{"product_id":"issue-610-zakk-wylde-magazine","title":"Issue #610 (Zakk Wylde): Magazine","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis Zakk Wylde x Guitar World bundle cover arrives in the wake of Black Label Society’s 2026 album, Engines of Demolition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInside the Issue…\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e+ He might be launching a new Wylde Audio Grand Auditorium acoustic guitar - but Zakk Wylde ain’t going soft. Metal’s great berserker tells GW about the power of acoustic guitar, the future for Pantera and why a souped-up cinderblock might just be your next electric guitar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e+ Black Sabbath might be buried, but Tony Iommi’s late-period renaissance gathers pace with a seismic new solo album. The godfather of metal tells GW about Ozzy’s last days, tracking with Brian May’s Red Special and the blind panic of losing his false fingertips.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e+ Fanny blazed a trail for female-fronted rock in the Seventies. But as June and Jean Millington tell GW, it’s only now - after years of misogyny, roadblocks and breakdowns - that they’re getting recognition they deserve.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e+ Tracking nose-to-nose with red-hot tubes - and leaving in the mistakes - GA-20’s spit ‘n’ grit Chicago blues is the anti-AI. Matt Stubbs and Cody Nilsen talk blues haters, recording with their hero and reclaiming Ibanez from the shredders.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e+ At 79, the Dutch master Jan Akkerman says “life was never boring.” From his apprenticeship in Amsterdam’s red-light district, through the toxic brilliance of prog trailblazers Focus, to cutting heads with B.B. King, our career-spanning interview tells all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e+ We check in with the mastermind behind Black Volt Amplification and the gang at Michigan’s Motor City Guitar, plus the amazing Stanley Jordan, Dann Huff, Protest the Hero, Elliot Easton and more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e+ We review Jackson’s new Pro Plus Series Signature Sleep Token IV Monarkh SC, the Warm Audio x Dirty Boy Jr. Fuzz pedal, the Washburn Hawk, Positive Grid’s new Spark pedal and more - and we revisit the life and times of the VHT\/Fryette Pittbull Ultra-Lead amp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e+ Last but not least, we transcribe Black Label Society’s “Ozzy’s Song,” Black Sabbath’s “Heaven and Hell” and the Romantics’ “Talking in Your Sleep\".\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Zakk Wylde","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59018371662156,"sku":"FUT-GW610-BLS-MGZN","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1093\/9020\/1164\/files\/gwzakk.png?v=1790859806","url":"https:\/\/store.guitarworld.com\/products\/issue-610-zakk-wylde-magazine","provider":"Guitar World","version":"1.0","type":"link"}