Latest articles by Gregory Adams
Noctule's Serena Cherry: “The leads on this album are a window into my personality – they're euphoric, but also heavy”
The Svalbard guitarist explains how her love of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim informed her debut solo album Wretched Abyss, and why she's a huge power-metal nerd
BRIDEAR: “The charm of this album is that it's not just heavy – it pushed us to play more melodic solos”
Rising Japanese power-metallers Misaki and Ayumi on writing in perfect guitarmony and the blitz of shred that forms new album, Bloody Bride
Karate’s Geoff Farina: "I have an ongoing identity crisis – every six months I’m enamored with some other style of guitar playing"
The mercurial guitarist on rescuing the cult indie-jazz group's catalogue for a new reissue campaign, the evolution of his guitar playing, and building Klon Centaurs with Bill Finnegan
Fleshgod Apocalypse’s Francesco Paoli on pulling a double shift on guitar and drums for the symphonic death-metal masters
When you have a lead guitar player like Fabio Bartoletti, anything's possible says Paoli
Sanguisugabogg: “A lot of people will call us a caveman band because we don’t have solos or leads. I don’t think we ever will!”
Cameron Boggs details the direct death-metal brutalism of the band's groove-splattered, drop G-tuned debut, Tortured Whole
NOFX's Aaron “El Hefe” Abeyta on reworking Linoleum with Avenged Sevenfold and why Fat Mike made him ditch the whammy bar
As the punk-rock legends drop new record Single Album, long-serving guitarist Abeyta reflects on how his six-string role has changed throughout their spirited career
How Brazilian guitarist Prika Amaral rebuilt her Nervosa thrash-metal juggernaut from the ground up
New blood and aggressive riffs put Amaral back on the path to ‘Perpetual Chaos‘
Gargoyl's Dave Davidson: "I like to have some technicality to my solos, but for me it’s more of a storytelling element now"
This multifaceted new band’s brooding songcraft has Revocation axeman Dave Davidson re-evaluating shred
Havok: ”It would be a disservice to play those songs live without a huge PA system that shakes your skeleton”
On multifaceted new album, V, it’s obvious these Colorado thrashers take their sound beyond the fundamentals of the Big Four
Onslaught's Nige Rockett: ”I was consumed with right-hand speed… I was always more interested in the rhythmic side of things”
The guitarist and founder of the British thrash legends on how Generation Antichrist is such a lean, mean thrashing machine
Phil Demmel on the joys of "four dudes jamming covers" in BPMD
“I was a '70s kid, so these are all bands I loved and [that] really got me into heavy music," the former Machine Head guitarist says
The 1975's Adam Hann talks embracing heavy riffs, recording on the road and why he loves John Petrucci's signature model
The versatile pop guitarist reveals the gear and production secrets behind the band's Notes on a Conditional Form - and why they'll never make an album like it again
Warbringer: "We’re not walking on eggshells, as far as the riffs we write. We don't go, 'It’s gotta be thrash!'"
California thrashers Chase Becker and Adam Carroll talk epic tracks, happy accidents and Weapons of Tomorrow
Torche: "Playing blues-based leads makes us feel weird - we're not into that!"
The Miami sludge-metallers discuss their procession of line-up changes and how they made Admission, their best album yet
Cave In's Stephen Brodsky on Final Transmission's bittersweet creative process and 'Secret C' tuning
How the alt-rockers came together following the passing of longtime bassist Caleb Scofield
Black Mountain's Stephen McBean on how Judas Priest and Kiss fed into the stoner-rock vibes on new album, Destroyer
"When I was a pre-teen in my first band, I would have thought Judas Priest seemed a little slow, but then you go back to certain things"
Sunn O))): "Our music is not a violent, destructive thing. It’s an expressive thing"
Drone-metal lords Stephen O’Malley And Greg Anderson discuss the meaning of Life Metal - and their new signature stompbox, the Life Pedal
Double-neck tapping virtuoso Felix Martin: "A lot of Venezuelan music can mix well with progressive metal and fusion"
The Berklee-trained musician tells Guitar World about his mind-boggling 14- and 16-string guitars and his latest album, Caracas
Baroness: "It was easier for us to paint a picture with Fenders than Les Pauls"
John Baizley and Gina Gleason reveal the gear overhaul and studio experimentation behind one of 2019's best albums, Gold & Grey
Jon Spencer: "I’ve still got the virus!"
Garage-punk dynamo Jon Spencer tells GW all about his hard 'n' heavy solo debut
Power Trip Dig Deep with 'Opening Fire: 2008 to 2014'
Steered by the streamlined chugging of their catchy-as-hell “Executioner’s Tax (Swing of the Axe),” Power Trip have been whipping metal crowds into a frenzy across the globe.
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