There's no rulebook as to what makes a band great, but some musicians didn't need to have a basic understanding of theory to ...

The most exciting event in the guitar gear calendar is back ... who worked with Eddie Van Halen, Steve Vai, James Hetfield and more during his career. It sounds killer, looks the business ...

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Although they play it fairly traditionally, Metallica’s James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett bring a different ... The power of his raspy voice, the growl on “rockets’ red glare” and his skillful guitar ...

Luthier Ken Lawrence has been equipping one of the biggest names in metal, James Hetfield, with some truly iconic axes for the best part of three decades – most famously ‘Carl’, which was made out of ...

World-renowned boutique electric guitar maker James Tyler Guitars has announced the JTG Series – a collection of six-strings that will be built overseas in China. It’s a significant ...

Metallica spent about two years writing and recording both 1996's Load and 1997's Reload. The two albums were written at the same time, with the Reload songs being ones Metallica didn't feel were ...

Although Rob Halford and Ronnie James Dio have shown the world what virtuosos could be like with heavy guitars behind them ... assault the listener’s senses with every word. While James Hetfield ...

During a Planet Rock interview last year, which was shared on Cliff Burton’s birthday, James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett ...

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