Many albums from 1980 forever changed rock guitar. Here’s a look at three differing styles that helped inspire the legends that followed them.

She's played two of the riffs on a nightly basis at different times in her career and refers to one Swedish metal band as "my Beatles" ...

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The 21st century’s reigning champions of death metal — melodic death metal, specifically — The Black Dahlia Murder perfected their lethal style on their third offering, 2007’s Nocturnal.

A look into the way that Josh Homme plays guitar and how it flies in the face of accepted guitar practices yet has still been accepted by the mainstream.

AC/DC lived and breathed rock and roll in everything they did, and Malcolm Young knew when some bands were being inauthentic to the genre.

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Fans of the rock band AC/DC have been left gobsmacked by an old claim about what the band's name really stands for reemerged ...

After guitarist Brent Hinds’ exit from the heavy metal band, Mastodon, they were joined by Ben Eller. On March 9, 2025, Eller ...