A video from April 2026 has recently gone viral, showing a North Carolina man on his porch playing heavy metal guitar to ...

On stage, K. K. Downing rarely needed much explanation. All he needed was a Gibson Flying V, amps and that first snarky riff.

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There is a band that absolutely cannot be left out when talking about the history of heavy metal.One of them is the American ...

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 ...

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 ...

From the 1970s to the present day, heavy metal has continued to captivate music fans around the world.Heavy guitar riffs, ...

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Plenty of guitar legends paved the way for what heavy metal became, but one revolutionary musician inspired most guitarists ...