Guitar World

Guitar World is the world’s leading guitar magazine. Professionals and beginners alike turn to Guitar World for top-flight coverage of their favorite artists, from rock titans like Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page and Metallica's Kirk Hammett to contemporary stars like the White Stripes' Jack White and Tool's Adam Jones. Every issue of Guitar World magazine offers broad-ranging interviews that cover technique, instruments and lifestyles as well as Guitar World’s famously thorough lessons and transcriptions.

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Isolation Drills • Guided By Voices guitarist Doug Gillard hits the solo trail in fine style

Blackwater Holylight • How these recent Oregon-to-L.A. transplants filtered some Sunshine State vibes — positive and negative — into their magnetic doom-gaze

Treaty Oak Revival • A beer can in the face? That ain’t nothin’ for these punk-country-rock troubadours (who you’ve heard if you’ve binge-watched Landman)

COVER MODELS

Peppino D’Agostino • Open your mind with the neurobiological properties of a new, guitar-centered album by a player another guitar mag once called “transcendent”

LOST CLASSICS Nitro • Michael Angelo Batio, with his quad-necked-guitar mayhem, was the star of Nitro’s 1989 debut album, O.F.R. But how does it stand up 37 years later?

Castle Rat • When it comes to this quirky NYC fantasy outfit’s on-stage arsenal, their axes are mightier than their swords

Bentley Anderson • The underground NYC guitarist leans into his strengths — and those strengths involve making a whole lotta glorious, trance-inducing noise

INTERVIEW Heavy on the MSG • Foxes, gold pieces, Tom and Jerry cartoons? It can only be the great Michael Schenker, who takes us through MSG’s new album, Don’t Sell Your Soul, track by weirdly-inspired track

THE GEAR HUNTER Yamaha • A look back at highlights from Yamaha’s 60-year history — from Carlos Santana to the current one-two Revstar punch of Chris Buck and Matteo Mancuso

the prodigal sunn • Washingtonformed doom-metal duo Sunn O))) return with an album of crushingly low frequencies. We ask Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson to explain how they unleash their floorboard-loosening sounds

ROOTS OF A KILLER RIFF • The riff from Mötley Crüe’s “Looks That Kill” shook the music world and changed the shape of Eighties metal. Four decades later, we time-travel back to the era of zebra stripes and ripped jeans in search of this immortal guitar line’s origin story

TRACKING THE BEAST • Survivors of Mötley Crüe’s notorious Shout at the Devil sessions dish the dirt on in-studio debauchery, secret overdubs and bringing the “Looks That Kill” riff to life

JAMES’ GANG • How guitarist Jimmy James’ spartan approach and tone propel funk-instrumental powerhouse Parlor Greens into the stratosphere — minus any parlor tricks

Guess Genes • After years of legal struggles, Randy Bachman & Burton Cummings of legendary Canadian rockers the Guess Who have reclaimed their name — and will be thrilling American women (and men) in 2026

TEN GUITAR-HEAVY GUESS WHO SONGS

SUITE DREAMS “ON A DARK DESERT HIGHWAY, COOL WIND IN MY HAIR…” • Mexican reggae! Gunslinger duels! Chainsaws! Fifty years after it was recorded and released, Don Henley and producer Bill Szymczyk revisit the making of the Eagles’ 1976 masterpiece, Hotel California

THE ULTIMATE ONE-TWO PUNCH • Hey, why release one multi-platinum album in 1976 when you can release two?

EAGER FOR ACTION • A guide to Joe Walsh and Don Felder’s Hotel California gear

A WEALTH OF RICHES...