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WOODSHED • VOL. 43 | NO. 11 | NOVEMBER 2022

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Gore-Obsessed, Old-School Death Metal • INTRIGUED? LET BLOODBATH GUITARIST TOMAS ÅKVIK FILL YOU IN

Billy Howerdel • THE A PERFECT CIRCLE GUITARIST UNVEILS HIS SOLO DEBUT, WHAT NORMAL WAS, WHICH TAKES HIS SYNTH ROCK AND SHOEGAZE INFLUENCES TO NEW LIMITS

MAKIN' TRACKS DAN AUERBACH • THE EVER-BUSY FRONTMAN WALKS US THROUGH FIVE CLASSIC BLACK KEYS SONGS — AND FIVE FROM THE BAND’S LATEST ALBUM, DROPOUT BOOGIE

S.G. Goodman • THIS KENTUCKIAN'S GUITAR-LADEN NEW ALBUM HAS PLENTY OF BITE — COURTESY OF HER UNIQUE PERSPECTIVE AND VINTAGE GUILDS

Still a Ball of Fire • U.K. STRAT LEGEND ROBIN TROWER TALKS NEW MUSIC, THE SECRETS TO STELLAR TONE AND WHY HE’LL ALWAYS HAVE A SOFT SPOT FOR AMERICAN FANS

Lari Basilio • THE BRAZILIAN GUITAR ACE HELPS LISTENERS CUT THROUGH PANDEMIC-FUELED DEPRESSION WITH HOPEFUL TUNES AND HER CUSTOMARY KICKASS GUITAR PLAYING

Kirk Fletcher • THE NASHVILLE-BASED BLUES MASTER ISN’T AFRAID TO ADD SOME II’S, III’S AND VI’S TO THE TRIED-AND-TRUE I-IV-V

Leprous • GW CATCHES UP WITH TOR ODDMUND SUHRKE, A PROVEN PROG MASTER (WHO'S ALSO A PROFESSIONAL PHYSIOTHERAPIST)

Korner stones, part 2 • KORN’S GUITARIST REVEALS THE SONGS THAT HAVE MOST IMPACTED HIS LIFE

RECORD HIGHS • Eight home-recording products — from pedals to plug-ins — that’ll make your tunes sound like they were tracked at a swanky L.A. studio

A CHUNK OF change • MESHUGGAH’S MÅRTEN HAGSTRÖM TAKES YOU INSIDE THE MAKING OF THE SWEDISH DEATH METAL MASTERS’ UNRELENTING NEW ALBUM, IMMUTABLE, HIS WEAKNESS FOR SIMON & GARFUNKEL — AND THE RETURN OF CO-FOUNDING GUITARIST FREDRIK THORDENDAL

WELCOME TO THE machine • MACHINE HEAD FOUNDER ROBB FLYNN WALKS US THROUGH EVERYTHING THAT LED UP TO THE BAY AREA METAL VETERANS’ 10TH ALBUM, OF KINGDOM AND CROWN, PLUS HIS EFFECTS, THE BURN MY EYES 25TH-ANNIVERSARY TOUR — AND WHY HE THINKS MACHINE HEAD ARE THE GRATEFUL DEAD OF METAL

THESE TIMES ARE volatile • We chart the highs and lows of MACHINE HEAD’s storied career

THE problem CHILD • WILLIE ADLER AND MARK MORTON, LAMB OF GOD’S YIN-AND-YANG GUITAR DUO, TAKE YOU BEHIND THE SCENES OF THE BAND’S “COMBATIVE,” “CONFRONTATIONAL” (AND LIVE-IN-THE-STUDIO) NEW ALBUM

THE omens AXOLOGY • MARK MORTON AND WILLIE ADLER UPDATE US ON THEIR LATEST GEAR CHOICES

STARK RAVEN MAD • GW EXPLORES THE FINER POINTS OF LAMB OF GOD’S MIGHTY “NEVERMORE” RIFF

ROLLING WITH the chaos • JIM ROOT AND MICK THOMSON DO A DEEP DIVE INTO THE MAKING OF THE END, SO FAR — THE SETBACKS, THE DEPRESSION, THE WILD GEAR EXPERIMENTS, THE WHAMMY-BAR HIJINKS AND MORE

THE axology SO FAR • A GUIDE TO JIM ROOT AND MICK THOMSON’S CURRENT GEAR, INCLUDING BACKLINE AMPS, CABS, EFFECTS AND MORE

WHO’S playing WHAT? • HOW TO TELL LEFT FROM RIGHT WITH JIM ROOT AND MICK THOMSON

Sonic Reaction • LINE 6 CATALYST 100

Dark and Stormy • ESP GUITARS LTD DELUXE SN-1000HT FIRE BLAST

Z-One 4 Rock • REVEREND BILLY CORGAN SIGNATURE Z-ONE

Buzz Bin Fender Hammertone Overdrive and Distortion

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