Best metal song purely for guitar solo.

ether

What song sends a shiver down your spine because you know that ultimate guitar lick is coming?

Master of Puppets middle section.

Quatre Mains

- v hard question. Could go on all day rattling them off! If I had to name one tho it'd be

Whitesnake - Still of The Night (from end of cheesy strings)

out of sentiment more than anything else. even tho I never listen to it anymore, it pure blew me away when it came out. It also resulted in me growing a poxy mullet and wearing cowboy boots to school. Oh yeah,I was a real hit with the ladies back then :rolleyes:

Cheers
Neil

Sarky

Right now I'm rather partial to the solos in Iron Maiden's No More Lies. Say what you like about the song itself, there's some serious guitar work there.

Dathai

Hands down anything by Yngwie Malmsteen

cournioni

Dream Theater - Fatal Tragedy
Symphony X - King of Terrors

And the best example of a song purely for a guitar solo is...

Steve Vai - For the Love of God.

The whole song is built up towards the solo.

substr

Have to agree with anything by malmsteen/alcatrazz

having Said that - VAN HALEN - ERUPTION
omg best guitar solo ivev ever heard in my life (and ive listened to a lot of malmsteen/hendrix)

Quatre Mains

Originally posted by PORNAPSTER
Steve Vai - For the Love of God.

The whole song is built up towards the solo.

- definitely one I thought about. Return to Serenity by Testament has a real tightening-the screw feel(if that makes sense to anyone I don't know) to the solo as well.

Substr - I am a big Yngwie fan too but although he would be possibly my fav guitarist style-and technique-wise etc. I can't say that for me any of his solos have that same goosebump-factor as those above tho, as he never really tries the slow build-up to big climax approach (like for example, No More Tears)that provides the background to most people's fav solos. What would be particular favs of yours?

Trying desperately hard not to name off more and more favs
Neil

nosmo

I'm not a huge fan of gratuitous solos, but there are a few that make my hair stand on edge..

Entombed - Left Hand Path
Entombed - Living Dead
Iced Earth - Creator Failure
Iced Earth - Brainwashed
Opeth - White Cluster ( the first solo.. the whole song seems to build up to it)

quank

smithers guitar solo in look at all those idiots

Karl Hungus

I've always loved the big guitar solo/keyboard solo battle near the end of Kissing The Shadows by Children Of Bodom.
Utter cheese!

Crucifix

Originally posted by PORNAPSTER
Dream Theater - Fatal Tragedy

That's what I was gonna say. The first section of the song is great, but that last part rules.

Pugsley

Arch Enemy - Beast of Man Something about this solo just works......
Yngwie Malmsteen - Pretty much anything really.
Sonata Arctica - Wolf and the Raven
Nightwish - Crimson Tide and the Deep Blue sea The whole song is a solo more or less, sounds excellent too.
In Flames - Man Made God
Dark Tranquility - Punish My Heaven The intro, omg.....
Black Sabbath - Dirty Women 3min30 guitar solo outro.
Children of Bodom - Needled 24-7

cournioni

Another few to mention...
Most of Shawn Lane's stuff is unbelievable.
Sonata Arctica - Black Sheep
Suicidal Tendencies - How Will I Laugh Tomorrow
Morbid Angel - Where the Slime Live

Dathai

Erm..Guitar solo by Yngwie malmsteen goes on for 10 minutes its probably the best solo Ive ever heard it has the classical aspect,the yngwie aspect and the metal aspect to it plus killer drums also.What more could you ask for.
And Dofka speed mental(check out my thread to check it out) that song is just aww*drools*

Doctor J

Tornado Of Souls by Megadeth - my favourite solo by a long way.

If you really like pointless widdly solos then seek out 'Speed Metal Symphony' and 'Go Off' by Cacophony, feturing Jason Becker and Marty Friedman.

During their live gigs, Becker would play 'Eruption' with one hand and playing with a yoyo in the other. Poor bastid contracted Lou Gehrigs Disease while recording 'A Little Ain't Enough' with Diamond Dave.

xx

Hmmmm, I love questions like these. COuld go on for days.
For me it'd be:

Strapping Young Lad - Underneath the waves. Halfway through the song, an absolute blitzkreig of a solo, sounds like the end of the world.

Slayer - Raining Blood. THAT chugging bit around the middle of the song.

Pantera - Domination. again, THAT chugging bit towards the end of the song this time.

G'n'r - November Rain. I can't believe none of you mentioned the solo at the end with Slash on top of the Piano. Pure cheesy edam goodness.

Pi$$ing Razors - Dodging Bullets. The hyper speed bit just after the chorus. One to gurn and gnash your teeth at time and time again.

girella

thats a really hard one
a great solo would maybe be faith no more-woodpecker from mars
then theres rory gallagher-i coulda had religion

Zoton

All the guitar solos in metallica's one.
Stairway to heaven (its cliché'd for a reason people)
Sepultura - Desperate Cry
RATM - Wake Up or Killing in the name

nesthead

i love the solo in The Clairvoyant by Maiden sooooo much because the bassline just complements it so well....

its not an amazing solo by any means its just that the way it fits with bassline is so amazing, you rarely hear that.

anything by Van Halen is just so brilliant too.

and as far as guitar **** goes..... Malmsteen sucks!!

Kunst

these may not be the greatest in the world but they just flow so well that they deserve a hell of a lot of recognition

Are You Gonna Go My Way - Lenny Kravtiz
Smooth - Santana

LightofDarkness

Oh Lord... alot of condensing....

Yngwie: Rising Force. Sweet ass.
Anything by Jason Becker, especially from Perpetual Burn. Air especially gets me and Altitudes. THE best guitarist, technically, I've ever heard.
Nuno Bettencourt: Flight of the Wounded Bumblebee. Demented take on the classical piece Flight of the Bumblbee.
Zakk Wylde solos. Any.
Children of Bodom: Warheart. Amazing stuff. As well as that, Children of Bodom the song has a great solo. And Downfall. Damn Alexi Laiho.
Arch Enemy: Enemy Within. Mmmmm.
Soilwork: Shadowchild. Just so cool.

Too many to name, so I'll just stop now.
PS: Did anyone go to see Soilwork live in Dublin?

Tommy Vercetti

Soooo many to choose from, the one that sticks out for me is Pantera - Floods

Bazz

Can't argue with ANYTHING by Dream Theater, Vai, Malmsteen, Satriani really...

Bazz

Now Beckers 'Prepetual Burn' does send the shivers down ones spine....

Zoton

I finally remembered the one i knew was in the back of my mind somewhere.
Queen - Innuendo. The song isn't really that great, but the solo is just awesome.:D

mr_angry

I'm gonna go for something a bit unusual:

"On A Rope" by Rocket From The Crypt.

There's a great build up to the solo - all the guitars are killed, and it just leaves drums and trumpets before going into the solo (of sorts). Its not even really a solo - no individual notes or anything. But it just makes me freeze in anticipation before it.

Failing that, I'd say U2's "The Ground Beneath Her Feet", but I get the feeling that might not go down too well here...

feylya

Crystal Planet by Satriani. The way the guitar comes roaring in for the solo with the bend and the insane speed. Mmmmm.

cournioni

If you wanna hear a REALLY fast solo, listen to Shawn Lane. Absolutely feckin savage!

David-[RLD]-

master of puppets probably

cowboys from hell by pantera is pretty good too....

AngelofFire

Guns n Roses- sweet child o mine
Jimi hendrix-Voodoo Chile
Bon jovi-in and out of love
Led zepplin-Communications breakdown
Red hot chilli peppers-all around the world

axeman

Zakk Wylde's solo in Ozzy Osbourne's No More Tears .

That is a class solo especially from where it starts to kick off heavy

Neil3030

Stairway to Heaven would be an excellent example of a song where it all just seems to be building up to the solo (for good or bad reasons!).

A song that was simply MADE as a result of it's solo is not exactly that easy to distinguish. I mean, there are fantastic solo guitar artists out there that would rip out astonishing riffs to beat any axeman and likewise there are bands that can hit the nail on the head via their 6 string salesman.

But where does the line get drawn between a song that has a really good solo, and a song that is made by it's solo?

Good solos would appear to be many and short between so how exactly does a solo MAKE a song? Does the song itself, ie., riff, vocals, drums..., have to suck donkey hemmerhoids before a solo takes the reins of the sled of inaudiobility, to guide it home to the lapland of commendation? That could be true but I think you would rarely classify a song as being completely unlistenable to would it not have been for the solo with the obvious allowence for exceptions.

So if asked, which I was, I would probably judge the "MAKINGOFASONG-ABILITY" of a solo on:

- Keeping with with the mood of the song, or indeed enhancing or taking it to the next level.
- Originality of material/style
- Melody
- Bettering the overall package.
- Technical abilty.

So with this in mind, Sultans of Swing is my pick. It was already a good track, but that second solo made it a GREAT track. It was very well in tune with the vibe of the song, ie., that biting, blusey, swing feeling. Knophler then introduced a lot of very metal influenced patterns, the grandaddy obviously beeing in the "diddle-ada diddle-adda diddle-adda diddle-adda" bit towards the end, which were very daring and innovative. Oh, and original! And technical abilty? Yeah, I'd say he pulls it off pretty well!

Now I'm aware that song isn't metal but I'm afraid I'm not sufficiently educated with said genre. For the record, by the way, my favourite solo of all time is was and (failing a miracle) forever shall remain - GnR - Nightrain. If you need to ask why, you clearly havn't heard the song!


EDIT: ****! Just re-read the first post and it turned out that was not what was asked at all.... my bad!!

girella

credit where credit is due to black sabbath for writing the song but these guys perfected it

pantera-planet caravan

then
system of a down-soil,peephole
metallica-master of puppets

im sure theres loads more but my head isn't working too well this morning

Doctor J

Not strictly metal but

Frank Zappa - Willie The Pimp (off the Hot Rats album)

probably the most underrated/overlooked guitarist around. Willie The Pimp just rocks and the solo is magnificent.

wiped

Anything by Angus Young.