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THE RICKENBACKER 360/12 might not have been the very first 12-string electric guitar to appear on the market — it was preceded by the 12-string necks found on the doubleneck Gibson EDS-1275 and Strato

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Forget the USA – Germany produced one of the most venomous thrash bands of them all. Frontman Mille Petrozza looks back on 40 years of extreme aggression