Fastest Guitar Solos of All Time

The Top Ten
1 Through The Fire And Flames - Herman Li and Sam Totman

Definitely one of the fastest guitar solos I’ve ever heard. This is the most iconic solo from DragonForce and it overshadows solos from songs like their newer music like Fallen World, Ashes of the Dawn, and Once in a Lifetime.

Wanna hear the fastest guitar solos? Listen to Shawn Lane.
Damn kids need to stop playing guitar hero 3, and educate yourselves.

Fastest guitar solos I've ever heard I'm in love with this song simply due to the skill required for the shredding.

Obviously the fastest. And shame for everyone who think they speeded it up in the studio...

2 One - Kirk Hammett

Look at the tapping part, it's faster than everything on this page, 16th notes triplets at 216 BPM it's a insane speed, 21 notes per second, seriously...

Quite fast but shouldn't be on number 2.

Start of solo is stupidly fast

3 Raining Blood - Kerry King, Gary Holt, and Jeff Hannerman
4 Far Beyond the Sun - Yngwie Malmsteen

Faster than One, Free Bird or Taxman.

5 Afterlife- Synyster Gates

There is a point in the solo where the guitar sounds like it is about to die from being played so fast

6 Kissing the Shadows - Children of Bodom

Fast and hard

7 The Number Of The Beast - Janick Gers, Dave Murray, and Adrian Smith
8 Killing In The Name - Tom Morello

Why is this even on this list?

9 Free Bird - Hughie Thomasson
10 Heroes Of Our Time - Herman Li and Sam Totman

Deserves a bit higher position

The Contenders
11 Rising Force - Yngwie Malmsteen

I love this solo, it's crazy fast. Probably faster than most of the top 10.

12 A Light in the Black - Rainbow (Ritchie Blackmore)
13 Double Guitar Solo - Michael Angelo Batio
14 Don't Know What I Got - Tom Keifer
15 Revolution Is My Name - Dimebag Darrell
16 Eruption - Eddie Van Halen

The fastest guitar solo ever played (or at least what seems like it) deserves a much higher position

17 Nosferatu - Coroner (Tommy Baron)
18 Kill the King - Rainbow (Ritchie Blackmore)
19 Sweet Child O' Mine - Slash
20 Peace Sells - Dave Mustaine

It's faster than most of this list.

It is Dave Mustaine

21 Mr Crowley - Randy Rhoads
22 Akroasis - Obscura
23 Domination - Pantera

Maybe not the most difficult solo but its definitely the fastest I've ever heard. (and also one of the most unique and memorable, usually fast solos are meh). And I listened to malmsteen, MAB, gilbert and others. Those 2 ascending runs with triplets are INSANELY fast. Especially live version he plays even faster than on album and its very clear.

24 Heartbreaker - Led Zeppelin

Sorry not the fastest compared to the other solos on this list.

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25 Bangarang - Skrillex
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