Guitar Interactive Magazine | 3 years ago
In this issue's Tech Session, Nick Jennison takes a closer look at the style of our cover artist. Probably the most exciting and intense guitar player of a generation, Zakk Wylde is part of a proud lineage of Les Paul-toting rock players dating back to the birth of heavy metal. Rising to prominence in 1988 as the sideman for Ozzy Osbourne, Zakk’s ferocious pentatonic-based playing stood in stark contrast to the neo-classical shredders of the age. Like John Sykes and Gary Moore before him, Zakk fused a blues-rock inspired vocabulary with next-level chops and unparalleled intensity to create a sound that drips with reckless abandon but is in fact tightly controlled and calculated. It might sound like the product of sheer brute force, but Zakk knows precisely what he’s doing, and his playing is remarkably well organised.
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