What songs would you recomend that has a good riff or a good solo in it?
I love the guitar in Soilwork - Song of the Damned
I wanna find new rock songs with kick ass solos and such.

thanks
rock on \m/

If you want truly amazing solos listen to anything by Symphony X or Dream Theater. Some other bands with impressive solos are Stratovarius, Shadow Gallery, Rhapsody, and Blind Guardian just to name a few.

dragonforce
savatage
sun caged
trivium

For good straight ahead ripping rock solos, check out Revery. Bleed Alone, Sugarstar, Which Way To Sunday from thier CD all have Zakk'ish' solos. Good player, good tone.

www.myspace.com/revery

Many of the fine forumites (Jesus is that a word? o_0) here will tell you that I hate Metallica. And they would be right. But I will give the devil his due: Unforgiven II is probably (musically) the perfect example of a well structured song. Everything ties into something else.

The intro starts and you realize that you've heard this song before... only it wasn't exactly the same. It's grown... it's evolved. It's somehow stronger than the first time. The intro has become power chords.

Then the body begins; however, this has changed some as well. It's now become an amalgam of a standard picking style, to upper teir arpeggios, walk-ups and slides.

For the chorus, there's a heavy strumming of the main chords. (Am-C-G-Em with small variations from the original) Combined with a minor hammer-on combo.

And at the crescendo of the song, we reach the
solo. The hammer-on/pull-off combo from the chorus leads directly into Kirk's solo, which switches speeds masterfully to match the rythym guitar.

The rythym guitar uses a heavy single strum for the major chords to emphasize the major notes of Kirk's solo, and then moves perfectly into the chorus and as the hammer-on combo begins, both guitars synchronize and walk down the neck together, and lead right back into the intro of the song.

I'm a huge fan of guitar solos and solid riffs so my favorite bands reflect this. Pearl Jam has the sweetest solos in their songs along with my other favs of Led Zeppelin and White Stripes.

coheed and cambria, especially the one at the end of welcome home. and i back up zombie on zepplin. i don't listen top them that much, but they were stars for a reason.

ew... coheed sucks.

Thunder 'she's so fine' from backstreet symphony. It has everything a 'classic' rock n roll song should have. The dynamics are cool, the opening riff is just amaizing, the solo kicks ur ass like a solo should and the whole song has you stompin round the room as if you were in some smokey blues club!

Cannibal Corpse has awesome riffs and solos. Let's not forget PANTERA! and old-school Metallica. And Slayer...

also try skindred. pretty good band and there's some riffs in there. try their song babylon

In Flames has dual guitar solos
Sentenced awesome guitarists in that band
and of course Dream theatre

a band with good riffs and solos would be Bullet for my Valentine with dual vocals and good solos.

Check out Yngwie Malmsteen or George Lynch (Dokken/Lynch Mob)

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Originally posted by Doug:
Check out Yngwie Malmsteen or George Lynch (Dokken/Lynch Mob)

Malmsteen has that song Black Star omg its fucking awesome