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Out Of This World…

BABYMETAL power up as they head for the stars on their most OTT album to date…

Loose Cannons

KNOCKED LOOSE and friends send Tokyo Bay loco at Japan’s BLOODAXE FESTIVAL…

Bow Before Your Papa

Their Kerrang! Award-winning fourth album PREQUELLE took GHOST from cult concern to global superstars. But the arena-filling congregation of fans is growing restless for clues as to what’s next for Cardinal Copia, Papa Nihil and the ministry. Let TOBIAS FORGE, then, take you behind the mask and into the making of – and future plans for – a band like no other…

Living Forever?

Brit grime-metaller SCARLXRD returns sooner than expected. Yep, he’s still really aggro…

The Party's Not Over…

THE MENZINGERS contemplate life, punk and death as they continue to get older and wiser…

Action Men…

DON BROCO easily charm the Big Apple as they take on America

The Real Thing

MUSE continue to challenge reality as they bring Simulation Theory back to the capital…

A Life Less Ordinary

There are rock stars and then there are people in bands who play rock music. SPIELBERGS are the latter, yet the Oslo trio have produced one of 2019’s brightest debut albums in THIS IS NOT THE END, mining universal truths from everyday ordinariness…

New Noise - Goodbye June

Memphis-based family outfit paying tribute with the power of the riff…

Scream For Me, Download!

Ready for festival season 2020 yet? Good, because DOWNLOAD have just announced their first names for next year’s line-up – including huge headliners IRON MAIDEN, KISS and SYSTEM OF A DOWN…

Slum Dunk's Top Dons

Having marked themselves as an arena band in 2019, DON BROCO will be able to add another achievement to their name: SLAM DUNK headliners! And there’s even more on the line-up to get excited about…

Leader Of The Opposition

The journey of creating and touring fifth album THE SPARK has, over the course of the past few years, shaped ROU REYNOLDS into one of rock’s most vital voices. Those experiences and life lessons changed him forever. What follows next? It may just be ENTER SHIKARI’s defining moment…

Napalm Death, Thirty Years of Raising Hell With Barney Greenway

"Napalm Death Play Really Fucking Nasty, Horrible Music… But Lyrically It’s All About Love, Peace and Humanity".

Vince Gill

Bluegrass maestro and parttime Eagle reflects on his love for the Ryman Auditorium and how golf has kept him sane…

Raising The Tone - Stringing Along

In the first of a series on strings and their influence on tone, editor Jamie meets blues-rock heavyweight Philip sayce

The Mexican Connection

American instruments with a Mexican twist: the story of Fender’s journey from Fullerton, California to Baja California

True Colours

A pair of acoustic guitars at contrasting price points from a builder based in the Czech Republic – how will they fare in today’s highly competitive marketplace?

Pickup Lines - Custom P-90s

In the third part of our focus on P-90s, we meet with Lindy Fralin to find out how his classic pickup design can be tweaked to meet the needs of today’s discerning guitarist

Out Of This World

This new design from Supro – with collaborative input from Keeley Electronics and amp legend Bruce Zinky – could well end your quest for the perfect tone

No Solder

It’s 50 years since man landed on the moon, but when it comes to the electrics in your guitar,we’re still in the dark ages, reckons Dave burrluck

Long Termers

A few months’ gigging, recording and everything that goes with it – welcome to Guitarist ’s longterm test report

The Mexican Connection

American instruments with a Mexican twist: the story of Fender’s journey from Fullerton, California to Baja California

The Hit Parade

The latest in Fender’s ongoing makeovers sees the morphing of the popular Mexican-made Classic and Classic Player guitars into the new decade-specific Vintera series. New name aside, has anything actually changed? We investigate…

Session Diary Happy Together

As the pace slows down a little, Adam spends quality time with his latest go-to guitar

Neville's AdvocAte

This month Nev confesses to buying another strat while trying to convince himself of the many valid reasons to do so

Martin Style 18

From mid-19th-century parlours to MTV, we retrace the history of Martin’s all-American 18-series flat-tops with CF Martin & Co’s museum and archives specialist, Jason Ahner

Larkin Poe

With ecstatic slide guitar and gutsy, juke-joint riffs, sisters Megan and Rebecca Lovell have distilled their own brand of musical moonshine from the tangled roots of American blues – and it’s potent stuff. We joined them on tour to talk Dobros, Deluxes and laying waste to convention…

Crimson Guitars

David Mead hits the road again with a troubled Gibson SG in hand to see if he can learn enough about the luthier’s dark arts to restore it to life and optimum playability

Kickstarter

Brit builder Leigh Dovey is making waves with his PJD Guitars. Barely into his second year of production, a tie-up with a UK store means he’s a busy man

Jakko Jakszyk

It’s been 50 years since King Crimson released seminal album In The Court Of The Crimson King and so, as they prepare to blow out the candles on their celebratory cake, we enlist the services of Jakko Jakszyk to give a personal overview of the legendary band’s half century…