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Stylistically radical, Ibanez’s multi-scale Alpha series might just be the 21st-century prog-metal player’s favourite new guitar – but do you get the 7-string or the 8?

The Alpha series has everything you'd need form a high-performance guitar, with stainless steel frets, Fishman Fluence Modern ...
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Best 7-string guitars: Extend your range with the top pro and cheap 7-string guitars

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 ...
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Synyster Gates’ headless 7-string Schecter is here, and there’s a $7,499 gold chrome version

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 ...
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How the Fender Custom Shop was convinced to make the firm’s first 7-string guitar

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 ...
MetalSucks

Brian “Head” Welch Explains the Origin of Korn’s Use of Seven-String Guitars

Seven-string guitars became a staple of the nu-metal sound in the 90s and early 2000s, thanks in large part to James “Munky” Shaffer and Brian “Head” Welch of Korn. It created the nu-metal sound that ...