If I had on one side the suckers from dream theathre, and in the other side BLASPHEMER Erickson, I´ll choose Blasphemer over them

I find more feeling on Blasphemer

at least he isn´t a library worm, burning his eyes readin lousy notes

For me hands-down Jari Mäenpää...I really dont give a rats ass about Malmsteen and all those other wankers who can play at the speed of light and know their guitars inside out - its having the ability to play insanely well AS WELL AS actually composing good music which compliments the shredding and sweeping and what-not. Writing terrific complex music and playing your guitar like there's no tomorrow should be a combined effort and only then can you create fantastic metal!

Dimebag Darell
Kirk Hammet
Marty Friedman
Alex Scolnick

Check those guys for start:

John Petrucci - Dream Theater
Dimebag Darrell - Pantera
Kirk Hammett - Metallica
Mikael Akerfeldt - Opeth
Kerry King - Slayer
Chuck Schuldiner - Death
Alexi "Wildchild" Laiho - Children of Bodom

Written by Panterica on 21.08.2009 at 19:16

Check those guys for start:

John Petrucci - Dream Theater
Dimebag Darrell - Pantera
Kirk Hammett - Metallica
Mikael Akerfeldt - Opeth
Kerry King - Slayr
Chuck Schuldiner - Death
Alexi "Wildchild" Laiho - Children of Bodom

Yeah...Schuldiner shouldn't miss in any of these listings. He was surely one of the most inspiring metal guitarists ever, and what he did was awesome. Just listen to Human for example, the stuff he plays on this album is simply incredible.

For me, it's all about:
1) Ritchie Blackmore (Deep Purple, Rainbow) the solos on "Child in Time" (DP), and "Stargazer" (Rainbow)
2) John Petrucci (Dream Theater) the solos on "Octavarium"
3) Kirk Hammett (Metallica) the solo on "Fade to Black"
4) Chuck Schuldiner (Death) the solo on "Perennial Quest"
5) Dave Murray and Adrian Smith (Iron Maiden) the solos on "Hallowed Be Thy Name"
6) Matt Heafy and Corey Beaulieu (Trivium) the solos on "Shogun"

Chris Broderick (ex Jag Panzer, Megadeth) is still one of my favorites

Gus G. from Firewind. I saw a video where he played a solo and then they play "Fire and The Fury". The song and the solo are pretty amazing.

Since people like Petrucci etc. already mentioned here, I going to post some metal guitarist that I found notable, as I remember them.

Michael Romeo - Symphony X
Kiko Loureiro - Angra
Carl Johann Grimmark - Narnia ( BIG QUESTION... why Narnia doesn't have a link in Metal Storm ?? )
Jeff Loomis - Nevermoore
Luca Turrili - Rhapsody
Chris Impellitteri - Impellitteri

*epic list a people you would expect anyone who knows anything about metal to say*

James Murphy - Autopsy, Obituary, Death, Testament
Dave Mustaine - Megadeth, MD45
Jon Schaffer - Iced Earth, Demon & Wizards
Ihsahn - Emperor, Peccatum, Ihsahn
Eric Pattersen - Testament

Often I find the more underrated are those who stick with a project

other legend have been mentioned already...
Jon Petrucci - Dream Theater
Marty Friedman - Megadeth & Solo
Alex Skolnick - Testament & Savatage
Al Pitrelli - Megadeth & Savatage
Alexi Laiho - Children of Bodom
Chuck Schuldiner - Death
Kerry King - Slayer
Kirk Hammett - Metallica
Adrien Smith & Dave Murray & Janick Gers - Iron Maiden
Kieth Downing & Glen Tipton - Judas Priest
Chris & Micheal Amott - Arch Enemy
Micheal Romeo - Symphony X
Timo Tolkki - Stratovarius
Emppu Vorinen - Nightwish
Dimebag Darrell - Pantera
Rob Cavestany - Death Angel
Gary Holt - Exodus

This list could really continue for a long, long, long... time

Magnus Karlsson - Who's currently with Primal Fear, has solo projects on the go with the likes of Jorn Lande from Masterplan and Russell Allen from Symphony X (Allen/Lande), started out with Midnight Sun, formed the excellent Last Tribe, worked with Bob Cateley, Planet Alliance, Codex, Starbreaker and many more. He's far better than Malmsteen, controversy. If you had to form a dream team for a metal band, he would take the guitar slot in my band choice.

Marty Friedman- Megadeth and solo project
Chuck Schuldiner- Death
Michael Weikath- Helloween
K. K. Downing & Glenn Tipton- Judas Priest
Alex Skolnick- Testament
They are my top 5 guitarist

Hail guitar heroes-fanatics,let me introduce our band Art of Haven.We play Satriani and Petrucci songs live.Two of our own sons are available here:
http://www.myspace.com/artofhaven

Also important - avoid as much as you can Dragon Force. Those guys are amazingly fast, but they have no feeling at all and they lack the abillity to provide good riffs. I will highly recommend you Opeth, they combine great riffs with beautiful and complex music.

Written by Panterica on 04.01.2010 at 20:11

Also important - avoid as much as you can Dragon Force. Those guys are amazingly fast, but they have no feeling at all and they lack the abillity to provide good riffs. I will highly recommend you Opeth, they combine great riffs with beautiful and complex music.

You seem to be pretty adept at recommending bands everyone has already heard of...

Written by Gordon Freeman on 04.01.2010 at 20:23

Written by Panterica on 04.01.2010 at 20:11

Also important - avoid as much as you can Dragon Force. Those guys are amazingly fast, but they have no feeling at all and they lack the abillity to provide good riffs. I will highly recommend you Opeth, they combine great riffs with beautiful and complex music.

You seem to be pretty adept at recommending bands everyone has already heard of...

Well, I'm not intending to read all these comments, if my comment gonna help this guy so who cares? But yeah, I guess I should've read them before I wrote that comment.

Fredrik Nordström and Gus G. of Dream Evil any? I like em =)

Mikael Akerfeldt and Steven Wilson!
I wanna see a duet with these guys, OMG it would be fantastic!

Kirk Hammett- Metallica
Michael Romeo- Symphony X
Marty Friedman- Megadeth and Solo Projects
Mikael Akerfeldt - Opeth ( he has really evolved since he started feelwise and he is getting better and much more technical now )

Dave Mustaine from Megadeth (damn! he himself is Megadeth)
James Hetfield (main writer) and Kirk Hammett (lead guitar) from Metallica
Rudolf Schenker and Mattias Jabs from Scorpions
Björn Gelotte and Jesper Strömblad (ex-member) from In Flames
KK Downing and Glenn Tipton from Judas Priest
Dave Murray and Adrian Smith from Iron Maiden
Tommy Iommi from Black Sabbath
Van Halen from Van Halen
Kerry King and Jeff Hanneman from Slayer
Kai Hansen from Gamma Ray
Chris DeGarmo (ex-member) and Michael Wilton from Queensrÿche

There are many other guitar heroes who deserve to be mentioned, but who can remember everyone?

I would like to add Joe Satriani, but he plays no metal.