Buying your first metal guitar should be exciting. For a lot of people it turns into a few weeks of spec sheets, forum arguments and YouTube comparisons, and they end up more confused than when they started. Buying one as…

At some point most metal players look at a 7-string and wonder whether they're missing out. The bands you love are using them. The riffs sound lower and heavier than anything you can get out of six strings. Surely one…