Billy Strings will appear on a death metal album later this year. Here are a few bands we want to see him work with in the future.

He says James Hetfield and co. scalped ideas from the tape, which he left behind after being fired from the band in 1983 ...

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Halestorm, Lord Of The Lost and Babymetal are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

"Johnny Winter showed me a lot,” said the guitarist, who died May 26. Little did he know he would himself prove influential ...

magnets pick up electricity, and they make the sound. Strings are a certain distance above or below. The neck needs to bow at just a precise angle, etc. A good luthier can solve those math equations, ...

So if you’re looking to break out of your acoustic guitar-picking rut, I strongly recommend you shell (get it?) out for a D’Addario casein pick. (For the same price, you can also get exactly ...

Oh, and there are chrome knurled metal control knobs too to match the chrome ... and regularly contributes to MusicRadar, Total Guitar and Guitar World. He uses Jazz III nylon picks, 10s during the ...

The 62-year-old, who joined Metallica in 1983, makes the admission during an exclusive interview with Metal Hammer, when asked how he feels about the state of modern guitar playing. “I see a lot of ...