Sarki Soliloquy
Smash Champion
I am familiar with Animals As Leaders (Tempting Time is on my phone along with CAFO). Yeah, same subgenre to Vivaldi there. There stuff seems pretty technical. Appearantly some jazz fusion within their discography?That's some really good stuff.
The style reminded me a lot of AAL, another great instrumental metal band:
This is a track off of their first album (self titled) as well.
Tosin Abasi (their guitarist) is an absolute machine.
Some of my favorites of their newest album:
Although I think everything off of Joy of Motion (their newest album) is stellar.
Another band which that track reminded me of, Pomegranate Tiger:
They're quite technical like AAL, but their stuff tends to be more "mosh-friendly" at times, Sign of Ruin ^ being the best example of that feel.
Intervals is another great progressive metal band, imo, although they're not instrumental anymore:
The "chorus" (I guess it would be) solo here ^ is really good, imo, especially the extended part of it at the end of the song.
If we're talking a specific guitar solo that I think is GODLIKE, then there's this:
Obscura is another tech death favorite of mine, although not as chaotic as Archspire and taking more elements from Progressive Metal/Jass Fusion kind of stuff.
The solo is done by a guest, Morean from Dark Fortress, but it's insane, imo.
However Christian Muenzer (one of Obscura's regular guitarists) is also godlike on the guitar:
He has a solo in this song ^ at around the three minute mark (2:55 to be exact), but I suggest listening to the entire track (Christian is the guitarist not doing vocals, on the right).
Christian Muenzer (One of Obscura's regular guitarists) and Tosin Abasi (AAL; T.R.A.M) happen to be two of the most talented guitarists I've ever heard.
I'll be sure to listen to every one of those today.