When you're seeking a heavier, more aggressive guitar tone, a baritone guitar often does the trick. When you're looking for pure tonal hostility, pick up the Ibanez Iron Label RGIB21 baritone electric guitar. Its 28-inch scale length serves up incredibly powerful fundamental tones, and it's equipped with a pair of EMG active humbuckers to hit your amplifier with plenty of bite too. From the factory, it's tuned B to B, and the longer scale length easily handles even lower tunings. Ask any guitarist at Music Experience and they'll confirm that the Ibanez Iron Label RGIB21 is a simple solution for incredibly heavy, aggressive tone.

Your fingers will fly on this super-fast Nitro Baritone neck

One of Ibanez's fastest necks to date, the Nitro Baritone neck on the Iron Label RGIB21 is an absolute pleasure to play. This slim and super-comfortable neck lets you pull off lighting-fast runs and arpeggios with ease, but still gives you the substance you need for fretting chords. From the first time wrap your hand around the RGIB21's Nitro Wizard neck, you'll know you've got a guitar that was built with performance in mind.

RG playability, with fixed-bridge stability

While you may expect to see a vibrato tailpiece on an Ibanez RG, the Iron Label RGIB21 sports a Gibraltar Standard II fixed bridge — a dream come true if you prefer a hardtail axe. The Gibraltar has an ultra-low profile to give you the comfort of a traditional RG floating trem, with the exceptional stability and reliability you can only get from a fixed bridge. If you've always wanted an RG-series guitar, but prefer not to mess with a floating bridge, the Iron Label RGIB21 was made just for you.

Fixed-bridge stability, sustain, and articulation

The RG5121 sports a Gibraltar II fixed bridge — hailed as a dream come true by guitarists at Music Experience who prefer a hardtail axe. You’ll appreciate the Gibraltar II's extremely low profile, which offers the comfort of a traditional floating tremolo with the exceptional stability and reliability you can only get from a fixed bridge.

Active EMGs onboard for serious tone

The Ibanez Iron Label RGIB21 is fitted with a pair of hot active humbuckers — an EMG 60 in the neck position and an EMG 81 at the bridge, a classic combo. There's a reason top metal guitarists use active pickups: they rock. Hard. The '81 has become a first-call lead pickup choice for some of the most respected metal guitarists of all time, while the '60 provides the perfect tonal complement.

What Ibanez Says...

The Iron Label line was originally developed with metal and nothing but metal in mind. We modded and tweaked until we got to the heaviest-hitting metal axes we’ve ever built. They’re purposefully spartan, and you won’t find a feature here that doesn't contribute directly to a bone rattling, earth shattering tones these guitars pump out. Carrying forward that same philosophy, the next generation of Iron Label guitars take this raw metal energy to a completely new level. They sport totally blacked out looks, and their supercharged electronics amounting to some of the heaviest-swinging metal axes we’ve ever produced.

Nitro Baritone 3pc Maple/Bubinga neck

Legendary Super-thin, ultra-playable neck, made with Maple/Bubinga for road-tested durability.

Jumbo frets

Jumbo frets contribute to smooth playability, especially for single-note playing.

Nyatoh body

Nyatoh used as the body wood provides a rich mid-low end.

Gibraltar Standard III bridge

Gibraltar Standard III bridge The Gibraltar Standard III bridge, featuring a redesigned baseplate and saddles, offers enhanced playing comfort while ensuring optimal string vibration transfer.

EMG® pickups

EMG® 60 neck pickup packs plenty of output with a balance of tones that is classic-thick; boosted mids, big lows, and fat highs. EMG&trg; 81 bridge pickup gives detailed intensity, incredible amounts of high end cut, and fluid sustain.

Rosewood fretboard

Rosewood provides a well-balanced solid tone with a focused mid range.

Luminescent side dot inlays

The luminescent side dot position marks make it easy for players to see fretboard position marks when performing on dark stages.

Gotoh® MG-T locking machine heads

The Gotoh® MG-T locking machine heads achieve incredible tuning stability, cutting down string-changing time.