“Motorbikes and heavy metal just go together,” says Adam Tovell-Soundy who makes guitars as art pieces out of old motorcycle spares. “I’ve always made small scrap metal art from anything as a hobby,” ...

At age 94, William Shatner is stepping into heavy metal with a new album featuring iconic covers and potential collaborators.

PITTSBURGH ― Metal god Kenneth (K.K.) Downing returns to the U.S. this March, ready to enthrall those who worship the sounds of exceptionally played, hard-rocking guitar. The tour finds Downing's band ...

Van Halen stars Eddie Van Halen and Sammy Hagar were on the cover of the magazine that month. And inside that October 1987 issue of Guitar Player, a 19-year-old bassist named John Onder was featured ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Neil Murray volunteered his services for the production of We Will Rock You in Selkirk.

The ’80s were rock’s ultimate guitar decade. The shredding, fingerboard-tapping, dive-bombs and epic power-ballad solos. And most importantly, gargantuan riffs fans could air-guitar to. Many top ’80s ...