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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.

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.

Joe Dart, Pino Palladino, and Tim Commerford Talk StingRay
Gear Features

Joe Dart, Pino Palladino, and Tim Commerford Talk StingRay

The three bassists—whose collective work spans Vulfpeck, D’Angelo, Rage Against the Machine, and much more—cast a wide musical net with their StingRay basses.

A History of the Iconic Ernie Ball Music Man StingRay Bass
Gear Features

A History of the Iconic StingRay Bass

Sterling Ball tells the story of an instrument that reaches back to the earliest days of electric-guitar manufacturing. In the hands of players including Pino Palladino, Joe Dart, Tim Commerford, and Tony Levin, it continues to live on the cutting edge.