A pick-style player who leans “heavily on the guitar side of the bass guitar,” Campbell gets his tone by cranking his ESP ...

The iconic keyboard riff to "The Final Countdown" is cheesy pop-metal perfection, but John Norum's fiery guitar solo gives the song some much-needed muscle. Built around a simple-but-memorable pattern ...

Famous for his time in Screaming Trees and Queens of the Stone Age, Mark Lanegan was a crucial part of the grunge scene that emerged in Seattle in the late 1980s and early 1990s. His band ...

Music lovers looking for emotions between gothic and metal guitar riffs will surely appreciate this dark ode ... Oldies will appreciate this fun cocktail of pure heavy metal splendor, Queen-esque rock ...

The opening salvo of incendiary interplay, at a blistering pace, lasted 12 minutes before the energy diminished, whereupon Amba delivered a vibrato-heavy ... gamelan-esque metal plates; temple bells; ...

From heavy blues outings of the late 60s to pioneering anthems from the early 70s, we bring you just a few songs that inspired heavy metal. What was the lumpen, stomping riff that opened “Purple ...

He pioneered heavy metal guitar with his dark, heavy riffs and detuned sound. Iconic for the fact that he lost the tips of his fingers, and often played with miniature thimbles — using a coin in his ...

Saxon frontman Biff Byford has been belting his heart out over heavy metal thunder since Jim Callaghan was prime minister in ...

Black metal has its share of legendary guitarists and, here, we go especially deep to name the subgenre's 11 best.

In February of that year, EMI released the Metal For Muthas compilation, one that gave the whole NWOBHM concept a major-label ...

Italian-American manufacturer Case Construction Equipment has revealed a one-off, special edition skid steer with a design ...