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

With 28 albums’ worth of songs to choose from, “hopefully there will be some surprises”.

Roar Like Thunder EARACHE

The genre-agnostic mastermind behind Zeal & Ardor gives us a tour of his quirky record collection

U.S. Girls ★★★★ Scratch It 4AD. CD/DL/LP ...

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