Replacing Dave Mustaine as Metallica’s lead guitarist in 1983, Kirk Hammett cut his teeth on Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin. So it’s unsurprising that he lists Hendrix’s Band of Gypsys and Zeppelin’s ...

Oh, the woe of influencing anyone else. To look out at the world, to listen and hear that the music you’ve made has inspired someone should be beautiful and affirming, a sign that you created a new ...

When Eddie Van Halen called Tony Iommi the master of riffs, he wasn’t just whistling “Dixie.” Master riffmeister Iommi’s back story, rise to legendary status, and his influence on the New Wave of ...

Metallica's Kirk Hammett named one particular guitar riff that he believes "shifted heavy metal." "The first three Black Sabbath albums are like gospel. Everyone kind of universally agrees. They ...

Earlier this year, the fast-rising guitar star revealed the name of the metal legend who asked her for a guitar lesson.

Ragne Wahlquist’s memorial service in Stockholm last month had all the solemnity (and the stacked guest list) of a state funeral. Wahlquist, who for nearly 50 years led the heavy metal institution ...

Slipknot guitarist Jim Root once asked Diamond Rowe of rising nu metal stars Tetrarch for lessons on his own instrument. Rowe, who co-founded her Atlanta-based band while in middle school in 2007, ...

Music historians laud Ozzy Osbourne and his band, Black Sabbath, as pioneers of the heavy metal genre. But if you were to ask the Prince of Darkness himself, he had a different idea about what “heavy ...