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Last Updated: November 22, 2009 10:51 PM




ZAKK WYLDE Talks To MusicRadar.com About New Signature Guitar; Video Available - Nov. 5, 2009
MusicRadar.com has uploaded video footage of Zakk Wylde, legendary guitarist for OZZY OSBOURNE and founder of the heavy metal band BLACK LABEL SOCIETY, playing and talking about his new signature guitar, Epiphone Graveyard Disciple. Watch the clip at this location. It can also be seen below.

Wylde hosted a special "meet-and-greet" on Friday, October 30 at New York's renowned 48th street Sam Ash music store.

The new Zakk Wylde Epiphone Graveyard Disciple is dying to be played. Designed by Zakk in cooperation with Epiphone, the new Graveyard Disciple combines killer sound with equally killer looks. Shaped like a coffin, the edges of the body are tapered and pin-striped in silver giving it a striking visual appearance and depth while providing for a comfortable feel.

As with most all Zakk's guitars, the neck is made of Hard Maple for bright attack and glued into a solid Mahogany body adding a touch of warm and of course, sustain. The neck features a "D" profile, SlimTaper neck with a smooth, satin finish for fast and effortless lead work. It is topped off with a bound, Ebony fingerboard and medium-jumbo frets with easy access to all 22 frets.

The Graveyard Disciple combines an original Floyd Rose tremolo with EMG HZ pickups. The tremolo cavity allows for serious dive bombing as well as pull-ups. The EMG HZ-4A is positioned in the bridge position for optimized lead performance while the EMG HZ-4 is voiced for and positioned in the neck position. Designed to emulate the sound of their active counterparts (the EMG 81 and 85), these HZ's are probably the quietest passive pickups available.

Other features on the new Graveyard Disciple include a multi-bound headstock with mother-of-pearl "cross" inlay, black hardware with premium 16:1 ratio Grover machine heads, Mother-of-Pearl topped metal knobs, Epiphone's non-rotating output jack and Zakk's signature silhouette on the back of the headstock. For added comfort and convenience while playing in the seated position, the guitar features the brilliantly designed and patented Steinberger LegRest. Fold it down and rest it on your leg. Fold it up and it practically disappears. It comes with a custom-made Coffin case featuring the Graveyard Disciple artwork on it. And for this limited edition model, you also get a Certificate of Authenticity.

The new Zakk Wylde Gibson USA BFG Guitar embodies the mammoth tone and over-the-top rock attitude of its name sake and offers all the equipment necessary to undertake your own scorched-earth attack on your local music scene. It features a rough-hewn book matched maple top, a rounded '50s spec neck with ebony fingerboard, sizzling EMG 81 and 85 humbucking pickups all approved by Zakk Wylde himself. The guitar comes in two Zakk-certified finishes to choose from, a Bullseye graphic or Buzzsaw graphic over a satin natural nitro finish all produced by the world’s most famous guitar manufacturer, Gibson USA.

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COMMENT | why
posted by : g0zer
11/5/2009 8:25:52 AM

why would anyone want to play that.

COMMENT |
posted by : tnttnttnt
11/5/2009 8:57:44 AM

Hey he's sober! Fucking finally!

COMMENT |
posted by : Grimorkh
11/5/2009 9:56:58 AM

Why the hell do you ALWAYS re-publish the same press release? That "dying to be played" pearl is hilarious, but I must have read it like 5 times here on BM.

COMMENT | pay some respects...
posted by : themetalden.com
11/5/2009 10:29:53 AM


R.I.P. Rock Photographer Jeff Findley!

http://themetalden.com/index.php?p=10856



COMMENT | WoW
posted by : Count Hellfuck
11/5/2009 11:12:36 AM

That's a real ugly axe !
Reminds me of the guitars Spinal Tap used at their Royal Albert Hall concert (The Return of Spinal Tap video).

COMMENT | Cool guitar
posted by : RiotAct666
11/5/2009 11:22:57 AM

Hail Zakk \m/

COMMENT | I can't believe it
posted by : VelveetaRevolver
11/5/2009 12:21:29 PM

Zakk Wylde is truly a great guitar player and God bless him but damn, that guitar is fucking UGGGGG-LY! I wonder how much Epiphone paid him to promote that sorry excuse for a guitar.

Somewhere up in God's Rock and Roll Tavern, Randy Rhodes is looking down and shaking his head going, "No. Just....No."

COMMENT | I believe
posted by : Bicalho
11/5/2009 12:27:16 PM

It's Death Magnetic guitar. That's ugly so far....terrible.

COMMENT | *sigh*
posted by : BlackLabelStu
11/5/2009 12:47:22 PM

COMMENT |
posted by : tnttnttnt
11/5/2009 8:57:44 AM


Hey he's sober! Fucking finally!

^^^

Change the fuckin record will you!?!!

COMMENT | wow
posted by : mysticpain666
11/5/2009 10:52:47 PM

Not another freak'n video of him with that LOSER looking guitar and that douchebag hat... no one should be allowed to wear a hat like that... it screams DOUCHEBAG! Get rid of that HAT! and the guitar... it's dumb as hell looking... and that pickup switch on the top is uber lame

COMMENT | \m/
posted by : robo nez
11/6/2009 2:28:09 AM

Zakk Wylde Rules ! ! !
Great player and a nice fella!

I don't like the look of that guitar though.
And as someone who switches pickups all the time while playing, the location of that switch would never work for me.



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