And just like the rest of us, Cocchi’s approach to guitar has dramatically evolved over the years – to the point where his original guitar hero sounds nothing like the band he’s famous for playing in.

Now that I have practical guitar skills, I’m ready to spread my wings into the songwriting course. Kirk Hammett wrote the famous riff for “Creeping Death” when he was only 16 years old, so I’m a ...

Tetrarch guitarist Diamond Rowe recently made history with the launch of her signature guitar - the first signature Jackson for a female player, and as the first artist model for a black female ...

The metal icon details his prized guitars in a new feature for Gibson TV. Metallica’s Kirk Hammett: Burger King Job Helped ...

Finally captured on record on their second album of the year, Cutouts, the all-timer of a riff that drives Eyes & Mouth is ...

An underrated part of the songwriting process is the environment in which the writer creates. Some little detail can push the song in a direction it might not have otherwise taken. Even the sound of ...

We knew Metallica was headlining. Now we know the rest of Sick New World’s 2025 lineup. And it’s a doozy. Among the bands who will be performing at the heavy music fest’s return on April 12 ...

Recently, we played a show in Cleveland, and some guy in a Godzilla costume showed up and started going nuts in the pit,” Lord Kaiju, the singer and guitarist for the death metal band Oxygen Destroyer ...

Where you were on January 18, 1991? History was in the making in the library at The Evergreen State College when the local, ...

Metallica and Linkin Park will headline Sick New World 2025 as part of a stacked lineup that also boasts Evanescence, Acid Bath, Queens Of The Stone Age, Gojira, Mastodon, Enemy, Testament and more.

The preeminent magazine about “axes” has finally gotten the axe. Guitar Player will halt publication after almost 58 years, putting out one last issue on Oct. 15, with an interview with Led ...

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