Let's talk about guitar shred wankers. How about Alexi Laiho?
Let's take an example Children of Bodom song:
Lake Bodom
Cool song, but the solo... yes, I'm talking about the solo at about 2:57 into the song. It's shred. It is wank. You can hear the cum dripping off the fretboard. Fun! I wish that metal wasn't so full of guitarists who use their extreme speed to cover up the fact that they can't write a good solo. Speking of which:
Michael Romeo, of the power metal band Symphony X.
Let's take the song "Smoke and Mirrors". Now this song is fast, and starts out with a series of extremely fast sweep picked arpeggios. Now, they sound like crap, but hey! That doesn't matter in shred land! What I mean is this guitarist has sacrificed musicality in order to give us an unnecessary technical display of his virtousity.
So guys, get talking. What do you prefer? Lightning fast shred? Or melodic solos which sound good?
GROW SOME BALLS AND LISTEN TO OPETH!