{"id":65646,"date":"2025-08-13T17:49:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T17:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/65646\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T17:49:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T17:49:10","slug":"when-you-need-merciless-metal-tone-and-speed-for-days-jackson-adds-warrior-king-v-and-concert-bass-to-its-limited-edition-pro-plus-pure-metal-range","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/65646\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWhen you need merciless metal tone and speed for days\u2026\u201d: Jackson adds Warrior, King V and Concert Bass to its limited edition Pro Plus Pure Metal range"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jackson has unveiled, no, wait, these are metal guitars<\/a>, lets try again\u2026 Jackson has unleashed the Pro Plus Pure Metal Phase II series, comprising a limited edition Warrior, King V and Concert Bass.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis beast of a guitar is built for speed, equipped for domination\u201d read the tag line when the first Pro Plus Pure Metal models dropped in May<\/a>, and these are built to a similar brief, with all three armed with a single Fishman Fluence Modern humbucker at the bridge, 24 jumbo stainless steel frets, Luminlay side dot markers, and a suite of high-performance features.<\/p>\n

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And yes, the only colour option is Gloss Black with single-ply cream<\/a> binding on the body to keep these from being too minimalistic. The Jackson logo is in cream, too.<\/p>\n

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All have solid poplar bodies and neck-through builds, with those three-piece mahogany necks whittled down to the quick for super-speedy playing.<\/p>\n

As you will typically find on Fender-owned high-performance brands \u2013 Charvel, EVH \u2013 we have the standard 12\u201d to 16\u201d compound radius fingerboards, which feel very much like the platonic ideal for shred-pyro playing styles. The difficulty with these guitars is to not overplay. The fingerboards are ebony because it looks more kvlt with those sharkfin inlays.<\/p>\n

Once upon a time these would have been seen as radical. The shape of the Warrior and King V is still all aggressive angles, with the six-in-line headstock you could go into battle with (still Jackson\u2019s best headstock). But for long-time Jackson fans, these are all kinds of classic, a sensible minimalist refresh.<\/p>\n

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That multi-voiced Fishman \u2018bucker makes them sonically more versatile than you might think. Its full-bore high-distortion voice through a dimed high-wattage tube amp<\/a> (or a model thereof) is sonically as imposing as you would expect.<\/p>\n

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The Concert Bass might be the most sensibly shaped of the three, but it has that Countdown To Extinction-era Megadeth<\/a> vibe to it \u2013 use a guitar pick<\/a>, play an eighth-note pulse on the low E and there\u2019s the foundations for Symphony Of Destruction. It has a four-saddle HiMass bridge for maximum sustain.<\/p>\n

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The electronics on this bass offer plenty of range. There\u2019s a coil-split on the volume knob. There is a two-band EQ on a stacked concentric knob while a three-way mini-toggle selects Fishman\u2019s alternate voicings. Boom.<\/p>\n

What else do you need? List price is an achievable \u00a31,349\/$1,579, and that includes a gig bag<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As for the Warrior and King V, you\u2019ve got the Floyd Rose 1000 Series double-locking vibrato. The controls are pared down to a single volume pot with a push\/pull for the alternate voicing. Again, you get a gig bag with these.<\/p>\n

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The hardware is chrome. There are locking guitar strap<\/a> buttons so the instrument doesn\u2019t fall to the floor in the middle of your gnarly cover of Chapel Of Ghouls. Hey, these are guitars for extremists.<\/p>\n

It’s like Jackson says, “When you need merciless metal tone and speed for days, reach for the Jackson Pro Plus Pure Metal Series WR1A Warrior.” Put that on the poster.<\/p>\n

Again, prices are for the serious amateur, jobbing pro. The Warrior and King are both priced at \u00a31,399\/$1,469 street.<\/p>\n

For more details on the Pro Plus Pure Metal series, head over to Jackson<\/a>. To hear how they sound, check out the demo video featuring Debbie Gough (pictured top of page) and Erhan Alman of Heriot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jackson has unveiled, no, wait, these are metal guitars, lets try again\u2026 Jackson has unleashed the Pro Plus…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":["post-65646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}