The UK punks talk keeping their "urgent, automatic" guitar playing honest and weaponising joy

Disturbed’s riffer-in-chief on why working hard and trusting your gut will get the best from your playing

Lzzy Hale and Joe Hottinger on their cathartic album, Vicious

Prog guitarist talks the band's gargantuan new concept album The Unheavenly Creatures

Next-level humbucker electrics from Jackson, Schecter, Squier and Fret-King

With riffs and plenty of them, the Diamond Head guitarist changed the face of metal, and he says they can change your playing, too

Trailblazing Slint and Papa M guitarist on how making your own scales and finding your own sound will change you as a player

Mike Rosenberg talks about the influence of America, being a solo artist and writing pop songs in an era of distraction

Custom one-offs, rare limited-editions, plus one irreplaceable Marshall head

Singer-songwriter shares advice on writing, performing and honing your sound

Hard-rocking solidbodies from Ibanez, EVH, Kramer and Squier duke it out

Souped-up models from Jackson, PRS, ESP LTD and Hagstrom

The guitarist talks playing thousands of gigs with one SG, honing his tone and The Wolf Bites Back

Earth's drone-rock legend on going solid-state and why you should never pay more than $600 for a guitar

Bespoke 'birds from Epiphone, LTD and Hagström

Do-it-all electrics from Charvel, Fender, Yamaha and Schecter go to war

Dean Fertita and Troy Van Leeuwen talk Villains, Iggy Pop and the power of three guitarists

Four ultra-cool electrics from Ibanez, Fender, Cort and Reverend