Author: Trey Xavier

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As Editor-in-Chief of Gear Gods, I've been feeding your sick instrument fetishism and trying unsuccessfully to hide my own since 2013. I studied music on both coasts (Berklee and SSU) and now I'm just trying to put my degree to some use. That's a music degree, not an English one. I'm sure you noticed.

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Here are two important facts about me: I am in a band (In Virtue), and every year I take a nice little vacation on the greatest thing on the high seas: the 70,000 TONS OF METAL concert cruise. 60 bands on one boat, metal around

If you've played in as many bands as I have, then you may have experienced this phenomenon: the band needs a bass player, but since there are far fewer actual bass players than guitarists, one guitar player gets "demoted" to bass. If this is you, then

Headphone shopping can be pretty daunting for the average musician - what should I look for? Why are some headphones $8,000 and others $50? But sometimes a pair comes along that just ticks all the boxes. A no-brainer. After spending a TON of time with Sennheiser's new

Metal is often about brutality - pain, anguish, torture, disgusting diseases that turn the human body into something unrecognizable. Well, there may have been no time in history more suited for the topics of metal than the Medieval period - the Black Plague wiped out

Original ideas in the world of guitar are pretty hard to come by these days. Guitarists are a conservative bunch - innovations tend to go unnoticed, and new ideas get panned as fads. It makes a certain amount of sense - the guitar is a

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