FOR THOSE ABOUT TO ROCK

IF THERE’S ANYTHING metal guitarists tend to look for in their equipment, it’s most surely power.

While there will always be those who choose to rely more on the actual riffs for heaviness, it’d be fair to say a mega majority of metal players are generally in pursuit of tonal extremes — whether through a guitar with extra-hot pickups, a pedal wired to cataclysmic weight or, indeed, the sonic brutality procured by their amp of choice. As Yngwie Malmsteen, a man who embodies heavy