# The Best Accept Guitar Solos > The 6 best Accept guitar solos, ranked. #1 is Metal Heart (1985), then Balls to the Wall and Fast as a Shark. Every video starts at the solo. Canonical URL: Accept's Wolf Hoffmann brought classical melody into Teutonic heavy metal, weaving themes from Beethoven and Grieg into precise, harmony-rich leads. Solos like Metal Heart and Fast as a Shark made the band a blueprint for speed and power metal guitar. Informed by: [Guitar World - Dear Guitar Hero: Wolf Hoffmann](https://www.guitarworld.com/magazine/dear-guitar-hero-accept-guitarist-wolf-hoffmann-talks-gear-tone-and-balls-wall), [Vintage Guitar - Wolf Hoffmann](https://www.vintageguitar.com/37437/wolf-hoffmann/) 1. [Metal Heart](https://greatestsolos.com/song/accept-metal-heart/) — Accept · solo by Wolf Hoffmann · 1985 2. [Balls to the Wall](https://greatestsolos.com/song/accept-balls-to-the-wall/) — Accept · solo by Wolf Hoffmann · 1983 3. [Fast as a Shark](https://greatestsolos.com/song/accept-fast-as-a-shark/) — Accept · solo by Wolf Hoffmann · 1982 4. [Princess of the Dawn](https://greatestsolos.com/song/accept-princess-of-the-dawn/) — Accept · solo by Wolf Hoffmann · 1982 5. [Restless and Wild](https://greatestsolos.com/song/accept-restless-and-wild/) — Accept · solo by Wolf Hoffmann · 1982 6. [Neon Nights](https://greatestsolos.com/song/accept-neon-nights/) — Accept · solo by Wolf Hoffmann · 1985 --- GreatestSolos ranks the greatest guitar solos by consensus across published lists. Agent guide: [llms.txt](https://greatestsolos.com/llms.txt) · [Sitemap](https://greatestsolos.com/sitemap.xml) · [Dataset (CSV)](https://greatestsolos.com/data/greatest-guitar-solos.csv) · [How we rank](https://greatestsolos.com/method/)