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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SOUNDING BOARD

READER ART OF THE MONTH

DEFENDERS of the Faith

Remembering Leslie West • THE BIG MAN WHOSE BIG GUITAR SOUND HELPED LAUNCH HEAVY METAL

Relentless Reckless Forever • GW PAYS TRIBUTE TO ALEXI LAIHO, THE LONG-TIME CHILDREN OF BODOM GUITARIST WHO REVOLUTIONIZED DEMONIC SHRED IN THE NINETIES AND 2000S AND EMBRACED A HARD-PARTYING LIFESTYLE WORTHY OF HIS “WILDCHILD” NICKNAME

The Dead Daisies • DIO AND WHITESNAKE VETERAN DOUG ALDRICH DISCUSSES THE IMPORTANCE OF LUCK IN THIS CRAZY BIZ — AND THE INNER-WORKINGS OF HIS NEW SUPERGROUP

Hedras Ramos • THE L.A. INSTRUMENTAL MASTERMIND ON THE IMPORTANCE OF GREAT TIMING — AND THE SYSTEMATIC CHAOS OF HIS BOLD NEW RECORD, PAGANS

Meet Me @ The Altar • GUITARIST TÉA CAMPBELL MARRIES HER POP-PUNK AND EMO INFLUENCES

Intervals • WHY NO PEDALS OR AMPS WERE HARMED IN THE MAKING OF CANADIAN PROG-METALLER AARON MARSHALL’S AGGRESSIVE NEW RECORD

The Commander in Chief • THIS SEDULOUS SEVEN-STRINGER PUTS A COMPLETELY NEW SPIN ON CLASSICAL-INSPIRED GUITAR MUSIC

Fleshgod Apocalypse • FRANCESCO PAOLI LIFTS THE LID ON THE SYMPHONIC DEATH METAL MASTERS’ MOST VICIOUS AND VIVACIOUS CYCLE OF SONGS THUS FAR

AXOLOGY

New Music, Anyone? • THIS MONTH: SOME TRULY GLORIOUS STUFF FROM STEVEN WILSON, NIGHTTIME BOOGIE ASSOCIATION, MALENY MIKELS AND MORE

Zero to ’80s in Five Pedals • A HANDFUL OF MODERN EFFECT PEDALS THAT RECREATE GRITTY EIGHTIES SOUNDS

TOP OF THE HEAP • STAR JUDGES, A MASSIVE ONLINE POLL AND A 21ST-CENTURY PAGANINI! MEET THE WINNERS OF GUITAR WORLD’S PRS GUITARS-SPONSORED 2020 GUITARIST OF THE YEAR CONTEST

WHAT THEY WON • PRIZES FOR THE 2020 GUITARIST OF THE YEAR CONTEST INCLUDE…

LARKIN POE • Six-string sisters REBECCA and MEGAN LOVELL talk us through the tones that grace their new covers record — Kindred Spirits — and the musical telepathy that comes with growing up together

VOICES IN THE SKY • PLINI — the guy Steve Vai once called “the future of exceptional guitar playing” — discusses the perils of “guitar fame,” the challenges of a modern prog-rocker and his breathtaking new album, IMPULSE VOICES

MIDNIGHT MADNESS • Foo Fighters’ guitar triumvirate DAVE GROHL, CHRIS SHIFLETT & PAT SMEAR unleash their inner early-Eighties David Bowie (and SRV), bust out the ABBA beats and get decidedly “weird” — just in time for their 10th album, MEDICINE AT MIDNIGHT

STRANGER THINGS HAVE HAPPENED • DAVE GROHL looks back on 25 (OK, 26!) years of Foo Fighters

NÖTHIN' BUT A GOOD TIME • THROUGH THE EYES OF JAKE E. LEE, VITO BRATTA, STEVE VAI, MICK MARS, SLASH, WARREN DeMARTINI, GEORGE LYNCH, REB BEACH, LITA FORD, NUNO BETTENCOURT, ZAKK WYLDE AND MANY MORE!

Re-Shaping the Masterpiece • ERNIE BALL MUSIC MAN JASON RICHARDSON CUTLASS 6-STRING

CHEAT SHEET

Springtime is all about starting over. Here are some fresh takes on some new gear.

Pole Position • BOSE L1 PRO16 PORTABLE LINE ARRAY SYSTEM

CHEAT SHEET

Buzz Bin • Stage Right by Monoprice 30W Tube Guitar Amp Head and 1x12 Cab

Direct E ect • IK MULTIMEDIA Z-TONE DI

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