...

Owners of Harpos, the longstanding rock club on Detroit's east side, are apologizing for hosting a concert Saturday night featuring metal bands with neo-Nazi affiliations. Venue owner Krystle ...

While heavy music, specifically black metal, has been at the core of Deafheaven’s sound for the majority of their career, the band’s previous 2021 LP Infinite Granite saw them take a sharp ...