We can always rely on Solar Guitars for some of the best guitars for metal but don’t let it be said it leaves the bass players out. Today, the chuggable brand expanded its collection of metal-ready ...

Bass Week: Playing bass guitar in a metal band is easy. You carefully copy whatever riff the guitarist plays, wave horn signs at the leather-clad crowd and then go home. There's little room for ...

Ola Englund’s Solar Guitars has expanded its range of bass ... Solar also says its Type-E bass delivers a “new standard for metal bass”, and provides a “bold statement engineered to ...

What does it mean to set up a guitar or bass? Guitars and basses are largely wooden instruments under tension from strong metal strings, and they must balance these forces to remain in tune and ...

With Charvel Surfcaster bodies and Strat headstocks, Mansoor's Frankenstein Jacksons are the coolest metal guitars you'll see, and the tuning they've inspired is crazy even by baritone standards ...

According to Ellefson, the foundation of metal music is based around guitars first and drums second. "So if you want to be a metal bass player, you have to be a one-person support system," he says.