John mayall: blues crusader

Amid the mayhem of his European tour, Joe takes time out to give us a guided tour around his 2025 live gear, delivers the lowdown on some of his more storied guitars, and tells us why his mighty multi-amp rig has to run at breaking point in order to make the earth move and those riffs resonate…

Leader of north Wales rockers The Alarm and beyond, Mike Peters left us on April 29.

The month’s best guitar music – a hand-picked selection of the finest fretwork on wax

From drugs, despondency and dead bats to changing the face of modern metal and gaining an unlikely celebrity status, this is the rollercoaster story of Ozzy Osbourne’s solo career

On July 5, Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne will play live for the last time ever. The four members look back on an incredible journey

Chaos, blood, death, resurrection – Kerry King and Tom Araya look back on the tumultuous journey of the thrash icons who pushed metal to new extremes