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“We’ve got one song with Serj from System Of A Down and we just finished a second Babymetal collab”: Polyphia are making a “heavy” new album stacked with special guests

Expect big riffs and even bigger names on the next Polyphia album

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“We’re making new guitars that don’t exist for the sole purpose of writing something”: Polyphia's Tim Henson teases new 8-string meisterworks that could require a whole new guitar to play along

Never a band to take it easy, their latest output could rock both music and hardware to the next level

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“It’s heavy… Lots of eight-string. We’re playing baritones, too. We’re making new guitars that don’t exist”: Polyphia’s next album is going to be brutal – and some big-name metal artists are already slated for guest appearances

Tim Henson let us in on what’s next for the boundary-smashing instrumental band – and it’s all in the name of blowing festival crowds away (and maybe, just maybe, selling more guitars)

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I used to feel like a geek for loving prog metal. In 2025, it’s taking over the world – and I couldn’t be happier!

Sleep Token headlining Download! A long-awaited Mastodon album! Polyphia x Babymetal?! This is why forward-thinking metal will have a banner year in 2025

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“I gave them a list of unreasonable demands... I think we found that balance”: Tim Henson put Ernie Ball’s skills to the test with his new signature strings

The Ernie Ball Tim Henson Signature String and Accessory Collection features strings for electric and classical guitars, with both sets primed for his unique style

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“The way we think about guitar and what the instrument is supposed to do has changed”: Justin Hawkins explains why technically complex bands like Sleep Token and Polyphia are generating mass appeal

The Darkness frontman and social media commentator claims that there's a new appreciation for a certain brand of virtuosity that, in eras past, might have been perceived as “showing off”

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Current and former members of Trivium, Killswitch Engage, Animals as Leaders, Polyphia, While She Sleeps and more team up for epic, metalled-up Cult of the Lamb game soundtrack - listen to first single Cult

Breakout indie game Cult of the Lamb is getting a special soundtrack makeover courtesy of some metal heavyweights

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Did Tim Henson just tease the arrival of his first Japanese-made Ibanez signature guitars – and a new 8-string?

The Polyphia guitarist debuted a new white colorway on both a six– and 8-string Ibanez TOD builds –and now fans are speculating about the prospect of a Prestige line

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“Tim FaceTimed me, saying, ‘I’m doing this cover and there’s a part I can’t get right. I think you would do great with it’”: Polyphia’s Tim Henson called him his favorite new guitar player. But RJ Pasin considers himself a producer more than a guitarist

After getting clean, Pasin has committed to a formidable work ethic – now he has millions of followers, he’s guested with Bring Me The Horizon, and he’s getting busy with Tim Henson

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“World firsts, chunky rhythms and the lead tone of a generation”: Long-awaited Tim Henson 7-string headlines mega new Ibanez signature guitar drop – including a Paul Gilbert Fireman with a world-first mod

The Polyphia guitarist’s first extended-range signature guitar lines up alongside fresh models for Paul Gilbert, Andy Timmons, Pat Metheny and John Scofield

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“The dude is so cracked. He comes up with the most insane sounds you’ve ever heard”: Polyphia’s Tim Henson names his favorite new guitar player

Henson is working with the guitarist on upcoming Polyphia and solo records

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Tim Henson’s Ibanez nylon-string signature guitar was one of 2023’s best-selling acoustics – now, it’s finally been made available as a left-handed version

The Polyphia virtuoso’s best-selling signature made its debut in 2022, and has since become a staple of Henson's guitar arsenal

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“When I play guitar, it sounds like a guitar. Ultraman needed a superhero”: Polyphia’s Tim Henson revealed as the mystery shredder behind Netflix’s epic new blockbuster

Henson used two of his Ibanez signatures to lay down the spectacular guitar lines that soundtracked Ultraman: Rising

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Scott LePage played an Ibanez Xiphos alongside Steve Vai – now he’s teased a potential signature version of the radical X-type

The Polyphia maestro has shared a clip of him ripping a guitar solo on an axe we’re hoping gets a production run in the near future

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“There’s something about the JCM800 that just feels really good”: Polyphia’s Tim Henson and Scott LePage on why the classic Marshall tube amp has become a mainstay of their backline

No, progressive guitar’s boundary pushers are still using digital amp modellers, but as Henson says, “You just can’t beat the warmth of a tube amp”

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Watch Babymetal play Metal Galaxy standout Brand New Day live with megastar shredders Polyphia

The kawaii metal idols were recently joined by Polyphia’s Tim Henson and Scott LePage at their festival, Fox Fest

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“We were like, ‘What’s the difference between the POD Farm and the Axe-Fx?’ You realize it’s all about whoever is behind it, not the product itself”: Polyphia share their top tips for entering the daunting digital modeler world

Having experienced a lot of “user error” while trying to wrap their heads around amp modelers, Tim Henson and Scott LePage offer some sage advice to fellow amp sim-strugglers

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“We just met Zakk Wylde so we're gonna ask him and give him a three-minute long session and let him rip”: Polyphia start lining up album Number Five

Polyphila start lining up guests for next album

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Polyphia’s Scott LePage teases new signature Ibanez Xiphos – a reimagined über-metal classic from the X Series

One minute you're watching a playthrough of Bloodbath, getting twisted knuckles trying to play along, and the next you are checking the Ibanez site for updates, credit card in hand

Guitar World

“We're gonna ask him, give him a three-minute long session and let him rip”: Tim Henson reveals the surprising collabs Polyphia are eyeing up for their next album

The band have already started looking ahead to their fifth album, which will once again include some big-name stars

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“That record is such a wonderful thing for a beginner guitar player. The riffs are cool as hell and they're easy to figure out”: Tim Henson names the album that all aspiring guitarists should learn

The Polyphia virtuoso says learning to play this iconic record by ear had a huge impact on his riff-writing abilities

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“Everything we’ve recorded before sounded digital and almost heartless, so I went back to analog”: Unprocessed’s Manuel Gardner Fernandes on his return to tubes – and why Polyphia’s support means more than anything

Just as Unprocessed rediscover the taste for metalcore on new rager...And Everything In Between, guitarist Manuel Gardner Fernandes was seeking out real tube tone

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“I’m finally making an artistic statement that is cohesive. The dragon is in harmony”: Fingerstyle virtuoso Marcin has announced his debut album – and the first single features Polyphia’s Tim Henson in fiery form

He's been endorsed by Steve Vai and jammed with Mateus Asato, now the viral virtuoso has announced his debut album, Classical Dragon

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"We've got maybe another 10, 15 years? Playing a Dragonforce set is not easy": Guitar hero Herman Li talks technique, helping popularise power metal and the next generation of shredders

We put your questions to Herman Li on everything from teaming up with Polyphia and Animals As Leaders to video-games, power metal and how long the band can continue

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“3 God-tier guitarists on one track”: Tim Henson, Scott LePage and Manuel Gardner Fernandes make late plays for solos of the year on fretboard-melting new collab

Featuring members of Polyphia and Unprocessed, Die on the Cross of the Martyr unites three of today's finest progressive virtuosos – and the result is “the ultimate guitar nerd’s wet dream”

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