- Dimebag Darrell
Dimebag Darrell, also known as Diamond Darrell until mid 1992, was the lead guitarist for the heavy metal bands Pantera, Damageplan and Rebel Meets Rebel. - Randy Rhoads
Randall William "Randy" Rhoads was an American heavy metal guitarist who is best known for playing with Ozzy Osbourne. Despite his short career, he is cited as an influence by many contemporary heavy metal guitarists. His unique neo-classical metal style of playing set him apart from other guitarists of the late 1970s and early 1980s. He was a devoted student of classical guitar technique, and his music often combined classical music influences with heavy metal. - Zakk Wylde
Zakk Wylde (born Jeffrey Phillip Wiedlandt on January 14, 1967 in Bayonne, New Jersey) is a lead guitarist, pianist, singer and songwriter, best known for his role as founder of Black Label Society and guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne. Wylde was lead guitarist and vocalist in Pride & Glory, who released one self-titled album in 1994 before disbanding. As a solo artist he released the critically acclaimed Book of Shadows in 1996. - Tony Iommi
Frank Anthony "Tony" Iommi (born February 19 1948, in Aston, Birmingham, England) is a guitarist best known for his tenure in the heavy metal band Black Sabbath. He is the only person to have remained in Black Sabbath throughout the band's entire lifespan. Currently Iommi, bandmate Geezer Butler and former Black Sabbath members Ronnie James Dio and Vinny Appice, are touring under the name Heaven and Hell. - Eddie Van Halen
Edward Van Halen (born Edward Lodewijk van Halen on January 26, 1955 in Nijmegen, Netherlands), is a guitarist, keyboardist, songwriter and producer most famous for being leader and a co-founder of the hard rock band, Van Halen. - Steve Vai
Steven Siro Vai (born June 6 1960 in Carle Place, New York) is a guitarist, composer, vocalist, and record producer. He has won a Grammy Award. - Scott Ian
Scott Ian Rosenfeld (born December 31, 1963) is the rhythm guitarist for the metal band Anthrax who uses the stage name Scott Ian. Rosenfeld is a former guitarist for the crossover band Stormtroopers of Death. He has hosted "The Rock Show" on VH1 and has appeared on VH1's "I Love The 70's/80's/90's" as well as VH1's "Heavy: The Story of Metal", and is the rhythm guitarist of Damnocracy. - Joe Satriani
Joe "Satch" Satriani (born on July 15, 1956, in Westbury, New York, USA) is an American guitarist and former guitar instructor. His self-released debut album, Not of This Earth in 1986 opened the way to a world of instrumental rock music in a pop-dominated world at that time. Influenced heavily by Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck, Joe Satriani often incorporates a warm sound of guitar with a dominant blues and rock tone. - Michael Schenker
Michael Schenker (born January 10, 1955) is a German hard rock and heavy metal guitarist and former member of UFO and a founding member of Scorpions and the Michael Schenker Group (M.S.G). He is the younger brother of Rudolf Schenker, guitarist with Scorpions. - Kirk Hammett
Kirk Lee Hammett (born on November 18, 1962) is the lead guitarist in the thrash metal band Metallica. Hammett is one of the better-known students of guitarist and instructor Joe Satriani. In 2003, he was ranked 11th in the "Rolling Stone"s "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". - James Hetfield
James Hetfield (born James Alan Hetfield, 3 August 1963, Downey, California) is the main songwriter, lead vocalist, guitarist and a founding member of the American thrash/heavy metal band Metallica. - Marty Friedman
Marty Friedman (born Martin Adam Friedman December 8, 1962 in Washington, D.C., United States) is an American guitarist. He is perhaps best known as the lead guitarist for the thrash metal band Megadeth for close to ten years. He now resides in Japan. His ex-wife (Chihiro) is Japanese. He hosted his own television programs, "Rock Fujiyama" and "Jukebox English" on Japanese television. - Dave Mustaine
Dave Mustaine (born David Scott Mustaine on September 13, 1961 in La Mesa, California, United States) is the co-lead/rhythm guitarist, songwriter, and singer for the thrash metal band, Megadeth. He grew up in various Southern California suburbs. As the central figure of Megadeth and a former Metallica lead guitarist and co-songwriter, he is one of a handful of people considered to have pioneered thrash metal and speed metal. - Glenn Tipton
Glenn Raymond Tipton (born October 25, 1947 in Blackheath, England) is one of the lead guitarists (and occasional keyboard player) for the English heavy metal band Judas Priest. Prior to Judas Priest, he was in the Flying Hat Band. Tipton is known for his complex, sometimes classically influenced solos and his double lead guitar trades with fellow Judas Priest guitarist K.K. Downing. Although Glenn did not pick up the guitar until he was 21, … - Ritchie Blackmore
Richard Hugh Blackmore, (born 14 April 1945) is an English guitarist. He has been a founding member of both Deep Purple and Rainbow and is currently a member of the band Blackmore's Night. He was ranked 55 on Rolling Stone's the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time in 2003. - Mick Mars
Mick Mars (born Bob Alan Deal., May 4 1951 in Terre Haute, Indiana.) is the guitar player for heavy metal/glam metal band Mötley Crüe. - K. K. Downing
Kenneth "K.K." Downing (born 27 October 1951 in Hill Top in West Bromwich, England) is a guitarist and one of the founding members of the legendary British heavy metal band Judas Priest. He received his stage name when a girl in Denmark could not pronounce his name and called him 'K.K.' instead. Influenced by Jimi Hendrix, Downing bought his first guitar at the age of sixteen. According to an interview by Guitar One magazine, … - Ace Frehley
Paul Daniel Frehley, (known as Ace Frehley, born April 27, 1951) is an American guitarist best known as a founding member and lead guitarist for the rock band Kiss. He took on the persona of 'Space Man' when the band adopted costumes and theatrics. Frehley played with the group from its inception in 1973 until his departure in 1982. After leaving Kiss, Frehley embarked on a moderately successful solo career, … - Jake E. Lee
Jakey Lou Williams (born February 15, 1957 in Norfolk, Virginia, USA), better known as Jake E. Lee is a heavy metal guitarist best known for his work with Ozzy Osbourne. - George Lynch
George Lynch (b. September 28, 1954) is a Hard rock guitarist best known as a member of the band Dokken. - Sammy Hagar
Samuel Roy Hagar (born October 13 1947 in Monterey, California, USA), better known as Sammy Hagar (aka "The Red Rocker"), is a U.S. rock guitarist, singer, composer and former member of Van Halen, and of the early 70s rock band Montrose. He is of Lebanese descent. He is the cousin of Christian rock musician Ken Tamplin. - John Petrucci
John Petrucci (born July 12, 1967, Kings Park, Long Island, New York) is an American guitarist best known as a founding member of the progressive metal band Dream Theater. He is also the producer (along with his bandmate Mike Portnoy) of all Dream Theater albums since their 1999 release, "Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory", as well as the band's main lyricist. - Paul Stanley
Stanley Harvey Eisen (born January 20, 1952, Queens, New York) known by his stage name Paul Stanley, is an American Hard rock guitarist and vocalist for the rock band Kiss. He is the writer or co-writer of most of the band's highest-charting hits, including "Rock and Roll All Nite," "Hard Luck Woman," "I Was Made For Lovin' You," "Crazy Crazy Nights" and "Forever." - Kerry King
Kerry King (born June 3 1964 in Los Angeles, California) is a guitarist, best known as one of the founding members of the thrash metal band Slayer. - Adrian Smith
Adrian Frederik "H" Smith (born February 27, 1957 in Hackney, East London, England) is a songwriter and one of three guitarists/songwriters in the heavy metal band Iron Maiden. - James Murphy
James Franklin Murphy (July 30th, 1967, Portsmouth, Virginia USA) is an American guitarist. He is well-known for his work in Testament and his solo contributions to various bands as well as works released under his own name and by a band he founded named Disincarnate. He was diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2001, but has recovered. Currently he is working on a tribute album to Chuck Schuldiner who died from a brain tumour. - Jason Becker
Jason Becker, (born July 22, 1969) is an American neo-classical metal guitarist and composer. At the age of 16 he became part of the Mike Varney-produced duo Cacophony with his friend Marty Friedman. They released "Speed Metal Symphony" in 1987 and "Go Off!" in 1988. - Alexi Laiho
Alexi "Wildchild" Laiho is the guitarist of the bands Children of Bodom (where he is also the vocalist), Sinergy and Kylähullut. He has also played with Thy Serpent and Impaled Nazarene on occasion, in addition to Warmen. - Patrick Lachman
Patrick Lachman (b. March 30, 1970) was the guitarist of the band Diesel Machine from 1996 to 2001), before joining the solo band from (at that time former) Judas Priest vocalist Rob Halford, titled Halford. After the release of Halford's debut album "Resurrection", Lachman's other band Diesel Machine got the chance to release their own debut album, "Torture Test", which had already been recorded several years earlier. - Alex Skolnick
Alex Skolnick (born September 29, 1968, grew up in Berkeley, California) is an American jazz and rock guitarist. He is a member of the thrash metal band Testament, formed in San Francisco in 1983. Skolnick left the band in 1992 - returning briefly to re-record some old material for the band's "First Strike is Still Deadly" release as well as the "Thrash of the Titans" all-star performance in 2001. - Vivian Campbell
Vivian Patrick Campbell (born in August 25, 1962 in Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland) is an Irish rock guitarist and a member of Def Leppard. Prior to joining the band in 1992 he had been a member of the Irish rock band Sweet Savage, Dio and also Whitesnake. - Dave Murray
David Michael Murray (born December 23, 1956 in Edmonton, London) is an English guitarist and songwriter best known as one of the original members of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden. He joined the band just two months after their inception in 1975. - Yngwie J. Malmsteen
Yngwie Johann Malmsteen (born Lars Johann Yngve Lannerbäck, June 30, 1963) is a Swedish guitarist, composer and bandleader. Widely recognised for his guitar skills, Malmsteen achieved widespread acclaim in the 1980s for his technical proficiency and his pioneering of the shred guitar technique, and neo-classical metal genre. - Mikael Åkerfeldt
Mikael Åkerfeldt (born April 17, 1974, in Stockholm, Sweden) is a Swedish musician, best known as the current lead vocalist, guitarist, composer, and lyricist for the progressive death metal band Opeth. Åkerfeldt is known for his progressive rock-influenced songwriting style, and his frequent use of both clean and growled vocals. Although Åkerfeldt sings in the death grunt style, his vocals are considered to be more intelligible than many vocalists of the style. - Jeff Hanneman
Jeff Hanneman (born January 31, 1964, in Oakland, California) is the guitarist and a founding member of the American thrash metal band Slayer. Hanneman grew up in Los Angeles in a family of war veterans, and his fascination with warfare is attributed to his upbringing. - Dino Cazares
Dino Cazares, born September 2, 1966 in El Centro, CA, was the guitarist for Los Angeles-based metal/industrial group Fear Factory until 2002. Cazares and drummer Raymond Herrera formed Fear Factory in 1989 under the name Ulceration. However, it was renamed to their current name Fear Factory in the following year. The band's first album, "Soul of a New Machine", was dedicated to Cazares' mother, Natividad, and older brother, Joey. - Michael Angelo Batio
Michael Angelo Batio is an American instrumental rock/heavy metal guitarist and columnist from Chicago, Illinois. He attended Northeastern Illinois University and received a bachelor's degree in music theory and composition. "Guitar One Magazine" named him the no. 1 fastest guitar shredder of all time - Criss Oliva
Christopher "Criss" Michael Oliva (April 3, 1963 - October 17, 1993) was born in Pompton Plains, NJ. He was the lead guitarist in, and co-founder of, the band Savatage. Criss was the youngest of four children, the next eldest being brother Jon Oliva, with whom he formed the band. - Corey Beaulieu
Corey King Beaulieu (born November 22, 1983 in Brunswick, Maine) is the lead guitarist of Trivium. - Rob Arnold
Rob Arnold (born January 3, 1980) is a member and lead guitarist of the metal/metalcore band Chimaira. In an interview with Roadrunner Records, he named Kirk Hammett, "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott, Dave Mustaine, Marty Friedman and Kerry King as being influential to his playing style. He is 5' 11". Rob Arnold, part of the guitars, earlier in Sanctum, now in Chimaira. Height: 5'11" Eyes: Brown Zodiac: Capricorn Other Bands: Sanctum Rob Arnolds uses a custom ESP guitar, …
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