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"It's such a complete record, that perfect balance of technique, songwriting, emotion and energy": Nita Strauss on the music that's soundtracked her life

Alice Cooper guitarist Nita Strauss picks her records, artists and gigs of lasting significance

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“Marty Friedman taught me to pick phrases that help tell the story. Resist the temptation to use your songs to show off your fastest licks”: Nita Strauss on how she stepped up her game for The Call of the Void

Nita Strauss can shred with the best of them, but her new solo album features ‘radio songs’ with guest-star vocalists – plus a showdown with mentor Marty Friedman

Guitar World

Nita Strauss: “I am extremely satisfied with digital. If I didn’t think it sounded as good I would have redone it through real amps”

Hurricane Nita drops by to discuss her all-star new solo album, the tone dividend from using digital tech, and argues that you should be proud to call yourself a shredder

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Slash is planning a new solo album featuring Demi Lovato and an all-star cast of vocalists

The album is described as being a little like the Guns N’ Roses guitarist’s 2010 solo debut but “more blues-oriented”

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Guitar tour of the year? Mammoth WVH and Nita Strauss to hit the road together this fall

Wolfgang Van Halen's band will join forces with Strauss for a North American tour in November and December

Guitar World

Shred a dirty word? Nita Strauss says it’s a compliment: “I like it. Give me the shred term all day long”

Hurricane Nita says live and let shred – if you want to go over the top and split the fretboard atom, don't let anyone stop you

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Watch Nita Strauss get engaged at her album release show in Los Angeles

Nita Strauss became a bride-to-be at her release show for new solo album The Call of The Void after receiving on-stage proposal from longtime drummer/boyfriend Josh Villalta

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A heartfelt Taylor Hawkins tribute and literally electrifying tap-heavy solo: this week's essential guitar tracks

Fresh, guitar-driven goodness from Nita Strauss, KK's Priest, Dirty Honey, The Dust Coda, Lauran Hibberd, Metric and a whole lot more...

Guitar World

The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear this week

Ghost, Asking Alexandria and Nita Strauss are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

Metal Hammer

Nita Strauss electrocutes internet trolls using shred guitar lightning during this Eruption-inspired solo for Digital Bullets

“It's a big f**k you to all the haters,” Strauss says of her latest single

Guitar World

Nita Strauss lines up the special guest vocalists to augment the shredding on impressively slick album

Ace guitarist Nita Strauss takes a break from the Alice Cooper/Demi Lovato day jobs to deliver steely solo second album The Call Of The Void

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Nita Strauss’ new song has “an Eruption moment” that she wrote as “a big middle finger” to the Demi Lovato haters

The virtuoso guitarist says the song and its solo were both born in response to a question about what made her angry

Guitar World

The 20 best new metal songs you need to hear right now (yes, including Dolly Parton)

Dolly Parton and Rob Halford, Slipknot and Nita Strauss are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

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Watch Nita Strauss rip Pantera's Cowboys From Hell as she kicks off her Summer Storm tour

It's not the first time the Ibanez-wielding virtuoso has tackled a tune by the Texas groove-metal legends, either...

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See Nita Strauss perform a storming cover of Pantera's Cowboys From Hell live

She's currently on tour with her band for their Summer Storm headlining run

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Classic Rock tracks of the week: eight new songs you need to hear right now

Greta Van Fleet, Nita Strauss and Alabama 3 are among the best new rock songs this week – Vote for your favourite

Guitar World

This week’s essential guitar tracks: thrash wigouts that sound like Tool on acid and the best MTV video pastiche you’ll see all month

Unmissable new jams from King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Gov't Mule, Nita Strauss, Towa Bird, Empire State Bastard, My Ugly Clementine and LOADS MORE

Guitar World

Nita Strauss and Yvette Young once traded signature guitars – but found each others’ designs damn-near unplayable

The swap may not have worked out for them but Strauss says it made her feel good about the health of the guitar industry

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Nita Strauss steps in the ring and delivers a knockout guitar solo in heavyweight new single Victorious

Victorious features Dorothy Martin on vocals, a blaze of pick tapping, and is the latest track to be shared from Hurricane Nita’s forthcoming studio album

Guitar World

This week's essential guitar tracks: Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton's final collaboration is revealed, and psychedelic titans channel their inner thrash demons

Hear fresh, vital new guitar work from Nita Strauss, Joe Bonamassa, Red Devil Vortex, R.L. Boyce, Bully, Creeping Death, and many more

Metal Hammer

The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

Ghost, Within Temptation and Sleep Token are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

Louder

Classic Rock tracks of the week: new music from Nita Strauss, Wolfmother and more

Eight reasons to stop whatever it is you're doing and do this instead: includes Dolly Parton, Pretenders, Black Stone Cherry and more

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Nita Strauss says pop shows are free of the "gatekeeping" that afflicts rock and metal

Alice Cooper guitarist Nita Strauss has been on the road with Demi Lovato – and there's at least one thing she prefers about pop audiences

Guitar World

Nita Strauss: "A guitar solo is a way for the guitarist to tell a chapter of the song's story. That dictates my approach, rather than, 'Here's a bunch of cool notes'"

The Ibanez signature shredder on reuniting with Alice Cooper for her latest single, how working with singers made her a less selfish musician, and why people got her departure from Cooper's band so wrong

Guitar World

Hear Nuno Bettencourt tap into his inner Yngwie Malmsteen on a new classical crossover track that stretched his abilities

The Extreme guitarist says playing on Kitt Wakeley’s new opus, Paganini’s Storm, “was definitely a journey I had yet to take on the instrument”

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