As the sole guitarist and creative force behind Massachusetts metalcore quartet Within The Ruins, Joe Cocchi has overseen the ...

If you've got the time, this lesson'll whip your metal rhythm chops into shape. You might even call it a mosh pit-starter ...

In what seems to be a concerted effort to play with only the most influential thrash metal bands out there, 11-year-old ...

And just like the rest of us, Cocchi’s approach to guitar has dramatically evolved over the years – to the point where his original guitar hero sounds nothing like the band he’s famous for playing in.

Shihad will play send-off headline events with special guests at Auckland's Spark Arena, Robrosa Station in Wānaka, Black Barn in Hawke's Bay, Trafalgar in Nelson and Sector 7 in Christchurch, ...

Diamond Head’s Lightning To The Nations should have turned them into NWOBHM-era superstars, but instead it inspired Lars ...

electric guitar-littered affair. He’s tapped Metallica’s bass player Robert Trujillo and Guns N’ Roses’ low-end bringer Duff McKagan for the record, which shares some closer sonic similarities to his ...

Tetrarch guitarist Diamond Rowe recently made history with the launch of her signature guitar - the first signature Jackson for a female player, and as the first artist model for a black female ...

Lee Altus, Steve “Zetro” Souza, and Kragen Lum of Exodus perform onboard the cruise liner “Independence of the Seas” during ...

Playing thrash metal — a style of music rooted in speed and aggression — takes a toll physically, as Exodus guitarist Gary Holt can attest. “I’m suffering from arthritis everywhere, neck down to my ...

"When we wrote our music," Queensrÿche guitarist Michael Wilton says, "we weren’t writing it to fit in a category or a trend.

"When we wrote our music," Queensrÿche guitarist Michael Wilton says, "we weren’t writing it to fit in a category or a trend." ...