Thirty years on, they are still responsible for metal's most unholy racket. With bassist Alex Venturella (otherwise known as V-Man) adding the gut-wrenching bottom end to the Slipknot sound. In ...

BASS EXPO 2014: It ain't easy playing bass in a twin guitar band, especially when said band has two blisteringly epic guitarists. Killswitch Engage's Mike D'Antonio and Trivium's Paolo Gregoletto are ...

On the extreme metal scene of the early 1980s, bass players were expected to stick to precise root notes, or at most to copy the guitar riff. The late Cliff Burton blew all that out of the water ...

Hey, who doesn't? Check out Phantoms below, which is taken from the forthcoming album, and then check in on Casket's pedalboard tour above. Any bassist looking to operate in extreme metal will take ...

Minneapolitan Tom Berg is, in order, (1) a bearded giant of impressive stature, (2) the nicest dude in whatever grungy rock club he inhabits, and (3) commander of the absolute greatest bass tone in ...

Cliff Burton's shredding fingerstyle bass solo (Anesthesia) Pulling Teeth, from Metallica's 1983 debut album, Kill 'Em All, stamped his identity firmly on the emerging thrash metal movement.

Speaking of single string bass solos: what happens when you wire a pickup onto a regular, garden-variety shovel? Rob Scallon found out exactly that when he shot a video using an instrument grafted ...