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Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer and Anthrax are collectively known as thrash’s Big Four – the cornerstones upon which the entire thrash movement is built, and the compass one uses to orient oneself when navigating the turbulent waters of that aggressive, precise, angry, powerful metal variant. But thrash does not begin and end with those four bands. For each one of the...

Fender Bass Amplification now complements its popular Rumble combo amps with two new heads and three new cabinets. These newest members of the Rumble family are small and powerful, with a special magnetic mounting system that keeps the heads firmly fixed to any of the cabinets without interference from vibration, even at extreme volumes. The new Rumble amp heads and...

John Mayer’s black Stratocaster guitar has been his go-to instrument for years. He has relied on it for countless recording sessions and performances, and he affectionately calls it the “BLACK1.” In collaboration with the Grammy-winning singer, songwriter and guitarist, Fender now offers a collectible, 500-piece special edition of the John Mayer Special Edition BLACK1 Stratocaster.Mayer implores everyone to “make their...

Fender’s R&D department designed and built an extremely rare Fender Lucite Esquire that’s now being auctioned to benefit NASH2O, a charitable initiative born out of the May 2010 Nashville floods. The R&D team took a solid block of Lucite ands shaped it as a solid guitar body, then “channeled” to create hollow spaces that would hold water. Fender employees in...

Here is a great TECH TIP from Fender explaining the workings of a Stratocaster pickup selector switch. The pickup switch is the key to the Stratocaster’s time-honored tonal versatility, because it controls which pickups or which combinations of pickups are on at any given time. Since the Stratocaster is Fender’s sole three-pickup guitar, its pickup switch has an important job...