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NAMM 2016: Mayones Guitars

NAMM 2016: Ultimate Ears Pro – In-Ear Monitors

NAMM 2016: Equilibrium Guitars

NAMM 2016: Exclusive Updates

Axes & Anchors – First Ever Guitar-Dominated Music Cruise

Hungarian Prog-Quartet SPECIAL PROVIDENCE Release Fourth Album

Rest Among Ruins – ‘Beyond The Storm’ Guitar Playthrough

ARMAGEDDON: ‘Captivity & Devourment’ Lyric Video Posted

FRESHMAN GUITARS Reveal Songwriter Series, Featuring AER

Animals As Leaders: The Joy Of Motion (Updated 3/4)

PERIPHERY Announce New Experimental Release: CLEAR (Updated 1/14 – Full Album Stream)

Acoustic Guitar Virtuoso JON GOMM Releases Album ‘SECRETS NOBODY KEEPS’ + First New Video In 2 Years

Seymour Duncan Releases The Dirty Deed Distortion Pedal

VEIL OF MAYA Re-Sign To Sumerian Records, Post New Track, & Prepare For US Headlining Tour

DEVIL YOU KNOW Post New Demo – HOWARD JONES (Killswitch Engage), FRANCESCO ARTUSATO (All Shall Perish), & JOHN SANKEY (DEVOLVED)

ANDREA BALESTRA Releases PAINTING ON SILENCE featuring Scott Henderson, Dave Hill, Julien Kasper, John Pisano, Steve Trovato and Carl Verheyen

NAMM 2013: Ibanez Iron Label Series

Guitar Messenger Solo Competition

Exclusive Video: SCALE THE SUMMIT Tracking Guitars For New Album – THE MIGRATION

NAMM 2013: Strandberg Guitarworks

NAMM 2013: Ibanez Artstar Series

NAMM 2013: Ibanez Meshuggah M8M Signature Model

NAMM 2013: Ibanez Tosin Abasi TAM100 Signature Model

Two-Handed Tapping Virtuoso DON LAPPIN Releases New Album TAPPED IN

SellThisGuitar.Com: New Global Interface For Guitar Selling & Buying

KILLSWITCH ENGAGE Announce DISARM THE DESCENT As Title Of New Album Out April 2

ORDER SCAR GUITAR TODAY! Per Nilsson’s Guitar Instructional DVD

OSCAR’S GUITAR SHOP WITH OSCAR JORDAN TO DEBUT ON LATALKRADIO.COM ON JANUARY 4TH

JAVIER REYES (ANIMALS AS LEADERS, T.R.A.M.) Releases New EP BASAL GANGLIA

COMING SOON: Per Nilsson (Scar Symmetry) Instructional DVD – Teaser #2

CONTEST: Answer Trivia Questions & Win A Copy Of INTERVALLIC FRETBOARD Book

Jazz-Fusion All-Star Trio SCOTT HENDERSON, JEFF BERLIN, DENNIS CHAMBERS To Release New CD ‘HBC’

JOE BONAMASSA To Release Beacon Theatre Double Live Album

DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT Releases New Album EPICLOUD Today In North America

Prog-Metal band THE DEADSTATION Release EP Mastered By JENS BOGREN

DESTINY POTATO Signs To Century Media Records & Posts New Track ‘DARK SIDE OF YOU’

STEVE VAI To Release New Solo Album THE STORY OF LIGHT August 14th on Favored Nations Records

PERIPHERY II: ‘This Time It’s Personal’ Out Now

ANIMALS AS LEADERS House Robbed – Help Recover Stolen Gear

MIKE PORTNOY, BILLY SHEEHAN, TONY MACALPINE, DEREK SHERINIAN To Tour Europe And Asia

Guitar Icon ROBERT CRAY Working On New Studio Album To Be Released In September 2012

Listen To MESHUGGAH’s New Track From Upcoming Album KOLOSS (UPDATED – 2nd Track Added!)

KILLSWITCH ENGAGE Announce New Singer: JESSE LEACH

OPETH & MASTODON Announce Co-Headlining “HERITAGE HUNTER TOUR”

PAUL WARDINGHAM Announces Forthcoming Release THE HUMAN AFFLICTION

MESHUGGAH Announce New Album Title

T.R.A.M. To Release Debut Album on February 28th (Mars Volta, Animals As Leaders, Suicidal Tendencies)

EVER FORTHRIGHT Release Self-Titled Debut

NEW ENGLAND METAL & HARDCORE FESTIVAL 14 Announces Lineup

PERIPHERY Part Ways With Bassist TOM MURPHY

Roadrunner Records Announces The Signing Of GOJIRA

Acoustic Guitar Virtuoso JON GOMM Releases PASSIONFLOWER

EVILE Unleash New Album “FIVE SERPENT’S TEETH”

ANDY TIMMONS BAND Plays SGT. PEPPER To Be Released October 24

PERIPHERY Announces New Guitarist and Dream Theater Off Day Shows

Progressive Death Metallers ORDINANCE Release Debut Album INTERNAL MONOLOGUES

Electro-Harmonix Unveils The Ravish Sitar Pedal

GUTHRIE GOVAN’s Group THE ARISTOCRATS Release Album & Announce Tour Dates

DREAM THEATER Announce Tour Dates, Special Editions of ‘A Dramatic Turn of Events’

ALL SHALL PERISH Release New Album THIS IS WHERE IT ENDS

OPETH Premiere First Track From New Album HERITAGE: “The Devil’s Orchard”

ALL SHALL PERISH’S FRANCESCO ARTUSATO Releases New Album CHAOS AND THE PRIMORDIAL

Periphery Part Ways With Alex Bois

Tony MacAlpine Releases New Self-Titled Solo Album

PERIPHERY Announces Their First Ever North American Headlining Touring Package

[UPDATED] OPETH Announce New Album & Tour Dates

CHRISTIAN MUENZNER Releases Debut Solo Album TIMEWARP

DREAM THEATER Announce New Album Name, Tracks & Release Date

UNEARTH Premieres New Track ‘Ruination Of The Lost’ Through MetalSucks

BEHOLD OBLIVION Releases New Song ‘The Desert’s Curse’

SYMPHONY X Offers Behind-The-Scenes Interview & Releases New Song For Sale (UPDATED)

Australia’s DEAD LETTER CIRCUS Signs With Sumerian Records For North American Release

Norwegian Guitar Virtuoso JARLE H. OLSEN Releases QUADRASONIC

DAVID GILMOUR Joins ROGER WATERS Onstage At O2 Arena

TONY MACALPINE To Release New Self-Titled Solo Album

VEIL OF MAYA Prepares For European Tour & Demos New Tracks With PERIPHERY’S MISHA MANSOOR

Fractal Audio Systems Unveils The AXE-FX II

THE KENNY WAYNE SHEPHERD BAND Announces New Album HOW I GO

UNDEROATH & TIMES OF GRACE Embark On Illuminato[u]r

ALL SHALL PERISH Announces Album Title & Release Date

STRYPER Return To Their Roots With THE COVERING

DREAM THEATER Offer An Exclusive Look Into Their Search For A New Drummer

PERIPHERY Releases ICARUS EP, Posts Webisode & Announces Drum Performance

SCAR SYMMETRY Post Album Trailers And 2 Songs From THE UNSEEN EMPIRE

DDM Releases Debut Album LUCIDITY

PERIPHERY Streams New Track ‘Frak The Gods’

JOHN WESLEY Releases THE LILYPAD SUITE And Prepares To Tour The Northeast

ALL SHALL PERISH Studio Update #4

TEXTURES Studio Report (Part One)

BLACK STONE CHERRY Announces New Record Due May 31

SOILWORK Forced To Cancel Upcoming North American Tour

Mike Starr (ALICE IN CHAINS) Dies

T.R.A.M. (Featuring Tosin Abasi) Signs With Sumerian Records

PERIPHERY Launches North American Tour With Extended Set For All Headlining Shows This Week

DRAGONFORCE Reveals New Singer

BETWEEN THE BURED AND ME To Release THE PARALLAX: HYPERSLEEP DIALOGUES

SCAR SYMMETRY Reveals Album Cover + Details For THE UNSEEN EMPIRE

Guitar Legend STEVE VAI and BERKLEE Attempt World Record For Largest Online Guitar Lesson

Irish Guitar Luminary GARY MOORE Dies At 58

HAUNTED SHORES Releases ‘Terra Firma’ With Vocals

PERIPHERY Announces New ICARUS LIVES EP Details And Tour Info

TIMES OF GRACE Announces Touring Lineup

HD Trailer Released For New JASON BECKER Documentary PERPETUAL BURN

EVER FORTHRIGHT Releases ‘Dispose Of Your Optimism’ & Prepares To Unveil Debut EP (UPDATED)

TIMES OF GRACE Announces First-Ever Tour

JOHN PETRUCCI Demonstrates His MESA/BOOGIE Mark V Amp Settings

BEN LEVIN GROUP Releases PULSE OF A NATION

THIS TIME IT’S WAR Releases TERROR PLOTS

TIMES OF GRACE Releases Their First Video: THE HYMN OF A BROKEN MAN

OPETH To Record Their Tenth Album In January; STEVEN WILSON To Mix

BTBAM Vocalist TOMMY ROGERS To Release Debut Solo Album ‘PULSE’

GUTHRIE GOVAN CONTEST and CONCERT At Berklee – Winner PLAYS WITH GUTHRIE At The Show!

SOILWORK Releases 6 Parts Of Tour Documentary (UPDATED)

HAUNTED SHORES Releases ‘Passenger’ and ‘My The Man’, Announce Partial Lineup Of Vocalists (UPDATED)

SYMPHONY X Announces Headlining North American Tour (UPDATED)

SLASH Debuts New Music Video Featuring FERGIE

VEIL OF MAYA Prepares For North American Fall Tour With DARKEST HOUR and PERIPHERY

ERIC JOHNSON Releases Expansive New Album & Joins EXPERIENCE HENDRIX Tour

SLASH Signs On For OZZY OSBOURNE Tour

Hardcore Heavyweights THE EMPIRE SHALL FALL Release Debut Album ‘AWAKEN’ To Major Retailers

YNGWIE MALMSTEEN Prepares To Release ‘RELENTLESS’

KING’S X Kick Off Co-Headlining Tour With ACCEPT

NEVERMORE Prepares For Massive Headlining North American Tour

STONE SOUR Debuts Top 10 With ‘AUDIO SECRECY’

HALFORD Confirms North American OZZY OSBOURNE Tour Dates

THREAT SIGNAL Seek New Drummer

TESSERACT Release New Samples From THE CONCEALING FATE EP

FIREWIND Announce Four Special North American Headlining Shows This Fall

TEXTURES Announces New Keyboard Player

‘DIO At Donington UK’ Coming This November

Where The Wild Things Are DOUBLE VINYL

In The Wake Of Portnoy’s Departure

BLIND GUARDIAN Announce North American Tour Dates

Mike Portnoy LEAVES Dream Theater

MESHUGGAH’s “Bleed” now available on the RockBand Network

DIMMU BORGIR Announce North American Tour

TEXTURES Guitarist Launches “Inside The Songs” Online Video Series

TESSERACT Announce THE CONCEALING FATE EP Details; Prepare For Devin Townsend North American Tour

BEHEMOTH’s Nergal responds to overwhelming fan support

ERIC JOHNSON and others unite for an acoustic guitar masters tour

Friend For A Foe Release Debut Song!

Century Media announces worldwide signing of TESSERACT

Dream Theater’s JAMES LABRIE Unveils His New Static Impulse Solo Release

Electro-Harmonix Release The Freeze Sound Retainer & Headphone Amp

Soilwork Kick Off North American Tour

Francesco Artusato joins All Shall Perish & Unveils Details of a New Solo Effort

Steve Vai Presents: Western Vacation

Electro-Harmonix releases the Germanium 4 Big Muff Pi & 44 Magnum Power Amp

George Bellas – The Dawn of Time

Guitar Virtuoso Month at Lion Music

Legendary Heavy Metal Vocalist RONNIE JAMES DIO Dies

Peter Wichers Comments on Producing New SOILWORK Record

Periphery debuts ‘Icarus Lives’ Video

Guitar Legend Steve Vai to Release “Where The Other Wild Things Are”

KORN sign to Roadrunner Records – Album Due Summer 2010

TEXTURES Announce New Front Man

DREAM THEATER to support IRON MAIDEN on Summer Tour

Workshop Featuring Pat Metheny, Larry Carlton, Alex De Grassi, Scott Tennant

DARK TRANQUILLITY Vocalist Checks In From Killswitch Engage Tour

Guitar Scale Magnets Inc. Launches New Products for Learning and Playing Scales

TEXTURES Singer Leaves Band

Guthrie Govan announces clinics and performances in Massachusetts with Jon Finn Group

Periphery: New Singer & New Album Teaser

New George Bellas Album – The Dawn Of Time

Soundgarden to reunite in 2010

Avenged Sevenfold drummer dies at 28

Killswitch Engage announce winter headline tour with The Devil Wears Prada & Dark Tranquillity

DREAM THEATER Updates

More LION MUSIC artists speak out on THE MURDER OF MUSIC

Exclusive clip of Yngwie Malmsteen’s cover of BEAT IT

Opeth Announce 20th Anniversary Shows

BORISLAV MITIC Discusses the Murder of Music

Symphony X: “Working hard on the new CD”

Yngwie Malmsteen new album details revealed

OPETH members involved in auto crash

SCAR SYMMETRY – Video Introduction of New Singers Posted!

Coldplay’s Joe Satriani lawsuit dismissed from court

Norway’s DIMMU BORGIR part ways with 2 members

OASIS Split After Backstage Brawl

BEHEMOTH’s “Evangelion” debuts in the Billboard Charts!

Rotosound launch British Steel strings

KILLSWITCH ENGAGE announce 2 special one off shows