A History Of METAL Guitar SOLOS! 1970-2020

So, seeing as it’s been 50 years since Black Sabbath dropped their first 🔥 mixtape I thought it’d be pretty fun to look back at all of the amazing guitar solos laid down throughout the last 5 decades. Isn’t it sick to see how far lead playing has evolved in this time?! 0:00 Black Sabbath - Paranoid (1970) 0:11 Deep Purple - Highway Star (1972) 0:23 Scorpions - Sails Of Charon (1977) 0:32 Van Halen - You Really Got Me (1978) 0:39 Motorhead - Dead Men Tell No Tales (1979) 0:50 Diamond Head - Am I Evil? (1980) 0:58 Ozzy Osbourne - Over The Mountain (1981) 1:13 Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast (1982) 1:22 Dio - Straight Through The Heart (1983) 1:32 Mercyful Fate - Gypsy (1984) 1:40 Yngwie Malmsteen - I Am A Viking (1985) 1:53 Metallica - Battery (1986) 2:03 Testament - Over The Wall (1987) 2:14 Cacophony - Black Cat (1988) 2:28 Extreme - Play With Me (1989) 2:37 Judas Priest - Hell Patrol (1990) 2:50 Sepultura - Arise (1991) 2