“Listening to Black Sabbath for the primary time, I used to be like, ‘I want an SG,’” Citadel Rat guitarist and frontwoman Riley Pinkerton tells Guitar.com as she exhibits off her arsenal of battle-ready double cuts.

Citadel Rat describe themselves as “Medieval Fantasy Heavy Steel”, so it is smart that their chief be the valiant proprietor of an arms cache of double-horned six-strings.

And fortunate for the workforce at Guitar.com – who’re donning protecting fits of armour behind the digicam (we swear) – Pinkerton joins us for the most recent episode of My Guitars & Me to speak us by means of a few of the highlights from her SG assortment.

First up, Pinkerton showcases her #17 SG, which she purchased together with her aid test throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. “I purchased it used off Reverb,” she says. “When the pandemic hit, we received a test, so I used to be like, I’m gonna purchase a guitar.’ In order that’s what I did.”

Many guitars, particularly in the event that they’re used repeatedly throughout dwell exhibits fall sufferer to buckle rash – the sample of scratches that may develop on the again of the instrument. The perpetrator of the relicing on the again of this guitar, although, isn’t a mere belt buckle, however quite the go well with of chainmail she dons throughout Citadel Rat’s dwell exhibits.

“It’s chainmail rash as a substitute of buckle rash,” she says. “And every little thing I personal is roofed with sparkles, as a result of I put on physique glitter onstage, in order that’s in all places.”

Subsequent up, we get a close-up have a look at Pinkerton’s ‘60s Gibson Tribute SG, which she obtained as a Christmas current when she was round 18 years outdated. “It’s nice, it’s reliable. I performed it on this complete tour, so it’s lined in mud from lots of festivals that had been very dry and really dusty,” she says.

A by means of and thru SG participant, it is smart that Pinkerton counts Tony Iommi as one in all her guitar heroes.

“There’s an historical YouTube cowl of me enjoying acoustic guitar – a model of N.I.B. that generally makes the rounds on the web, which is humorous. My eyebrows are loopy…”

The complete episode of My Guitars & Me with Citadel Rat’s Riley Pinkerton is obtainable now.

Sam is the Affiliate Information Editor for Guitar.com and MusicTech. Totally immersed in music tradition for almost all of his life, Sam has performed guitar for 20 years, studied music know-how and manufacturing at college, and in addition written for the likes of Guitar World, Whole Guitar, Steel Hammer and MusicRadar.