Your Favourite Metal Guitarist

[Solipsist]

Can't limit to one:

Bob Vigna (experimentation/mind-blowing solos)
Pogrom/Gelal Necrosodomy (catchy, original riffs galore)
Alf Svensson (At the Gates's creative spark-man)
Antti Boman (insanity on harmonics)
Count Grishnackh (simple playing but effective in intent)
Infernus (BM riff machine)
Alan Jones (classy guitar-work/solos)
Mike Scalzi (much like above)
Eric Friesen (great compositional approach)

 

[Blue_Jay]

Jeff Loomis (Nevermore)
Johan Söderberg and Olavi Mikkonen (both guitarists for Amon Amarth)
Timo Tolki (Stratovarius)
Fredrik Norrman (Katatonia)
Jon Nödtveidt (Dissection)
K.K. Warslut and Shrapnel (Destroyer 666)
Varg Vikernes
Whoever does guitars for Moonspell is good.

If I had to pick a favorite it would be Dissection's Jon Nödtveidt whom sadly commited suicide

 

[good mourning]

Hendrix, Page, Iommi, Mustaine, Dimebag, Marc Rizzo(Soulfly)

There are many other great guitarists, but these are revolutionary.

 

[Vitor]

^ take back all the shit-talking grinder...
dime's #1 on your list

dude, i'm the biggest Dime Fan

i think bands like pantera and metallica need to change thier names to pantero and metallico, the masculine version, maybe that will make them better.

Dude, Pantera is panter in portuguese, and in latin is Panthera.

I dunno, but i guess they just take off the letter H from the latin version

 

[Hatebreeder]

Andre Olbrich is my all-time favorite metal guitarists, followed closely by Chuck Schuldiner and Alexi Laiho.

 

[Vitor]

laiho is a bad malmsteen copy, but i like the 1st CoB record

 

[Sabin Frost]

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

I like Hetfields voice and back in the day he thrashed as well as anyone as he riffed his way through tracks like whiplash.

 

[Sabin Frost]

Jeff Loomis (Nevermore)
Johan Söderberg and Olavi Mikkonen (both guitarists for Amon Amarth)
Timo Tolki (Stratovarius)
Fredrik Norrman (Katatonia)
Jon Nödtveidt (Dissection)
K.K. Warslut and Shrapnel (Destroyer 666)
Varg Vikernes
Whoever does guitars for Moonspell is good.

If I had to pick a favorite it would be Dissection's Jon Nödtveidt whom sadly commited suicide

I can support Solipists comments but Varg is a terrible guitarist.

P.S: Dime kicked arse.

 

[Sabin Frost]

Satyr

very, very good on an accoustic.

 

[Unfaithfully Metalhead]

already mentioned but :

Randy Rhoads
Jake E. Lee (Ozzy era)
David Gilmour
Jimmy Page
Eddie Van Halen (he was good till his tongue started falling off with the bottle attached to it lol )
Satriani (Surfing with the Alien era only)
Chris Poland (Peace Sells era)
Slash (i always thought he was underrated because of what band(s) he was in... but his leads were good imo with GnR)
Dave Murray/Adrian Smith - underrated...

There are others but can't think of them right now...

 

[Unfaithfully Metalhead]

very, very good on an accoustic.

Definetly... on the first 3 albums..

 

[J.L.]

Gotta be Zakk for me.

Man, I dont even think he's peaked yet, his best is yet to come....I hope LOL

 

[Unfaithfully Metalhead]

how could i forget? ozzy knows how to recruit.

with the exception of Zakk.. what a letdown/disappointment he was after two great guitarists like RR and Jake... uke:

 

[Unfaithfully Metalhead]

Gotta be Zakk for me.

Man, I dont even think he's peaked yet, his best is yet to come....I hope LOL

He's never even gotten out of the gate and never will uke:

 

[Vitor]

Count Grishnackh (simple playing but effective in intent)

i just can't believe

 

[probertvscoxe]

ING VAY

 

[Alter]

i just can't believe

I know.

 

[OfTheLie]

Jimmy Page(even though zeppelin isn't metal, I couldn't leave him out) and Jeff Hanneman.

 

[Belligerent]

Jimmy Page(even though zeppelin isn't metal, I couldn't leave him out) and Jeff Hanneman.

Couldn't leave him out either .
Anyone hear about the possibe reunion?

 

[Skepticism]

Chuck Schuldiner
Ivar Bjornson
Tony Iommi