Best Guitarist

2025 END OF THE YEAR LISTS: BEST GUITARIST

What a great year 2025 has been for music. So many great albums, tours, songs, you name it. And now the time has come for…

The 2025 Audioeclectica End Of The Year Lists begin with the list for Best Guitarist. As always the stipulation for this is that an Album or EP had to be released in 2025.

Vote for your favorite in the comments section. At the end of the month, I will release the results of the readers poll.

This list is also in NO PARTICULAR ORDER!!!

01) Jade Puget- AFI
02) Joe Hunt- Nine Necks
03) Jordan Olds- Blood Vulture
04) Mikayla Mayhew- Blackwater Holylight
05) Mike McKeever- Heavy Halo
06) Josh Barber- Idle Heirs
07) Kal Michael- The Owling
08) Reba Meyers- Reba Meyers
09) Pete Loeffler- Chevelle
10) Roman Ibramkhalilvov- Jinjer

2023 End Of The Year Lists: Results

Thank you all for making 2023 a great year for Audioeclectica. I hope you all found new and old bands to love and delve into. As 2024 begins, there will be new things coming to Audioeclectica including the long awaited return of The Audioeclectica Podcast as well as Radio Show, also coming are new topics, a revamp to the look of the site and many more surprises. Also don’t forget, I am putting on shows with The Cobalt Presents (aka The Cobalt Cafe), so if your band is coming through the greater Los Angeles area, reach out to me and let’s see if we can’t make a show happen!

And now… The Results Of The 2023 End Of The Year Lists (the results are based on readers votes):

01) Best Drummer: Glenn Chu- Iress & Sebastian Thomson- Baroness

02) Best Bassist: Nick Jost- Baroness & Michael Maldonado- Iress

03) Best Guitar Duo: John Baizley/Gina Gleason- Baroness & Graham Walker/Michelle Malley- Iress

04) Best Producer/Mixer: Paul Fig- Filth Is Eternal & Alex Estrada- Iress

05) Best Guitarist: Brian McClelland- Filth Is Eternal

06) Best Vocalist: Michelle Malley- Iress & Lis Di Angelo- Filth Is Eternal

07) Best Album: Iress- Solace & Filth Is Eternal- Find Out

Thank you all who voted!!!

2021 End Of The Year Lists: Best Guitarist
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Next up on Audioeclectica.com’s 2021 End Of The Year Lists, the Top 10 Guitarists. The stipulation is that, an album/EP had to have been released this year.

Vote for your favorite in the comments section. At the end of the month, I will release the results of the readers poll.

This list is also in NO PARTICULAR ORDER!!!


01) Walter Schreifels- Quicksand
02) Nick Bradford- Arc Angles
03) Pete Loeffler- Chevelle
04) John 5- Rob Zombie
05) Jerry Cantrell- Jerry Cantrell
06) Ben Phillips- The Pretty Reckless
07) Mike Stringer- Spiritbox
08) Brian McClelland- Filth Is Eternal
09) Hamilton Jordan- Genghis Tron
10) Dan Beeman- Killer Hill

2020 End Of The Year List: Best Guitarist
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Next up on Audioeclectica.com’s 2020 End Of The Year Lists, the Top 10 Guitarists. The stipulation is that, an album/EP had to have been released this year.

Vote for your favorite in the comments section. At the end of the month, I will release the results of the readers poll.

This list is also in NO PARTICULAR ORDER!!!

01) Greg Puciato- Greg Puciato
02) Stephen Carpenter- Deftones
03) Chris Traynor- Bush
04) Shooter Jennings- Marilyn Manson
05) Ken Andrews- Ken Andrews
06) Clint Lowery- Clint Lowery
07) Mark Morton- Mark Morton
08) Aaron Turner- Sumac
09) Stephen Taylor- En Minor
10) Andrew Watt- Ozzy Osbourne

Best Guitar Solos: Temple Of The Dog- Reach Down

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By now I’m sure everyone knows about Temple Of The Dog. The one off band/album that was created by the late Chris Cornell as a tribute to the late Andrew Wood of Mother Love Bone. Of course everyone know about the song “Hunger Strike” and the classic pseudo-duet between Cornell and Eddie Vedder. There is one song though on the album that has always stuck out to me and that is the opening track, “Reach Down.” This is one of the songs that is directly influenced by the death of Andy Wood but, that’s not the reason why it hit me. It’s the badass guitar solo that is in it. The solo which was done by Mike McCready (of Pearl Jam) is over 5 and a half minute long and it’s sensational. According to the story, this Temple Of The Dog album, was also the first recording studio experience for both McCready and Vedder. Regarding McCready, Cornell said, “You almost kind of had to yell at him to get him to realize that in the five-and-a-half-minute solo of ‘Reach Down’, that was his time and that he wasn’t going to be stepping on anybody else.” And the end result, well, you’ll just have to take it all in.

 

Temple Of The Dog- Reach Down:

 

Temple Of The Dog- Reach Down (Live):

 

2019 End Of The Year List: Best Guitarist

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Next up on Audioeclectica.com’s 2019 End Of The Year Lists, the Top 10 Guitarists. The stipulation is that, an album/EP had to have been released this year.

Vote for your favorite in the comments section. At the end of the month, I will release the results of the readers poll.

This list is also in NO PARTICULAR ORDER!!!

01) Nick Lee- Moon Tooth
02) Adam McGrath- Nomad Stones
03) Ben Levin- Bent Knee
04) Adam Tanbouz- He Is Legend
05) William Patrick Corgan-
06) Logan Gaval- Greet Death
07) Mike McGinnis- Low Dose
08) Cory Brim- Glassing
09) Ben Verellen- Helms Alee
10) Mario Quintero- Spotlights

2018 End Of The Year List: Best Guitarist

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Next up on Audioeclectica.com’s 2018 End Of The Year Lists, the Top 10 Guitarists. The stipulation is that, an album/EP had to have been released this year.

Vote for your favorite in the comments section. At the end of the month, I will release the results of the readers poll.

This list is also in NO PARTICULAR ORDER!!!

 

01) Bill Schultz- Minus Knives
02) Mike Mason- Cult Leader
03) Nick Sadler- Daughters
04) Charlie Schmid- Del Judas
05) B- Birds In Row
06) Brian McClelland- Fucked and Bound
07) Arthur Shepard- Primitive Weapons
08) Jeff Irwin- Will Haven
09) John Bryan- Dead Empires
10) Danny Marshall- Baptists

End Of The Year 2016: Best Guitarist

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Next up on Audioeclectica.com’s 2016 End Of The Year Lists, the Best Guitarist. The stipulation is that, they have to have released a new album or EP this year.

I encourage you to vote for your favorite in the comments section. At the end of the month, I will release the results of the readers poll.

This list is also in NO PARTICULAR ORDER!!!

01) Ben Weinman- The Dillinger Escape Plan
02) Gary Gladson- Interstelar
03) Pete Loeffler- Chevelle
04) Nick DePirro- Night Verses
05) Beau Burchill- Saosin
06) Chase Fraser- Scour
07) Derek Engemann- Scour
08) Doc Coyle- Vagus Nerve
09) Lennart Bossu- Oathbreaker
10) Billy Duffy- The Cult

End Of The Year List: Best Guitarist

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The second annual Audioeclectica Awards continues: The fifth category is best guitarist. Here are the requirements to be in this category. The nominee but have played on an album/EP must released this year. And It doesn’t matter if the band is signed or not! With that in mind here are the nominees! Vote in the comments!!

 

Ken Andrews- Failure
Brian McClelland- He Whose Ox Is Gored
Joshua Holland- Wild Throne
Angelo Miles- Wooden Nomad
Scott Evans- Kowloon Walled City
Mike Kennedy- Vision Of Disorder