Ole Andre Farstad > Your favorite wanky tech shredder

[Greg McCoy]

1:35. Probably the most impressive guitar solo of the past decade. Perfection.

I can't fucking stand most of the aggression less "Tech clinic" guys/gals most people like, it's technically impressive but it's weak as fuck, this dude is the real deal.

Blows my mind he doesn't get more recognition. My jaw dropped the first time I heard the bit at 1:35, one of the best actual guitar leads I have heard in a long time. Of course he's in a lot of other shit, but his solos on the 2nd Abbath album are mindblowing.

It's the perfect mix of like, Adrian Belew impressionistic noises, actual vibrato/bends, and tech acumen. Most of the players people are impressed by only have the last of those 3 things.

Makes all the GIT wanking pandering for Instagram likes from other wannabe shred gods look like the shit it is.

[Dominic]

I shall take a bath later and check this out.

[Webdood]

That solo sounded very George Lynch to me It was good but best in last decade is highly subjective

[Überschall]

It fit the song perfectly. I like it.

[Greg McCoy]

It fit the song perfectly. I like it.

Abbath name drops TNT's "Knights of the New Thunder" in interviews, dude has exquisite traditional metal taste all around, so it's no surprise he would have great taste in lead guitarists, considering Ronni Le Tekro is up there with YJM and Andy Larocque in the trifecta of best lead guitarists Scandinavia has ever produced.

Not super consistent like Andy Larocque though, or even YJM levels of consistent, but when Ronni Le Tekro is "on" he's really his own thing. He has some solo's I don't care for at all, but stuff like the solo on 10000 Lovers is hard to beat. The "machine gun" technqiue he's most known for is actually his worst bits. His best solos are the ones that don't involve a lot of the trem/alt picking. Outstanding lyrical guitarist. Although the solos that combine his signature trem picking stuff and his over the top sustained vibrato stuff are good too.

[Dominic]

Well, I never did manage a bath, my personal hygiene has gone to total shit since the pandemic hit.

The melodic parts of the solo, bends/wangbusiness, etc. were really beautiful. Very impressive indeed, super control. The faster/"technical" passages I thought were rather indistinct and extremely low in the mix (like the lead heard in the background as the song opens). If you mean impressionistic like Monet[1] ("all blurry"), I guess so, but I'd not say this stomped all over the usual guys name-checked for tech soloing. I can see myself wanting to hear more of this cat, but I don't think I've ever bothered to listen to Abbath before and I'm not at all sure that it's to my taste...

[1]I love Monet.