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“Other groups tell everyone they’re the ‘proper’ metal band on the bill, but they’re all using 8-string guitars”: Tailgunner are flying the flag for old-school metal (with a little help from K.K. Downing)

Tailgunner’s new album, Midnight Blitz, is a love letter to the '80s, Yngwie, Priest, and all things shred – and it's produced by a bona-fide Metal God

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"His guitar was his life’s breath”: Tributes pour in as The Dictators and Manowar guitarist Ross “The Boss” Friedman dies aged 72

His passing comes just weeks after a fundraiser was set up to aid his battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)

Guitar World

“I would go by John’s room and he’d be working on alternate picking to a metronome. I’d never seen anyone do that before”: He arrived on the shred scene with Paul Gilbert, Jason Becker and John Petrucci… then he vanished

After starting a family and his own company, Darren Housholder's priorities changed – but he’s gradually brought music-making back into his world

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“Was this an attempt to challenge Metallica’s success with the Black Album?” A guide to every Megadeth album – and guitarist

As Dave Mustaine prepares to ride Megadeth out into the sunset, we chart the thrash pioneers’ explosive studio output, album by album, guitarist by guitarist

Guitar World

“We spent the night in a BDSM dungeon and our tour manager slept in a coffin”: Endorsed by Megadeth and influenced by their genre’s most evil-sounding bands, Worm are a wild new force in black metal

Inspired by infamous documentary Until The Light Takes Us, the musician known as Phantom Slaughter launched an unhinged project – and now Megadeth’s Marty Friedman is involved

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“Unmistakably the work of metal’s mouthiest frontman”: Every Megadeth album ranked from worst to best

The metal icons have released their final album and are on their last-ever tour – here’s how they got here

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“We spent the night in a BDSM dungeon and our tour manager slept in a coffin”: The story of Worm, the battiest band in modern black metal

Inspired by black metal doc Until The Light Takes Us, the musician known as Phantom Slaughter launched an unhinged project endorsed by Megadeth’s Marty Friedman

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“The recording was brutal. Daytime was Dragon's Kiss, nighttime was Jason Becker's Perpetual Burn. I was in the studio 16 to 18 hours a day”: Marty Friedman on leaving Megadeth, reconnecting with Dave Mustaine, and why he wasn't a good fit for Ozzy

Friedman recalls 18-hour days working on his solo debut alongside Jason Becker’s first album, how Kiss were the blueprint for his career, and why he’s avoiding making a follow-up to 2024’s Drama

Guitar World

“It was the best career move I ever made”: Why Marty Friedman has no regrets leaving Megadeth

Friedman says he's flourished in his time away from the group

Guitar World

“Dave was telling us how those songs from back in the day came about. It helped us understand how to make a good Megadeth album”: Teemu Mäntysaari on the making of Megadeth’s final album

Mäntysaari says Dave Mustaine's last hurrah was a very modern collaboration built upon the established principles of Megadeth's sound

Guitar World

“Ask any of the people who have played with him… he’s incredibly talented, but very mysterious”: Dave Mustaine admits he nearly passed on Marty Friedman for Megadeth because he didn’t like his hair

But then he heard Friedman play...

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“We’ve been through guitar player after guitar player. We get to the solo, and he nails it. I just thought, ‘Oh my God’”: Dave Mustaine recounts the hiring and firing of every Megadeth guitarist

As Megadeth prepare for their final album release and tour, Mustaine looks back at some Mega-memories, the ghosts that still haunt him and the lead guitarists he played with along the way

Guitar World

"Wildest night out? I'd have to say Lemmy. I don't think we got much sleep": Danko Jones on meeting AC/DC, playing with Marty Friedman and a wild night out in London

You know what to expect with a new Danko Jones album, but 2025's Leo Rising met with positive responses across the board and things are looking good

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“That would be a huge undertaking. It’s not ‘puppet show Megadeth’”: Dave Mustaine says he won’t reunite with former Megadeth members on the band’s farewell tour

Don't expect Marty Friedman, Kiko Loureiro, Chris Poland or any other ex-Megadeth guitarist to make a cameo

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Behaviour of one former Megadeth member means there will be no reunions on upcoming farewell tour

Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine rules out bringing former members back as guests on farewell tour

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"One of the genre's greatest and most relentless masterpieces": Dave Mustaine attains thrash metal nirvana on Megadeth's Rust In Peace

No filler or flab on one of the most obscenely thrilling moments in all of recorded metal history

Guitar World

“I’m not a music theory brother at all. He ripped my solo apart”: From soloing next to Misha Mansoor and Marty Friedman to meeting the demands of Josh Middleton, Heriot are next-gen metal guitar heroes-in-the-making

British metallers Debbie Gough and Erhan Alman discuss showcasing guitar chops with some the best metal players in the world, and the cheap guitar they'll play to death

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“I certainly got a new appreciation for the Megadeth stuff… it was amazing to see how far guitar quality had come in our genre of music”: Alex Skolnick on the time he was on standby for Megadeth – and what to do when you can’t match a player lick for lick

With Kiko Loureiro's wife pregnant, Megadeth needed an understudy for emergency cover. The Testament guitarist answered the call but admits Loureiro's solos were impossible

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“As soon as I've just finished a song, I'll double the lead part right away, while it's still completely fresh in my mind”: Four big-name guitarists spill their recording secrets

With insight from Paul Gilbert, John 5, Adam Dutkiewicz and Marty Friedman on their approaches to the recording process

Guitar World

“If I’m a little late to first period in the morning because I had to do an interview, my teachers are pretty lenient with me”: Ethan Kahn on Chained Saint’s face-ripping debut and how the new school of thrash metal is rewriting the rulebook

With their debut LP, Blindside, produced by Alice In Chains’ William DuVall, the Florida quartet are flying the flag for hesher-approved audio violence

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“Ozzy had a problem with my short hair. Sharon had a problem with my green guitar – she said it looked like a booger”: The unlucky 13 guitarists who auditioned for Ozzy Osbourne – but didn’t make the grade

A procession of all-time guitar greats tried their hand with the Prince of Darkness but were ultimately rejected – sometimes for surprising reasons

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“Fuelled by a combustible mix of chemicals, vengeance and spite”: Every Megadeth album ranked, from worst to best

Dave Mustaine has announced the metal icons’ final album – here’s how they got here

Guitar World

“The opening has less notes than you are playing”: Instagram guitarist posts Megadeth cover – and Dave Mustaine shows up in the comments with some riff advice

Zia Cyan's cover of Angry Again was met with approval from Mustaine, who revealed it's actually easier than how she was playing it

Guitar World

“It felt like a boot camp... It tested what we were made of”: Fresh off of Jared Dines' ‘instant band’ documentary, Musician Mansion, Chena is ready to introduce her intricate, highly melodic playing to the world

The Jackson and Strandberg fan, who takes inspiration from Marty Friedman, Eric Johnson, and others, keeps the work rate high as a solo artist and member of two bands

Guitar World

“He combined the passion of Gary Moore with riffs inspired by Zeppelin and Deep Purple, plus unexpected melodic twists like Ritchie Blackmore”: He was one of ’80s rock’s great journeymen – and his searing hot lead work inspired Marty Friedman

Exploring the lead guitar style of John Sykes, a player who – like Page, Blackmore, and Moore – balanced flair with power

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