Guitar World

Guitar World is the world’s leading guitar magazine. Professionals and beginners alike turn to Guitar World for top-flight coverage of their favorite artists, from rock titans like Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page and Metallica's Kirk Hammett to contemporary stars like the White Stripes' Jack White and Tool's Adam Jones. Every issue of Guitar World magazine offers broad-ranging interviews that cover technique, instruments and lifestyles as well as Guitar World’s famously thorough lessons and transcriptions.

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American Beauty • Armed with an indestructible custom Seüf guitar, Kevin Morby’s new record roams our lost highways and finds humanity in the horror

Left to Die • Buried for decades, the metal pioneers’ cult demos live again on Initium Mortis. Rick Rozz and Matt Harvey tell GW about capturing the attitude of “kids going as sick as they can”

Quicksand • Channeling Eighties hardcore on ill-gotten lawsuit guitars, Quicksand’s new album is a brutal listen. So why are the New Yorkers wary of “sounding hippie”?

Funkadelic • From raiding Aerosmith’s backline to guest solos by stray smackheads, “Kidd Funkadelic” — aka Michael Hampton — recalls the inspired chaos behind 1975’s Let’s Take It to the Stage

Country Gentlemen • Celtic rockers Big Country were gloriously inescapable in the 1980s. Twenty-five years since their frontman’s tragic passing, we speak to guitarist Bruce Watson about keeping the Big Country flag flying

Europe’s Countdown to Madness • John Norum on the secret note everyone misses in “The Final Countdown” solo, bidding on Gary Moore’s Marshall and why Europe’s new album is the sound of “old men” shaken awake

Listen to What the Man Said • RKS Guitars co-founder Ravi Sawhney looks back on his pioneering work with the late Traffic guitar legend Dave Mason, who mingled with Beatles and Stones and added depth to Jimi’s “All Along the Watchtower”

Larry Mitchell • Hooked up by Nile Rodgers, hired by Tracy Chapman, befriended by Steve Vai… the NYC sessioner shares war stories from a charmed career — and his one big regret

Bark & Bite • When Keanu Reeves demanded that Dogstar rock harder, the result was their punchiest album yet. “If anyone is in the front row,” they tell GW, “you’ve been warned!”

The Hot Rod Father • An unsung hero of the guitar custom shop, DIY guitar building and the Super Strat, Wayne Charvel left behind a legacy that was larger than life

THE GEAR HUNTER Powers Electric • Andy Powers — president, CEO and chief guitar designer at Taylor Guitars — can’t help but expand his vision by introducing an electric guitar. Now, with Powers Electric, he reveals the genesis and design philosophy behind his latest creation, the 30-years-in-the-making A-Type

PERSONALITIES Lenny Kaye • Stepping out from Patti Smith’s shadow with his first solo album, the punk pioneer tells GW about his “point and shoot” playing, the CBGB scene’s “misfits and renegades” — and why one pickup is all you need

OUT OF DARK NESS • The bitter split and shattering loss of talismanic Mastodon founder Brent Hinds would’ve broken most bands. But with new guitarist Nick Johnston braving the trial by fire — and Bill Kelliher cranking his old friend’s rig — Marrow Deep is an all-star tribute (Geezer Butler, anyone?) that cuts to the bone

THE LONG GOODBYE • Cursum Perficio — the first new Anthrax album in 10 years — is Latin for “I complete my journey.” Could this be the NYC-spawned thrash titans’ final voyage? Anthrax lifers Scott Ian and Charlie Benante weigh in on returning to sub-four-minute thrash songs and going out “on top like George...