Guitar slowlos? In any case, solos whose most prominent, characteristic elements are slow rather than shredding.

So far, only one of the ones that's come to mind is metal, but I'm putting the other three anyway, as examples of the kind of non fret-sparking solo I mean. I'm sure ye'll have plenty more metal ones to add:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9emO9qo4FwE


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob0CHu7ZyHM


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3MU-UkAh5A


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2kwwDLBgYw

Edit: I've been listening to the new Malthusian while typing this post, and the solo on this pretty much fits the bill too, as it happens:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4LCH3NbaPY

#1 September 10, 2025, 12:09:59 PM Last Edit: September 10, 2025, 12:12:41 PM by The Heretic
For me this is up there with the best, 2.00 and 4.05



The second solo in Comfortably Numb comes to mind, but guitar solos are for wankers anyway...

https://youtu.be/TqUE9XZZ0HQ?t=4m27s

Quote from: Carnage on September 10, 2025, 12:12:35 PMThe second solo in Comfortably Numb comes to mind, but guitar solos are for wankers anyway...

https://youtu.be/TqUE9XZZ0HQ?t=4m27s

That's the first one that came to mind. I much prefer those type solos to shredding.

#5 September 10, 2025, 12:35:29 PM Last Edit: September 10, 2025, 12:37:38 PM by The Great Cull
Greg Mackintosh - Forever Failure


Jerry Cantrell - Whale And Wasp



Moby "Face It", instantly in this category anyway.


Whole song is lethal but solo is from 4:20 and lasts forever lol

Inter Arma "The Paradise Gallows" is also a fuckin ridiculously good song with a lovely slowly from 6:37


Rakes more I will think of later

It's not really a solo but the lead section in Alice in Chains Junkhead - they do so much with so few notes and restraint.


Quote from: The Great Cull on September 10, 2025, 12:35:29 PMGreg Mackintosh - Forever Failure


Jerry Cantrell - Whale And Wasp



Jar of Flies/ Sap is deadly but Whale and Wasp is a cunt of a song, the main reason being that fucking gimpy solo  :laugh:

Thinking on a minute Orion, hands down winner.

Beyond Comfortably Numb, there must be at least a dozen Gilmour solos that would have their place here  :abbath:

Have to say, that Paradise Lost solo doesn't excite me at all, I'd almost call it pedestrian :-X  But then again, they're a band that never really appealed to me much, for whatever reason.


Bathory: Call From The Grave definitely springs to mind.

Quote from: Sworntothecans on September 10, 2025, 01:57:17 PMBathory: Call From The Grave definitely springs to mind.

Absolutely, abso-fucking-lutely! :abbath:  :abbath: