Many luthiers claim to have made the ultimate heavy metal guitar, but so few are actually made of, erm, heavy metal. Enter Burls Art – the internet’s favorite guitar-building maniac, who has smelted ...

The "Nashville Sound" must have rubbed off on Megadeth's Dave Mustaine, who's lived in Music City for almost a decade now. This week, the bandleader known for heavy metal guitar playing unveiled his ...

Skeletizer are looking to raise some goddamn Cain here. Even with some trench-digging breakdowns, this record is a stampede ...

It struck an emotional chord. A head-banging bride and groom found a way to amp up their “most heavy metal wedding ever” — by exchanging electric guitars instead of “crappy” rings. Unblushing bride ...

Without electric guitars and their iconic designs and trademark distorted riffage, there would be no such thing as heavy metal. Since its inception in the 1960s, heavy metal has steadily gained ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. As it relates to who should be considered heavy metal’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 ...

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 ...