Some guitar solos are remembered because they fit perfectly into a song. Others become the song. Megadeth’s “Hangar 18” falls ...

The rock and metal genres own a bevy of high-octane guitar solos that make you feel like picking up a six-stringer and trying to make magic. The '80s are especially known as a decade brimming with ...

The guitar solo has been part of popular culture for decades at this point. Guitarists such as Slash, Zakk Wylde and Tony ...

Great guitar solos rarely go unnoticed. Songs such as Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven," Van Halen's "Eruption" and Ozzy Osbourne's "Mr. Crowley" all have guitar solos that demand to be heard. The ...

The pioneers of heavy guitar riffing - at least among the first to make a full record of it - were the Kinks, who paved the way for heavy metal and punk rock. While the band was already iconic, its ...

The greatest classic rock and metal hits always seem to be accompanied by a slamming guitar solo that ranks among the greatest of all time. That certainly holds true for the No. 2 song on Guitar World ...

It’s time to argue about — well, make that debate and discuss — the greatest guitar solos of all time. Music history is filled with such moments, when an ultra-talented player starts to shred on six ...