Month: April 2024

To hear Phil Collen tell it, he joined Def Leppard almost by accident. He had loaned the band one of his amps, and when they asked him to play some leads on their upcoming record Pyromania, Collen thought he was just doing his friends a solid. The rest is history.He and Shifty talk through Collen’s formative years on guitar, where he soaked up the scorching playing of classic guitar heroes: Jimmy Page, Ritchie Blackmore, Mick Ronson, Michael Schenker, and Gary Moore all played a hand in Collen’s high-flying fretwork.
Collen’s solo on “Photograph” is a perfect example of the sort of “ear candy” that producer Mutt Lange encouraged the band to chase in the studio—and yes, he did record individual notes to build a single guitar chord on Pyromania. But there weren’t many tricks to Collen’s sound on the solo. His Ibanez Destroyer and a 50-watt Marshall were all he needed to get the job done for the slick, Blackmore-inspired solo. Tune in to see how he worked that two-piece setup to record one of the most influential guitar solos of the ’80s.Connect with Chris!Website / Instagram / Facebook / TikTok / Twitter / YouTube / SpotifyCreditsProducer: Jason ShadrickExecutive Producers: Brady Sadler and Jake Brennan for Double ElvisEngineering Support by Matt Tahaney and Matt BeaudionVideo Editors: Dan Destefano and Addison SauvanSpecial thanks to Chris Peterson, Greg Nacron, and the entire Volume.com crew.

THE WARNING, the rock sister trio from Monterrey, Mexico, has shared the music video for its latest single “Qué Más Quieres”. The video notably made its global broadcast premiere on MTV Live, MTVU, MTV Biggest Pop and across MTV’s global network of channels, as well as on the Paramount Times Square…

Tom Compagnoni, head of creative video for The Sydney Morning Herald, has produced a video about a large mural of AC/DC’s Angus and Malcolm Young painted on the street of their childhood home in Burwood, Sydney, Australia. This is the first public memorial for AC/DC in the band’s original hometown….

On April 26, Metal Department will release the debut album from AMERIKAN KAOS, “Armageddon Boogie”.
AMERIKAN KAOS is described in a press release as “the secret love child” of guitar virtuoso Jeff Waters, best known as the founder and leader of Canadian thrash metal pioneers ANNIHILATOR.
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In a new interview with Inlander, Brendon Small, co-creator of “Metalocalypse”, the hit animated series on Adult Swim featuring the fictitious metal band DETHKLOK, was asked what people who haven’t seen DETHKLOK live before can expect from the group’s live shows. He responded: “I think of this as a…

Swedish metallers HAMMERFALL will release their 13th studio album, “Avenge The Fallen”, on August 9 via Nuclear Blast Records.
That’s right — less than a year after taking the final bow of the “United Forces” tour, the quintet of guitarist Oscar Dronjak, singer Joacim Cans, bass player Fredrik Larss…