Latest articles by Sam Roche
Sick Riffs: Liam Beeson teaches you the technical onslaught of Brand of Sacrifice's Casca
Behold: a masterclass in irregular time signatures and pinpoint accuracy
James Hetfield launches his first-ever signature guitar strings with Ernie Ball
“It's only taken 40 years for me to have my own strings – come on!”
Currents' Chris Wiseman serves up destructive 7-string riffs aplenty in this exclusive playthrough
Monsters is taken from the band's latest release, The Way It Ends
Sick Riffs: Cody Quistad teaches you the earth-shattering main riff of Wage War's Who I Am
The track is taken from the band's latest album, Pressure
Sick Riffs: Josh Baines teaches you the crushing, time signature-fluid riffs of Malevolence's Remain Unbeaten
The track is taken from the band's recently released EP, The Other Side
Sick Riffs: Dave Rude teaches you the ultra-melodic, bend-driven solo from Tesla's The Mission
Try your hand at this quintessential hard-rocker
The L.A. Maybe deliver a scorching playthrough of AC/DC-inspired debut single, Mr. Danger
Guitarists Dallas Dwight and Drizzle Silvera crank the gain and unleash riffs worthy of the Aussie rock gods
Sick Riffs: Arran Day teaches you the classic-rock lead lines of These Wicked Rivers' Floyd
The track is taken from the band's recently released debut album, Eden
Fit For An Autopsy's Patrick Sheridan obliterates No Man is Without Fear in this dizzying playthrough
The brutal track is taken from the band's 2019 album, The Sea of Tragic Beasts
Harley Benton just launched a $91 guitar for metal players
The unbelievably affordable TE-20HH SBK boasts a basswood body, maple neck and all-over Satin Black finish
Ibanez revives the RG565 with new Genesis Collection model
The new incarnation of the shred classic is made in Japan, and comes in Emerald Green and Fluorescent Orange finishes
Sick Riffs: Learn the savage death-metal dissonance of Ingested's Invidious
Guitarist Sean Hynes takes you through the track's heavy hooks
Sick Riffs: Learn the monster 12/8 groove from All Hail The Yeti's Cold Dead Leaves
Dave Vanderlinde teaches the yet-to-be-released track, which will feature on the band's upcoming EP
Someone built a guitar that tases you for missing a note
Is this the most masochistic guitar learning device ever conceived?
Johnny Ramone's iconic 1965 Mosrite Ventures II guitar sells at auction for $937,500
The battered offset was used by the guitarist on every single Ramones album, as well as at almost 2,000 of the band's shows between 1977 and 1996
Avenged Sevenfold’s Synyster Gates is also a world-class gypsy jazz guitarist – watch him channel Django Reinhardt in this insane performance
A new A7X album is on the horizon, at last. While you wait, feast your eyes and ears on this killer Minor Swing-inspired acoustic performance
Solar Guitars unveils striking new 7-string signature model for Heavy As Texas guitarist Marzi Montazeri
The eye-catching Type E sports a pair of hot-wound Duncan Solar Alnico VIIIs. “These guys really sing,” the former Phil Anselmo riff maestro says
From hell-raising garage-punk to towering shred storms: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
Bring some fresh heat to your playlist with new, guitar-led tunes from Jared James Nichols, Kings of Chaos, Pomegranate Tiger, Nita Strauss, Theory of a Deadman, Sgt. Papers, koleżanka and more
G&L launches highly limited ASAT Classic Thinline model
The limited-edition six-string boasts Magnetic Field Design pickups and comes in two colorways each limited to 50 units worldwide
3 hell-raising bands taking modern metal guitar to new heights
Meet a trio of bands with huge potential – delivering frenetic alternate picking, über-melodic chord runs, speaker-rattling feedback and the inevitable barrage of brutal riffs...
Watch Alex Lifeson and Robby Krieger join forces for 8-minute jam of Santana's Evil Ways
The Rush and Doors guitarists traded smooth Latin-inspired classic rock leads at a recent benefit concert in California
Positive Grid launches OMNYSS, a collection of amps and effects for “epic soundscapes and massive tonal exploration”
The software looks to be Positive Grid's answer to Neural DSP, featuring three amps spanning “heavenly cleans to visceral heavy tone”, plus synth and polyphonic octave effects
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Marco Puglisi – aka Syndrone – recruits Andy Gillion for a no-holds-barred guitar playthrough of Android God Revolution
The seven-minute shred marathon features on the 2019 Guitarist of the Year finalist's latest Syndrone full-length, Neogenesis
