# The Best Machine Head Guitar Solos

> The 17 best Machine Head guitar solos, ranked. #1 is Halo (2007), then Clenching the Fists of Dissent and Aesthetics of Hate. Every video starts at the solo.

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Machine Head emerged from the Bay Area in the 1990s with crushing groove riffs, then reinvented themselves as a solo-heavy modern thrash force once Phil Demmel joined Robb Flynn. The Blackening's epic, harmony-laden duels are regarded as among the finest guitar work in 21st-century metal.

Informed by: [Wikipedia - Machine Head discography](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Head_discography), [Wikipedia - The Blackening](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blackening), [Wikipedia - Burn My Eyes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn_My_Eyes)

1. [Halo](https://greatestsolos.com/song/machine-head-halo/) — Machine Head · solo by Phil Demmel · 2007
2. [Clenching the Fists of Dissent](https://greatestsolos.com/song/machine-head-clenching-the-fists-of-dissent/) — Machine Head · solo by Phil Demmel · 2007
3. [Aesthetics of Hate](https://greatestsolos.com/song/machine-head-aesthetics-of-hate/) — Machine Head · solo by Robb Flynn, Phil Demmel · 2007
4. [A Farewell to Arms](https://greatestsolos.com/song/machine-head-a-farewell-to-arms/) — Machine Head · solo by Phil Demmel · 2007
5. [Locust](https://greatestsolos.com/song/machine-head-locust/) — Machine Head · solo by Phil Demmel · 2011
6. [Imperium](https://greatestsolos.com/song/machine-head-imperium/) — Machine Head · solo by Phil Demmel · 2004
7. [Wolves](https://greatestsolos.com/song/machine-head-wolves/) — Machine Head · solo by Phil Demmel · 2007
8. [Beautiful Mourning](https://greatestsolos.com/song/machine-head-beautiful-mourning/) — Machine Head · solo by Phil Demmel · 2007
9. [I Am Hell (Sonata in C#)](https://greatestsolos.com/song/machine-head-i-am-hell-sonata-in-c/) — Machine Head · solo by Phil Demmel · 2011
10. [This Is the End](https://greatestsolos.com/song/machine-head-this-is-the-end/) — Machine Head · solo by Phil Demmel · 2011
11. [Davidian](https://greatestsolos.com/song/machine-head-davidian/) — Machine Head · solo by Logan Mader · 1994
12. [Descend the Shades of Night](https://greatestsolos.com/song/machine-head-descend-the-shades-of-night/) — Machine Head · solo by Robb Flynn · 2004
13. [Now We Die](https://greatestsolos.com/song/machine-head-now-we-die/) — Machine Head · solo by Phil Demmel · 2014
14. [Darkness Within](https://greatestsolos.com/song/machine-head-darkness-within/) — Machine Head · solo by Phil Demmel · 2011
15. [Old](https://greatestsolos.com/song/machine-head-old/) — Machine Head · solo by Logan Mader · 1995
16. [Killers & Kings](https://greatestsolos.com/song/machine-head-killers-and-kings/) — Machine Head · solo by Phil Demmel · 2014
17. [Days Turn Blue to Gray](https://greatestsolos.com/song/machine-head-days-turn-blue-to-gray/) — Machine Head · solo by Phil Demmel · 2004

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