You know the riffs, but you may not associate these guitarists with them. But there's no doubt these iconic riffs inspired a whole new generation of guitarists who are tearing it up today. While at ...

Bryan Giles likes to have two complementary guitar riffs before showing an idea to his bandmates in the Portland-based hard-rock band Red Fang, because a standalone riff isn't all that useful for ...

The first decade of the 2000s is still pretty fresh in everyone's minds as we were bombarded by a wealth of different stylings in heavy metal. Nu-metal and alternative metal dominated the earlier part ...

When you think about metal’s riff masters, who do you have in your Mount Rushmore? Tony Iommi, Dave Mustaine, Jeff Hanneman, K.K. Downing… all masters in their own right. But for my money, one dude ...

A lot of people conflate rap metal and nü-metal, but really, how many nü-metal bands rap? Perhaps the presence of turntables and baggy shorts confuses people, but influential acts like Korn, Mudvayne, ...