I want ripping solos and killer riffs.

[Ocean]

Get the new Jeff Loomis solo album.. riffs and solos galore!

 

[v2kv]

Decapitated - Nihility

Basically, anything from Decapitated, but I'd say Winds of Creation is the best.
Meshuggah could work for this, but that's an obvious suggestion.

 

[Vimana]

I recommend Myrath.

 

[CF87]

Extreme stuff with excellent lead work.

Darkane `layers of lies
Scar Symmetry `pitch black progress
Bloodbath `unblessing the purity,the fathomless mastery. Nightmares Made Flesh has some killer ripping solo's also, but the album does not emphasize on lead guitar work nearly to the extent as these two. Regardless Sodomizer and Dan Swano ripp in different ways.
Brutality `when the sky turns black,screams of anguish
Centinex `world declension,decadence...
Morbid Angel `domination
Impaled `the last gasp
Pestilence `testimony of the ancients
Unleashed `hammer batallion

others

Solitude Aeturnus(any) excellent lead work and killer riffs
Candlemass
Mercyful Fate
King Diamond

etc...

 

[v2kv]

Scar Symmetry - pitch black progress <<<<<< holographic universe

this.

 

[MetalAges]

Symphony X - any
Jag Panzer - (but the recent ones rip with Chris on guitars)
Pagan's Mind - Celestial entrance, God's Equation
Circus Maximus - Isolate

 

[optionthree]

Artillery - By Inheritance.

 

[viewerfromnihil]

Jason Becker - Perpetual Burn

 

[genocide roach]

psypheria. theyre along the lines or morbid angel and nocturnus. and john is a killer shredder. he always did crazier solos live though.




~gR~

 

[OrchidForest]

Try the album "Pervertigo" by the band: Throne of Chaos

 

[Belligerent]

Jason Becker - Perpetual Burn

i second this along with Steve Vai - Passion and Warfare.

 

[Therma lobsterdore]

These albums popped right into my head after reading the thread title...

Kronos - Colossal titan strife
Rebaelliun - Annihilation

 

[Wildman]

Bywar (Brazil), has a ton of flying solos...
Bernt Steidl - Psycho Acoustic Overture
Hobbs' Angel of Death

[trying to give you some very different stuff since you said any genre]

 

[swordfisch]

exmortus
ensiferum
Apocrypha
cacophony
Decrepit Birth

why'd i bump this?

cause i fukkin felt like it.

if this causes you a problem, you need to get a fukkin life, loser.

 

[The Emptier]

 

[Caveman Ninja]

Forbidden's Twisted Into Form has absolutely shedloads of both.

 

[Vithon]

Exmortus
Nevermore
The Faceless