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 ...

With the final night at Sheffield’s iconic rave warehouse, Hope Works, happening this weekend, we look back at what made it ...

In an exclusive Q&A with Revolver, the Sword’s riff master discusses the “weird” path of isolation and loss that led to the band’s return, his excitement for their future and why any new music “is not ...

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 ...

Band breakups can be quite dramatic, but there are actually quite a few rock and metal bands that have broken up onstage — or right after a show. Growing tensions within a band can snowball and ...

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