Noise rock supergroup Human Impact (featuring members of Unsane, Cop Shoot Cop, and Daughters) are dropping their sophomore effort, Gone Dark, on October 4th. This week they served up the single ...

Metal is a genre that prides itself on its technicality – but sometimes a meaty guitar riff is all you need to serve a great song. Getting faces scrunched and heads banging is one of the best things a ...

For a guy whose riffs have influenced generations of musicians and helped spawn several genres, namely grunge and sludge metal, King Buzzo aka Buzz Osborne doesn’t spend too much time thinking about ...

Pop might be an icky word for heavy metal diehards. But remember, “pop” is just short for popular. And if you’re favorite band sells millions of records, then they are, by definition, popular. History ...

Getting into the weeds of You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To, the album is largely so successful because of how stitched together the entire experience is from start to finish. From the opening ...

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 ...

Who says headbanging can’t pay the bills? Over the decades, some heavy metal bands have gone far beyond filling sweaty clubs and instead turned their riffs into serious empires. These acts have proven ...

Tom Morello is a guitar legend, but there are still some riffs he wishes he wrote. Speaking with Guitar Interactive Magazine at Download Festival earlier this month, Morello was able to name three ...