shred

Have you heard the one about the nine-year-old guitarist from Atlanta Georgia who moseyed in to Las Vegas and blew George Lynch away? It happened last weekend at the Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy Camp. Noisecreep has been on hand at the camp enough times to know that once in a while it teenage prodigy will turn up and play way beyond his years...

We recently posted our list of list of the top 10 guitarists of the shred era, and it caused quite a bit of controversy. The article was picked up by various other music outlets and readers everywhere chimed in with their opinions. For the most part people seemed to be comfortable with our choices but our omission of players like Steve Vai and Joe Satriani really ticked some readers off... Read Mo

Heavy metal became big business in the 1980s. MTV's emergence early in the decade had a profound effect on the scene, and during no other time did major labels sign more metal and hard rock bands. The main scenes that sprung up during that decade were thrash and what many called hair or glam metal -- plus let's not forget all of their many offshoots...