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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

This guitar solo proves is only around 20 years old, so it's not quite classic, but it still rocks. It’s been hitting hard ...