Banging. Porking. Doin’ the horizontal cha-cha. There are tons of ways to talk about fucking without actually saying it, but a new one might have emerged from a recent Ultimate Guitar interview with ...

A single-cut with a 25.5-inch scale length, EMG pickups rather than popular-in-metal Fishmans, and a brand-new headstock shape, Rowe's signature Jackson is as striking as her all-powerful playing ...

The Japanese luthier has dropped 28 new models, with half of those featuring single-pickup designs as it reflects changing ...

Based in Slovenia and made in China, Jet Guitars’ impressively wide range of mainly lookalikes is now heading upmarket. The ...

Slipknot guitarist Mick Thomson just introduced his own special LTD MT-I signature guitar with ESP, coming in a metallic obsidian finish.

We're giving a nod to those golden-throated frontmen in our list of the Top 15 Hair Metal Singers. As always, our ranking comes with qualifications. Some of the vocalists on this list did not ...

Bold guitarists looking to push boundaries can go down the digital processing rabbit hole, but Verso's latest oddball build ...

Black metal fans have been spoilt for choice of late, with no shortage of suitably grim records to match the sub-zero ...

Since becoming Gibson's CEO in 2023, Cesar Guekian has teased new releases on his Instagram ahead of big reveals. It appears ...

Reunited with former Cars frontman Rik Ocasek, Rivers Cuomo brought a simple approach to a major scale pattern, creating one ...

That in mind, we asked Hammer's extensive pool of freelancers, staffers and contributors to submit their picks for the 20 best metal albums of 2024, and below you'll find the fruits of those labour as ...