Latest articles by Richard Bienstock
Get 2022 off to a rockin’ start with the sixth installment of Guitar World’s New Year New Gear guide
GW’s Paul Riario and Alan Chaput dive into the Epiphone Joan Jett Signature Olympic Special electric, CloudVocal ISOLO GT-10 wireless system and PRS Private Stock Orianthi Limited Edition guitar
Get 2022 off to a rockin’ start with the fifth installment of Guitar World’s New Year New Gear guide
GW’s Paul Riario and Alan Chaput dive into the Vola Vasti KJM J1, Lava Music Lava Me 3 and Mooer GTRS guitars
Get 2022 off to a rockin’ start with the third installment of Guitar World’s New Year New Gear guide
GW’s Paul Riario and Alan Chaput dive into ESP's LTD Arrow-1000FR, Kramer’s Pacer Classic and PRS’ S2 Custom 24-08 and SE Standard 24-08 guitars
Get 2022 off to a rockin’ start with the second installment of Guitar World’s New Year New Gear guide
GW’s Paul Riario and Alan Chaput dive into Dean’s Exile guitars, IK Multimedia AmpliTube X-Gear pedals and Godlyke’s TWA Triskelion Harmonic Energizer Mk. III stompbox
Zakk Wylde reflects on three decades of Ozzy Osbourne’s No More Tears
The Prince of Darkness’s most successful album was a life-changer – 30 years on, Wylde looks back on an "ass-kicking time"
Get 2022 off to a rockin’ start with Guitar World’s New Year New Gear guide
GW’s Paul Riario and Alan Chaput dive into PRS’s SE Silver Sky, Maestro Electronics’ Original Collection of pedals and Gator’s Elite Guitar X Stands
Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons rate Kiss's lead guitarists and reflect on the band's history in this classic 2014 GW interview
In their five decades as a band, Kiss have had five lead guitarists. Here, the band's core members reflect on each of them – their strengths, their weaknesses, and how they meshed with the rest of the band
Zakk Wylde reflects on 12 musical milestones from a career spanning more than three decades
From Ozzy Osbourne’s Miracle Man to Generation Axe’s Highway Star and beyond, Wylde breaks down his finest moments
![[L-R] Zakk Wylde and Dario Lorina of Black Label Society](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/u9rbaMW9LCwSNbpJyGJU9B-840-80.jpg.webp)
Black Label Society: “When you rehearse too much before recording, you take away all the spontaneity, all the magic, all the fire. You suck the life out of the thing”
Doom Crew Inc. is the first-ever complete Black Label Society album to feature a second guitarist. Here, guitar duo Zakk Wylde and Dario Lorina escort you deep into the temple of doom...
AC/DC's Angus and Malcolm Young: "Most of our early tracks speed up toward the end. After the guitar solo we’d start to take off!"
In this classic Guitar World interview from 2003, the brothers Young revisit the albums and songs that made them guitar giants
Watch Ruben Wan conjure awesome electric and acoustic tones from the PRS SE Hollowbody II Piezo guitar
First piezo-equipped SE model boasts 58/15 humbuckers, LR Baggs/PRS Piezo system and dual output jacks for a wealth of sounds
Watch Paul Riario conjure a ‘new species of swirl’ with the Eventide TriceraChorus pedal
Innovative stompbox offers bucket brigade-style chorus with MicroPitch detuning, three chorus voices and much more
Watch Paul Riario rev up the 'next-level' Dean MD24 Floyd Roasted Maple electric
Streamlined shred machine boasts Floyd Rose tremolo, Seymour Duncan humbuckers and roasted maple neck and fingerboard for maximum playing impact
Watch Paul Riario get a big tone from Martin’s new 'crisp and loud' Grand J-16E 12-string acoustic
Full-sized jumbo boasts reduced body thickness, high-performance taper neck profile for easy playability
Watch guitar ace Nili Brosh crank it up with the new Blackstar Dept. 10 valve-loaded pedals
Dual Drive, Dual Distortion and Boost effects feature ECC83 triodes, over 200V of power, Cab Rig sim and more
Watch RJ Ronquillo conjure super-personalized tones with the OPFXS V-Uno Reprogrammable Guitar Pedal
"It’s like you get to design a pedal from the ground up yourself,” he says about the innovative multi-effects stompbox
Watch guitar ace Sophie Burrell try out the "mega-impressive" NUX Mighty Air wireless stereo modeling amp
Compact 10-watt powerhouse boasts two modes, seven channels, Bluetooth connectivity, a dedicated app for tone tweaking and much more
Robben Ford on why making an instrumental record was a good excuse to play a lot more music
The blues-rock-jazz ace’s latest album, Pure, is a tour de force of compositional imagination, and reminds us he should leave the guitar dojo more often
Get the holiday gear fires burning with the final installment of Guitar World’s Holiday Ultimate Gear Guide
GW’s Paul Riario and Alan Chaput dive into Gibson’s Generation Collection G-45 acoustic, Gator’s ICON gig bags and TASCAM’s Mixcast 4 Podcast Studio
Watch guitar phenom Nili Brosh smash sonic boundaries with the “powerful” new IK Multimedia AmpliTube X-Gear pedals
IK’s first-ever hardware effects line offers overdrive, reverb, modulation and delay pedals, each with 16 all-new algorithms and much more
Get the holiday gear fires burning with the third installment of Guitar World’s Holiday Ultimate Gear Guide
GW’s Paul Riario and Alan Chaput dive into Baldacci’s Bighorn electric, IK Multimedia’s AmpliTube X-GEAR pedals and Cort’s X-700 Mutility multi-scale guitar
Witherfall's Jake Dreyer: "We don't sit down and say, ‘We've got to make this the hardest thing to play ever.’ It just happens to sometimes come out that way"
The Witherfall guitarist on the eclectic range of influences that forge the band's new album, Curse of Autumn
Get the gear fires burning with the first installment of Guitar World’s Holiday Ultimate Gear Guide
GW’s Paul Riario and Alan Chaput dive into PRS’s SE P20E Lotus Pink acoustic, Eventide’s TriceraChorus pedal and Guitareo.com’s online instructional courses
Yngwie Malmsteen: “I’ve never practiced in the true meaning of the word. From the first time I picked up a guitar when I was 7, in my head I was a performer”
On this year's Parabellum, everyone’s favorite Ferrari-driving guitar legend tackles all the vocals and instruments (except drums). The result? An Yngwie-on-steroids shred extravaganza
