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“We weren’t allowed to talk about it at Guitar Summit, but the signature everyone was asking about is now here”: All the guitar gear that has caught my eye this week – including the crown jewel of PRS’ 40th Anniversary year

Wylde Audio's most metal guitar ever, a new contender for Boss and Fender in the headphone amp space, and GNR bass tones in a pickup set. All that and more landed this week

Guitar World · Nov 9, 2025

“The thing I’m most excited about is it comes fully armed with my signature Seymour Duncan Damocles Blackout pickups”: Jackson and Corey Beaulieu ante up with the Trivium guitarist's new über-metal next-gen King V

Available with six or seven-strings, designed for crushing high-gain playing, and with that super-cool serrated V body shape, the Jackson x Beaulieu Pro Series collab is a total metal guitar

MusicRadar · Oct 29, 2025

“Never did I actually expect to get the chance to see one up close, let alone play one”: Everything that caught my eye at Guitar Summit 2025 – from the grand unveiling of a brand-new guitar company to the year’s most anticipated amp modeler

Rosengarten Mannheim became a scorching-hot cauldron of all things guitar for three days – and there were plenty of highlights

Guitar World · Sep 30, 2025

“These are weird niche instruments, but they are so inspiring”: Misha Mansoor has got another custom shop Jackson Surfcaster – and we could be creeping towards a potential signature run release

Mansoor might have reached the peak of his Surfcaster experiments with his third Custom Shop model

Guitar World · Aug 27, 2025

Why Jackson Hole Is The Fed's Mountaintop Moment—And Why It Matters More Than Ever

Imagine being Jerome Powell this week. On Friday, August 22, the Federal Reserve chairman will step onto the stage at the Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium — the most closely watched monetary retreat in the world — with markets, politicians, and even building contractors staring him down.

Benzinga · Aug 22, 2025

“I can’t believe the pick scrape became a thing. It was born by mistake”: Gojira’s Joe Duplantier on the origins of his trademark technique, playing Ozzy Osbourne’s final show – and what he’s got cooking with ESP

As the frontman looks back at 20 years of Gojira’s groundbreaking From Mars to Sirius, he explains why switching guitar brands is not like having an affair, and how he learned about Ozzy Osbourne’s death as the band were midway through a show

Guitar World · Aug 20, 2025

“When you need merciless metal tone and speed for days…”: Jackson adds Warrior, King V and Concert Bass to its limited edition Pro Plus Pure Metal range

Metal up your G.A.S. and take a look at these stripped-down single-pickup shred (and low-end) machines

MusicRadar · Aug 13, 2025

“It’s official. The age of touchscreen guitar amps is here”: This is all the new guitar gear that has caught my eye this week – and we might have a winner for the best new sub-$1k electric guitar of 2025

From next-gen desktop amps to a signature bass that celebrates a low-end legend, here are the essential gear launches you might have missed

Guitar World · Jul 12, 2025

“Everyone in Olivia’s band and Olivia herself is a huge fan. I was watching them, thinking, ‘This is so cool. They’re playing Jacksons’”: How Turnstile ramped up the shred in Olivia Rodrigo’s live show

Lead guitarist Arianna Powell reveals how the hardcore outfit inspired the guitar choices on Olivia Rodrigo’s recent tour

Guitar World · Jul 10, 2025

“Korn was doing their 30th anniversary show with Gojira. I was like, ‘I have to go give Christian a guitar, and I have to give Head a guitar’”: Tetrarch on the joy of handing out signature models to their heroes and designing metal’s gnarliest tones

The Ugly Side of Me is an utterly crushing exercise in 21st-century riffs and tones, and if you're wondering how they get these sounds, well, Josh Fore and Diamond Rowe take us behind the scenes and tell all

Guitar World · Jul 9, 2025