Unforgiven 3 in general is so good, the buildup to that insane solo makes it one of my favourite Metallica songs for sure, even if it is a bit messily played :p

0:00 Chasing Light 0:48 Halo on Fire (1st solo) 1:04 All Nightmare Long (1st solo) 1:58 You Must Burn! 3:07 Spit out the Bone 3:45 The Day That Never Comes 4:24 Room of Mirrors 5:44 72 Seasons (2nd solo) 6:48 Inamorata (outer solo) 7:38 The Unforgiven III

i love the room of mirrors solo, 72 seasons solo, inamorata

Bro, I think the same that The Unforgiven III deserves first place... This one just fills me with emotion every time I feel sad and it's the moment where I burst into tears 😞

The problem with Kirk's modern solo approach is that he plays in key but not around the chords, his solos are not connected with the harmony underneath and that's why they're not memorable. They fill out the space but don't elevate the composition. Another thing is his over reliance on pentatonic, he's eliminating the 2 notes that are unique to each minor mode, those notes give that extra spice (dorian on blackened or phrygian dominant on wherever i may roam)

InamoraTa is the solo In history metal after fade to black that gave me the most chills. Especially while observing the music video. Kirk used the wah literally perfectly. I’ve never seen the wah been used so perfectly except entersandman. Fade to black solo is unbeatable, but I’ve never thought that any other song In history would come close , and how surprising , it came from Metallica and same artist kirk. There are solos I listen to from puppets and others, that make me realize how every little detail that people don’t notice is complete genius ness. ( AFTER ) the starting lick of disposable heroes ( what I call the nothing else matters bend 😂 ) has a unique starting and the note choice is so weird. He could have played so many basic thing but he chose to play something like that which is special

Best Kirk solo of all time: St anger

That's a great list. I'd say the Inamorata solo is the best on the list, followed by Spit and Nightmare. Some other great modern Kirk solos include Hardwired, Lux, and Moth

I think the solo on The End of The Line is actually really good and unique

Great list man, nice to see people recognizing that Kirk can still put out some amazing stuff instead of just mindlessly hating

I'd also include That Was Just Your Life

I wanted to say I'd flip the top two, but I had to hesitate when thinking about it. That's a tough one. Good list man!

6:04 best metallica solo of modern metallica

Even if some people do say his solos have gone down in quality over the years a lot of them are still really fucking good, like Unforgiven 3 is still one of his absolute best and a lot of his stuff on Hardwired and 72 Seasons kicked ass as well so I definitely agree with this list

Even isnt best guitar, Kirk got a epic moments in his Guitar specially in the modern albums :) My top riffs of Kirk: - Inamorata - You Must Burn (Very Black Sabbath Sabbath and Mercyful Fate style) - Spit Out The Bone - 72 Seasons - All Nightmare Long (Full Speed Mr. Kammett) - The Day That Never Comes (Kirk made a excelent solo)

0:51 that's actually 2nd solo. 1st one appears before the second verse

I love Kirk Hammett solo on nothing else matter

Rebel of Babylon from beyond magnetic

bro your a genius, this video is just genius

#8 on this list is my favourite Kirk's solo from modern era

I agree with every pick

Why no St Anger 😢

i would also add solos from suicide and redemption and the judas kiss but overall gud list m8

All Nightmare Long should have been higher.

No Judas Kiss? No My Apocalypse? 😕

HtsD and 72Seasons has some excellent solos. Spit outhe Bone solo and both solos from Inamoratta are absolute masterpieces. In the other hand If Darkness have a son solo is a big, stinky, toxic pile of radioactive pig shit.

You had an Iron Maiden video to do

Dream no more has to be on this top 10, i don’t think that almost any solo from 72 seasons deserves to be in this list i would mostly use solos from death magnetic some of hardwired and maybe 1 or 2 from 72 seasons

You forget all the solos in St. Anger 😡

I think You must burn! Solo is just kinda without soul, its just sounds like he did some "random bullshit go!" And thats It.

that you must burn solo was a hard listen, sounds like something i would make lol. sad to see that kirk doesn’t care at all anymore

its ok that kirk loves his wah, but seriously in every song. over and over the same licks. to me it would be emberassing. his last good work is unforgiven 3 and tdtnc on dm. he put some energy in it and someone told him to compose

yeah all nightmares long deserves the spot

10 not cool 9 not cool 8 non bad 7 nothing cool 6 That COOL realy cool 5 Cool 4 The same thing nothing special except harmony, and that belongs to James 3 Not bad normal 2 Not bad 1 good

Kirk hasn’t played a good solo since Reload. He fell off so hard the past 20 years