Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. EMG pickups founder Rob Turner has said that working with James Hetfield forced the firm to completely reinvent its methodology as ...

Metallica is helping EMG celebrate its 50th anniversary by dropping new special edition finish options for each of their signature pickup sets. The thrash metal giants have been powered by the firm's ...

Kirk Hammett has said he thinks the age of active pickups may be over, at least when it comes to his own playing. The Metallica guitarist made the comments in a recent interview with Guitarist, in ...

If you’ve ever picked up a guitar and seen solid black bars where the pickups should be, then chances are you were holding a guitar equipped with EMG pickups. They became pretty ubiquitous in the late ...