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Jackson’s Jon Romanowski: The Halo Effect
Gear Features

Jackson’s Jon Romanowski: The Halo Effect

Nearly 50 years after Eddie Van Halen painted stripes on a modified Stratocaster and changed the game, the Superstrat is still evolving. At Jackson, Charvel, and EVH, Jon Romanowski is watching, listening, and helping shape what comes next.

Spector’s Low-End Lineage
Gear Features

Spector’s Low-End Lineage

Wil DeYoung spent years discovering what was possible by taking instruments apart, then figured out the rest by building them from scratch. Now he’s bringing that hard-won perspective to Spector—and to the definitive NS-2 he calls the brand’s “North Star.”

Pelican’s Face-to-Face Heavy Rock Ethos
Artist Features

Pelican’s Face-to-Face Heavy Rock Ethos

Daron Malakian’s Scalding Hot Melting Pot
Artist Features

Daron Malakian’s Scalding Hot Melting Pot

When the System of a Down guitarist’s recombinant influences start simmering, the songs start to flow. The proof’s in Addicted to the Violence, his new album with his own band, Scars on Broadway.

tetrarch
Artist Features

Nu Metal Band Tetrarch Issues a New Ruling

Coheed and Cambria’s Universe Keeps Expanding
Artist Features

Coheed and Cambria’s Universe Keeps Expanding

From fantasy to reality, guitarist and singer Claudio Sanchez charts a new course on The Father of Make Believe, the newest part of the concept rockers’ Vaxis series.

Eight Touring Pros’ Backline Specs
Artist Features

Eight Touring Pros’ Backline Specs

What Lindsay Ell, Joshua Crumbly, Jennifer Batten, Earl Slick, and other traveling artists ask for on the road, and the lessons they’ve learned.

Killswitch Engage’s Adam Dutkiewicz and Joel Stroetzel
Artist Features

Killswitch Engage’s Adam Dutkiewicz and Joel Stroetzel

The metalcore pioneers return with an album for the times, This Consequence, that explores division, war, and other modern-day troubles to the tune of the band’s tandem guitar duo’s brutal, lockstep riff-ery.