The rocker revealed KISS' team approached him for a potential job playing in the band as "they were changing guitar players" Marty Friedman was ready to "Rock and Roll All Nite" with KISS, but his ...

Guitar great Marty Friedman says in a new Guitar World interview that he "hopes the traditional guitar solo dies a slow and painful death." That's a surprising take from one of metal's more celebrated ...

Every rocker kid who grew up in the ‘70s dreamed of being in the legendary rock band Kiss. At least, I assume they did, along with smoking cigarettes at age 10 and eating lead paint chips. I don’t ...

Marty Friedman has said that the “ex-Megadeth guitarist” tag often associated with his name “really, really bugs the shit out of me”. “Of course, once I left Megadeth, the tag ‘ex-Megadeth’ was stuck ...

Friedman sat down to a video chat with American Songwriter from Japan and offered his thoughts on our four favorite tracks from his latest offering. While it would be easy to label this piano-infused ...

I feel like, at one point, if you asked anyone who Megadeth was you’d get back “Oh, that’s that band from the guy who got kicked out of Metallica because he was a mean drunk and all the rest of the ...

It was over two decades ago that a guitarist left an iconic metal band. Now, this week, the musician has expanded upon his decision to part ways with the group, and how it feels to become a ...

As Coyle points out, guitar-driven music is enjoying a resurgence, particularly of the instrumental/shred variety. "I feel like this environment, especially for high-level, virtuosic instrumental type ...

It was over two decades ago that a guitarist left an iconic metal band. Now, this week, the musician has expanded upon his decision to part ways with the group, and how it feels to become a ...