Guitar World

The end of Megadeth

As Megadeth prepare for their final album release and tour, cover star Dave Mustaine recounts some Mega-memories, the ghosts that still haunt him and, of course, the lead guitarists he played with along the way — the good, the great and the unhinged!...

2025 THE YEAR IN GUITAR

STARRING NUNO BETTENCOURT JOE PERRY KEITH URBAN GRACE BOWERS VERNON REID DUANE BETTS DON FELDER HERMAN LI NILI BROSH TOMMY EMMANUEL MAX CAVALERA TOM MORELLO JAKE E. LEE RICHIE KOTZEN ELLIOT EASTON ALLY VENABLE STEVE STEVENS RICHARD FORTUS A HEADLESS...

GUITAR & BASS TRANSCRIPTIONS

GUITAR & BASS TRANSCRIPTIONS GHOST LACHRYMA MARVIN GAYE WHAT’S GOING ON BOBBY HELMS JINGLE BELL ROCK

GUITAR & BASS

VOLBEAT BY A MONSTER’S HAND EAGLES LIFE IN THE FAST LANE ALICE IN CHAINS DAM THAT RIVER

GUITAR & BASS TRANSCRIPTIONS

George Harrison My Sweet Lord Coheed and Cambria Blind Side Sonny The Red Clay Strays Wondering Why

The Smashing Pumpkins

DURING A DUAL Zoom interview with Guitar World, Billy Corgan remembers he has a bit of pressing musical business to go over with Kiki Wong. “Kiki,” I’m breaking down all these parts, so I’ve got to call you about some guitar stuff,” he says. “Awesome....

Tune-Ups

THE AMERICAN DREAM is a simple one: if you work hard and are dedicated, eventually good things come your way. This is the myth we tell ourselves, whether you are a plumber, a lawyer or a band member. The unfortunate truth is, luck can play a huge role...

SABBATH/GW FIRSTS

SINCE A LOT of this issue is a celebration of Black Sabbath’s historic Back to the Beginning event on July 5 — a mega-happening that’s destined to be one of the biggest single-day shows in the history of hard rock and heavy metal — we thought we’d hit...

THE SUMMERS OF ANGUS

VERY OFTEN, WHEN it comes time to write these Woodshed columns, I just ask myself, “What are your personal experiences with the band/artist/thing on the cover?” And when I did that for this issue, this is what I came up with: It’s August 1984, and my...

CLASS OF '85

JOE PERRY ON AEROSMITH’S MID-’80s COMEBACK BOB MOULD REVISITS A HÜSKER DÜ CLASSIC CHRIS POLAND ON RECORDING MEGADETH’S EXPLOSIVE DEBUT BILLY DUFFY ON THE CULT’S ’85 BREAKTHROUGH PLUS KISS, HEART, RUN-D.M.C., YNGWIE, ROBERT CRAY, SIMPLE MINDS, DINOSAUR...

ROOM FOR SPHERES

IT ADMITTEDLY DOESN’T do a lot of good to try to “sell” the issue here on the Woodshed page. I mean, by the time you’ve reached this section of the magazine, you’ve theoretically already bought the issue, pulled it out of your mailbox or picked it up...

DHANI HARRISON TALKS LIVING IN THE MATERIAL WORLD

PASSING THE TORCH

ANOTHER MONTH, ANOTHER major guitar auction. It seems they’re cropping up all over the place these days, doesn’t it? The David Gilmour auction is still fresh in our memories (OK, my deranged memory), and — more recently — we saw Rory Gallagher and Mark...

LOTS OF DIME TO SPARE

UNBELIEVABLY, 20 YEARS have come and gone since we lost Dimebag Darrell, who — besides being a bona fide guitar hero — was a great friend of this magazine and its readers. Over the span of 29 pages, Nick Bowcott does a fantastic job of illustrating...

MYLES KENNEDY

UNDERCOVER GUITAR HERO? MYLES KENNEDY

GUITAR &BASS

TRANSCRIPTIONS SLASH FEAT. BRIAN JOHNSON KILLING FLOOR MOTÖRHEAD ACE OF SPADES DICK DALE MISIRLOU

ODE TO GUITAR SHOPS...

HERE’S HOPING IT ain’t too noticeable, but I was gone — on vacation — for a little more than two weeks while this issue was being put together. The downside is that I’m feeling very “two weeks behind” at the moment, and I’m kinda stressing out about...

HOW SLIPKNOT RECORDED THEIR EXTREME DEBUT!

GUITAR & BASS

RUSH CLOSER TO THE HEART DEVO WHIP IT DISTURBED BAD MAN

JIMI HENDRIX: COMIC BOOK HERO?

NEWS FROM THE ANDYS

IN THE MONTHS ahead, you’ll probably notice a bit more turnover in terms of our columnists in the back of the mag. This is purely (and obviously) to keep things fresh and interesting. We added David Grissom a couple of issues ago, and this issue sees...