Few bands have influenced the modern metal landscape quite like Meshuggah, both in terms of sound and gear. Now, guitarist ...

Sometimes, guitar tone hacks come from some unlikely places. For esteemed Ocean City guitarist and blues-rock heavyweight Walter Trout, he’s found that the heavier the tone he dials into his tube amp, ...

The Rage Against the Machine axe-man’s most memorable moment saw him emulate a DJ scratch breakdown using a trick that few have fully mastered ...

Mastodon riff master Bill Kelliher is a damn professor when it comes to tone. While chatting with us about Mastodon’s new album, Emperor of Sand, Kelliher went into such extreme detail about finding ...

Danish pedal company LunaStone has launched the evocatively titled Deep Metal pedal. While Deep Metal could and perhaps should be a heavy metal subgenre, it is a distortion pedal that is voiced to ...

It's a fact as old as rock 'n' roll itself: great guitarists, like fine wine, tend to get better with age. But what about their sound? Does that classic tone, forged in the fires of early albums, ...

When it comes to black metal guitar pedals my first choice bar none is the Valnøtt, made famous by The Austerity Program’s Justin Foley. But MS Maniac Joseph Griesel sent us a link to the new ...

Even if you've never held one of his namesake instruments, you may know that Les Paul designed one of the first solid-body electric guitars. Astonishingly, Gibson, which manufactured the guitar, was ...