My Favorite Solos

Mama i'm comin home

metal health

shock me

... lots of solos ... hard to choose

Wait - White Lion - awesome solo

Megadeth - Hanger 18 (Each One Just Kicks Axe!)
Metallica - For Whom The Bell Tolls
Tourniquet - Eratic Palipitations Of The Human Spirit
Immortal Souls - Everwinter

Off the top of my head:

1. Ritchie Blackmore - Mistreated
2. Shok Paris - On Your Feet

Judas Priest - Beyond the Realms of Death
Helloween - Eagle Fly Free
Megadeth - Holy Wars
Jason Becker - Perpetual Burn

Stryper - Soldiers Under Command (epic solo )

Fat Freddy wrote:

The solo by Akira Takasaki (Loudness) at the beginning of "Ashes in the Sky" sends chills up my spine every time I hear it!!

Yeah, that is an awesome solo.

Suicidal Tendencies-Nobody Hears, Hate You Better, Captain Stupid, etc. (Rocky George is a VERY underrated guitarist)
Queensryche-Anybody Listening, Eyes Of A Stranger, Silent Lucidity, I Don't Believe In Love, and more
Savatage-All That I Bleed, Gutter Ballet, Believe, This Is The Time, Alone You Breathe, Hall Of The Mountain King, Edge Of Thorns, He Carves His Stone, Miles Away, Ghost In The Ruins, etc. (Any solo of Savatage or Criss in general gets me wailing on my air guitar).
Dream Theater-Pull Me Under, Spirit Carries On, Lie, Scarred, Another Day, About To Crash, etc. (Any Petruci Solo, see Savatage)
Guns & Roses-Sweet Child, Estranged, November Rain, Dead Horse, Paradise City, You Could Be Mine, Civil War, and more (Slash rules!)
Metallica-any solo before Load (of crap).
Anthrax-any solo by Spitz
Slayer-any solo (before I go any further, my favortie aspect of thrash are the awesome solos so I won't mention anymore because I have yet to hear a thrash solo that I don't like)
Helloween-If I Could Fly, Eagle Fly Free, Lavdate Dominvm, Wake Up The Mountain, etc. (notice a pattern here?)
Hammerfall-Legacy Of Kings, At The End Of The Rainbow, etc.
Iron Maiden-ALL OF THEM (Wasted Years and Stranger In A Strange Land are my favorite.
.....Hell! I Give Up!!!!!

In conclusion there are so many solos that I love that it could be it's own website so it's best that I stop here. I wish I had the patience to learn the guitar myself but I never had it (tried twice and gave up each time). Any guitar I had I pretended to play (air guitar w/ a guitar) and ever since I consider myself an air guitar virtuoso. There are so many solos that drive me to bring out my air guitar no matter where I am (people stare at me but I really don't care!). When people ask me why I like heavy metal the only answer I can give them is the combination of melody, power, and speed, and especially the mind-blowing guitar solos. In conclusion here are my 20 favorite guitar soloists:

Criss Oliva, John Petrucci, The Maiden Trio (tie), C.J. Grimmark, Slash, John Shaffer, Andy LaRocque, Al Petreli, Alex Skolnick, Aaron Guerra (Tourniquet), André Olbrich (Blind Guardian), Danny Spitz, Dimebag, Kerry King and Jeff Hanneman (tie), Oscar Dronjak and Stefan Elmgren (Hammerfall, tie), Glenn Tipton and K.K. Downing (tie), Luca Turilli, Gary Wherkamp and Brendt Allman (Shadow Gallery, tie), Dave Sabo and Scotty Hill (Skid Row, tie), and Steve Perry (Aerosmith).

I was just listening to Annihilator and realizing how much i like all the solos on the song Ligea.

Savatage - Gutter Ballet, Edge of Thorns
Bruce Dickinson - Jerusalem, Book of Thel
Silent Scythe - Suffer in Silence
Overlords Perpetual - I Can't Wait
Dark Empire - Distant Tides
Testament - Perilous Nation
Dokken - Tooth And Nail
Accept - Metal Heart

Dream Theater - As I am
Nevermore - River Dragon Has Come
Pagans Mind - Enigmatic Calling
Magnus Karlsson's solo from the cd The Battle by Allen-Lande song titled Hunger's Night
Alter Bridge - Brand New Start

metallica - master of puppets
sweet child of mine

my friend said to me a good solo is one you can remember and of my head these are the only too i can recall oh and holy wars by daves crew

Had to add one I forgot. I love all the solos in Thin Lizzy's Chinatown. Smokin' guitarwork in that song.

oh i forget to mention Hangar 18 by megadeth as i know the solos well from playing it constantly on guita hero

Required Fields wrote:

Megadeth - Tornado of Souls
Testament - Over the Wall
Kreator - People of the Lie
Iron Maiden - Aces High
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Megadeth - Holy Wars...The Punishment Due
Heathen - Breaking the Silence
Death - The Philosopher
Dio - The Last in Line
Testament - Practice What You Preach

thats basically what i put down plus:

Death - Voice of the Soul and the end solo of Perennial Quest
Blind Guardian - Mirror, Mirror

the painkiller solo is very good i agree

Rex Carroll / Nagasake ....pretty cool solo.Dude can play.

YES!

Invader wrote:

Eyesore wrote:

Invader wrote:

Testament - Return To Serenity

Thought I was the only one! Awesome.

Actually all solos by Skolnick with Testament are good.

You are most definatly NOT the only one. I love that one as well. I tried to list my favorite but there are way too many. I will list some more but I hate to limit it to just such a small percentage:

Guns & Roses-November Rain and Estranged
Savatage-Alone You Breathe, All That I Bleed, Believe, Not What You See, and Miles Away
Metallica-The Unforgiven
Faith No More-Epic and Everythings Ruined
Allen/Lande-every solo from The Battle
King Diamond-The Black Horsemen (all the other solos from Abigail and Them as)
Iron Maiden-Wasted Years and Stranger In A Strange Land
Dream Theater-Pull Me Under, Another Day, and Lie
Slayer-Reign In Hell and Black Magic
Sepultura-Territory and Dead Embryonic Cells
Queensryche-Anybody Listening (and all other solos from Empire) and Eyes Of A Stranger
Primus-Wynona's Big Brown Beaver
Running Wild-Fight The Fire Of Hate
Sonata Arctica-Boy/Wanted To Be A Real Puppet and My Selene
Therion-all solos on Lumuria/Sirius B
Ugly Kid Joe-Everything About You
Ozzy Osbourne-Can't Kill Rock & Roll and Road To Nowhere
Extreme-Rest In Peace, Rise & Shine, and Am I Ever Going To Change
Gamma Ray-Heaven Can Wait
Exodus-Toxic Waltz
Edguy-Land Of The Miracle
Narnia-Living Water
Damn Yankees-Where You Goin' Now
Bon Jovi-Dry County
Carcass-Heartwork
Cathedral-Ride
Aerosmith-Janie's Got A Gun
Van Halen-Right Now and On Top Of The World
Visions Of Atlantis-Lost
Lynard Skynard-Freebird
Nightwish-Dead Boy's Poem and Sleeping Sun
Edenbridge-On Top Of The World and Velvet Eyes Of Dawn

Ace Frehley's solo in Shock Me
Any Thin Lizzy guitar solo.

Opps. How could I forget? Living Colour-Cult Of Personality (kick a** solo from axe master Vernon Reid).

Rob Rock - Holy Hell
Saint - Primed and Ready
Megadeth - Tornado of Souls

Quote :

Savatage-All That I Bleed, Gutter Ballet, Believe, This Is The Time, Alone You Breathe, Hall Of The Mountain King, Edge Of Thorns, He Carves His Stone, Miles Away, Ghost In The Ruins, etc. (Any solo of Savatage or Criss in general gets me wailing on my air guitar).

I think Follow Me is Criss' best. The whole Edge OfTHorns album has killer solos.

I'll also say Mr Crowley and Stryper - Surrender.

DallasBlack wrote:

Suicidal Tendencies-Nobody Hears, Hate You Better, Captain Stupid, etc. (Rocky George is a VERY underrated guitarist)
Queensryche-Anybody Listening, Eyes Of A Stranger, Silent Lucidity, I Don't Believe In Love, and more
Savatage-All That I Bleed, Gutter Ballet, Believe, This Is The Time, Alone You Breathe, Hall Of The Mountain King, Edge Of Thorns, He Carves His Stone, Miles Away, Ghost In The Ruins, etc. (Any solo of Savatage or Criss in general gets me wailing on my air guitar).
Dream Theater-Pull Me Under, Spirit Carries On, Lie, Scarred, Another Day, About To Crash, etc. (Any Petruci Solo, see Savatage)
Guns & Roses-Sweet Child, Estranged, November Rain, Dead Horse, Paradise City, You Could Be Mine, Civil War, and more (Slash rules!)
Metallica-any solo before Load (of crap).
Anthrax-any solo by Spitz
Slayer-any solo (before I go any further, my favortie aspect of thrash are the awesome solos so I won't mention anymore because I have yet to hear a thrash solo that I don't like)
Helloween-If I Could Fly, Eagle Fly Free, Lavdate Dominvm, Wake Up The Mountain, etc. (notice a pattern here?)
Hammerfall-Legacy Of Kings, At The End Of The Rainbow, etc.
Iron Maiden-ALL OF THEM (Wasted Years and Stranger In A Strange Land are my favorite.
.....Hell! I Give Up!!!!!

In conclusion there are so many solos that I love that it could be it's own website so it's best that I stop here. I wish I had the patience to learn the guitar myself but I never had it (tried twice and gave up each time). Any guitar I had I pretended to play (air guitar w/ a guitar) and ever since I consider myself an air guitar virtuoso. There are so many solos that drive me to bring out my air guitar no matter where I am (people stare at me but I really don't care!). When people ask me why I like heavy metal the only answer I can give them is the combination of melody, power, and speed, and especially the mind-blowing guitar solos. In conclusion here are my 20 favorite guitar soloists:

Criss Oliva, John Petrucci, The Maiden Trio (tie), C.J. Grimmark, Slash, John Shaffer, Andy LaRocque, Al Petreli, Alex Skolnick, Aaron Guerra (Tourniquet), André Olbrich (Blind Guardian), Danny Spitz, Dimebag, Kerry King and Jeff Hanneman (tie), Oscar Dronjak and Stefan Elmgren (Hammerfall, tie), Glenn Tipton and K.K. Downing (tie), Luca Turilli, Gary Wherkamp and Brendt Allman (Shadow Gallery, tie), Dave Sabo and Scotty Hill (Skid Row, tie), and Steve Perry (Aerosmith).

SHOW OFF!

DallasBlack wrote:

Opps. How could I forget? Living Colour-Cult Of Personality (kick a** solo from axe master Vernon Reid).

Living Colour is my favorite black metal band!