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“It reminds me of Batman and the Joker. It’s just so cool”: Korn’s Brian ‘Head’ Welch and James ‘Munky’ Schaffer on their Yin and Yang signature Ibanez 7-strings – and how it all comes back to Steve Vai

The K7YIN and K7YANG, one dark, one light, both state-of-the-art extended range S-styles built to the nu-metal kingpins' specifications – and yes, that's a U-Bar on Munky's vibrato

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“Sweet Child O’ Mine is a terrible song. I don’t like Slash’s playing, but it stands the test of time. That was my inspiration – to write something timeless”: Lorna Shore return with new music, brash Ibanez customs, and a fresh kind of death metal energy

I Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me confirms their crossover to the mainstream, even if they don’t understand it, as Andrew O’Connor and Adam De Micco take influence from guitarists they don’t even like

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“I grew up with the myth, the thinner the neck, the faster you can play. For me, that didn't work”: Bernth on why thinner necks don’t always result in speedier soloing – and how switching helped improve his playing

The prolific prog virtuoso recently unveiled his first signature Ibanez, which features a few choice specs

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“At this upper mid-range price point, it's hard to think of a guitar to rival it”: Strandberg Boden N2 Standard review

The second model in the progressive Swedish company's new Boden N2 series more than holds its own

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“Ibanez has broken the rules of conventional guitar design. Pick it up and break the rules of guitar playing”: Ibanez Q54W review

It's like all the cool kids are saying, if you want to get ahead, get a headless guitar

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“Never did I actually expect to get the chance to see one up close, let alone play one”: Everything that caught my eye at Guitar Summit 2025 – from the grand unveiling of a brand-new guitar company to the year’s most anticipated amp modeler

Rosengarten Mannheim became a scorching-hot cauldron of all things guitar for three days – and there were plenty of highlights

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“A shut-up-and-take-my-money fuzz pedal if ever there was one”: All the new guitar gear that has caught my eye this week, featuring Manson, Martin, Ibanez, Positive Grid, and more – plus, will Boss' XS-100 Poly Shifter steal the DigiTech Whammy’s crown?

PRS, Boss, a trio of sweet, sweet fuzz boxes, and the guitar plugin that gets AI to do the tone seeking for you? It's just another week in gear

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“We were side of stage every night, salivating and looking at their pedalboards”: Paradise Lost's Greg Mackintosh on channelling Radiohead, covering the Smiths, Trouble’s elusive tone tricks – plus the '80s Ibanez pickup behind his epic sound

The Paradise Lost guitarist on how '80s nightclubs shaped his style, writing guitar as a vocals, and how an old overwound Ibanez Iceman pickup was the holy grail tone on new album Ascension

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“There’s a whammy dive riff that’s diabolically tricky. I’m already panicking about the day I play it live”: BTBAM have always fused metal and the unexpected. Now the band’s sole guitarist, Paul Waggoner has to live up to fans’ lofty expectations

The first album since Dustie Waring’s departure, The Blue Nowhere presents a more mature version of Between the Buried and Me. Waggoner reveals how he has changed as a player – and why, despite being a minimalist, he’s adding another Ibanez to his touring rig

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“We’ve seen a few YouTubers turn their hand to guitar making, but this new one might just be my favorite”: All the new guitar gear that has caught my eye this week – including a triumphant return for one of Gibson’s most sought-after builds

Fender, Ernie Ball Music Man, Jackson, and a load of new Gibson drops headline this week’s round-up

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“Nothing’s more real than seeing your Ibanez JS guitars played by the legendary Spinal Tap”: How Joe Satriani became Spinal Tap’s unofficial guitar supplier for the loudest movie of the year

Satch and the Tap are old friends. And if you look closely, you might just catch Nigel Tufnel and David St. Hubbins playing his Ibanez signature models in Spinal Tap II: The End Continues

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“It’s taken 3 years, but a more affordable spin-off of one of the 21st century’s most advanced guitar designs has finally landed”: All the new guitar gear that has caught my eye this week – including the most extravagant acoustic you will see all year

A $99,999 SJ-200, two Randy Rhoads tributes, and some visionary electrics from Ibanez – here are all the gear launches that you might have missed from the past seven days

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Ibanez treats its best-selling nylon-string to a stunning exotic tonewood glow-up – and it gives Tim Henson’s signature model a run for its money

Henson’s signature TOD10N has been wildly popular, with the standard-edition FR series now receiving a new aesthetic upgrade

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“John Mayer ruined me with getting new guitars and vintage stuff. He’s always experimenting, so I had to expand my own rig”: Isaiah Sharkey is one of guitar’s most versatile talents. He lets us in on how he works with Mayer, D’Angelo and Miles Davis

Rigs big and small feature in a career that’s seen Isaiah Sharkey become a master of jazz, R&B, gospel, blues – and he hopes his new Ibanez signatures mean session players will only need to carry two guitars

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“A tribute to Ibanez’s past”: Ibanez has revived one of its most outrageous shred guitar designs from the 1980s

The 540PIII is a peculiar reverse-style axe based on a build that was first introduced in the late ’80s – and now it’s back as part of the Ibanez Genesis Collection

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“My guitar was slightly out.Steve Vai walked past and said,‘Your low E was four cents flat.’And he’d been in the green room!” Meet Derek Day, the swaggering virtuoso who went from busking on the streets to touring with his hero

The 24-year-old explains how he merges prog and glam, and escapes the “originality ordeal” of an ancient instrument by hopping between Fender, Gibson, PRS and Ibanez (even if he prefers to write on cheap knock-offs)

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“Decided to pick up my 9-string beast”: Journey’s Neal Schon shreds on a one-of-a-kind 9-string Ibanez

The Journey guitar hero has taken the Ibanez Custom Shop model for a spin across a series of Instagram videos

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“You don’t want your favorite tone. The secret is to set your gain, roll your volume back and challenge yourself to play cleaner”: Joe Bonamassa on defying the blues police, his greatest tone discoveries and why you’re not a success until you’re a meme

When you’re on a winning streak, don’t mess with the formula – and opinions be damned, says blues phenomenon Joe Bonamassa

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“Am I a number or am I a name?” JHS Pedals has teased a huge new drop with a riddle – and some gear fans think they’ve cracked the code

Is JHS about to release a pedal inspired by Mk.gee’s secret weapon? Some fans certainly think so

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“It’s a daunting task. I’ll always have impostor syndrome… If the fans think it’s jive, we’ll pull it off streaming services!” Jakob Nowell opens up on using his late father’s gear and unreleased jams to create new Sublime music

Nearly 30 years after his father’s death, his son and bandmates are digging out archival song ideas and carrying on the Sublime legacy – the resulting album, says Jakob, is Lord of the Rings-style magic

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“I went to Guitar Center and saw this Iceman sitting there and I was like, ‘You know, that’s a guitar that not too many people use’”: How the Ibanez Iceman became System of a Down’s Daron Malakian’s go-to guitar – and why he initially didn’t play it live

The System of a Down guitarist even got his own limited-edition signature version in 2004

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“If you listen to Summer Nights, the Van Halen tune, that’s a headless guitar. It sounded fantastic”: Could PRS ever make a headless guitar?

Strandberg, Ibanez and Schecter have all been flying the flag for headless designs – could PRS be next?

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“This is probably the only time you will read Julian Lage and Nigel Tufnel’s names in the same sentence”: Every guitar featured in the trailer for Spinal Tap II, from St. Vincent’s Music Man to Joe Satriani’s Ibanez JS-3

The Spinal Tap II trailer is finally here – and this is what Nigel Tufnel, David St. Hubbins and Derek Smalls will be playing in the movie

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“We would play these guitars that were supposedly the most expensive, the most rare, like, ‘There's nothing special about it’”: Joe Satriani on why he’s become disillusioned by vintage guitars

After spending “hours” playing vintage axes, Satch now relies on modern builds – here’s why

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“I sold it to Bob Rock for the same amount I paid for it. Just after that, the ‘Slasheffect’ happened… he sold it for 15times what he paid”: Billy Duffy on the Les Paul ’Burst he sold on the cheap – and why player-grade beats all-original every time

Think of Billy Duffy and it’s Gretsch White Falcons, Les Paul Customs or maybe an LP Junior. Here he explains why these three iconic six-strings have been the tools of his trade for over 40 years

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