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“I was playing baseball in the backyard when I heard Eruption. That afternoon I decided what my life would be”: How recording in Eddie Van Halen’s 5150 Studios inspired Alter Bridge to make their most riff-heavy statement yet

The latest album from Mark Tremonti and Myles Kennedy finds Alter Bridge going full-throttle in EVH’s studio

Guitar World

“I think the only thing was ‘Please, don’t play Eruption.’ He didn't say that, but I wasn't going to do that”: Myles Kennedy and Mark Tremonti on making an Alter Bridge album at Eddie Van Halen’s studio

An invite from Wolfgang Van Halen led to the recording experience of a lifetime as Alter Bridge decamped to 5150 Studios for their new “straight-ahead hard-rock record”

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"We saw the end coming." How the 90s' last big rock band reinvented after their frontman went off the rails - courtesy of one of the best singers in the game

Velvet Revolver's loss was Alter Bridge's gain when Myles Kenendy helped his bandmates shake off the bad taste of Creed

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"I remember finishing the lyrics and literally feeling sick to my stomach." How Alter Bridge regrouped, faced the dark side, put their foot on the gas and recorded a brilliant album

With solo projects, other bands and a massive Creed reunion between them, there were whispers that Alter Bridge might be on the way out

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“Have I held Frankenstein? Was it a total, Excalibur-level experience? I don't even know how to articulate that, but I got emotional”: Alter Bridge's Myles Kennedy and Mark Tremonti on recording at Eddie Van Halen's legendary 5150 Studios

The guitar duo recall the surreal experience of going into the “sacred” studio – and how that impacted the DNA of their latest record

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“I opened the door... he had the guitar in his hands. It was him playing the jazz. I had no idea that he was that good”: Mark Tremonti on Alter Bridge’s “secret weapon” and his soloing strategies for avoiding the same old pentatonic patterns

The self-confessed Dumble “addict” talks all things guitar

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"Towering riffs come to them as easily as dreaming does to the rest of us": Alter Bridge are at their most Alter Bridge on the unwaveringly confident Alter Bridge

It's more of the same on Alter Bridge's self-titled seventh album, but who’s complaining when their same is this good?

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"I live in my childhood home, so the studio's right there. It's what I need to watch and protect, for the rest of my life": Wolfgang Van Halen on 5150, battling demons and the good ship Mammoth

On his third Mammoth album, Wolfgang Van Halen raises his playing, singing and songwriting game - and channels experiences with A-listers and legends

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Myles Kennedy looks back on the time he refused to audition for Slash and Velvet Revolver: “I knew that I wasn’t mentally prepared to jump into something of that magnitude”

After being diagnosed with tinnitus, the Alter Bridge singer/guitarist shot down the chance to audition for Velvet Revolver and their lineup of then-former Guns N’ Roses members

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"They get back to me like, 'You know, there's going to be how many hundred million people watching this thing. You have to do it'" How Creed's 2001 half-time show went from unifying the nation to fuelling their resurgence

At a time of tragedy, Creed used their 10 minutes on the pitch at a Denver Broncos game to represent something bigger than themselves

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“They called the police and said, ‘This is Mark Tremonti’s guitar’”: Mark Tremonti once had one of his earliest PRS guitars stolen – but a fan bought it back for him from a Guitar Center parking lot

The gorgeous single-cut was thought to be lost forever, until one eagle-eyed fan saved the day

Guitar World

"It’s just the most emotive piece of music": Alter Bridge's Mark Tremonti on the greatest guitar solo of all time – and how alternate tunings are the key to unlocking his lead playing

Like what, 99.99 per cent of players, the Alter Bridge and Creed guitarist looks for patterns on the fretboard, but alternate tunings set him free from reaching for the same old notes when soloing

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"I walked up behind him: ‘Hi Brian Johnson, I’m a guitar player. Do you want to go onstage and jam some songs?’ He went, 'Yeah mate!'" How an AC/DC legend and a heavyweight guitarist covered Led Zeppelin at a famous baseball player's wedding

We reckon a lot of wedding guests couldn't believe their own eyes seeing this!

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Alter Bridge’s Mark Tremonti once performed a Led Zeppelin song with AC/DC singer Brian Johnson at a baseball player’s wedding

“I walked up behind him like, ‘Do you want to go onstage and jam?’ He grabbed his junk and went, ‘F*** yeah, mate!’”

Guitar World

“I didn’t have the brainpower to focus – I was just like, ‘I need to make sure Frankenstein is safe’”: Anxiety, wildfires, slap guitar: How Wolfgang Van Halen made the monster guitar album of 2025

With his third album (and a bit of his dad’s Frankenstein), Wolfgang Van Halen and Mammoth are taking the world of rock guitar by storm once again

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"I think the more metal people are, the nicer they are." Alter Bridge on the huge impact one wrestling star has had on their career - and why metalheads are the nicest people going

One metal-loving wrestling legend using an Alter Bridge song as his theme tune helped gain the band countless new followers

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“There’s no other band that drew me in like them. It was the mood and atmosphere – and the aggression”: Alter Bridge’s Mark Tremonti on the visionary extreme metal band who changed his life as a teenager – and got him fanboying out as an adult

You may not hear Tremonti favourites Celtic Frost in Creed and Alter Bridge’s music but they’re there

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“Being able to go into a sacred space like that and start the process was a dream come true”: Alter Bridge’s Myles Kennedy and Mark Tremonti on recording at the studio that Eddie Van Halen built – and the 5150 amp that gave them their fire-breathing tone

“It was literally, the minute we walked in the door, it was very Wayne’s World. ‘We’re not worthy! We’re not worthy!’”

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“Some riffs just have that big swing to them. You can definitely hear that in the first Van Halen album”: How Wolfgang Van Halen created a new song with echoes of classic VH – and Peter Gabriel’s Sledgehammer

"It’s very much the kind of idea that mixes heaviness with funkiness”

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Creed release new career-spanning compilation

The Best Of Creed is the first set pulling together tracks from all four of the Florida rockers’ albums

Guitar World

“If you can’t beat them, join them”: Mark Tremonti’s love for Dumbles and tube amps is well-documented – but he’s brought a Neural DSP Quad Cortex on tour

He’s previously said that nothing beats the PRS/Dumble doubt-act, but now the guitarist is embracing digital modelling tech

Guitar World

“Every now and then, you’ll look at the wall and think, ‘I can’t believe we’re here’”: Wolfgang Van Halen welcomed Alter Bridge into the hallowed halls of the legendary 5150 Studios to record their new album

Eddie Van Halen’s iconic studio recently opened its doors to Mark Tremonti, Myles Kennedy and co

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“We’d only be in front of 50 people, but he’d be like, ‘We’re gonna write a song on stage, everybody!’”: How rock giants Creed wrote their breakthrough hit – or at least a good chunk of it – while playing a gig

Higher cemented their stature as stadium-conquering heavyweights

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“A half-million dollars of tone at your feet”: Nail the sound of a holy grail tube amp with a pedal you made yourself – JHS Pedals unveils the NOTADÜMBLË solderless DIY kit

Megabucks tube amp tones beloved by the likes of Joe Bonamassa, Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Carlos Santana in a stompbox you assemble yourself? No wonder the first batch sold out within a day

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