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.

WHAT IS LIFE? FUZZ!

Guitar World

SOUNDING BOARD

DEFENDERS of the Faith

We Are the Fire • HOW HALESTORM’S LZZY HALE AND JOE HOTTINGER STORMED BACK FROM THE DEAD

INTRODUCING

Get your very own Hitmaker! (Hits not included) • ... AND OTHER NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

Gulfer • HOW THESE MONTREAL INDIE ROCKERS TAP INTO AN INVENTIVE APPROACH TO SONGWRITING

FIVE QUESTIONS MOMMA SAYS... • GETTING TO KNOW MOMMA’S ALLEGRA WEINGARTEN AND ETTA FRIEDMAN

WHAT'S ON MY PLAYLIST • SARA NØRREGAARD OF KONVENT

Six by Six • “I’VE BEEN DREAMING ABOUT THIS FOR YEARS” — LONGTIME SAGA GUITARIST IAN CRICHTON LETS HIS INNER SHREDDER OFF THE LEASH WITH HIS NEW POWER TRIO

Vio-lence • ON THEIR BLAZING NEW EP, PHIL DEMMEL & CO. CAPTURE THE AGGRESSIVE SPIRIT OF THE ICONIC THRASHERS’ EARLIEST RELEASES

MY PEDALBOARD STEVE STEVENS • WHAT THE LONGTIME BILLY IDOL GUITARIST SEES WHEN HE LOOKS DOWN

INQUIRER YNGWIE MALMSTEEN? • THE SHRED KING TALKS REGRETS, FIRST GIGS AND WHY HE NEVER HAS A BAD SHOW

THE WILD GUITAR SOUNDS OF THE 80S • EDDIE! YNGWIE! STEVIE RAY! SATCH! THE EDGE! THE EIGHTIES WERE ARGUABLY THE MOST INNOVATIVE DECADE IN GUITAR HISTORY. JOIN US AS WE SALUTE THE SHREDDERS, THE PUNKS, THE BLUESMEN and ALL THE BLAZING SIX-STRING GUNSLINGERS WHO MADE IT SPECIAL

GAME-CHANGING GEAR OF THE ’80S • SHREDDERS, BLUESERS AND CHORUS KINGS/QUEENS WEREN’T THE DECADE’S ONLY GUITAR HEROES. GEAR MAKERS TOOK ADVANTAGE OF NEW TECH — AND WENT BERSERK (IN A GOOD WAY!). JOIN US AS WE REVISIT THESE 20 ULTIMATE EXAMPLES OF GAME-CHANGING EIGHTIES GEAR

THE BEST SOLOS RIFFS SHREDDERS N’MORE • A HORDE OF GUITAR STARS — INCLUDING REB BEACH, STEVE STEVENS, VERNON REID, LITA FORD, ERIC JOHNSON, STEVE LUKATHER AND WARREN DEMARTINI (NOT TO MENTION ADAM JONES, ERIC GALES, JOHN PETRUCCI, SCOTT IAN, MARTY FRIEDMAN, STEVE MORSE AND MORE, MORE, MORE!) — MUSE ON THE ’80s’ BEST STUFF

MOVERS AND SHAKERS REVISITED!

DJ PLAY MY BLUES • A VERY ROUGH GUIDE TO THE EIGHTIES’ OTHER GREAT BLUES RELEASES

EIGHT FROM THE ’80S • LOOKING BACK, GW-STYLE

SCORPIONS • “After a while, everything comes back with a twist” — Rudolf Schenker leans into the iconic band’s legacy status

WARREN DeMARTINI • The man who replaced Jake E. Lee in Ratt talks Eddie Van Halen, “Round and Round,” Dio, Charvel gear and his legendary vibrato

DEF LEPPARD • Phil Collen and Vivian Campbell take you behind the scenes of their first album in seven long years, Diamond Star Halos, and talk Bolan, Bowie, Ronson and Reed

ROSS THE BOSS • “I had to change my image, so I became a rocker” — Proto-punk and power metal veteran Ross Friedman recounts his time with the Dictators and Manowar

BONNIE RAITT • “Why would I want to repeat myself?” The blues-rock pro takes us inside her bold new album and charts her never-ending journey into the world of slide guitar

VITO BRATTA • The reclusive Eighties virtuoso — and one-time GW cover star — returns to tell his story. The former White Lion guitarist talks soloing, gear and what he’s up to now

JOHNNY MARR • The Smiths legend, now in what he considers “part four” of his career, discusses his career, sound...