Originally Posted by Wpnfire

With few exceptions, thrash metal guitar solos are all awful and I don't like any of them. Even with my three favorite thrash songs of Master of Puppets, Holy Wars...The Punishment Due, and South of Heaven, my least favorite part of those three songs are the guitar solo (solos for the last two).

The #1 reason I like those songs is unquestionably because of the guitar riffs, with the first minute of both of Master and Holy Wars... being two of my favorite song intros because they are all riffing, and the main riff for South of Heaven is probly in the top 5 of my favorite guitar riffs for all genres of music.

Slayer guitar solos are the worst of all. I don't know if I've mentioned this on this forum before or not, but one of the 'songs' in DOOM 2 is actually an 8-bit rendition of South of Heaven, and it's definetely one of my top songs ever in a video game because it's basically just the intro and riff for south of heaven and that's it. It just loops after that.