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ORDER FROM CHAOS

Three albums into their reunion phase, The Nightmare of Being finds Swedish death metalers At the Gates addressing their legacy while pushing off into wild new horizons

Discipline

Robert Fripp's 20 greatest guitar moments

GUITAR SHOPPING WITH SLASH

THAT TIME SLASH AND GW’S RICHARD BIENSTOCK SPENT A LOVELY AFTERNOON BROWSING — AND BUYING! — AT NORMAN’S RARE GUITARS IN TARZANA, CALIFORNIA

FAR BEYOND DRIVEN

NO MATTER WHAT KIND OF MUSIC YOU’RE INTO, THERE’S AN OVERDRIV PEDAL (OR TWO) FOR YOU. IN THIS ISS WE ROUND UP EIGHT OF OUR FAVORIT

Joanne Shaw Taylor

"With Joe Bonamassa at the helm, the heralded british guitarist tackles 11 awesomely obscure blues gems by Little Milton, Magic Sam, Albert King and more"

2021 News of the (Guitar) World

Lean back, crack open that broadsheet and get ready for the splashiest guitar-centric news stories of 2021!

2021 a Few of Our Favorite Things

Like the headline says, here’s a solid sampling of new gear that struck our fancy over the past 12 months

Gravel and Grail

ELECTRO-HARMONIX DIRT ROAD SPECIAL

IN DEEP

DREAM WEAVER

Performance Notes

HOW TO PLAY THIS MONTH’S SONGS

HOWLIN' MULE

Believe it or not, GOV’T MULE’S latest album, Heavy Load Blues, is WARREN HAYNES’ first foray into full-on blues (and it all happened while they were recording another album entirely)

FOR THOSE ABOUT TO ROCK

And now, everything a guitarist needs TO HEADBANG ON A BUDGET, including five metal-friendly axes for under $500

Zakk's Dirty Dozen

From Ozzy Osbourne's “Miracle Man” to Generation Axe’s “Highway Star,” Zakk Wylde Discusses 12 Musical Milestones From A Career Spanning More Than Three Decades

Love at First Stang

Fender Kurt Cobain Jag-Stang

Blitzkrieg Rock

PUNK LEGEND BRIAN BAKER KEEPS BAD RELIGION — AND FAKE NAMES, HIS LATEST PUNK SUPERGROUP — ROLLING WITH HIS STASH OF VINTAGE GUITARS

Twice As Nice

FENDER DUAL MARINE LAYER REVERB AND DUEL PUGILIST DISTORTION

Separated at Birth

DID YOU KNOW KIRK HAMMETT’S FAMOUS AND HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT 1959 GIBSON LES PAUL, GREENY, HAS A SIBLING? AND THAT IT’S OWNED BY HIS FRIEND, GIBSON BRAND PRESIDENT CESAR GUEIKIAN? NEITHER DID THEY! UNTIL VERY RECENTLY...

Rockabilly Renaissance Man

CANADIAN GUITARIST PAUL PIGAT GETS BACK TO BASICS ON COUSIN HARLEY’S LET’S GO!

The ROYAL TREATMENT

SIX-STRING HEAVYWEIGHT ERIC GALES DISCUSSES HIS TRIUMPHANT NEW ALBUM, CROWN, AND HIS JOURNEY TO ULTIMATE BLUES SALVATION

Romance Play - EASTMAN ROMEO LA

IF YOU’RE IN the market for a thin-line semi-hollow electric, there’s never been a better time to shop than the present. Whereas only a few years ago the selection was pretty much limited to large, double-cutaway 335-style models with a pair of humbucking pickups, today one can find semi-hollow guitars in a variety of body sizes and styles with a wider variety of pickup and electronic configurations.

KINGPIN of the BLUES

JOE BONAMASSA RETURNS WITH TIME CLOCKS, HIS STRONGEST AND MOST DIVERSE ALBUM TO DATE — AND ALSO DISCUSSES HIS NEWFOUND ROLE AS 2021’S FOREMOST BLUES/ROCK IMPRESARIO

Orange Is the New Shred

Dean Guitars Md24 Floyd Roasted Maple

Echoes From Another World

Cheap Trick's RICK NIELSEN talks John Lennon, Jeff Beck, "cool little guitars" and the band's milestone 20th album, In Another World

SENDING UP A FLARE

Sedulous tone maverick explains how simply recording big, hairy, gnarly guitar riffs into his iPhone became his “life raft for sanity,” getting him out of his bunker, forging new connections and birthing a creative oasis amid the chaos

THE COMMITTED SINNER

JOHN 5 — a guy who really, really, really loves playing guitar — tells you everything you need to know about SINNER, his brand-new solo album featuring a QUEEN cover, some carefully hone driffs — and guest appearances by DAVE MUSTAINE and KISS man PETER CRISS

ONWARDS

STALWART YES GUITARIST STEVE HOWE ON THE INSPIRATION, TONES AND SENTIMENT BEHIND THE QUEST, THE PROG-ROCK MASTERS’ FIRST STUDIO ALBUM SINCE THE PASSING OF FOUNDING BASSIST CHRIS SQUIRE

Port Authority

GIBSON GENERATION G-00 AND G-200 ACOUSTICS

Metallica in the Black

Thirty years after famously fracturing the world of metal (and heavy rock in general), metallica’s self-titled 1991 masterpiece — aka the Black Album — is getting the deluxe reissue treatment. In this exclusive interview, James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett pull back the veil on the album that became “the master key to everything”

Young 'N' Hungry Dirty Honey

Dirty Honey guitarist John Notto explains why this riff-fueled Los Angeles four-piece is ready for literally anything — including the big, big, big time

Blacklisted!

On the Metallica Blacklist, 53 acts try their hand at reinterpreting one of the Black album’s 12 tracks in their own voice. Here, four artists — St. Vincent, Ghost’s Tobias Forge, Royal Blood’s Mike Kerr and Rodrigo y Gabriela’s Rodrigo Sánchez — discuss how they did it, and what Metallica means to each of them.