The lucky winners -- all obviously huge Avenged fans -- were in awe as Gates took the stage and played an original composition written specifically for the class. The rest of the curriculum involved ...

Synyster Gates and Schecter have teamed up once again for a new signature guitar that extends the Avenged Sevenfold guitarist’s range to seven-strings and removes the head for those on-trend ...

Avenged Sevenfold have marked their explosive return to studio music by dropping Nobody – a six-minute electric guitar masterclass that previews the band’s upcoming eighth album, Life Is But A Dream… ...

Avenged Sevenfold's Synyster Gates and his father Brian Haner Sr.—or Papa Gates, a musician who has worked with the likes of Tower of Power, Frank Zappa and, of course, his son's band—want to teach ...