Your Favourite Metal Guitarist

[Sabin Frost]

The guitarist does not need to necissarily be a metal guitarist as in they can play jazzy guitar but they need to be in a metal band.

For me it is probably Hetfield. The way he can still sing well while playing quick, technical riffs and his implementation of the hybrid picking technique makes him an inspirational rhythm guitarist to me. Dave Mustaine is also brilliant, however Dave cannot sing for shit while playing.

If I was honestly asked who I think the best metal guitarist is, I would be hard pressed not to say Jeff Waters, he is a god.

EDIT: To back up that statement on Dave, watch That one night, Dave just cant hit high notes live on stage, though his guitar is perfect.

 

[Captain]

Matt Pike - Sleep, High on Fire
Pepper Keenan - Corrosion of Conformity, Down
Dennis D'Amour - Voivod
John Perez - Solitude Aeturnus

 

[Sabin Frost]

Matt Pike - Sleep, High on Fire
Pepper Keenan - Corrosion of Conformity, Down
Dennis D'Amour - Voivod
John Perez - Solitude Aeturnus

I always laugh when I think about Pepper after watching Dodgeball...

Perez is a really good guitarist, he is a bit of rarity, a proggy guitarist doing doom.

 

[Personified Hatred]

James Hetfield
Dave Mustaine
Euronymous
Mille Petrozza
Kerry King and Jeff Hanneman

 

[Hell Awaits Us All]

terrance hobbs
trey azagtoth
michael akerfeldt
chuck schuldiner
tony iommi
luc lemay
muhammad suicmez

 

[Sabin Frost]

terrance hobbs
trey azagtoth
michael akerfeldt
chuck schuldiner
tony iommi
luc lemay
muhammad suicmez

If I did an extended list I would have needed to have mentioned Tommy and Akerfeldt, Tommy in partiular was a real innovator in the way turned an injury into a possitive, making his own lighter strings and downtuning so the strings were not as hard to fret.

 

[The Heartbreak Kid]

Alex Skolnick because with short hair he looks like the alien dude from Men in Black, the one the big bug goes into.

 

[Zephyrus]

Oystein G. Brun
Ihsahn
Peter Tagtgren

 

[Thorns On My Grave]

I would say probably Ihsahn, as he has an extreme, proggy sound that I have never heard anyone duplicate efficiently in any genre much less black metal. He has a unique sound, which is rare.

I would also list Michael Romeo, John Pettrucci and John Schaffer because of their skills and creativity

 

[IOfTheStorm]

Absolute top 5:

Tony Iommi
Chris DeGarmo
Dan Rock
Uli John Roth
Scott "Wino" Weinrich

 

[~Neurotica]

Barry Thompson
Fredrick Thordendal
The one that's bald in bigdave's sig, even though he doesn't play metal.
David Gilmour

 

[zoidberg]

jeff hanneman & antti boman

 

[The Ozzman]

Michael Amott in his Carcass days

 

[AchrisK]

Chris Poland

 

[Astrum]

For me it is probably Hetfield. The way he can still sing well while playing quick, technical riffs and his implementation of the hybrid picking technique makes him an inspirational rhythm guitarist to me.

Anyway, Randy Rhoads, Tony Iommi, Wojtek Lisicki, Jon Levasseur (I like the way he plays)

 

[ThePhilosopher]

Bob Vigna

 

[Death Animal]

Ritchie Blackmore
Tony Iommi
criss oliva

 

[DropDeadFred]

Jeff Loomis
Eric Peterson
James Hetfield
Dimebag Darrell

 

[Hell Awaits Us All]

The one's that's bald in bigdave's sig, even though he doesn't play metal.

 

[BlackMetalTyrant]

Chris Poland
Dimebag Darrell
Yngwie
Zakk Wylde
Ihsahn
Abbath
James Macdonough(sp) the new lead player for megadeth