RIOT V To Release New Studio Album In Early 2024
RIOT V, the band featuring members of legendary metal pioneers RIOT, has inked a deal with Atomic Fire Records. RIOT V’s follow-up to 2018’s “Armor Of Light” album will arrive in early 2024.
RIOT is a band name that makes every metalhead’s mind ring alert — in a positive way for sure. Many iconic mu…
“It’s like a hybrid of a Strat and a Les Paul – it gives me everything I need in one stop”: Steve Lukather and Ernie Ball Music Man launch overhauled L4 signature guitar range – including ultra-limited 30th Anniversary Steamroller model
Said to be “the culmination of over 30 years of collaboration”, the L4 models arrive with an array of pickup configurations – with the standout Steamroller version also flashing a double-locking floating tremolo
Read more » Boss stakes its claim for the biggest-sounding desktop amp yet as the wireless Katana-Air gets an overhaul
For the first time since 2018, the firm’s Katana-Air receives a much-deserved upgrade – and the new-for-2023 Katana-Air EX takes the platform to new heights
Read more » “It’s all about what sounds cool… Not theoretically what you’re supposed to do”: How guitarists from Drug Church, Militarie Gun and Scowl are leading the melodic movement in hardcore punk
Nick Cogan of Drug Church and Militarie Gun joins Malachi Greene of Scowl to share the state of play in U.S. hardcore, a formerly rules-based art form that is now a free for all creatively
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Read more » “I started with Strats, but then I got hooked on Les Pauls. I like that I have to pick a fight with them when I’m playing”: How Leilani Kilgore went from aspiring punk player to college dropout playing searing blues-rock for a living
Leilani Kilgore’s dream was to ring out power chords on the Warped Tour. Then she studied the blues greats and started to “take the guitar seriously… as a means of conversation rather than just shouting”
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ALEX WEBSTER Says CANNIBAL CORPSE ‘Probably Wouldn’t Do’ A Tour With SIX FEET UNDER
In a new interview with Scott Penfold of Loaded Radio, CANNIBAL CORPSE bassist Alex Webster was asked for his reaction to Chris Barnes’s comment about the state of the death metal scene in which the former CANNIBAL CORPSE vocalist said that he “despise[s] what the genre has become.” Alex said (as tr…
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AVENGED SEVENFOLD’s ZACKY VENGEANCE: ‘I Never Wanna Feel Like I’m Phoning It In’
In a new interview with Blackcraft, AVENGED SEVENFOLD guitarist Zacky Vengeance discussed the experimental nature of the band’s latest album, “Life Is But A Dream…” Written and recorded over the span of four years, it was produced by Joe Barresi and AVENGED SEVENFOLD in Los Angeles and mixed by Andy…
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New DROWNING POOL Music Coming Before The End Of The Year: ‘We’re On Fire’
In an interview with Super Cool Radio conducted in early September, DROWNING POOL guitarist C.J. Pierce was asked when fans can expect to hear new music with singer Ryan McCombs, who rejoined the band earlier this year. He said in part (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Ideally, I would have lik…
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Gibson Launches Gene Simmons EB-0 Bass
The KISS co-founder partners with Gibson for second signature bass, a limited-edition run of 100 guitars.Based on Gene’s heavily modified 1959 EB-0, the new Gene Simmons EB-0 Bass is the first 30.5” scale bass from the Gibson Custom Shop and the first bass the Custom Shop has produced in quantity. The Gene Simmons EB-0 Bass features a VOS finish in Ebony, as well as VOS hardware throughout, in addition, Gene made several modifications to his EB-0, including refinishing it, reshaping the neck to a custom profile, replacing the pickup with a later model Gibson unit, and relocating it much closer to the bridge, installing a custom pickguard, a fingerboard with Corian nut, adding binding, and changing the original tuners to Grovers. The bridge was also replaced with a high-mass model and can now be strung through-body or as a top-loaded bridge. All of these details are faithfully represented in the new Gene Simmons EB-0 Bass from Gibson Custom Shop. A custom hardshell case as well as case candy developed in collaboration with Gene is also included.The Gene Simmons EB-0 Bass is inspired by the same Bass that Gene played with KISS in the 1970s. The new Gene Simmons EB-0 Bass is a limited-edition run of 100 guitars and is available worldwide at authorized Gibson Custom Shop dealers and via www.gibson.com. $6,999.00 USD.
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