Metal | Fretterverse.com: Guitar Blog | guitar news & reviews, amps, effects, guitars, music theory, guitar lessons

Rock Standards Project – First Nominations

Monday, July 25, 2011

Back in January I proposed working on the Rock Standards Project. The ultimate goal is to create a list of 200 songs in the rock/metal genre that can be seen as a “must learn” list of songs to cure the inevitable breakdown of jam sessions and walk-on open mic gigs. Today, I’m putting forth the [...]

Five Bands To Check Out

Thursday, August 5, 2010

5 Comments

I’m totally stoked over the response from yesterday’s post. I’m almost afraid to write about anything today for fear of spoiling the success. Thanks again to everyone for reading and commenting; it really makes blogging worth the effort when people contribute. You folks are great! Today I wanted to talk about some new music I’ve [...]

Five Must-Have Metal Guitar CDs

Friday, June 18, 2010

10 Comments

The late 1980′s and early 90′s was a great time for metal guitar. Players like Satch, Malmsteen, and Vai were pushing the envelope and bringing guitar to the forefront of everyone’s mind. MTV was dominated by great axe slingers and every bar in town had original music played every weekend. While the guitar gods were [...]

Meshuggah: Alive (Live DVD and CD)

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

0 Comments

Today in the mail I finally received my Valentine’s Day gift to myself – the jam-packed live DVD and CD offering from perhaps the greatest metal band of the first decade of the 2000′s. The offering? Alive. The band? Meshuggah! Riding the wave of success from their 2008 CD ObZen, the Swedish quintet went out [...]