On July 5th, Black Sabbath will take the stage at Villa Park in Birmingham, United Kingdom to perform alongside Ozzy Osbourne one last time. Always loving what he produced with the band, Osbourne ...

Who are the real "architects" of heavy metal? It's a question that has routinely come up over decades and Metallica's Kirk Hammett has his answer — not Black Sabbath. Although Black Sabbath are ...

If you’ve ever picked up a guitar and seen solid black bars where the pickups should be, then chances are you were holding a guitar equipped with EMG pickups. They became pretty ubiquitous in the late ...

Turner later added that he feels metal guitarists found EMG thanks to the cleanliness of their sound – an aspect that a very young Kirk Hammett noticed: " Kirk [Hammett] was the first one to actually… ...

For Metallica’s Kirk Hammett, there is one electric guitar that stands above the rest in his arsenal for the metal band’s ongoing M72 world tour. He thinks of it as his Excalibur, he says. It is a ...