Top 10 Bands with Best Twin (Dual) Lead Guitars

I have to give it to Judas Priest. Tipton & Downing played together on their first album and continued together for over 35 years! Also... I appreciate the different styles each brought more than playing together.

Judas Priest did it in 1973 and they were probably the first metal band that used twin guitars. I put Judas Priest higher than Iron Maiden because Judas Priest did it before Iron Maiden. - Metal_Treasure

Nobody can beat them... 1st always

KK Downing and Glenn Tipton are better than Dave Murray and Adrian Smith

Ahh this was a tough call between maiden and priest but I'd go with maiden as 1)they did it like no other and their synchronisation was truly unique 2)I'm a die hard maiden fan so it may have been a bit of a biased choice. - Toucan

@Toucan - I like both bands, too, and I truly understand your choice, and agree with you. - Metal_Treasure

Best band ever

I have to agree.Together they bore iron maiden's pride. - zxm

Thin Lizzy were one of the first bands to employ dual-guitar harmonies. Their album Jailbreak (1976) contains great examples of twin guitars style and Thin Lizzy forged a style from which future British heavy metal bands would draw. - Metal_Treasure

They use the Judas Priest formula. I have to say that Primal Fear twin guitar work is very intense and damn good. Currently I like their twin guitars the most, especially the solos that are very fast yet melodic (Strike, Riding The Eagle). - Metal_Treasure

I read somewhere that they influenced Iron Maiden in this area. - Metal_Treasure

They started using twin guitars in the late 1970s. John Sykes of Thin Lizzy played for them, also Steve Vai. - Metal_Treasure

Dave-Marty
Dave-Chris Broderick
Dave-Kiko
they really delivered!

I'm surprised that I had to add Opeth myself.

Ibrahim Ahmed Kamal had picked lead guitar and still is the lead guitarist of the band.
Russel Ali picked lead guitar and keyboards in the early days. But also played rhythm guitar.
Then they again had one lead and one rhythm in the middle years.
Jewel also joined the band as a lead guitarist.
In Moharaj, it again became two lead.
Oni Hasan also joined the band as a lead guitarist. He also did rhythm guitar part.
After departure of Oni Hasan, Samir Hafiz also joined the band as a lead guitarist.

So, except for few years, they mostly had dual lead guitarists. - zxm

They don't use twin lead guitars - Metal_Treasure

They shouldn't be on the list. It says "twin lead guitar", A7X consists of lead and rhythm guitarists. Not dual lead guitarists. - zxm

Zacky Vengeance performs solo harmonies.

Yes, zxm is right - their guitars aren't twin guitars. I guess people didn't read my list description /explanation. - Metal_Treasure

Seriously, this wasn't added in til now?

Anyways, Queensryche took Maiden's twin lead and took it to the next level, just like Maiden did with Thin Lizzy's and Wishbone Ash's.

Of course, they had classic twin riffs, but, as I said they took it to another level, Wilton and DeGarmo would write a normal solo and play it in twin style. Of course not every song had that twin solo, they'd often have back to back solos, or just one solo per song or sometimes no solos even.

Take a listen to NM156 and you'll see what I'm talking about.

Because Matthias Jabs is a great lead guitarists. Rudolf Schenker plays awesome leads and can hold his own on rhythm guitar with the best. - MsDragonFire

This doesn't mean they play twin guitars. Please read my list description. - Metal_Treasure