Songs with the Best Guitar Solo and Riffs

In my short span as an enthusiastic Metalhead, these are some of the riffs stuck in my head. I'd like to expand the list to include less well-known songs and riffs.

The Top Ten

1 Kings of the Carnival Creation - Dimmu Borgir

2 Seventh Son of a Seventh Son - Iron Maiden

3 Blackbird - Alter Bridge

4 Rising Force - Yngwie Malmsteen

5 Schizos (Are Never Alone) Parts I & II - Annihilator

6 Akroasis - Obscura

@Arhaan95 - I like all their albums but perhaps Akroasis is the most accessible so it's good to start with it. Cosmogenesis is probably the heaviest, and Omnivium is the most complex. However, there aren't big differences between them - all these 3 albums are close to perfection.

7 A Light in the Black - Rainbow

8 Cirice - Ghost

9 Windowpane - Opeth

10 Alison Hell - Annihilator

The Contenders

11 Raining Blood - Slayer

12 Hall of the Mountain King - Savatage

13 Orion - Metallica

14 Kissing the Shadows - Children of Bodom

15 Floods - Pantera

16 Highway Star - Deep Purple

17 Ride the Sky - Helloween

18 Clocks - Coldplay

19 Phantasmagoria - Annihilator

20 Carolyn - Black Veil Brides

21 Downfall - Children of Bodom

22 Flying Whales - Gojira

23 Lazarus - Porcupine Tree

24 The Czar - Mastodon

25 Realm of a Thousand Burning Souls (Part 1) - Lord Belial

I'm not much of a person who readily exhibits emotions, but the penultimate section through the end, after a lengthy pause, felt like a thousand bricks crashing on my head.

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