PRESS RELEASE: Gibson Guitar, the world's premier musical instrument company and leader in music technology announced the anticipated release of the 7-String Gibson Explorer as part of their Rocktober ...

The 7-string guitar has long been the weapon of choice for the harbingers of doom, delivering the extended range needed to play everything from djent to death metal and, of course, nu-metal. So, if ...

Synyster Gates and Schecter have teamed up once again for a new signature guitar that extends the Avenged Sevenfold guitarist’s range to seven-strings and removes the head for those on-trend ...

Suicide Silence’s riff beast Chris Garza may be the proud owner of the world’s first official seven-string Fender Strat, but he says getting the firm’s Custom Shop to commit to the build was a massive ...

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Dokken, Steve Vai, Munky, Head. It all came together. "I wasn't playing with James at that time, but he invited me to come back and jam with him. That's when I started playing seven-string. So I ...